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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song






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






3. 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






4. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






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






8. 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






9. (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






10. Romantic period;






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






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






13. 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






14. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






15. 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






16. Augustan Period;






17. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






19. 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.)






20. 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






21. 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.






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






23. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






29. 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'






30. 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






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






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






33. (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






34. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






35. Letters - usually formal






36. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






39. A philosophy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that accommodated the thinking of Plato to Christian theology






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






41. 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






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






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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