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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






4. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power






5. 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.






6. 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?


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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






14. Falls into a stream after going crazy






15. 18th Century Irish Satirist






16. Written by Sir Walter Scott - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disliked by his father because he loves a girl and is friends with some of the Normans -there is a tournament - and Ivanhoe is injured and the daughter wants to take him to get help - -battles e






17. 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...






18. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


25. '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.'






26. Major italian poet - known as the 'Supreme Poet' - 'Father of the Italian Language' - Wrote Divine Comedy - a masterpiece of the world and very well known






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






28. 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






29. Works by Charles Dickens






30. '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.






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.


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






33. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






34. 19th Century authors






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






36. 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?'






37. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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. The 'shrew' of the title






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






41. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






42. William Yeats wrote...






43. Works by Jonathon Swift


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






45. 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






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






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






48. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems






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






50. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?