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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Romantic Period






2. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






3. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






4. 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'






5. 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






6. Augustan Period;






7. 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.






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. 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.






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






16. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






17. 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.






18. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






19. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






21. 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.






22. Augustan Period






23. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues






24. To put or publish. Published novel






25. 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)






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. The rhythmic structure of poetry






34. 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






35. 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'






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






37. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






39. 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'






40. 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.






41. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






43. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.






44. Letters - usually formal






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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







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