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CLEP World Literature

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1. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






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






4. Heroine thinks she is good at matchmaking and thinks that she will never find love for herself - ends up with Knightley after a long time






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






6. 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?'






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






18. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






19. 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.






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. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier






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






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






24. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'






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






26. This story is made up of 108 sonnets and 11 songs - 'aster' (star) Greek 'Stella' (star) Latin - 'Phil' (lover) - Thus Astrophel is the star lover - and Stella is his star.






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






28. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






29. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






30. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






31. '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.






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






33. 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






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






36. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?






37. 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






38. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment - and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice.






39. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






40. 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)






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






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






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






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






45. Mary Shelley was his second wife






46. 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.






47. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






49. 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






50. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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