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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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)






2. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






3. Works by Jonathon Swift


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






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






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






7. '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.'






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






12. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






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






16. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?






17. 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






18. The poem satirises a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods - Pope keeps a sense that beauty is fragile - and that the loss of a lock of hair touches Belinda deeply.






19. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural






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






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






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






23. 18th Century authors






24. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






26. 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?


27. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






35. 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...






36. 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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






49. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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