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CLEP World Literature

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1. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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






10. The 'shrew' of the title






11. 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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12. The Comedians was written by who






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






19. 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?'






20. '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 -






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






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






23. 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






24. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






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






27. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






39. Mary Shelley was his second wife






40. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






41. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing






42. A poem






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






44. Modern English authors






45. 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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. 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







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