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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The narrative technique of shifting freely between a first-person and an interior third-person point of view






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






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






4. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






5. 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






6. 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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






16. Augustan Period;






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






23. Augustan Period






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






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






26. 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.






27. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






28. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






29. 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.






30. 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






31. 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.)






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






33. Romantic Period






34. 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






35. 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.






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






37. 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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. 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.






47. (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






48. (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






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. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other