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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






3. 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.






4. 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






5. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. Letters - usually formal






14. Augustan Period






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






16. 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






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






18. Romantic period;






19. 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'






20. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. (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






25. 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






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






27. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






29. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






31. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






32. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






33. 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'






34. A group of four works






35. 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






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






37. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






38. 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






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






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






44. 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






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






46. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






49. (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






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