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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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.






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






4. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






7. 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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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






12. 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)






13. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






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






16. Mary Shelley was his second wife






17. 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






18. 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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19. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






22. 19th Century authors






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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. 18th Century Irish Satirist






29. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






30. Works by Charles Dickens






31. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power






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






33. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?






34. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)






35. 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.






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






37. Modern English authors






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






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






40. 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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41. 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.






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






43. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier






44. 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






45. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






46. 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.






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






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






49. Jane Austen wrote ...






50. William Yeats wrote...