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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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.






3. 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






4. The 'shrew' of the title






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






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






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






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






9. Book of poems






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






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






12. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






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






17. 19th Century authors






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






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






20. 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)






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






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






23. 18th Century authors






24. 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.






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






26. '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.'






27. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






28. Criseyde becomes the object of affection for Troilus (a man who had scoffed at love) - There is an exchange of prisoners between the Trojans and the Greeks. Criseyde has to escape - but promises she will return to Troilus in 10 days. Who wrote this s






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






30. 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.


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






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






33. 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






34. 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






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. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?






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






38. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






39. 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






40. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






42. 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?'






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






44. A poem






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






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






47. 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.






48. Works by Jonathon Swift


49. '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.






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