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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. 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






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






4. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






7. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






10. 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.






11. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism






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






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






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






15. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






18. 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.






19. Letters - usually formal






20. 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.






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






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






23. Augustan Period






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






25. (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






26. 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.)






27. 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






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






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






30. 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






31. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






32. 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






33. 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






34. Romantic period;






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






36. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






38. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






39. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






41. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






47. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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. 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.






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