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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. Romantic period;






3. Augustan Period






4. 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.






5. Romantic Period






6. Augustan Period;






7. 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.






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






9. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






15. 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.






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






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






18. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






26. (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






27. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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.






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






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






35. The rhythmic structure of poetry






36. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






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






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






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






41. 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






42. 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'






43. 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'






44. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






45. 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






46. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






47. Poetry that has no fixed meter - although it has rhythmic lines and line breaks and is therefore presumably composed with rhythmic qualities in mind. It came into vogue during the modern period.






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






49. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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