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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. A repeated pattern of lines and rhymes analogous to a verse in a song






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






3. (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






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






5. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






14. 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.






15. Novels about gruesome doings and supernatural horrors - usually set far away and long ago. The form emerged during the eighteenth century but gained popularity and respectability in the nineteenth - as the imagination in literature came to be more hi






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






17. Augustan Period






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. 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'






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






32. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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






39. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






41. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






42. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






43. 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.






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






45. 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






46. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






47. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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






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






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