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CLEP World Literature

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






2. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






4. Works by Charles Dickens






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






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






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






10. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)






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






12. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






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






17. '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 -






18. 19th Century authors






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






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






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






22. 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






23. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






32. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






34. William Yeats wrote...






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






41. 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






42. 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






43. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






45. 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






46. Modern English authors






47. 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.






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






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