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CLEP World Literature

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1. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy






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






3. Book of poems






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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?'






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






17. Works by Jonathon Swift

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18. 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)






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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...






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






24. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






25. 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.






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






27. William Yeats wrote...






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






29. 18th Century authors






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






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






32. Falls into a stream after going crazy






33. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






34. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. 19th Century authors






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






41. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






48. 18th Century Irish Satirist






49. Jane Austen wrote ...






50. 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