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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A work written to mourn the death and memorialize the life of someone who died






2. 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.






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. Romantic Period






9. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






10. (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






11. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






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






14. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






16. Augustan Period;






17. (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






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






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






20. 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'






21. A group of four works






22. 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






23. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






24. Romantic period;






25. 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






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






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






28. A verse form of Italian origin - made up of tercets - the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba - bcb - cdc - etc.)






29. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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






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






35. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






37. Augustan Period






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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






42. An unofficial grouping of works by authors whose importance has become generally recognized by literature scholars.






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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.






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






49. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






50. 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