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CLEP World Literature
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1. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
John Bunyan
2. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
Rape of the Lock
Adventure
The Alchemist
3. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Jungle Book
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ann Radcliffe
4. 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
Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Samuel Coleridge
5. 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
Adventure
Macbeth
Sailing to Byzantium
Chaucer
6. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Bells and Pomegranates.
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Divine Comedy
The Jew of Malta
7. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Christopher Marlowe
Paradise Lost
Divine Comedy
8. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Divine Comedy
Idylls of the King
Valdes and Cornelius
9. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Percy Shelley
William Wordsworth
The Jew of Malta
Claudius
10. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy
Jonathon Swift
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
11. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Othello
The absurdity of life
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
12. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
William Wordsworth
Oliver Twist
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Graham Greene
13. 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?'
The Book of Thel
Pygmalion
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
14. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
John Milton
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Philip Sidney
T.S. Elliot
15. 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.
Sailing to Byzantium
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Jew of Malta
16. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tamburlaine the Great
Shakespeare
17. 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.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Valdes and Cornelius
Sailing to Byzantium
Christopher Marlowe
18. 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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19. 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.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
John Keats
Wuthering Heights
Mary Shelley
20. 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.
Astrophel and Stella
Jungle Book
Othello
Divine Comedy
21. 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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22. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
William Blake
Pygmalion
Joseph Conrad
The Jew of Malta
23. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Waste Land
Icarus
The Renaissance 1485-1660
24. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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25. 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.
Pilgrim's Progress
Samuel Coleridge
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Sonnet sequence
26. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Edmund Spenser
Pulpit
Hamlet
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
27. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
John Milton
John Keats
The absurdity of life
28. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Icarus
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Knight's Tale
29. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Philip Sidney
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
30. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Hamlet
Icarus
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
31. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Percy Shelley
Pulpit
32. 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)
George Elliot
The Book of Thel
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Utopia
33. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
John Milton
Don Juan
Othello
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
34. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Utopia
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
35. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Achilles
William Langland
Polonius
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
36. 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
Dante
The love of travel
Prometheus Unbound
Great Expectations
37. 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.
Chaucer
Divine Comedy
Ann Radcliffe
Pulpit
38. '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.'
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
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Mary Shelley
The Waste Land
39. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Divine Comedy
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Achilles
Robert Browning
40. 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
Valdes and Cornelius
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Claudius
41. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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42. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Emma by Jane Austen
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Sailing to Byzantium
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
43. 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...
Great Expectations
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Waste Land
Robert Browning
44. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Jungle Book
Jonathon Swift
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
45. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Pulpit
Rape of the Lock
Tamburlaine the Great
Icarus
46. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The absurdity of life
Pulpit
Adventure
47. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Percy Shelley
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Hamlet
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
48. A poem
Piers Plowman
Katherine
Prometheus Unbound
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
49. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Ivanhoe
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
50. Mary Shelley was his second wife
William Wordsworth
Percy Shelley
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Most difficult - but most masterly satire