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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. Letters - usually formal






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






12. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






17. 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'






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






19. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






22. Romantic Period






23. A group of four works






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






32. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






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






40. 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.)






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






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






43. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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