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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






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






5. Modern English authors






6. Works by Jonathon Swift

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7. 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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






13. The 'shrew' of the title






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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






20. Book of poems






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






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






23. '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.






24. 18th Century authors






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. '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 -






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






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






36. 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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37. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






39. Jane Austen wrote ...






40. The Comedians was written by who






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






42. '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.'






43. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






45. 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






46. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






49. 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.






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