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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






2. 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






3. 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






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. 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.






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






10. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






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






12. (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






13. 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






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






20. 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






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






22. 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'






23. 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






24. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other






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






26. Augustan Period;






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






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






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






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






31. To put or publish. Published novel






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






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






34. 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






35. 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'






36. 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)






37. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






40. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






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






42. 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'






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






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






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






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






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. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






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