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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. A group of four works






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






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






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






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






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






14. Augustan Period;






15. To put or publish. Published novel






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






17. 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.






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






19. Augustan Period






20. 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'






21. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






24. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view






25. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. 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.






35. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






42. 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'






43. 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.






44. The rhythmic structure of poetry






45. 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.






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






47. 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






48. 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.






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






50. 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'