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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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






3. 19th Century authors






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






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






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






9. 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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10. 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)






11. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






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. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






19. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






21. '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.'






22. Works by Charles Dickens






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






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






25. A poem






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






32. Modern English authors






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






34. 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






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






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






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. 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






39. 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.






40. The 'shrew' of the title






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






42. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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43. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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.






50. Mary Shelley was his second wife