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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Poetry characterized by elaborate - sometimes bizarre use of metaphor; rough - rugged versification; dramatic speakers; and paradoxical reasoning.






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






3. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






4. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






10. 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






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. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






21. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






22. 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






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






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






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. Romantic Period






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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






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






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. 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.






36. Romantic period;






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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.






43. To put or publish. Published novel






44. Augustan Period;






45. (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






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






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






48. 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






49. Letters - usually formal






50. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative