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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.






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






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






4. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






5. To put or publish. Published novel






6. 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






7. 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.






8. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






11. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






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






15. Augustan Period






16. 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'






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






18. (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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






26. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company






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






28. 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






29. 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)






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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






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






38. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






40. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






42. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






43. 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'






44. 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






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






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






47. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






48. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






49. 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






50. 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