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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. 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'






4. Letters - usually formal






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Augustan Period;






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






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






16. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






17. Any tangible thing named in a language - regardless of whether that thing is literal or figurative






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. 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






20. The rhythmic structure of poetry






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. 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






26. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






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






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






30. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






31. 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.






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






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






34. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines






35. A group of four works






36. 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






37. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






39. 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)






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






47. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






49. 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.






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