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CLEP English Literature All In One

Subjects : clep, literature, english
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1. Renaissance Period; Sonnets - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - Twelfth Night - Henry IV - and A Midsummer's Nught Dream.






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






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. Romantic Period






5. 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






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






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






8. The rhythmic structure of poetry






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






10. (1840-1900) prescribed liberal doses of 'English literature' as a means of restoring higher ideals to a society that appeared to grow increasingly crass.






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






12. The device of presenting abstractions as human characters.






13. Augustan Period; Robinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders






14. 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.






15. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative






16. 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'






17. Pastoral lyrics- pomes that idealize life of shepherds






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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






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






22. 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






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






24. 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.)






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






26. 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






27. 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)






28. The pattern of rhymes in a stanza






29. (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






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






31. 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.






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






33. Augustan Period






34. Romantic Period; Pride and Prejudice - Emma






35. Augustan Period;






36. 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.






37. Focus on the lives of the rich and elegant






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. Renaissance Period ; Paradise Lost






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines