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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






3. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






4. 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






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






6. Augustan Period






7. 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'






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






9. A group of four works






10. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






24. 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






25. 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.






26. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






27. 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.






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






29. 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






30. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






32. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






33. 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'






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






35. 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'






36. 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)






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






38. Letters - usually formal






39. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






40. 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.)






41. 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






42. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






43. 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






44. Novel a melodramatic novel devoted to scandalous doings - guilty secrets - and lurid intrigues






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






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






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. 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






49. 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






50. 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.