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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






2. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






3. A verbal pattern in two parts in which the second part is like a mirror image of the first.






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






5. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






6. 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






7. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






12. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






13. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






15. Romantic period;






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






20. (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






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






22. 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'






23. Letters - usually formal






24. 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.






25. 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






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






27. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






28. 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






29. To put or publish. Published novel






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






31. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






32. 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






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






34. 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)






35. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






36. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






40. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






42. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






44. 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.






45. A group of four works






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






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






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






49. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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