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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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






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






4. 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.






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. '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.






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






15. 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.






16. Works by Charles Dickens






17. Book of poems






18. 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






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






20. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)


21. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






27. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






29. 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.


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






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






32. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?






33. Falls into a stream after going crazy






34. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






35. 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...






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






37. 19th Century authors






38. 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.


39. Jane Austen wrote ...






40. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?






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






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






44. 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)






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






46. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


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






48. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






50. 'Tub' is a pun for what?