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






3. 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






4. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






7. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






8. 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.






9. 19th Century authors






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






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






12. Jane Austen wrote ...






13. William Yeats wrote...






14. 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






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






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






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






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






19. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. 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?'






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






26. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






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






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






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






32. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






33. '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 -






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






39. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'






40. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






42. Mary Shelley was his second wife






43. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






44. 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)






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






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






47. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






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