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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






3. 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.






4. 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






5. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






6. 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.






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






8. 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






9. 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






10. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






13. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






21. A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another - dissimilar thing by the use of like - as - etc. (Ex.: a heart as big as a whale - her tears flowed like wine)






22. 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.






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






24. 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






25. (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






26. 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'






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






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






29. 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'






30. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






32. Augustan Period






33. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






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






36. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






37. A verse form of Italian origin - made up of tercets - the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba - bcb - cdc - etc.)






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






39. 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.






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






41. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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






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






47. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






49. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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'