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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song






2. (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






3. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






5. 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'






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






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






8. Letters - usually formal






9. 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






10. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






11. 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






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






13. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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.)






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






23. 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






24. 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)






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






26. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






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






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






31. Romantic period;






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






33. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. Augustan Period






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






42. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






43. (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






44. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






45. Romantic Period






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






47. 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.






48. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






49. The rhythmic structure of poetry






50. 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.