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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






6. 17th century authors






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






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






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






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. 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






12. 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.






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






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. '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.






16. Works by Jonathon Swift

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17. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






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






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






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






24. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life






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






26. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






27. A poem






28. '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 -






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






30. 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.






31. 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...






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






33. 18th Century Irish Satirist






34. Modern English authors






35. William Yeats wrote...






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






37. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






39. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






40. 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.






41. 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?'






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. Jane Austen wrote ...






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






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






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