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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






2. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






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






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






7. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






8. 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.






9. 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






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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'






15. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.






16. 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.






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






18. Romantic period;






19. 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






20. 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






21. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






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






32. Letters - usually formal






33. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






35. 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.)






36. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






37. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






38. 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'






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






40. 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






41. 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)






42. 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.






43. 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






44. Romantic Period






45. 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






46. Augustan Period






47. 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.






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






49. The rhythmic structure of poetry






50. 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.






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