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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






3. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






4. 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.






5. Letters - usually formal






6. 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)






7. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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.






20. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






21. 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






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






23. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. Augustan Period






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






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






32. 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'






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






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






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






36. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. 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






41. Romantic Period






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






45. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






46. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






47. 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






48. A group of four works






49. 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






50. Augustan Period;