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CLEP World Literature

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1. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.






2. The 'shrew' of the title






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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






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






8. 19th Century authors






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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






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






15. Works by Charles Dickens






16. 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.






17. 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...






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






19. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






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






23. 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






24. 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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25. 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.






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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. 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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35. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






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






38. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






39. A poem






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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






45. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






47. 18th Century authors






48. Falls into a stream after going crazy






49. 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?'






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