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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






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






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






5. Augustan Period






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






7. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






8. 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






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






10. 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.






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






12. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






13. 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.






14. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






18. 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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. Letters - usually formal






24. 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'






25. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






26. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






27. 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.






28. Augustan Period;






29. A group of four works






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






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






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






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






34. 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'






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






36. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






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






48. To put or publish. Published novel






49. 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






50. 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