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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






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






4. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






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






8. 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'






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






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






11. 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'






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






20. 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.






21. The rhythmic structure of poetry






22. (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






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






24. 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)






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






26. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






27. Romantic Period






28. Romantic period;






29. 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






30. 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.)






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






36. Letters - usually formal






37. Augustan Period






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






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






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






41. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






42. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






43. 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.






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






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






49. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






50. 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