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CLEP World Literature

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1. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






2. The Comedians was written by who






3. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






4. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth






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






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. 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






8. 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...






9. The 'shrew' of the title






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






11. 17th century authors






12. 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.






13. 18th Century authors






14. 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






15. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






16. William Yeats wrote...






17. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?






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






19. '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 -






20. 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






21. What is it called when each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. what story is written this way?

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






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






24. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






25. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






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






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






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






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






31. 19th Century authors






32. 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.






33. Works by Jonathon Swift

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34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






40. 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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41. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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42. 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.






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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.