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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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






2. (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






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






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






9. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






10. 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.






11. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






13. 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.






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






16. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






17. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






20. 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






21. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






23. A group of four works






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






25. 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.






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. 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






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. 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






33. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






34. The rhythmic structure of poetry






35. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






37. 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






38. 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)






39. (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






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






44. 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.






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






46. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






47. Romantic period;






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






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






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







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