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CLEP World Literature

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1. The 'shrew' of the title






2. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers






3. 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.






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






6. 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






7. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






8. 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






9. 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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10. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet






11. '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 -






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






13. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






15. 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...






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






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






18. 19th Century authors






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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






23. 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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24. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






26. William Yeats wrote...






27. 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.






28. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...






29. 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






30. 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)






31. 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






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






33. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






40. '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.'






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






42. 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.






43. Book of poems






44. 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






45. 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






46. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






49. 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






50. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21