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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






2. 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.






3. 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'






4. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






6. 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.






7. 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






8. Romantic period;






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






10. 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






11. The process of denying or disguising political values by misrepresenting them as natural - universal - or transcendent ideals.






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






13. 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






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






15. 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'






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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






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






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






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






30. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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






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






37. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






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






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






42. 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'






43. Augustan Period






44. 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.






45. Letters - usually formal






46. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






47. 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.






48. 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






49. 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.






50. 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