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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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.






2. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






3. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






5. Romantic Period






6. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. A group of four works






14. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






15. 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'






16. 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






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






18. 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.






19. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






20. 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.)






21. 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






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






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






24. 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.






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. Romantic period;






30. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






31. 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.






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






33. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






36. Letters - usually formal






37. The rhythmic structure of poetry






38. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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






48. 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.






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






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