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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






9. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






12. 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.






13. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






15. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






17. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






18. (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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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






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






30. Romantic Period






31. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






33. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






34. 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.






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






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. Is a figure of speech that uses an exaggerated or extravagant statement to create a strong emotional response. As a figure of speech it is not intended to be taken literally. Hyperbole is frequently used for humour. Examples of hyperbole are: They ra






38. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






39. 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






40. To put or publish. Published novel






41. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






43. (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






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






45. 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.)






46. 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






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






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






49. Augustan Period;






50. 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.