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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






7. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






8. 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






9. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






10. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






11. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus






12. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






14. 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






15. 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.






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






17. A group of four works






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






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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






27. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning






28. 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






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






30. To put or publish. Published novel






31. 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'






32. 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.






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






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






35. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






36. 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






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






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 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






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






41. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






42. The rhythmic structure of poetry






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. Romantic period;






50. 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)