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CLEP World Literature

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1. '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.






2. 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.






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






4. Modern English authors






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






9. The 'shrew' of the title






10. 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






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






12. 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






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. 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






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






16. Works by Charles Dickens






17. 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






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






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. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






22. '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 -






23. 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.






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






25. 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






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






27. 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?'






28. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






29. '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.'






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






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






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






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






34. 18th Century authors






35. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






37. 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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






44. William Yeats wrote...






45. Works by Jonathon Swift

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46. 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.






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






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






49. 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)






50. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?