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CLEP World Literature

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1. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






2. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






5. 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






6. 18th Century authors






7. 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






8. This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character - a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela - encountering Native Americans - captives and mutineers before being rescued.






9. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






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






12. William Yeats wrote...






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






14. Jane Austen wrote ...






15. 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






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






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






18. 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?'






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






20. 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






21. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






29. '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 -






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






31. 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)






32. 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






33. '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.'






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






35. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






36. 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.






37. Modern English authors






38. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






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






42. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...






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






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






45. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






48. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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49. 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.






50. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels