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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. 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






3. 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.






4. Augustan Period;






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






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






7. 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






8. 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






9. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






11. 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






12. 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.






13. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






14. 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.






15. 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






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






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






18. 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)






19. Romantic Period






20. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






22. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






27. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






28. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next






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






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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'






34. 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.






35. 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.






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






37. Augustan Period






38. 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'






39. 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.






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






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






42. Letters - usually formal






43. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






44. (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






45. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






47. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






48. 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'






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






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