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CLEP World Literature

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






2. '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.'






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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






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






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






9. Book of poems






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






11. 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






12. William Yeats wrote...






13. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






14. Falls into a stream after going crazy






15. '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 -






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






17. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






19. 17th century authors






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






22. 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






23. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






24. 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






25. 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.






26. The 'shrew' of the title






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






35. 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?'






36. 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






37. 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.






38. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






39. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






40. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






41. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






43. 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






44. 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...






45. Heroine thinks she is good at matchmaking and thinks that she will never find love for herself - ends up with Knightley after a long time






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






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






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






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






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







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