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CLEP World Literature

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






2. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work






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






4. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






5. 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






6. '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.






7. The Comedians was written by who






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






9. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






11. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






12. 18th Century Irish Satirist






13. 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.


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






15. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life






16. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)






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






18. The 'shrew' of the title






19. Deals with man's relationship with time - the universe - and the divine - only through realizing Christ's sacrifice for mankind is an individual capable of being saved.






20. William Yeats wrote...






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






22. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






23. 18th Century authors






24. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady






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






26. Jane Austen wrote ...






27. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'






28. 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.






29. Modern English authors






30. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?






31. A poem






32. 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






33. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king






34. 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






35. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


36. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when






37. 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






38. Wrote 'Troilus and Criseyde' - 'The Knight's Tale' - 'Canterbury Tales' - known as the 'Father of English Literature' - considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages - first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey






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






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






41. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






42. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)


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






44. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






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






48. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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