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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






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






3. 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.






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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...






7. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






9. William Yeats wrote...






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






11. 18th Century Irish Satirist






12. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






13. 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






14. 19th Century authors






15. The 'shrew' of the title






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






18. 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






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






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






21. 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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22. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers






23. 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.






24. 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)






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






26. 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.






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






28. A poem






29. Modern English authors






30. 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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. 17th century authors






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






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






38. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






40. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






41. Deals with man's relationship with time - the universe - and the divine - only through realizing Christ's sacrifice for mankind is an individual capable of being saved.






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






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






44. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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45. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






46. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.






47. '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 -






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






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






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