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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






4. 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






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






6. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






7. The poem satirises a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods - Pope keeps a sense that beauty is fragile - and that the loss of a lock of hair touches Belinda deeply.






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. 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)






10. 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






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






12. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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






20. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






21. The Comedians was written by who






22. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






24. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






27. 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...






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






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






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






31. 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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32. 19th Century authors






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






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






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






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






37. '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.






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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. The 'shrew' of the title






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







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