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GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

Subjects : gre, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence






2. Albert Camus


3. Honoré de Balzac






4. Miles and Flora seem to be haunted by ghost of their country estate'S former employees - Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. Told by their English governess






5. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)






6. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone






7. Endymion (John Keats - 1818)


8. John Milton






9. Charles Lamb






10. William Carlos Williams


11. Sense and Sensibility






12. Sylvia Plath


13. James Joyce


14. Jeffrey Aspern - Modeled after Lord Byron) as long-dead famous poet - biographer is trying to secure some papers from Aspern'S former mistress and homely daughter. Set in Venice.






15. John Lyle


16. George Orwell






17. John Ruskin






18. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream






19. Richard Wright






20. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred - Lord Tennyson


21. Countee Cullen


22. Andrew Marvell


23. Nadine Gordimer


24. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700






25. Bram Stoker






26. Malcom Lowry






27. E.e. cummings


28. John Donne






29. John Lydgate






30. Charles Dickens


31. Opening of Canterbury Tales


32. James Baldwin






33. Rainer Maria Rilke


34. Samuel Johnson






35. George Meredith






36. William Butler Yeats


37. Thomas Macaulay


38. Mark Twain


39. Robert Browning


40. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe






41. Marcel Proust






42. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne






43. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'






44. Samuel Langhorne Clemens


45. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses






46. Elizabeth Barrett Browning


47. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676






48. James Boswell






49. Maya Angelou


50. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)