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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. 17th century authors






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters






16. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. 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)






23. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






24. 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.






25. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






28. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






31. 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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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. William Yeats wrote...






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






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






36. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy






37. 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.






38. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






40. Works by Charles Dickens






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






42. '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.






43. '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 -






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. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






47. 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






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






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






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







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