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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. 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.






3. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






4. 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






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






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






7. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






9. 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'






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






11. 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






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






13. 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.






14. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






15. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






16. 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






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






18. 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.






19. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






20. Augustan Period;






21. 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






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






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






24. 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.






25. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






26. 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






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






28. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






31. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. Romantic Period






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






39. 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






40. 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.






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






42. Letters - usually formal






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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. Augustan Period






49. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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







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