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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc






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






3. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






4. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






6. Romantic period;






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






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






9. Augustan Period;






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






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






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






13. 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






14. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






16. 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.






17. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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.






21. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






22. 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'






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






24. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






27. To put or publish. Published novel






28. Augustan Period






29. 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.






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






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






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. (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






38. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






39. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






42. A characteristic of art or nature that inspires a feeling of grander and mystery. For example: an ancient ruins - a storm swept landscape - of the fall of Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost.






43. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






44. 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.






45. A verse form of Italian origin - made up of tercets - the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba - bcb - cdc - etc.)






46. Letters - usually formal






47. 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'






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






49. 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.






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)