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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






4. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






5. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






6. 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.






7. 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






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






9. 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






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






13. Augustan Period






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






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






20. 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






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






22. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






23. 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






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






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






26. 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)






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






28. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






30. 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'






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






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






33. 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.






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. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






37. A group of four works






38. 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






39. 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.)






40. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






41. 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






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






43. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






44. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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