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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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.






3. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






6. 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.






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






8. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






10. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






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






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






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






16. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






17. Modern English authors






18. 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






19. 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)






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






21. 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...






22. 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






23. '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.'






24. 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






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






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






28. 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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29. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet






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






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






32. The Comedians was written by who






33. 19th Century authors






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






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






36. 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






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






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






39. '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.






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






41. 18th Century authors






42. A poem






43. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






44. 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.






45. 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






46. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. The 'shrew' of the title