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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






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






5. Falls into a stream after going crazy






6. 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.






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






13. 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






14. '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.'






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






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






17. 19th Century authors






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






19. Mary Shelley was his second wife






20. 18th Century Irish Satirist






21. 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






22. 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






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






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






34. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






36. The Comedians was written by who






37. 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






38. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






40. 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.






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






42. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. Works by Charles Dickens






48. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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