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CLEP World Literature

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1. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






2. 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






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






4. A poem






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






6. The Comedians was written by who






7. 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.






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






9. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






12. Mary Shelley was his second wife






13. Works by Charles Dickens






14. 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?'






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






16. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality






17. 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






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






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






20. 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






21. The 'shrew' of the title






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






23. 19th Century authors






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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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)






36. 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.






37. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...






38. 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






39. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






42. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






45. 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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46. 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...






47. 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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48. 'Tis better to have loved and lost - Than never to have loved at all. is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period.






49. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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50. 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.