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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






3. 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.






4. Romantic Period






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






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






7. 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.






8. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






9. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






19. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






28. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






31. (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






32. A group of four works






33. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






34. 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






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






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






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






38. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






39. Romantic period;






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






41. 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'






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






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






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






45. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






46. 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






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






48. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






49. 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.






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