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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






2. 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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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.)






10. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. To put or publish. Published novel






15. 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






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






17. Augustan Period;






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






19. (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






20. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






21. 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






22. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






24. The rhythmic structure of poetry






25. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






28. 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'






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






30. 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)






31. 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'






32. 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






33. 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.






34. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






36. A group of four works






37. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






47. Augustan Period






48. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






49. (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






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