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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Unrhymed verse; esp. - unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line - as in Elizabethan drama






2. 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






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






4. 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.






5. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






6. 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'






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






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






10. A group of four works






11. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






12. 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.






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. A novel in which real persons appear under fictitious names






15. 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.






16. 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'






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






25. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






26. 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






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






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






29. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






32. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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






37. 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'






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






39. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






40. 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)






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






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






43. Augustan Period






44. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






45. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






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






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






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






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