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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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.






5. Works by Jonathon Swift


6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. A poem






14. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






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






17. 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






18. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






20. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






21. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






22. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






24. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. Mary Shelley was his second wife






32. 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.






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






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






35. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


36. '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 -






37. 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.






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






39. What form is Faerie Queen written in?


40. Book of poems






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






42. 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.






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






44. 19th Century authors






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






46. 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






47. 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.


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






49. 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.






50. The Comedians was written by who