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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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4. 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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5. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?






6. 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...






7. 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






8. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






9. 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.






10. Jane Austen wrote ...






11. 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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12. 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






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






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






15. 17th century authors






16. 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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






25. 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






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






27. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






28. 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.






29. 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






30. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






32. 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.






33. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






36. The 'shrew' of the title






37. The Comedians was written by who






38. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






49. Works by Charles Dickens






50. 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?'