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CLEP World Literature

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1. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing






2. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






4. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






7. 18th Century Irish Satirist






8. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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9. 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.






10. 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






11. 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.






12. The 'shrew' of the title






13. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






15. Works by Charles Dickens






16. 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...






17. 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






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






19. 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.






20. A poem






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






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






23. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus






24. '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.






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






26. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






28. 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






29. 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.






30. 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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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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35. 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






36. 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






37. 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.






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






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






40. Book of poems






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






43. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






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






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






48. 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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49. The Comedians was written by who






50. 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.