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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. Augustan Period






3. Romantic period;






4. 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'






5. Romantic Period






6. 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.






7. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






13. 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






14. 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.






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






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






17. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






19. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






28. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






29. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. 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'






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. The contrast - as in a play - between what a character thinks the truth is - as revealed in a speech or action - and what an audience or reader knows the truth






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






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






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






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






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







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