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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. A group of four works






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






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






6. Augustan Period






7. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






8. 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






9. 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






10. To put or publish. Published novel






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






12. 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






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






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






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






16. The rhythmic structure of poetry






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






26. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






27. 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'






28. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






29. 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.






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






31. 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






32. 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'






33. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






34. 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.






35. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






36. 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.






37. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






38. 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)






39. The continuation of the grammatical flow from one line of verse to the next






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






49. 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






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







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