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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






10. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






11. Modern English authors






12. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






13. 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.






14. The 'shrew' of the title






15. 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






16. 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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17. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






18. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






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






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






22. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






25. Mary Shelley was his second wife






26. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who






27. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






28. 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?'






29. 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






30. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






32. 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.






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






34. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy






35. 19th Century authors






36. 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)






37. 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...






38. 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






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






40. '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 -






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. William Yeats wrote...






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






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






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






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