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CLEP English Literature All In One

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






2. (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






3. To put or publish. Published novel






4. 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






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






6. A group of four works






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






19. 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'






20. A couplet is a pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme - not all do






21. 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.






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






23. (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






24. Augustan Period;






25. 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'






26. 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






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






28. 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.)






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






39. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






47. Romantic Period






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






49. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






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






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