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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






9. 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






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






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






12. 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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13. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






16. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.






17. 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






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






19. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






21. 18th Century authors






22. Mary Shelley was his second wife






23. 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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24. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life






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

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36. 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






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






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. '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.






40. 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.






41. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy






42. 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.






43. Book of poems






44. 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.






45. 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?'






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






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






48. Explores new thoughts on death by comparing/contrasting the mortal human with the immortal nightingale - ends with accepting the idea that pleasure must end and that death in not escapable






49. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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







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