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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






2. Modern English authors






3. 19th Century authors






4. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






6. Jane Austen wrote ...






7. What is it called when each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. what story is written this way?

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8. 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.






9. 17th century authors






10. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






21. Taming of the Shrew was written by...






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






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






24. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






25. 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






26. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






28. Works by Charles Dickens






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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?'






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






43. 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






44. William Yeats wrote...






45. 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






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






47. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






50. The first of 4 stanzas discusses concerns about lost vision - the second of 4 stanzas describes how age causes man to lose sight of the divine - and the third of 3 stanzas is hopeful in that the memory of the divine allows us to sympathise with our f