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Humanities CLEP Lit
Literature Review for Humanities CLEP
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Five questions when analyzing novels | What, who, why, where, and how/ |
| The novel's what? | Plot |
| Stages of a plot | Introduction or exposition, complication, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement or conclusion. |
| The novel's who | Characters |
| Types of characters in a novel | Static or dynamic |
| Static characters | do not change in a significant way |
| dynamic characters | the narative requires changes in thes characters. |
| protagonist | struggles tword someone or something |
| antagonist | struggles against someone or something |
| Stock characters | characters required to support the the plot |
| Foils | a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight various features of that other character's personality, throwing these characteristics into sharper focus |
| Allegorical | Standing for qualities or concept rather than personages |
| a novel's why | the theme |
| Motifs | detail or eliment which is repeated throuhgout, and may become symbolic |
| a novel's where or when | setting |
| a novel's how | style |
| categories of essays | speculative, argumentative, narrative, and expository |
| Explores ideas rather than explaining them | speculative |
| essays that have argumentative and speculative modes | narrative and epository essays |
| essays that explain and clarify ideas | expository |
| elements of an essay | voice, style, structur, and though |
| Techniques of satire | irony, parody, reversal or inversion, hyperbole, understatement, sarcasm, wit, and invective |
| Poetry - verse | a row or line of poetry |
| Stanza | a grouping of lines with metrical order, often with repeated ryme |
| form of rhymes | end rhyme, internal rhyme, slant rhyme, masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme |
| end rhyme | has the rhyming word at the end of the line |
| internal rhyme | has at least one ryming word in the line |
| slant rhyme | often jolts a reader who expects a perfect rhyme |
| masculine rhyme | uses one syllable words or stresses the final syllable of polysyllibic words |
| feminine rhyme | uses a rhyme of two or more syllable words with no stress on the last syllable, giving a feeling of softness |
| meter | the pattern or measure of stressed or accented words within a line of a verse. |
| iambic rythm | rising a falling rythm |
| iambic pentameter | a line of poetry with ten syllables of rising and falling stresses. |
| Poets known for using iambic pentameter | Shakepeare and milton |
| Iambic foot | one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| Monometer | one foot |
| dimeter | two feet |
| trimeter | three feet |
| tetrameter | four feet |
| pentameter | five feet |
| hexameter | six feet |
| heptameter | seven feet |
| octameter | eight feet |
| uu / | anapest foot |
| / u | trochee foot |
| / uu | dactyl foot |
| meter used in old english poetry | accentual meter |
| Compares two unlike things, feelings, or objects (not using like or if) | metaphor |
| Compairs two unlike thinks using like or if. | simile |
| an object being compaired to a person, or having human attributes | personification |
| repatition of consanants at the begining of a word | alliteration |
| the direct address of someone or somethingthat is not present | apostrophe |
| repatition of vowel sounds | assonance |
| a deliberate anticlimax to make a point or draw attention to falseness | bathos |
| pause marked by (/) | caesura |
| very elaborate comparisons between unlike objects | conceits |
| repetition of consonant sounds without the vowel sound repeated | consonance |
| the word for word choice | diction |
| running on of one line of poetry into another | enjambment |
| an obvious intentional exaggeration | hyperbole |
| inferring a discrepancy between what is said and what is meant | irony |
| a figure of speech used to envoke or stand for a related idea | metonymy |
| a device in which a word captures a sound | onomatopoeia |
| a retorical devise where contrary terms are conjoined | oxymoron |
| a statement that appears contradictory but nevertheless holds true | paradox |
| a play on words, often humorous or sarcastic | pun |
| used when verbal irony is to harsh | sarcasm |
| a part of on object that represents the entire thing | synedouce |
| ordering words in a particular pattern | syntax |
| the voice or attitude of the speaker | tone |
| the pattern or design of a poem | form |
| poem form where lines can be counted and shape determined | closed form |
| poem form that gives freedom of pattern to the poet | open form |
| types of poetry | sonnets, couplets, epics, ballads, and lyrics |
| fixed form poetry that always has 14 lines | sonnet |
| poems with two line stanzas the usually end in rhymes | couplets |
| Poems with vast size and range | epics |
| poems that may have been sung | ballads |
| Poems that deal with a narrative | lyric |
| part of the lyric family that deals with death | elegy |
| part of the lyric family that deals with profound areas of human life | ode |
| a courtly love poem structure from the medieval times | villanelle |
| a poem with six six line stanzas with six end words in a certain order | sestina |
| short abrupt and cynical poem | epigram |
| five line poem using an anapest meter and rhyme scheme | limerick |
| unrymed and iambic pentameter poem | blank verse |
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tmonster