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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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.






2. 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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3. 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.






4. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'






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






6. The Comedians was written by who






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






8. 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






9. 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)






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






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






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






13. 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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14. 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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 18th Century authors






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






22. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






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






25. 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






26. William Yeats wrote...






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






28. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






30. Works by Jonathon Swift

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31. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






33. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






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






37. 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






38. Works by Charles Dickens






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






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






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






42. '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 -






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






44. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?






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






46. Book of poems






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






48. A poem






49. 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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50. 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.







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