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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






2. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. 18th Century authors






12. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






15. Wrote 'Troilus and Criseyde' - 'The Knight's Tale' - 'Canterbury Tales' - known as the 'Father of English Literature' - considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages - first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey






16. 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.






17. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






19. 18th Century Irish Satirist






20. The Comedians was written by who






21. 19th Century authors






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






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






24. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






25. 17th century authors






26. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.






27. Book of poems






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






29. 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)






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?






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






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 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.






39. '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 -






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






41. 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






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






43. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






44. Mary Shelley was his second wife






45. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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?'






50. A poem