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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 18th Century authors






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






4. 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.






5. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






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






8. 17th century authors






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






10. 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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11. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






12. 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






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






14. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






15. Works by Charles Dickens






16. 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






17. The Comedians was written by who






18. 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.






19. Works by Jonathon Swift

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20. 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






21. The 'shrew' of the title






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






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






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






25. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians






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






27. '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.






28. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso






29. 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.






30. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






33. 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






34. 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.






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






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. 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






38. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems






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






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






41. '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 -






42. 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)






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






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






45. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






48. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






49. William Yeats wrote...






50. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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