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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






7. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next






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






9. (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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. Augustan Period;






21. Augustan Period






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






23. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






24. 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.






25. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






26. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






27. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






31. 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'






32. 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.






33. 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)






34. 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






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






36. 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.






37. 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






38. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






39. 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.






40. Romantic Period






41. To put or publish. Published novel






42. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






43. Romantic period;






44. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






50. 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