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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






2. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






4. 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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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)






10. (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






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






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. 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






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






16. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






18. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






19. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






20. 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






21. 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.






22. Romantic Period






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






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






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






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






27. Augustan Period;






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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






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






42. 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






43. 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'






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






45. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






47. 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






48. To put or publish. Published novel






49. A group of four works






50. Augustan Period







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