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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The use of a single word in two different senses at once. For example: I just quit smoking and my job.






2. 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






3. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. An important critical movement that took hold in the early decades of the twentieth century. It stresses the importance of paying close attention to the literary text as a way to develop critical intelligence






22. 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






23. 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'






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






25. Romantic period;






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






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






28. 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






29. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






31. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






32. 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.






33. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. 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.)






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. Letters - usually formal






47. Augustan Period;






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






49. (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






50. A group of four works