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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues






2. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






4. To put or publish. Published novel






5. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






6. (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






7. 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.






8. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






9. Augustan Period;






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. 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






16. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. Romantic period;






28. 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






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. Augustan Period






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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






40. 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






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. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






43. Romantic Period






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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.






48. 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






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






50. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.