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CLEP World Literature

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1. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. 17th century authors






5. Works by Jonathon Swift


6. 18th Century Irish Satirist






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






14. A poem






15. 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






16. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






23. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






24. 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






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






26. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books






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






28. 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






29. Book of poems






30. Taming of the Shrew was written by...






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.


32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






40. 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)






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






42. 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






43. 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.






44. 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...






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






46. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier






47. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)


48. Jane Austen wrote ...






49. 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.






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