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CLEP World Literature

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1. A poem






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






3. 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.






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






5. 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






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






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






8. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






9. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






11. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






12. 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






13. 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)






14. '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 -






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






16. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






17. 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






18. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






19. 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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20. '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.






21. 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






22. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?






23. Jane Austen wrote ...






24. 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.






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






26. '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.'






27. 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.






28. 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






29. Falls into a stream after going crazy






30. 17th century authors






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






32. 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






33. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost






34. Mary Shelley was his second wife






35. 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






36. 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.






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






38. 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...






39. 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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40. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






50. 18th Century authors