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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A group of four works






2. 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






3. Augustan Period






4. 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.






5. 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






6. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






9. 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






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






11. Augustan Period;






12. 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.






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






14. A novel concerned with the negative social and economic impacts of industrialism






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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






21. 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






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






23. 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'






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






25. 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.






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






32. The rhythmic structure of poetry






33. Romantic Period






34. A prose form originated by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne as an experimental and skeptical approach to writing






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






36. Letters - usually formal






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






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






39. 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






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






41. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus






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






43. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






44. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






47. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






49. 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.






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