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CLEP World Literature

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






2. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






4. 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






5. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when






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






7. Jane Austen wrote ...






8. The 'shrew' of the title






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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. 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






18. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?






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






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






21. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






22. '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 -






23. 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.






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






25. 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






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






27. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






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






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






31. 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






32. 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?'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






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






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






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






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






48. 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)






49. A poem






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







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