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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Refers to the sound and structure of poetry - including meter - rhyme - assonance - and alliteration






2. 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.






3. 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'






4. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






5. 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






6. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






9. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






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






11. Romantic Period






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






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






25. Letters - usually formal






26. (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






27. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






43. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






44. 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.






45. 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






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






47. 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.






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






49. A group of four works






50. 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'