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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






2. 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






3. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






5. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






6. To put or publish. Published novel






7. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






9. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration






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






11. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






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






15. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






19. 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.






20. Romantic Period






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. Romantic period;






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






30. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






31. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






32. 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






33. 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'






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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.






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






39. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






41. 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






42. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






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






46. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






48. Augustan Period






49. 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.






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