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CLEP World Literature

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1. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers






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






3. Book of poems






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






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






6. '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.






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






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






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






10. Works by Jonathon Swift

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






12. '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.'






13. Jane Austen wrote ...






14. 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






15. William Yeats wrote...






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






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






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. 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






20. 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?'






21. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






23. '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 -






24. 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.






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






26. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. 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)






35. 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






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






41. 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






42. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






43. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






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






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






49. 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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50. 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