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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






2. Romantic period;






3. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






6. 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.






7. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






9. 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)






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






11. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. A group of four works






21. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






22. 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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. (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






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






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






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






32. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






33. 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.






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






35. Augustan Period






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






43. 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






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






45. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






46. 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'






47. Letters - usually formal






48. 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.






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






50. 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