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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






3. Letters - usually formal






4. 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.






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






6. 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






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






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






9. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






10. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






11. 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






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






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






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






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






16. To put or publish. Published novel






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






18. 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)






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. (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






21. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






22. 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.






23. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. 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






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






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






31. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






32. 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.






33. (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






34. Romantic period;






35. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






36. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






38. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






49. 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






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