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CLEP World Literature

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






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






4. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?






5. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






6. 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






7. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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8. 18th Century authors






9. 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






10. '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 -






11. A poem






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






13. 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.






14. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






15. 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






16. '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.'






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






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






19. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






20. 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






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






22. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






35. 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.






36. 19th Century authors






37. This story is made up of 108 sonnets and 11 songs - 'aster' (star) Greek 'Stella' (star) Latin - 'Phil' (lover) - Thus Astrophel is the star lover - and Stella is his star.






38. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






39. 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






40. Works by Charles Dickens






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






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






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






47. 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






48. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life






49. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who






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