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CLEP World Literature

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






2. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






3. 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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4. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






14. 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






15. 19th Century authors






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






20. Modern English authors






21. 18th Century authors






22. 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.






23. 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?'






24. 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






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. 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






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






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






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






30. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






32. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






33. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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.






39. Works by Jonathon Swift

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40. A poem






41. 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






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






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






44. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






45. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






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






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






50. '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 -