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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






2. 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.






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






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






5. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






7. 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.


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






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






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






11. Works by Charles Dickens






12. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






13. A poem






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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






23. 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?


24. Book of poems






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






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






27. 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






28. '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 -






29. Mary Shelley was his second wife






30. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






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






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






36. '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.






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






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






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






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






41. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?






42. Modern English authors






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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?'






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






48. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






49. 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.






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