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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.






2. 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.






3. 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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






8. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






10. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






17. 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)






18. 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






19. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






22. (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






23. 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






24. Augustan Period






25. 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.






26. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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 novel made up of correspondence between characters






38. 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






39. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






41. (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






42. 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.






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






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






45. Romantic period;






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






47. 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






48. 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






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






50. 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







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