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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






3. Falls into a stream after going crazy






4. 17th century authors






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






6. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?






7. 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.






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






9. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






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






12. 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)






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






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






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






17. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






18. 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






19. '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.






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






21. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors






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






23. 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






24. Book of poems






25. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






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






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






30. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.






31. 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






32. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






35. 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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36. Modern English authors






37. 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?'






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






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






40. The 'shrew' of the title






41. 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






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






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






44. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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