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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. 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.






3. The 'shrew' of the title






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






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






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






7. '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.






8. Falls into a stream after going crazy






9. 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.






10. A poem






11. 17th century authors






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






13. 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






14. 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?'






15. 18th Century authors






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. 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.






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






19. William Yeats wrote...






20. 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






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






22. 19th Century authors






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






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






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






26. 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.


27. 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.






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


34. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






35. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






36. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






37. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king






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


39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






45. Jane Austen wrote ...






46. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when






47. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






48. 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






49. 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?


50. 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)