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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama






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






3. A group of four works






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






13. Letters - usually formal






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






15. 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






16. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






17. 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.






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






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






20. Augustan Period






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






28. 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






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






30. Romantic period;






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






32. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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'






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






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






38. 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.






39. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






40. 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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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