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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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






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






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






4. 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






5. 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)






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. A group of four works






11. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






21. 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.






22. Augustan Period;






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






24. 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






25. 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.






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






27. 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.)






28. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






29. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






30. 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'






31. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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






37. (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






38. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






39. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






44. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






45. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






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