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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






3. 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.






4. Modern English authors






5. 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.






6. 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






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






8. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






10. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






11. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?






12. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






15. 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






16. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






19. 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.






20. William Yeats wrote...






21. 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






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






23. 19th Century authors






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






25. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






27. 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.






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






29. 17th century authors






30. 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.






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






32. '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 -






33. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






34. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






35. 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.






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






37. 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)






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






45. The 'shrew' of the title






46. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






47. Works by Charles Dickens






48. '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.






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