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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






4. 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






5. The Comedians was written by who






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






7. 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






8. William Yeats wrote...






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






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






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






12. Leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it - employs a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed - at least in part - for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of






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






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






15. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






17. 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






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

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19. 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






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






21. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






22. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who






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






24. The 'shrew' of the title






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






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






27. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






28. 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






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






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






31. 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.






32. The first tale from Canterbury Tales - this story was written in iambic pentameter - about courtly love and ethical dilemmas - Arcite and Palamon are imprisoned. They both fall for a woman named Emily which causes tension and hate.

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33. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






35. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






36. 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.






37. 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






38. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






39. Falls into a stream after going crazy






40. 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.






41. Works by Jonathon Swift

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42. 19th Century authors






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






44. '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.'






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. A poem