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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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






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






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






5. 19th Century authors






6. Modern English authors






7. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






9. 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.






10. The 'shrew' of the title






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






12. 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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13. Taming of the Shrew was written by...






14. The Comedians was written by who






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






16. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






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






20. 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?'






21. 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...






22. '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.






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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






36. '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 -






37. '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.'






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






39. Criseyde becomes the object of affection for Troilus (a man who had scoffed at love) - There is an exchange of prisoners between the Trojans and the Greeks. Criseyde has to escape - but promises she will return to Troilus in 10 days. Who wrote this s






40. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books






41. 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






42. A poem






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






44. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






46. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






49. 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.






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