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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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)






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






3. 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.






4. William Yeats wrote...






5. 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






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






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






8. Works by Charles Dickens






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






10. 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.






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






12. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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13. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?






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






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






16. 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.






17. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






20. Mary Shelley was his second wife






21. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






22. 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.






23. 'Tis better to have loved and lost - Than never to have loved at all. is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period.






24. '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 -






25. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






27. 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






28. 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?'






29. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






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






32. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing






33. Jane Austen wrote ...






34. 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






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






36. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work






37. The 'shrew' of the title






38. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters






39. Men and Women - a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes - all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators - some identified and some not - was written by...






40. 18th Century Irish Satirist






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






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






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






44. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






45. 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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46. 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.






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






48. 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






49. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






50. Modern English authors