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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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.






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






3. 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






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






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






6. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






7. (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






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






9. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






11. 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)






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






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






14. 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'






15. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






17. Romantic period;






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






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






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






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






22. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






23. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






25. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. 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'






32. Augustan Period






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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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'






38. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. A group of four works






49. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






50. 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.