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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?

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






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






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






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






6. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






8. 17th century authors






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






10. 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.

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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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18. 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...






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






29. Wrote 'Troilus and Criseyde' - 'The Knight's Tale' - 'Canterbury Tales' - known as the 'Father of English Literature' - considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages - first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey






30. 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.






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






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






33. Book of poems






34. 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






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






36. 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






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






38. '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.'






39. 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






40. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?






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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






45. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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. 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






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






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






50. 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