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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. 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.)






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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






11. 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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism






22. 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'






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. Augustan Period






30. 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






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






32. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






33. 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






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






35. Letters - usually formal






36. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






37. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






39. A group of four works






40. 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






41. 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.






42. 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






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






44. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






47. (1670-1790) identified literature as a worthy cultural pursuit capable of reconciling respect for classical learning with the evolving interests and tastes of the educated middle class. Translated - imitated - and elucidated the most respectable anci






48. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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