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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. Heroic poetry with an important subject of crucial national or cultural significance - together with a grand - lofty tone. Many epics tell the story of the founding of a nation or race by means of battle or journey






2. To put or publish. Published novel






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






4. 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.






5. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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.






15. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






16. Letters - usually formal






17. (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






18. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






19. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






20. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






21. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






22. A collection of works on a common theme such as Charlemagne or the Trojan War. Cycles typically represent the work of several different authors brought together into a group. Cycles are often groups of romance narrative.






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






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






25. 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.






26. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






27. The rhythmic structure of poetry






28. 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'






29. 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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. 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






35. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






36. 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.






37. Augustan Period






38. (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






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






40. 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.






41. Augustan Period;






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






43. 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.)






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






46. 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.






47. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






48. 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






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