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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. Book of poems






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






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






5. 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...






6. 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.






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






8. '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.'






9. 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.






10. 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






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






12. A poem






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. The Comedians was written by who






15. 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






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






17. 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?'






18. 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






19. 19th Century authors






20. The 'shrew' of the title






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






22. 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






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






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






26. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






27. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






29. 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






30. William Yeats wrote...






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






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






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






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






35. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






36. 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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37. 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.






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






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






40. 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






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






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






43. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






46. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






48. 18th Century authors






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






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