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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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.






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






3. 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






4. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






5. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






6. 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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.)






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






12. 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'






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






14. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






16. (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






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






18. 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






19. 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






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






21. Romantic period;






22. A group of four works






23. 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.






24. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






25. 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.






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






27. 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






28. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






35. 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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. Anything that isn't tangible. In literature - it can be opposed to imagery - the representation of tangible things






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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'






48. 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)






49. 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






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