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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The mood or emotional attitude evoked or reflected in a written work






2. 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






3. 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.






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






5. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






6. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






12. 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.






13. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






14. 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'






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






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






17. A group of four works






18. 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






19. 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






20. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






25. 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






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. Augustan Period






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






30. 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'






31. 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






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






33. 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.)






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






35. 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






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






38. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






44. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






45. 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'






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






47. Letters - usually formal






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






49. 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






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