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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






6. 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






7. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






9. 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






10. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






11. 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.






12. The 'shrew' of the title






13. 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.






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






15. 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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16. 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.






17. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






19. The Comedians was written by who






20. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






22. '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 -






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






34. Modern English authors






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






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






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






38. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






45. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






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. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus






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







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