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CLEP World Literature

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1. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality






2. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






3. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






4. Is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work - although generally - unlike the stanza - each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit.






5. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems






6. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.






7. Men and Women - a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes - all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators - some identified and some not - was written by...






8. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21






9. Mary Shelley was his second wife






10. Taming of the Shrew was written by...






11. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.






12. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters






13. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?






14. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy






15. 19th Century authors






16. The founder of gothic literature - Wrote The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Gaston de Blondeville - The Italian - The Mysteries of Udolpho - The Romance of the Forest and A Sicilian Romance.






17. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who - disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry - looks for distraction in foreign lands.

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18. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors






19. One of the earliest English history plays - telescopes most of Edward II's reign into a single narrative - beginning with the recall of his favourite - Piers Gaveston - from exile - and ending with his son Edward III's execution of Mortimer Junior fo






20. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






21. The first tale from Canterbury Tales - this story was written in iambic pentameter - about courtly love and ethical dilemmas - Arcite and Palamon are imprisoned. They both fall for a woman named Emily which causes tension and hate.

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22. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge






23. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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24. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?






25. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes






26. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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27. This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character - a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela - encountering Native Americans - captives and mutineers before being rescued.






28. Written by Sir Walter Scott - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disliked by his father because he loves a girl and is friends with some of the Normans -there is a tournament - and Ivanhoe is injured and the daughter wants to take him to get help - -battles e






29. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?






30. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...






31. Written by Christopher Marlowe - Barabas is the protagonist - who uses his daughter (Abigail) to make others mad - and when she finds out - she joins a nunnery. She is then poisoned.






32. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






33. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?






34. Works by Charles Dickens






35. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost






36. What is it called when each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. what story is written this way?

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37. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians






38. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet






39. Written by Emily Bronte - the name of a farmhouse - the all-encompassing and passionate - yet thwarted - love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.






40. Jane Austen wrote ...






41. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.






42. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment






43. 'Money - money - money - and what money can make of life' - a rich man dies - the will says that John Harmon will get the estate if he marries a woman named Bella whom he has never met -






44. The Comedians was written by who






45. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus






46. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?






47. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet






48. Works by Jonathon Swift

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49. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.






50. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth