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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






4. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






5. Jane Austen wrote ...






6. 18th Century authors






7. 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






8. Book of poems






9. 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






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






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






13. The Comedians was written by who






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. 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.






21. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






22. 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?'






23. 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






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






25. 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






26. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






27. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






29. '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.






30. The 'shrew' of the title






31. 17th century authors






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






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. 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






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






36. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?






37. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






39. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus






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






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






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






43. Works by Charles Dickens






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






45. '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.'






46. 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...






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






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 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.






50. 19th Century authors