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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. Romantic Period






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.)






16. 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






17. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






18. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






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






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






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






24. To put or publish. Published novel






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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'






29. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






30. 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.






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






32. Augustan Period






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






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






35. 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.






36. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






37. A group of four works






38. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






39. 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






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






41. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






42. 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






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






48. The rhythmic structure of poetry






49. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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