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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






3. 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






4. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






5. A rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines - first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit - esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: 'In every work regard the writer's end - Since none can compass more than th






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






7. 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






8. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. A group of four works






14. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






16. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






23. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






24. 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)






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






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






27. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing






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






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






30. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






33. Heroic poetry with an important subject of crucial national or cultural significance - together with a grand - lofty tone. Many epics tell the story of the founding of a nation or race by means of battle or journey






34. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






35. Novel a modernist form that puts a story together by tracing the thoughts and feelings of its characters rather than through the voice of a detached narrator






36. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






38. A term used in deconstruction - absence of meaning and multiplicity of possible meaning within a text






39. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






40. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next






41. 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






42. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






43. The rhythmic structure of poetry






44. Romantic Period






45. Letters - usually formal






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






47. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.






48. An important critical movement that took hold in the early decades of the twentieth century. It stresses the importance of paying close attention to the literary text as a way to develop critical intelligence






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






50. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders