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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. 18th Century Irish Satirist






3. 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.






4. 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






5. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






6. If the daughters don't marry and the father dies - the girls and their mom will be left without a home. Main characters: Elizabeth Bennett and Darcy






7. 19th Century authors






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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...






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. 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)






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






17. 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.






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






19. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






20. 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






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






22. '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.'






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






25. 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.






26. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






29. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






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






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






33. 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






34. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






35. 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.






36. 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






37. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters






38. 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






39. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing






40. 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






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






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






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






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






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






47. The 'shrew' of the title






48. 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.






49. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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