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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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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. (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. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






9. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






11. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






12. 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






13. Augustan Period






14. To put or publish. Published novel






15. 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






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. 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






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






20. A group of four works






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






26. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






27. 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'






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






29. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






30. (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






31. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






33. 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.






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






35. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






37. 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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






43. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






44. 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'






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






46. 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.






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. 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)