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CLEP World Literature

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1. 18th Century authors






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






3. The 'shrew' of the title






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






5. 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.






6. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






9. 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.






10. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






11. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






13. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






16. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians






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






18. '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.






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






20. 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






21. William Yeats wrote...






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. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






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






25. Modern English authors






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. Works by Charles Dickens






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






36. Book of poems






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






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






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






40. The Comedians was written by who






41. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy






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






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






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






45. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






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






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






50. 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.