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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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?


2. The first tale from Canterbury Tales - this story was written in iambic pentameter - about courtly love and ethical dilemmas - Arcite and Palamon are imprisoned. They both fall for a woman named Emily which causes tension and hate.


3. 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






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






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






7. Mary Shelley was his second wife






8. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






10. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






13. 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?'






14. '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 -






15. Works by Charles Dickens






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






17. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)


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






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






20. Works by Jonathon Swift


21. 17th century authors






22. 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.






23. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






25. Book of poems






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






27. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






28. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'






29. '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.'






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






31. 18th Century authors






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






36. Modern English authors






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 19th Century authors






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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.


43. 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.






44. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


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






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






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






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






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






50. Falls into a stream after going crazy