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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






3. 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.






4. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






5. The Comedians was written by who






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






7. 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






8. Works by Charles Dickens






9. 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.






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






11. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






13. Falls into a stream after going crazy






14. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. Modern English authors






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






23. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






24. '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.






25. 18th Century authors






26. 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.






27. 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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28. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet






29. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. A poem






37. 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






38. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.






39. Book of poems






40. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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)






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






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






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






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