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CLEP World Literature

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






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






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






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






5. Major italian poet - known as the 'Supreme Poet' - 'Father of the Italian Language' - Wrote Divine Comedy - a masterpiece of the world and very well known






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






7. 19th Century authors






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






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






10. '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 -






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






18. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems






19. 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)






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. The 'shrew' of the title






28. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?






29. 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






30. 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






31. 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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32. What form is Faerie Queen written in?

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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. 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.






35. 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






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






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






38. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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39. 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






40. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






41. 18th Century authors






42. 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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43. Men and Women - a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes - all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators - some identified and some not - was written by...






44. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






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






46. 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






47. 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?'






48. 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.






49. '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.'






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