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CLEP World Literature

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1. Works by Jonathon Swift

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2. 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.






3. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






4. 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.

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5. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






13. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






21. The Comedians was written by who






22. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






25. 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






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






27. 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?'






28. 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






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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






34. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






42. Book of poems






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






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






46. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






48. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






50. Mary Shelley was his second wife