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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






3. 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






4. 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'






5. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






6. (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






7. 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






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






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






10. Romantic period;






11. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






12. 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






13. 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.)






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






15. 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.






16. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






18. 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.






19. Augustan Period






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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'






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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)






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






31. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






32. 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






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






34. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






39. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. A characteristic of art or nature that inspires a feeling of grander and mystery. For example: an ancient ruins - a storm swept landscape - of the fall of Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost.






47. 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'






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






49. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






50. 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.