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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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'






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






3. (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






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






5. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






7. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






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






11. The narrative devise of hinting at events that have yet to unfold






12. 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






13. 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'






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






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






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






17. To put or publish. Published novel






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






21. 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.)






22. 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.






23. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






24. 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






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






26. 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.






27. Romantic Period






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






29. 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






30. 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.






31. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






34. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






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






38. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






40. 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






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






42. A group of four works






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






47. (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






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






49. 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'






50. A novel made up of correspondence between characters