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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. 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






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






3. 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






4. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






5. 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






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






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






8. The rhythmic structure of poetry






9. 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.






10. 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






11. To put or publish. Published novel






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






13. A poem of fixed form - French in origin - consisting usually of five three-line stanzas and a final four-line stanza and having only two rhymes throughout






14. 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






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. 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






23. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






30. Romantic period;






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






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






33. 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'






34. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






35. Augustan Period






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






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






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






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






40. 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.)






41. 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)






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






43. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






44. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






46. 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.






47. 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'






48. 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






49. 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.






50. 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