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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. An extended simile elaborated in great detail. Also called Homeric simile






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






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






4. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






5. 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






6. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






8. 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






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






10. To put or publish. Published novel






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






12. 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






13. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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 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






17. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






20. Letters - usually formal






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






22. Romantic Period






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






24. 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.)






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






26. 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.






27. 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






28. Augustan Period






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






30. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






31. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






33. 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.






34. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






37. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






40. A group of four works






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






42. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






43. 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'






44. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






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