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CLEP English Literature All In One

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1. 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.)






2. 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






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






4. (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






5. 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






6. 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.






7. 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






8. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






9. 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






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






11. 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'






12. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






13. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






14. The repetition of vowel sounds close to each other






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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. Modern Period; 'Dulce et Decorum Est'






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. The rhythmic structure of poetry






34. 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.






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






39. 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






40. A long - blustering - noisy - or scolding speech; tirade






41. 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






42. 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.






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






44. To put or publish. Published novel






45. 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'






46. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.