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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






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






6. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






8. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






11. 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






12. '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 -






13. 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.






14. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. Mary Shelley was his second wife






20. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?






21. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






23. 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.






24. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






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






41. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






43. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






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






46. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






48. William Yeats wrote...






49. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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