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CLEP World Literature

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






2. A poem






3. 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






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






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






6. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)


7. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






16. 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.






17. 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






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






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. 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.


21. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






24. Book of poems






25. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


26. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






28. 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...






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






30. What form is Faerie Queen written in?


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






32. 19th Century authors






33. 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






34. 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.






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






36. 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?'






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






38. 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.






39. 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






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






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






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






43. William Yeats wrote...






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






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






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






47. 18th Century authors






48. Works by Charles Dickens






49. 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.






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