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CLEP World Literature

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1. 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)






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






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






4. 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?'






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






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






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. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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






14. The 'shrew' of the title






15. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






16. 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.






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






18. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






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






20. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






22. Jane Austen wrote ...






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






24. 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.






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






26. Works by Jonathon Swift


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






28. A poem






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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


38. 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






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. What form is Faerie Queen written in?


41. Mary Shelley was his second wife






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






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






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






45. Book of poems






46. 18th Century authors






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






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






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






50. 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.