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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company






2. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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






12. (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






13. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






16. 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'






17. 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.






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






19. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






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






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






24. 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






25. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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.






31. Romantic period;






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






33. Romantic Period






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






35. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






36. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






37. 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.






38. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






39. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work






40. 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.






41. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






42. To put or publish. Published novel






43. 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'






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






45. 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.






46. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






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






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