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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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.






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






3. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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'






8. A group of four works






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






10. 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)






11. 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.)






12. 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.






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. 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.






19. 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






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






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






22. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth






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






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






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






26. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






27. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






30. 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'






31. Augustan Period;






32. (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






33. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






37. Romantic Period






38. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






39. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






41. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






43. 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






44. Letters - usually formal






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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.