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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. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






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






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






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






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






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






8. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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. 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






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






13. 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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Romantic period;






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






25. 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






26. (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






27. 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.






28. 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'






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






30. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






32. To put or publish. Published novel






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






34. 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.)






35. A novel made up of correspondence between characters






36. 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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. (1790-1840) poets turned inward for the inspiration to celebrate the powers of nature and the creative spirit of individualism






43. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






46. 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)






47. 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






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






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






50. 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