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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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.






2. Works by Charles Dickens






3. 17th century authors






4. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






5. 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.


6. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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






15. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






16. Book of poems






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






18. 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.






19. 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.


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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. 19th Century authors






26. 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






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






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






29. 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...






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






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






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






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






34. William Yeats wrote...






35. Modern English authors






36. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet






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






38. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?






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






40. 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?'






41. 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.






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


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






44. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






45. 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






46. Jane Austen wrote ...






47. 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






48. Mary Shelley was his second wife






49. 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






50. 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