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CLEP World Literature

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






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






10. Jane Austen wrote ...






11. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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12. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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






14. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






15. 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.






16. 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






17. 18th Century authors






18. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.






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






20. 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






21. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...






22. '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 -






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






30. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. '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.'






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






38. 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






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






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






41. The 'shrew' of the title






42. 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.






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






44. 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?'






45. 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.






46. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus






47. 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






48. 19th Century authors






49. 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






50. 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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