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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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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11. 18th Century authors






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






13. '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 -






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






15. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






22. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






24. Works by Jonathon Swift

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25. A poem






26. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






27. Works by Charles Dickens






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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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






34. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)






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






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






38. Modern English authors






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






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






41. William Yeats wrote...






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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.






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






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






47. Written by Sir Walter Scott - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disliked by his father because he loves a girl and is friends with some of the Normans -there is a tournament - and Ivanhoe is injured and the daughter wants to take him to get help - -battles e






48. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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