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CLEP World Literature

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






2. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






3. 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.






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






5. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






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






9. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






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






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






13. The Comedians was written by who






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






15. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






17. A poem






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






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






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






25. 18th Century authors






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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?'






32. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






33. 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.






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






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






36. The 'shrew' of the title






37. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






39. 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






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






41. 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...






42. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






44. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?






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






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






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






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






49. Jane Austen wrote ...






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