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CLEP World Literature

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1. Heroine thinks she is good at matchmaking and thinks that she will never find love for herself - ends up with Knightley after a long time






2. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






5. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






17. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?






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






19. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






21. 19th Century authors






22. William Yeats wrote...






23. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king






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






25. 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






26. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






27. 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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28. 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






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






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






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






32. Is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work - although generally - unlike the stanza - each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit.






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. '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.'






38. This story is made up of 108 sonnets and 11 songs - 'aster' (star) Greek 'Stella' (star) Latin - 'Phil' (lover) - Thus Astrophel is the star lover - and Stella is his star.






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






41. The 'shrew' of the title






42. Criseyde becomes the object of affection for Troilus (a man who had scoffed at love) - There is an exchange of prisoners between the Trojans and the Greeks. Criseyde has to escape - but promises she will return to Troilus in 10 days. Who wrote this s






43. '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 -






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






45. A poem






46. Works by Charles Dickens






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






48. 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)






49. 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.






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







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