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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A poem praising someone for their achievements - stemming from ancient Greece






2. (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






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






4. 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.






5. Augustan Period






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






14. Early Medieval Period; The protagonist of the poem. Beowulf is a Geatish hero who fights the monster Grendel - Grendel's mother - and a fire-breathing dragon. Beowulf's exploits prove him to be the strongest - ablest warrior of his time. In his youth






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






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






17. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






19. A group of four works






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






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






22. Letters - usually formal






23. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






24. 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'






25. 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)






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






27. (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






28. 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'






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






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






31. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance






32. 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.






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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.






37. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






38. 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






39. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






41. The 1623 collection of William Shakespeare's plays published after his death by member of his acting company






42. 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.






43. 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.)






44. 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






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. 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






50. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative