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CLEP World Literature

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1. Mary Shelley was his second wife






2. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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3. 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






4. 18th Century Irish Satirist






5. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power






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






7. The 'shrew' of the title






8. 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






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






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






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






12. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






14. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






15. 19th Century authors






16. 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.






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






18. 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)






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






20. 18th Century authors






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. 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






25. 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?'






26. 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...






27. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






28. '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 -






29. Modern English authors






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. Book of poems






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






39. Works by Charles Dickens






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






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






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






43. The Comedians was written by who






44. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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






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







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