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CLEP English Literature All In One
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CLEP English Literature All In One
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1. 12th-15th Centuries. Promoted chivalric (knightly) ideals that helped stabilize a social hierarchy based on bloodlines

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

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

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

5. Augustan Period;

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

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

8. An extended metaphor used in a drama or narrative

9. 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

10. A group of four works

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

12. 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

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

14. 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

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

16. 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.)

17. Letters - usually formal

18. To put or publish. Published novel

19. 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

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

21. 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

22. 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

23. The repetition of consonant sounds close to each other

24. 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.

25. 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.