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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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






2. The rhythmic structure of poetry






3. 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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






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






15. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. (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






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






24. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






25. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






26. 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.






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






28. 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






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






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. Augustan Period






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






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






34. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






35. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






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






39. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






41. Letters - usually formal






42. 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)






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






48. 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.






49. A group of four works






50. The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat (see blank verse). These lines in iambic pentameter are from The Merchant of Venice - by William Shakespeare:In sooth -/I know/not







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