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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view






2. 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.






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






4. 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)






5. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






8. A group of four works






9. 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






10. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






11. 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






12. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






13. (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






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






15. 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.






16. Romantic period;






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






18. 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.






19. 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






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






21. 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.






22. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






24. 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.






25. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






26. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






27. 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






28. Letters - usually formal






29. 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'






30. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






31. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






37. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






38. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.






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






40. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






41. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






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






45. Augustan Period;






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. 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.






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






49. 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






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