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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






3. Letters - usually formal






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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.






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






8. 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






9. 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'






10. 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.






11. 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






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






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






14. A group of four works






15. (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






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






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






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






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






20. 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'






21. 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






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






23. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






25. 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.






26. Romantic Period






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






28. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






29. 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






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






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






32. 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






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






35. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






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






46. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






47. 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






48. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






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