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CLEP World Literature

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1. 18th Century authors






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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. 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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8. Wrote 'Troilus and Criseyde' - 'The Knight's Tale' - 'Canterbury Tales' - known as the 'Father of English Literature' - considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages - first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey






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






10. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






12. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)






13. 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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14. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus






15. Book of poems






16. 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.






17. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






18. A poem






19. 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






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






21. Modern English authors






22. 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.






23. 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






24. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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25. '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.






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






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






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






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






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






31. The Comedians was written by who






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






37. '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 -






38. 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






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






40. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






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






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






45. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






46. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth






47. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






50. 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