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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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.






3. Jane Austen wrote ...






4. 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?'






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






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






7. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






9. The 'shrew' of the title






10. 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.






11. 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






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






13. 17th century authors






14. '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.'






15. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






17. William Yeats wrote...






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






19. 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






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






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






23. 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






24. Falls into a stream after going crazy






25. 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?


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






27. A poem






28. 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.






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






30. '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 -






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






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






33. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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. 19th Century authors






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. Modern English authors