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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. A group of four works






3. Augustan Period;






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. To put or publish. Published novel






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. Augustan Period






15. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






17. Romantic Period






18. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






20. 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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






33. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






34. 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'






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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






39. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






40. 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'






41. 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)






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






50. Victorian Period; Oliver twist - Our Mutual Friend - Little Dorrit - Bleak House