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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing






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






5. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






7. 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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8. 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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






14. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






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






18. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy






19. 18th Century Irish Satirist






20. 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






21. 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






22. The first of 4 stanzas discusses concerns about lost vision - the second of 4 stanzas describes how age causes man to lose sight of the divine - and the third of 3 stanzas is hopeful in that the memory of the divine allows us to sympathise with our f






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






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






25. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso






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






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






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






32. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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33. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)






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






35. 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.






36. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






38. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






40. 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?'






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






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






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






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






45. Falls into a stream after going crazy






46. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






47. 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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48. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






50. 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