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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning






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






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. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






5. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






7. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






8. 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






9. Genre in poetry. Its formal - meditative - and intense.






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






11. 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.)






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






13. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






14. 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.






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






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






17. (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






18. 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)






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






24. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold






25. Is a figure of speech that uses an exaggerated or extravagant statement to create a strong emotional response. As a figure of speech it is not intended to be taken literally. Hyperbole is frequently used for humour. Examples of hyperbole are: They ra






26. 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






27. 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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






34. 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






35. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






36. 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.






37. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






42. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






43. 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'






44. A group of four works






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






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. 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'






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






49. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






50. Letters - usually formal







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