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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. A poem that treats the subject of the couple's wedding night






12. 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'






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. A group of four works






18. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






20. 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






21. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






22. 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






23. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






24. 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






25. 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.






26. 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'






27. Letters - usually formal






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






29. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






30. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. Augustan Period






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






38. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






39. 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






40. Romantic period;






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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. 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)






47. 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.






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






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






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







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