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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






2. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






12. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






15. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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






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






22. '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.'






23. 19th Century authors






24. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






25. 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.






26. 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






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






28. The Comedians was written by who






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






30. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






31. 18th Century Irish Satirist






32. 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






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






34. Modern English authors






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






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. '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 -






38. 18th Century authors






39. 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.






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






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. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus






43. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






44. 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.






45. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






47. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






49. 17th century authors






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