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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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)






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






9. 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.






10. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)


11. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


12. Works by Jonathon Swift


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






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






15. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






17. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






18. Book of poems






19. 19th Century authors






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






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






22. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






24. A poem






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






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






27. 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






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






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






30. The founder of gothic literature - Wrote The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Gaston de Blondeville - The Italian - The Mysteries of Udolpho - The Romance of the Forest and A Sicilian Romance.






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






32. Deals with man's relationship with time - the universe - and the divine - only through realizing Christ's sacrifice for mankind is an individual capable of being saved.






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






34. '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 -






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






36. 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






37. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






38. What form is Faerie Queen written in?


39. '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.'






40. 18th Century authors






41. 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.






42. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso






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






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






45. 18th Century Irish Satirist






46. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






47. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when






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






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






50. 'Tub' is a pun for what?