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CLEP World Literature

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1. Works by Charles Dickens






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






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 satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?






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






6. 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






7. '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 -






8. 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...






9. 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.






10. 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






11. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?






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






13. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






15. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






16. 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.






17. Jane Austen wrote ...






18. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






20. A poem






21. 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






22. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






23. 18th Century Irish Satirist






24. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






25. 18th Century authors






26. 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.


27. Modern English authors






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. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






33. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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


35. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?






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






37. 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.


38. 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






39. 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?'






40. 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.






41. 17th century authors






42. 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






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






44. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






46. 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






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






48. Works by Jonathon Swift


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






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