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CLEP World Literature

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






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






4. 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?'






5. 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






6. 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)






7. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






9. 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






10. Modern English authors






11. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






12. 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






13. 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.






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






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






16. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






18. Taming of the Shrew was written by...






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. 18th Century Irish Satirist






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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






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






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






30. '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.'






31. 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






32. 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...






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






34. 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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35. 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






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






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






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






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






40. Mary Shelley was his second wife






41. 19th Century authors






42. 18th Century authors






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






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






45. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






48. 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.






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






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