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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






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






5. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






6. 19th Century authors






7. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. Mary Shelley was his second wife






14. 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






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






16. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






22. '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.






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






24. 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






25. 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






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






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






29. 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.






30. Modern English authors






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






32. 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?'






33. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?






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






35. 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.






36. 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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37. 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.






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






39. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






41. The 'shrew' of the title






42. 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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43. 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






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






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






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






47. 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






48. 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)






49. 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.






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