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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






3. 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.






4. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






5. 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






6. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






8. 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.






9. 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.)






10. 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






11. 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'






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






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






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






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






16. A rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines - first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit - esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: 'In every work regard the writer's end - Since none can compass more than th






17. 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






18. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






19. 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






20. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






26. 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'






27. 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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






33. A group of four works






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






35. 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.






36. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






38. (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






39. 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.






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






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






42. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






43. 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






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






45. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






46. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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