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CLEP World Literature

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






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






3. Jane Austen wrote ...






4. 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






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. 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






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






8. 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.






9. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






10. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. '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.'






17. 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






18. Book of poems






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






20. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge






21. 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






22. The Comedians was written by who






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






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






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






26. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






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






29. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






30. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






31. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?






32. 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...






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






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






36. 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.






37. A poem






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






39. 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?'






40. Works by Charles Dickens






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






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






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






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






45. Modern English authors






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






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






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






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






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