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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






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






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






5. Romantic Period






6. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






7. 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.






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






9. 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)






10. 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






11. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth






17. 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.






18. 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'






19. 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'






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






21. 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.






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






23. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






24. (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






25. Romantic period;






26. 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






27. 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






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






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






30. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






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






34. 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






35. A group of four works






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






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






38. The rhythmic structure of poetry






39. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






40. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






41. 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






42. 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.)






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






49. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






50. A novel made up of correspondence between characters







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