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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






2. Works by Charles Dickens






3. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.






4. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






5. 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






6. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






8. The Comedians was written by who






9. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






19. 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?


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






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. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...






23. 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.






24. '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.






25. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


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






27. A poem






28. 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






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






30. 19th Century authors






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






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. 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.






36. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment






37. 17th century authors






38. 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






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






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






41. What form is Faerie Queen written in?


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






43. Works by Jonathon Swift


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






45. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






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






48. Written by Sir Walter Scott - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disliked by his father because he loves a girl and is friends with some of the Normans -there is a tournament - and Ivanhoe is injured and the daughter wants to take him to get help - -battles e






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.


50. Book of poems