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CLEP World Literature

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






2. '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.






3. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy






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






11. 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?

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12. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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13. 19th Century authors






14. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?






15. Mary Shelley was his second wife






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. 18th Century Irish Satirist






19. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?






20. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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...






27. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books






28. 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)






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






30. A poem






31. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






32. 17th century authors






33. 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.






34. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






37. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






38. 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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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. 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






41. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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42. 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






43. Falls into a stream after going crazy






44. Book of poems






45. Jane Austen wrote ...






46. 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






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






48. 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






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






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