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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. '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.






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. Works by Jonathon Swift

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10. 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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11. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus






12. 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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13. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






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






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






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






22. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






24. William Yeats wrote...






25. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.






26. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






27. 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.






28. 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






29. One of the earliest English history plays - telescopes most of Edward II's reign into a single narrative - beginning with the recall of his favourite - Piers Gaveston - from exile - and ending with his son Edward III's execution of Mortimer Junior fo






30. 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)






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






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






33. 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






34. Mary Shelley was his second wife






35. Book of poems






36. 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.






37. '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.'






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. The 'shrew' of the title






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






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






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






45. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






47. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...






48. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






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







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