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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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.






2. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)






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






4. 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






5. William Yeats wrote...






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






7. 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






8. 19th Century authors






9. 17th century authors






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. The 'shrew' of the title






16. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






26. 18th Century authors






27. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






29. '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.'






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






31. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






34. Jane Austen wrote ...






35. 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...






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






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






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






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






41. 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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42. Mary Shelley was his second wife






43. 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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44. 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






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






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






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






48. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






50. 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