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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






3. 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






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






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






6. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






7. '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.






8. 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






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






10. '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 -






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






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






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






14. The Comedians was written by who






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






16. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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

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






19. 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






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






21. 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...






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






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






24. Jane Austen wrote ...






25. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe






38. 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.






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






43. 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.






44. 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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45. William Yeats wrote...






46. 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






47. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






48. 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






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






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