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CLEP World Literature

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






2. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






3. 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?'






4. 17th century authors






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. The Comedians was written by who






12. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books






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






14. 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.






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






16. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. If the daughters don't marry and the father dies - the girls and their mom will be left without a home. Main characters: Elizabeth Bennett and Darcy






29. 18th Century Irish Satirist






30. 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)






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






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






33. 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






34. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






36. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






38. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. '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 -






46. 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.






47. '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.






48. 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.






49. Book of poems






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