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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






6. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






7. 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.)






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






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






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






11. 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'






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






13. A group of four works






14. 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






15. 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.






16. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






17. 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.






18. 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)






19. 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






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






21. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






22. 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.






23. Romantic period;






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






25. 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.






26. 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'






27. 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






28. (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






29. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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






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






41. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






43. (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






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






45. Augustan Period






46. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






47. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






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