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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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?'






2. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






3. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. William Yeats wrote...






14. Falls into a stream after going crazy






15. '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 -






16. 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






17. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






18. Modern English authors






19. 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.






20. 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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21. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






23. 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...






24. 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.






25. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






26. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






27. 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






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






38. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






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






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






42. Book of poems






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






44. 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






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






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






47. 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.






48. 19th Century authors






49. 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






50. The 'shrew' of the title







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