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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. 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






4. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?






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






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






8. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






10. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






12. 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






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






14. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






15. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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


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






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






20. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






26. 18th Century Irish Satirist






27. 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...






28. '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.






29. Jane Austen wrote ...






30. Book of poems






31. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?


32. 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






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






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






35. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






36. A poem






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






38. Modern English authors






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






40. Falls into a stream after going crazy






41. 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






42. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. 18th Century authors






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






49. 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






50. The Comedians was written by who