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CLEP World Literature

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1. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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






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






8. 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.






9. 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...






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






11. 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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12. Works by Jonathon Swift

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13. 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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn






21. The 'shrew' of the title






22. What is it called when each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. what story is written this way?

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23. The Comedians was written by who






24. 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?'






25. 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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26. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






29. Works by Charles Dickens






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






37. Modern English authors






38. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






41. 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)






42. 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.






43. William Yeats wrote...






44. 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.






45. 17th century authors






46. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes






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






48. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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