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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance






2. 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.)






3. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






4. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






5. 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






6. 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.






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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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.






15. (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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. (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






21. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






24. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






25. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






26. Letters - usually formal






27. 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






28. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






31. Augustan Period;






32. 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.






33. Romantic Period






34. Romantic period;






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. A group of four works






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






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






42. 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'






43. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






45. 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.






46. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






47. Augustan Period






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. 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. A novel made up of correspondence between characters