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CLEP World Literature

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1. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






18. 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






19. 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?'






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






21. 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






22. The 'shrew' of the title






23. 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.

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






25. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






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






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






29. 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






30. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. Book of poems






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






37. '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 -






38. 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)






39. '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.'






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






49. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






50. 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