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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






2. A rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines - first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit - esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: 'In every work regard the writer's end - Since none can compass more than th






3. (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






4. 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.






5. A group of four works






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






10. Augustan Period;






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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






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






17. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme - not all do






18. 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






19. Romantic period;






20. Letters - usually formal






21. 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'






22. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






26. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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






41. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






43. Romantic Period






44. 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.






45. 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'






46. 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






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






48. Augustan Period






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






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