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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. 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






9. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


10. Book of poems






11. A poem






12. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






13. 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?'






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






15. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters






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






17. '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.'






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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. 17th century authors






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. William Yeats wrote...






39. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






41. 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)






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






43. The 'shrew' of the title






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






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






46. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers






47. 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.


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






49. 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






50. 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