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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






3. 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'






4. 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






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






6. Augustan Period






7. Letters - usually formal






8. (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






9. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






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






13. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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'






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






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






22. Augustan Period;






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






24. 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






25. (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






26. 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)






27. 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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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'






32. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






35. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






37. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






39. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






41. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






45. 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






46. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






48. 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






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






50. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other