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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. (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






2. In deconstruction - things that are absent from yet suggested by a text. A trace may be the opposite of a written word






3. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






4. 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.






5. 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






6. 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






7. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






9. 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.






10. Letters - usually formal






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 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.






29. 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






30. To put or publish. Published novel






31. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






34. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






35. 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.






36. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






37. 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.






38. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






39. Augustan Period;






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






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






42. 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






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






44. 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'






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






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






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






48. 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)






49. 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.






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