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CLEP World Literature

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






2. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who






3. 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






4. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain






5. 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.






6. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?






7. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






8. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books






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






10. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers






11. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?






12. 'Tis better to have loved and lost - Than never to have loved at all. is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period.






13. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






15. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power






16. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?






17. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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18. Major italian poet - known as the 'Supreme Poet' - 'Father of the Italian Language' - Wrote Divine Comedy - a masterpiece of the world and very well known






19. The 'shrew' of the title






20. 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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21. If the daughters don't marry and the father dies - the girls and their mom will be left without a home. Main characters: Elizabeth Bennett and Darcy






22. 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






23. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






24. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?






25. 17th century authors






26. Explores new thoughts on death by comparing/contrasting the mortal human with the immortal nightingale - ends with accepting the idea that pleasure must end and that death in not escapable






27. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural






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






29. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...






30. Leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it - employs a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed - at least in part - for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of






31. Modern English authors






32. Mary Shelley was his second wife






33. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?






34. Criseyde becomes the object of affection for Troilus (a man who had scoffed at love) - There is an exchange of prisoners between the Trojans and the Greeks. Criseyde has to escape - but promises she will return to Troilus in 10 days. Who wrote this s






35. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?






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






37. 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...






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






39. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn






40. Written by Christopher Marlowe - story about a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge - allotted twenty-four years of life on Earth - during which time he will have Mephistophilis as his personal servant. Then - he must repay with ti






41. 18th Century Irish Satirist






42. Written by William Blake - the Lily - the Cloud - the Worm - the Clod of Clay...characters - asks the question 'why does the springtime of life inevitably fade so that all things must end?'






43. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'






44. '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 -






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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