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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. To put or publish. Published novel






6. 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'






7. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






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






11. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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.






17. Augustan Period;






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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






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






25. Romantic period;






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






27. Romantic Period






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






29. 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






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






31. Augustan Period






32. 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






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






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






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






36. Made up of the ideas - beliefs - and values shared by members of a society. Ideology is shaped by political interests and serves power interests in ways we might not recognize






37. A group of four works






38. 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.






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






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






41. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






42. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






43. (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






44. 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






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






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






47. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






48. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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