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CLEP World Literature

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1. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






2. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






4. Book of poems






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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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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12. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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






19. Explores new thoughts on death by comparing/contrasting the mortal human with the immortal nightingale - ends with accepting the idea that pleasure must end and that death in not escapable






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






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






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. 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






24. William Yeats wrote...






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






26. 18th Century Irish Satirist






27. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






28. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






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






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






31. 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






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. 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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34. 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






35. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?






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






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






38. The Comedians was written by who






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






40. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels






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






42. 18th Century authors






43. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






44. 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






45. 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






46. '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.'






47. 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.






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






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






50. The 'shrew' of the title