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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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.






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






3. 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






4. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






5. (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






6. 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






7. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






10. 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'






11. Letters - usually formal






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






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






14. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






17. 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






18. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






19. 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.






20. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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






24. A group of four works






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






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






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






28. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






29. 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






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






31. Augustan Period;






32. 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'






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






34. 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






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






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






37. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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.






44. 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






45. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






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






50. (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