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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next






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






3. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






5. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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.






10. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






11. Augustan Period;






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






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






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






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






16. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






19. 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






20. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






24. Romantic period;






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






29. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






30. 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.






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






32. 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.)






33. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






35. A group of four works






36. 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






37. Romantic Period






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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






44. The rhythmic structure of poetry






45. Letters - usually formal






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






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






48. To put or publish. Published novel






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






50. A literary - usually verse composition in which a speaker reveals his or her character - often in relation to a critical situation or event - in a monologue addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener.