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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. 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






3. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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'






11. Romantic Period






12. 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'






13. Augustan Period;






14. (1540-1640) public theaters presented plays that celebrated a semifluid social order governed by absolute power. These dramas portrayed any unchecked social mobility that might threaten state stability as the result of personal evil - corruption - an






15. (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






16. 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






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






18. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






21. 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.)






22. 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.






23. 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






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






25. Romantic period;






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






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






28. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






30. 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






31. 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.






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






33. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






36. 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)






37. 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'






38. 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






39. Letters - usually formal






40. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






42. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. 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.






48. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






49. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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