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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues






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






3. A group of four works






4. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






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






11. Letters - usually formal






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






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






14. 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






15. 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.






16. 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






17. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






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






21. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






22. A speech conventionally understood to convey the private thought of the character who delivers it






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






24. A sentence that changes its grammatical structure in the middle - often suggest disturbance or excitement. For example: 'we had almost reached the finished line and then the race had to have been fixed from the beginning'






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






27. 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






28. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece






29. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song






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






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






32. A characteristic of art or nature that inspires a feeling of grander and mystery. For example: an ancient ruins - a storm swept landscape - of the fall of Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost.






33. (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






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. Romantic period;






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






40. Romantic Period






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






42. A lyric from stemming from the Middle Ages that treats the subject of two lovers waking up together. It may deal with the joy of being together or with the sorrow of having to part.






43. 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.






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






45. Augustan Period;






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






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






48. A novel that traces the development of a young person from childhood or adolescence to maturity. It is often written in the form of an autobiography






49. 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






50. 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.)






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