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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. (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






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






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






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






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






7. 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'






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






9. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






16. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






17. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. A group of four works






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. To put or publish. Published novel






27. 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






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






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






30. 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






31. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






32. Plays presented during the Middle Ages by guilds of feast days - They depict important events in Christian history.






33. Romantic period;






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






35. 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.)






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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'






40. 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






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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






45. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






47. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






48. 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.






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






50. The rhythmic structure of poetry