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CLEP World Literature

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






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






4. 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






5. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






6. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






8. 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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






15. 19th Century authors






16. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?






17. 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.






18. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when






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






20. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






22. Mary Shelley was his second wife






23. 17th century authors






24. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






25. A poem






26. 18th Century Irish Satirist






27. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






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






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






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






33. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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34. 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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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?'






39. 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.






40. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life






41. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






43. The Comedians was written by who






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






45. This story is made up of 108 sonnets and 11 songs - 'aster' (star) Greek 'Stella' (star) Latin - 'Phil' (lover) - Thus Astrophel is the star lover - and Stella is his star.






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






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






48. 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...






49. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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