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CLEP World Literature

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1. A poem






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






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






4. 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.


5. Deals with man's relationship with time - the universe - and the divine - only through realizing Christ's sacrifice for mankind is an individual capable of being saved.






6. Works by Charles Dickens






7. Modern English authors






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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. '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.'






14. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


15. 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.






16. What is it called when each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. what story is written this way?


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






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






19. 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






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






21. 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?'






22. 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.






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






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






25. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






26. The Comedians was written by who






27. 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






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






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






30. 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.






31. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






33. 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...






34. Works by Jonathon Swift


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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






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






40. The 'shrew' of the title






41. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






42. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






43. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






45. 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.






46. Mary Shelley was his second wife






47. 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






48. 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.






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






50. What form is Faerie Queen written in?