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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






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






5. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






6. 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






7. 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...






8. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. William Yeats wrote...






17. 18th Century authors






18. Written by Sir Walter Scott - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disliked by his father because he loves a girl and is friends with some of the Normans -there is a tournament - and Ivanhoe is injured and the daughter wants to take him to get help - -battles e






19. Works by Charles Dickens






20. 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






21. 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






22. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






24. 19th Century authors






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. 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?'






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






31. Mary Shelley was his second wife






32. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?






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






35. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet






48. 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






49. The 'shrew' of the title






50. A poem