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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 repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






4. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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'






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






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






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






13. A group of four works






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






15. 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.






16. 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






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






18. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






19. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






20. 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






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






22. 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'






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. (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. 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






26. 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






27. 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'






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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.






32. Romantic Period






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






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






35. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






37. Romantic period;






38. 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.






39. 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






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






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






42. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






49. 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






50. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism