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CLEP World Literature

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1. Jane Austen wrote ...






2. 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.






3. Falls into a stream after going crazy






4. 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.






5. '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 -






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






7. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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8. 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.

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






10. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






11. 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






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






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






14. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






16. 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.






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






18. Works by Charles Dickens






19. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






21. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






23. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king






24. 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






25. 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...






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






27. Book of poems






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. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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






34. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






35. 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.






36. 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?'






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






38. '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.






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






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






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






42. 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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






47. 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.






48. 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






49. The Comedians was written by who






50. 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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