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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. 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






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






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






5. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






6. 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






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






12. (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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






21. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






22. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






24. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






26. 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'






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






28. Augustan Period






29. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






31. Romantic Period






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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






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






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






39. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






42. Romantic period;






43. To put or publish. Published novel






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






45. 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.






46. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






47. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






48. The rhythmic structure of poetry






49. 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






50. 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