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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






3. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






4. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






6. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






8. 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






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. A poem






11. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






13. 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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14. Falls into a stream after going crazy






15. 17th century authors






16. 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






17. Book of poems






18. '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.'






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






20. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






22. 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.






23. Works by Charles Dickens






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






25. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






31. 19th Century authors






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






36. '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 -






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






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. Jane Austen wrote ...






47. 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






48. 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.






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






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







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