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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme - not all do






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






4. (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






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






6. 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.






7. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.






8. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






9. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






10. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company






16. Augustan Period






17. 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






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






19. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism






20. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






21. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama






22. 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






23. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






24. 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






25. 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)






26. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






28. 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






29. Letters - usually formal






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






31. 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






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






33. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






35. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology






36. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






38. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision






39. Romantic Period






40. 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






41. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






43. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






44. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc






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






46. Is the idealized code of medieval nobility. It stressed honesty and integrity in living up to one's social obligations - courtesy to others - and deference to ladies.






47. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile






48. (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






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






50. A group of four works