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CLEP World Literature

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1. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






2. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






6. '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 -






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. Taming of the Shrew was written by...






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






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






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






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






17. 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.


18. 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.






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






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






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






22. William Yeats wrote...






23. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)


24. 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






25. 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)






26. 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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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






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. 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?


37. 18th Century Irish Satirist






38. The 'shrew' of the title






39. Works by Charles Dickens






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






41. The Comedians was written by who






42. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






44. '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.'






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






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






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






49. What form is Faerie Queen written in?


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