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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.






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






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






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






5. 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'






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






18. 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.






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. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






21. 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






22. 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






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






24. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






30. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






31. Augustan Period






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






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






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






35. 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.)






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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)






42. To put or publish. Published novel






43. 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.






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. Letters - usually formal






46. 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






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. A novel made up of correspondence between characters