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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. 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.






3. 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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






13. 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






14. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






16. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






17. Letters - usually formal






18. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






19. 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.






20. 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'






21. 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






22. 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.






23. (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






24. Romantic period;






25. 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






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






27. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






29. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






33. A group of four works






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






35. 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)






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






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






38. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






41. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. 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.)






46. 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'






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






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






49. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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