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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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)






3. 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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






8. '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 -






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






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






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






12. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






13. The Comedians was written by who






14. 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






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






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






17. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






19. 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






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






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






22. Written by Christopher Marlowe - Barabas is the protagonist - who uses his daughter (Abigail) to make others mad - and when she finds out - she joins a nunnery. She is then poisoned.






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






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






25. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






28. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.






29. 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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30. 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.






31. 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






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






33. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






35. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






36. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






38. 17th century authors






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






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






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






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






43. 18th Century Irish Satirist






44. William Yeats wrote...






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






46. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






47. The 'shrew' of the title






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






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