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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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






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






4. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


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






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






7. '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.'






8. 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.


9. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






10. 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?


11. 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






12. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






13. 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.






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






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






16. What form is Faerie Queen written in?


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






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






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






20. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






22. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






23. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






25. 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.


26. 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






27. 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






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






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






30. The Comedians was written by who






31. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






34. A poem






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






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






37. 'Tis better to have loved and lost - Than never to have loved at all. is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period.






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






39. 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






40. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






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






44. '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 -






45. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






47. The 'shrew' of the title






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






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






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