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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The secondary significance a word acquires through association that goes beyond its literal meaning






2. 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






3. 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






4. Romantic Period






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






6. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






8. 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






9. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






11. The rhythmic structure of poetry






12. Augustan Period;






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






14. 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)






15. 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.






16. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






18. 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'






19. 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






20. 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.






21. 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






22. A group of four works






23. 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.






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






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






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






27. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






28. 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.






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






30. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






32. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






33. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






36. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






37. Augustan Period






38. 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






39. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






40. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






41. 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






42. 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'






43. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






47. 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






48. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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