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CLEP World Literature

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1. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?






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






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






4. 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?'






5. Modern English authors






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






7. The Comedians was written by who






8. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






10. 17th century authors






11. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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 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.






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






15. 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






16. Works by Charles Dickens






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






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






19. '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 -






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






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






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






23. 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






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

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26. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when






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






28. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






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






31. 18th Century authors






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






33. '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.






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. 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






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. 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.