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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






3. 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






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






5. Works by Charles Dickens






6. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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7. 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.






8. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






11. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






12. 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.






13. 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






14. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






17. '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 -






18. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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. 17th century authors






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






27. Book of poems






28. 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.






29. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






31. 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






32. 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)






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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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44. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?






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






46. 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






47. 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...






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






49. 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






50. A poem