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CLEP World Literature

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






2. The 'shrew' of the title






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






4. William Yeats wrote...






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






6. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.






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






8. 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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9. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






10. 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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. 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?'






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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24. 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






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






26. 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...






27. 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






28. Book of poems






29. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






30. 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






31. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






42. Falls into a stream after going crazy






43. 18th Century Irish Satirist






44. 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.






45. Works by Charles Dickens






46. 18th Century authors






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






50. 'Tub' is a pun for what?