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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






4. 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.






5. '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 -






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






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






9. 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






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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






21. 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.






22. 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






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






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






26. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet






27. Falls into a stream after going crazy






28. 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






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






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






31. '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.






32. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?






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. 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






35. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






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. 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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40. 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






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






42. 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






43. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






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






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






48. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






50. '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.'