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CLEP World Literature

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1. Works by Jonathon Swift

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2. 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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3. '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 -






4. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






5. Modern English authors






6. 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






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






8. Falls into a stream after going crazy






9. 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?'






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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






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






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






21. 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.






22. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






24. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






25. '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.'






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






27. 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.






28. 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






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






30. 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






31. 17th century authors






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






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






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






35. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






37. 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...






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






40. The 'shrew' of the title






41. This story is made up of 108 sonnets and 11 songs - 'aster' (star) Greek 'Stella' (star) Latin - 'Phil' (lover) - Thus Astrophel is the star lover - and Stella is his star.






42. 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






43. 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






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






45. A poem






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






47. 19th Century authors






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






49. 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






50. 'Tub' is a pun for what?