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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






4. A poem






5. 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






6. 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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7. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






8. 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.






9. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






10. 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.






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






12. Modern English authors






13. 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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






28. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






30. 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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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)






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






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






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






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






41. The Comedians was written by who






42. The 'shrew' of the title






43. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






49. '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.






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