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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






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






4. 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






5. Romantic Period






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






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






8. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






9. 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






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. 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'






14. 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






15. 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






16. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






17. 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.






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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'






21. (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






22. Letters - usually formal






23. 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.






24. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






25. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






29. Augustan Period;






30. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






43. 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






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






45. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






46. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. A group of four works







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