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CLEP World Literature

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1. '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 -






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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...






10. Written by William Blake - the Lily - the Cloud - the Worm - the Clod of Clay...characters - asks the question 'why does the springtime of life inevitably fade so that all things must end?'






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






12. 19th Century authors






13. 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






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






15. 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






16. The Comedians was written by who






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






18. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?






19. '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.






20. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






21. 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.






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. The 'shrew' of the title






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. A poem






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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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34. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?






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






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






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






41. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






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






45. 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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46. Mary Shelley was his second wife






47. 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






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






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






50. Who wrote Piers Plowman?