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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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.






3. Jane Austen wrote ...






4. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






7. 18th Century authors






8. 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






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






10. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






11. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






13. 19th Century authors






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






16. Mary Shelley was his second wife






17. 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?


18. A poem






19. 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






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






21. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






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






24. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?






25. The Comedians was written by who






26. Modern English authors






27. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






29. 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






30. 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.






31. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






32. 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






33. Works by Charles Dickens






34. 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.






35. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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


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






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






39. 17th century authors






40. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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






45. 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)






46. 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






47. 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?'






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






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






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