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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






3. 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.






4. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






14. Works by Charles Dickens






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






16. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes






17. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. Book of poems






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






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






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






27. The Comedians was written by who






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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?'






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






38. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






40. One of the earliest English history plays - telescopes most of Edward II's reign into a single narrative - beginning with the recall of his favourite - Piers Gaveston - from exile - and ending with his son Edward III's execution of Mortimer Junior fo






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






42. 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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43. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






44. 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






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






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






47. 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






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






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