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CLEP World Literature

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






2. '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.






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






9. '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 -






10. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






14. 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






15. 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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16. William Yeats wrote...






17. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






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






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






21. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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22. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






23. 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.






24. A poem






25. 17th century authors






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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?'






33. 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.






34. The Comedians was written by who






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. '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.'






45. 18th Century Irish Satirist






46. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






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






50. 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.







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