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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. Book of poems






3. 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






4. The Comedians was written by who






5. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






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






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






9. 17th century authors






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






14. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






16. 18th Century Irish Satirist






17. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






19. Mary Shelley was his second wife






20. 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.






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. 18th Century authors






27. 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.






28. Works by Charles Dickens






29. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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30. 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)






31. 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






32. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors






33. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






36. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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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43. A poem






44. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






45. 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






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






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






48. William Yeats wrote...






49. Modern English authors






50. 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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