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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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'






2. 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






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






12. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






13. 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'






14. 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






15. Romantic Period






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






17. Augustan Period






18. 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.






19. 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






20. (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






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






22. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






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






24. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






25. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






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






32. 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






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






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






35. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






36. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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 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






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






48. Augustan Period;






49. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






50. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza