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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold






2. Romantic Period






3. Early Medieval Period; The protagonist of the poem. Beowulf is a Geatish hero who fights the monster Grendel - Grendel's mother - and a fire-breathing dragon. Beowulf's exploits prove him to be the strongest - ablest warrior of his time. In his youth






4. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






5. A literary - usually verse composition in which a speaker reveals his or her character - often in relation to a critical situation or event - in a monologue addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener.






6. (1670-1790) identified literature as a worthy cultural pursuit capable of reconciling respect for classical learning with the evolving interests and tastes of the educated middle class. Translated - imitated - and elucidated the most respectable anci






7. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work






8. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout






9. An important narrative form that emerges at the threshold between orality and literacy. They are written down at some point after a period of oral development. Beowulf is considered an epic.






10. A verse form of Italian origin - made up of tercets - the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba - bcb - cdc - etc.)






11. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






12. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.






13. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things






14. A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another - dissimilar thing by the use of like - as - etc. (Ex.: a heart as big as a whale - her tears flowed like wine)






15. A method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense: the irony of calling a stupid plan 'clever'






16. The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat (see blank verse). These lines in iambic pentameter are from The Merchant of Venice - by William Shakespeare:In sooth -/I know/not






17. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






18. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.






19. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance






20. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning






21. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






22. One of three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the strophe and epode. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.






23. A group of four works






24. (1540-1640) public theaters presented plays that celebrated a semifluid social order governed by absolute power. These dramas portrayed any unchecked social mobility that might threaten state stability as the result of personal evil - corruption - an






25. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth






26. Augustan Period;






27. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






28. Novels about gruesome doings and supernatural horrors - usually set far away and long ago. The form emerged during the eighteenth century but gained popularity and respectability in the nineteenth - as the imagination in literature came to be more hi






29. Romantic period;






30. Poetry that has no fixed meter - although it has rhythmic lines and line breaks and is therefore presumably composed with rhythmic qualities in mind. It came into vogue during the modern period.






31. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative






32. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House






33. Designating or characteristic of a kind of fiction that originated in Spain and deals episodically with the adventures of a hero who is or resembles such a vagabond or rogue






34. Written in the form of a series of letters exchanged by the characters - as certain novels of the 18th cent.






35. The dramatic genre of the 1950s that enacts the idea of existential meaninglessness






36. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






37. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.






38. The complex social process that pushes certain people outside mainstream society - usually because they are perceived as a threat to shared values






39. Repetition at the start of a sentence of the concluding word or phrase in the previous sentence. For example: 'There's only so much exercise you can get on a plane. A air plane is not the greatest place to work out'






40. A movement that took place near the end of the nineteenth century that aimed to free art from conventional Victorian morality






41. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.






42. A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common Ex: Her home was a prison.






43. Made up of the ideas - beliefs - and values shared by members of a society. Ideology is shaped by political interests and serves power interests in ways we might not recognize






44. A collection of works on a common theme such as Charlemagne or the Trojan War. Cycles typically represent the work of several different authors brought together into a group. Cycles are often groups of romance narrative.






45. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died






46. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus






47. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view






48. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration






49. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word






50. To put or publish. Published novel