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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A short - carefully constructed scene in a film - play - etc.; specif. - one regarded as subtle - sensitive - etc






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. 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'






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






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






10. Augustan Period






11. 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.






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






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






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






16. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






18. 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.






19. (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






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






21. (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






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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






26. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






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






32. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






33. 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.






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






35. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






36. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






37. 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.






38. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






39. 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.






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






41. Romantic period;






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






43. 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






44. To put or publish. Published novel






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






46. 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






47. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






48. 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.






49. 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)






50. 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'