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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






2. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






9. 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.






10. Works by Charles Dickens






11. A poem






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






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






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






17. Book of poems






18. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'






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






20. 17th century authors






21. 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.






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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.






30. Works by Jonathon Swift

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31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






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






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






43. 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






44. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






46. 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...






47. 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






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






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. 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







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