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CLEP World Literature

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1. Who wrote Piers Plowman?






2. A poem






3. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)






4. 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






5. 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.






6. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...






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






8. 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






9. 18th Century Irish Satirist






10. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?






11. 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






12. 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)






13. '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 -






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






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






16. The 'shrew' of the title






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






18. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?






19. 18th Century authors






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






21. 17th century authors






22. 'Tub' is a pun for what?






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






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






25. 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






26. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?

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






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






29. 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






30. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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...






35. 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






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






37. Falls into a stream after going crazy






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






39. 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.






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






41. Book of poems






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






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






44. 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






45. Mary Shelley was his second wife






46. 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






47. Modern English authors






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






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

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50. 'Tis better to have loved and lost - Than never to have loved at all. is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period.