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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






9. 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.






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






11. The 'shrew' of the title






12. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?






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






14. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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15. '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.'






16. '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.






17. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






18. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost






19. 17th century authors






20. 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






21. 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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22. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians






23. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.






24. Works by Charles Dickens






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






33. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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34. 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.






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. Jane Austen wrote ...






37. 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






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






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






40. 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






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. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






43. 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






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






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






46. William Yeats wrote...






47. 18th Century authors






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






50. 'Tub' is a pun for what?