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CLEP World Literature

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






2. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






5. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






7. The Comedians was written by who






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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






16. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'






17. 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.






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The 'shrew' of the title






26. 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.






27. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?






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. 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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30. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






31. 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






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






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






34. 17th century authors






35. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






37. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






38. 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.






39. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






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






43. 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






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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.






49. 'Tis better to have loved and lost - Than never to have loved at all. is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period.






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