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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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. 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






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






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






8. William Yeats wrote...






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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...






12. 'Money - money - money - and what money can make of life' - a rich man dies - the will says that John Harmon will get the estate if he marries a woman named Bella whom he has never met -






13. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. Book of poems






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






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






26. 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






27. 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.






28. 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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29. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






30. 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






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






32. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






33. 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






34. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






36. '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.






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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?'






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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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