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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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






12. Romantic period;






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. Augustan Period






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






22. A group of four works






23. 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






24. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






25. (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






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






27. 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






28. 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.






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






30. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. (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






34. To put or publish. Published novel






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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






39. 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)






40. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work






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






42. 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.






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






45. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






48. 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.)






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






50. 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'