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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Romantic period;






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. 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.






12. 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






13. 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.






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Romantic Period






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






24. 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.






25. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






27. 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.






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






29. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






30. 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






31. Renaissance Period; 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' & Doctor Faustus






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






34. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






35. 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.






36. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






44. Augustan Period






45. (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






46. 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.






47. Letters - usually formal






48. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






50. 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'