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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. Romantic period;






3. One of three sections of the Greek dramatic chorus and the Pindaric ode - along with the strophe and epode. These forms may be repeated in sequence within a single ode.






4. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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. Letters - usually formal






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






9. 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






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






11. 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)






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






19. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 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'






29. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






30. The rhythmic structure of poetry






31. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






32. 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






33. 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






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






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






36. 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.






37. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






38. Romantic Period






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






40. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






41. A verse form of Italian origin - made up of tercets - the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba - bcb - cdc - etc.)






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. 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'






46. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






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






50. 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.