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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






3. 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.






4. 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






5. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






14. Works by Jonathon Swift

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15. 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






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






17. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21






18. Book of poems






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






20. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






22. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






23. 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...






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






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






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






27. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. Modern English authors






37. 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.






38. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet






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






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






41. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






43. William Yeats wrote...






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






45. 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






46. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






49. 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






50. The 'shrew' of the title







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