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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Romantic period;






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






7. 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.






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






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






10. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






11. 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.






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






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






14. (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






15. 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.






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






17. To put or publish. Published novel






18. A literary work that exposes evil or folly through the use of irony - ridicule - or derision






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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






25. 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'






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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






30. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






31. Letters - usually formal






32. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






33. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






34. Augustan Period






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






40. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






42. 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






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






44. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






45. A group of four works






46. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






48. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration






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






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