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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. Modern English authors






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






12. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






13. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






14. 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






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






16. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






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






24. Works by Jonathon Swift

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25. 19th Century authors






26. 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)






27. 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






28. 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






29. The Comedians was written by who






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






31. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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32. 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






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. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'






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






36. 17th century authors






37. 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






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






39. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe






40. '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 -






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






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






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






44. The 'shrew' of the title






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






46. 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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47. Jane Austen wrote ...






48. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






49. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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50. 18th Century authors