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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






2. 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






3. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






4. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






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






8. Letters - usually formal






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






10. 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.






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






12. (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






13. 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.






14. 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.)






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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'






19. 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






20. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






21. 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






22. (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






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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'






27. 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.






28. 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






29. 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






30. To put or publish. Published novel






31. Romantic Period






32. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






34. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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.






39. 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






40. Augustan Period;






41. Augustan Period






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






43. The rhythmic structure of poetry






44. 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.






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






46. 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)






47. 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






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






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






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