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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






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






12. 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






13. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc






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






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






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






17. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






20. 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)






21. Romantic Period






22. 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






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






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






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






26. A group of four works






27. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






28. Letters - usually formal






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. 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.






35. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






36. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






38. 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.






39. 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






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






41. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






42. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






43. (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






44. 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.






45. 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'






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






50. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night