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CLEP World Literature

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1. Jane Austen wrote ...






2. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






5. 17th century authors






6. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






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






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






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






13. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






15. Book of poems






16. 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






17. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






18. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters






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






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






21. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






22. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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23. 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






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






25. 18th Century authors






26. 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






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






28. 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.






29. 19th Century authors






30. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






33. 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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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?'






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






41. 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...






42. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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43. 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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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






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







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