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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. Book of poems






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






4. Modern English authors






5. 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.






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






7. 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






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






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






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






12. 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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13. 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






14. 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






15. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






16. 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.






17. 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






18. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






20. '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.






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






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






23. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier






24. The first of 4 stanzas discusses concerns about lost vision - the second of 4 stanzas describes how age causes man to lose sight of the divine - and the third of 3 stanzas is hopeful in that the memory of the divine allows us to sympathise with our f






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






26. Works by Charles Dickens






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






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






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






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






31. 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






32. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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33. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






34. 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






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






36. 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.






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






38. '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.'






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. 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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. '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 -






46. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






47. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet






48. 19th Century authors






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






50. The Comedians was written by who