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CLEP World Literature

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






2. The 'shrew' of the title






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






4. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






6. 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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7. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






9. 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...






10. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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11. 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






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






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






14. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life






15. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






18. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






19. '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.'






20. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






34. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






37. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






39. Book of poems






40. 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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. The first tale from Canterbury Tales - this story was written in iambic pentameter - about courtly love and ethical dilemmas - Arcite and Palamon are imprisoned. They both fall for a woman named Emily which causes tension and hate.

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






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






49. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when






50. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?