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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






7. (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






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






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






10. A lyric from stemming from the Middle Ages that treats the subject of two lovers waking up together. It may deal with the joy of being together or with the sorrow of having to part.






11. 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.






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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'






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






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






20. 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.






21. Augustan Period;






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






23. 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






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






25. Augustan Period






26. 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






27. 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.






28. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. Romantic Period






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






44. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






49. 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






50. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant







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