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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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.






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






4. 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






5. 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.






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






7. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






10. 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






11. Modern English authors






12. 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






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






14. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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. 18th Century Irish Satirist






17. 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






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






19. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






20. William Yeats wrote...






21. The 'shrew' of the title






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






23. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






24. 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






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






26. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. A poem






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






45. 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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46. 18th Century authors






47. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe






48. 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.






49. The Comedians was written by who






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