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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. 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.






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. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






7. 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'






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






9. (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






10. 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.






11. 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






12. Augustan Period






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






14. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






15. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. Augustan Period;






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






21. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






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






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






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. 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






28. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






30. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






37. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






38. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






40. 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)






41. 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






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






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






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






50. A group of four works