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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






2. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'






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






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






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






7. William Yeats wrote...






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






9. Jane Austen wrote ...






10. 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...






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






12. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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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20. Works by Jonathon Swift

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21. 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)






22. '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.






23. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.






24. 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?'






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 18th Century authors






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






35. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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36. 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






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






38. 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.






39. A poem






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






41. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy






42. 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






43. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






44. 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






45. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet






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






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






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






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






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






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