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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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4. 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.






5. Modern English authors






6. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






7. 19th Century authors






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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






14. Falls into a stream after going crazy






15. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






16. The 'shrew' of the title






17. 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






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






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






20. Mary Shelley was his second wife






21. 18th Century Irish Satirist






22. 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.






23. '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 -






24. 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






25. The poem satirises a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods - Pope keeps a sense that beauty is fragile - and that the loss of a lock of hair touches Belinda deeply.






26. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






27. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'






28. 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.






29. 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






30. 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...






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






32. William Yeats wrote...






33. Works by Jonathon Swift

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34. 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?'






35. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






38. 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)






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






40. 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.






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






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






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

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44. 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






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






46. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






48. 17th century authors






49. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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