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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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






2. Explores new thoughts on death by comparing/contrasting the mortal human with the immortal nightingale - ends with accepting the idea that pleasure must end and that death in not escapable






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






4. 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.

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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. William Yeats wrote...






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






12. 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.






13. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment - and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice.






14. 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






15. Jane Austen wrote ...






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. Falls into a stream after going crazy






21. A poem






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






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






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






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






26. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






28. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. 18th Century Irish Satirist






39. 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.






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






41. Works by Jonathon Swift

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42. 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






43. 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.






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






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






46. The 'shrew' of the title






47. 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)






48. Modern English authors






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






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