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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. 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.






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






4. (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






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






6. 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






7. The rhythmic structure of poetry






8. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






9. 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.)






10. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






12. 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






13. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






21. (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






22. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






23. 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.






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






26. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






29. 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.






30. 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






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






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






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. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






35. 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.






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






37. 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'






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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'






46. 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.






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






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






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






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