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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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






8. Works by Jonathon Swift


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






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






11. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






18. 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






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






20. Mary Shelley was his second wife






21. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Written by Christopher Marlowe - Barabas is the protagonist - who uses his daughter (Abigail) to make others mad - and when she finds out - she joins a nunnery. She is then poisoned.






32. 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






33. 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)






34. 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






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






36. 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.


37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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.


46. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






48. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






50. Falls into a stream after going crazy