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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc






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






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






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






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






6. (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






7. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






8. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






9. 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






10. Letters - usually formal






11. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






12. 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.)






13. 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.






14. 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'






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






16. Romantic period;






17. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






18. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






19. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






21. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






22. 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.






23. A group of four works






24. 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.






25. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






27. 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






28. Romantic Period






29. The rhythmic structure of poetry






30. 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.






31. 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






32. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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






44. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






45. 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






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






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






48. Augustan Period






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






50. 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.