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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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.






2. 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






3. '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.






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






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






6. 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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7. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. 18th Century authors






19. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






22. 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.






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






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






25. 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.






26. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






28. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






30. 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.






31. 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






32. William Yeats wrote...






33. Modern English authors






34. 17th century authors






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






40. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






42. 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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43. '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 -






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






45. Heroine thinks she is good at matchmaking and thinks that she will never find love for herself - ends up with Knightley after a long time






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






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






48. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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







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