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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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.






2. 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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Falls into a stream after going crazy






10. 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...






11. A poem






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






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

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






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






16. Jane Austen wrote ...






17. 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.






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






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.

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






21. 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.






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






23. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'






24. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






25. 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)






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






27. Mary Shelley was his second wife






28. 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






29. 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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30. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






32. 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






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






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






35. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






37. 17th century authors






38. William Yeats wrote...






39. 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.






40. 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






41. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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42. Book of poems






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






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






45. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. 19th Century authors