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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers






8. Mary Shelley was his second wife






9. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing






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






11. 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.






12. '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.






13. 17th century authors






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






15. Book of poems






16. 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.






17. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)


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






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






20. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






22. 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






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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






27. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






28. 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






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






30. Works by Charles Dickens






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






32. Modern English authors






33. William Yeats wrote...






34. The founder of gothic literature - Wrote The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Gaston de Blondeville - The Italian - The Mysteries of Udolpho - The Romance of the Forest and A Sicilian Romance.






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






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






37. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






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?


48. 18th Century authors






49. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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