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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






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






4. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






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






8. 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






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. 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.






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






16. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






18. 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)






19. 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.






20. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. Modern English authors






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






29. 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






30. The 'shrew' of the title






31. 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.






32. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






33. '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 -






34. William Yeats wrote...






35. A poem






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






42. 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






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






44. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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45. 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






46. The Comedians was written by who






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






48. Book of poems






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






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