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CLEP World Literature

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1. 17th century authors






2. 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






3. 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.






4. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






14. 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






15. '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.






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






17. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






18. 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






19. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






21. 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






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






23. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






24. 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.






25. '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.'






26. 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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27. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






28. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






30. '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 -






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. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain






33. 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






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






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






36. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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)






42. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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43. 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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44. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






46. Modern English authors






47. 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.






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






49. 18th Century authors






50. 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