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CLEP World Literature

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1. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






2. 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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






7. '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 -






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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.






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






14. '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.






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






16. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes






17. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






18. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?






19. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






20. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






23. 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






24. Modern English authors






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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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34. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet






35. 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






36. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth






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






38. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






39. 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.






40. Major italian poet - known as the 'Supreme Poet' - 'Father of the Italian Language' - Wrote Divine Comedy - a masterpiece of the world and very well known






41. 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.






42. 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






43. Book of poems






44. 17th century authors






45. 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






46. 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






47. 19th Century authors






48. 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.






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