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CLEP World Literature

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






2. Works by Jonathon Swift

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3. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






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






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. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?






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






10. 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






11. Book of poems






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. Major italian poet - known as the 'Supreme Poet' - 'Father of the Italian Language' - Wrote Divine Comedy - a masterpiece of the world and very well known






16. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






19. 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






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






21. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






22. 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






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






24. 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.






25. '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 -






26. 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.






27. William Yeats wrote...






28. 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.






29. 17th century 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. 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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32. 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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33. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment






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






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






36. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work






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






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






39. Works by Charles Dickens






40. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






41. 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






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






43. '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.'






44. The 'shrew' of the title






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






46. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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47. 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.






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






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






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