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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. The semblance of truth - a quality that helps distinguish the early novel from fable and romance






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






3. Romantic Period






4. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






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






8. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






11. Romantic period;






12. 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






13. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






16. 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






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






18. Made up of the ideas - beliefs - and values shared by members of a society. Ideology is shaped by political interests and serves power interests in ways we might not recognize






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






20. Augustan Period






21. A method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense: the irony of calling a stupid plan 'clever'






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






23. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. (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






29. 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'






30. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






31. 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






32. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






33. 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






34. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Letters - usually formal






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






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






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






42. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






43. 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






44. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






46. 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.






47. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






48. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






50. A group of four works