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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






3. 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.






4. The rhythmic structure of poetry






5. 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






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






7. 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.






8. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






10. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






11. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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)






21. Augustan Period;






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






23. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






24. 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






25. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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.






30. Romantic Period






31. 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.






32. Letters - usually formal






33. Romantic period;






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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'






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






44. 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






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






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






47. 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






48. 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.






49. 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






50. 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'







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