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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Augustan Period;






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






3. 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.






4. 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






5. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






7. 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






8. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






9. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.)






16. 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'






17. 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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






24. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






25. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






27. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






29. 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.






30. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






31. Augustan Period






32. 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'






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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






45. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






46. 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'






47. 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






48. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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