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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A group of four works






2. 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.)






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. (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






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






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






10. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






13. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






14. 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'






15. 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'






16. 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






17. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






19. Augustan Period






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






26. 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






27. Made up of the ideas - beliefs - and values shared by members of a society. Ideology is shaped by political interests and serves power interests in ways we might not recognize






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






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






30. To put or publish. Published novel






31. 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.






32. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






33. 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.






34. A collection of works on a common theme such as Charlemagne or the Trojan War. Cycles typically represent the work of several different authors brought together into a group. Cycles are often groups of romance narrative.






35. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






38. 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






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






40. Letters - usually formal






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






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






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






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






45. Romantic Period






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






47. Augustan Period;






48. 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.






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






50. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism