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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. The Comedians was written by who






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






18. 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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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 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.






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






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






24. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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25. 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.






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






27. Book of poems






28. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






31. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






32. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)






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






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






35. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






36. 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






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. '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. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






40. 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






41. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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42. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






43. 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...






44. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






46. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






48. A poem






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






50. Mary Shelley was his second wife