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CLEP World Literature

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1. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






2. 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.


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






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


5. 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)






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






7. 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






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


12. 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






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






14. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21






25. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






27. Jane Austen wrote ...






28. 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






29. 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






30. Mary Shelley was his second wife






31. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers






32. Book of poems






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






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






35. '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.'






36. 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






37. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






39. Works by Jonathon Swift


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






41. 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.






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






43. 17th century authors






44. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet






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






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. Modern English authors






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