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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






6. 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






7. '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.






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






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






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






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






12. 18th Century Irish Satirist






13. Men and Women - a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes - all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators - some identified and some not - was written by...






14. 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?'






15. 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






16. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






17. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






19. '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 -






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






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






22. 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.






23. The Comedians was written by who






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






26. Jane Austen wrote ...






27. 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






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






29. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians






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






31. William Yeats wrote...






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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. 17th century authors






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






39. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






42. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment - and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice.






43. 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






44. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






45. 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






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






47. Modern English authors






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






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






50. 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.