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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. Letters - usually formal






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






7. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






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






10. 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.






11. 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






12. A group of four works






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






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






15. Romantic period;






16. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






17. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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'






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






35. 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






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






37. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






38. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






39. 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.)






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






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






42. 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






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






44. Romantic Period






45. 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)






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






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






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






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






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