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CLEP World Literature
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1. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Pygmalion
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Edmund Spenser
2. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Mary Shelley
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Graham Greene
The absurdity of life
3. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Hamlet
Dante
Pygmalion
4. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Utopia
Samuel Coleridge
Astrophel and Stella
5. 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
Ivanhoe
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Divine Comedy
6. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Valdes and Cornelius
Pygmalion
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Icarus
7. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Joseph Conrad
T.S. Elliot
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
8. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Mary Shelley
Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Samuel Coleridge
9. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ivanhoe
Dante
Canterburry Tales
10. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Othello
Gulliver
11. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Pygmalion
Mary Shelley
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Jew of Malta
12. 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
Pulpit
A frame story/narrative
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
John Milton
13. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Emma by Jane Austen
Joseph Conrad
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
14. 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
T.S. Elliot
Ode to a Nightingale
A frame story/narrative
The Waste Land
15. 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?'
Sailing to Byzantium
The Book of Thel
The absurdity of life
Mary Shelley
16. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
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Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The absurdity of life
17. Works by Jonathon Swift
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18. 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)
Percy Shelley
The Knight's Tale
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
George Elliot
19. 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.
Rape of the Lock
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The Alchemist
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
20. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Chaucer
Sir Walter Scott
John Bunyan
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
21. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
T.S. Elliot
22. 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...
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Waste Land
Robert Browning
Great Expectations
23. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Rape of the Lock
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The absurdity of life
Philip Sidney
24. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
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Divine Comedy
Joseph Conrad
Don Juan
25. 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.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Jew of Malta
Pride and Prejudice
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
26. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Don Juan
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ivanhoe
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
27. William Yeats wrote...
The love of travel
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Wuthering Heights
28. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Christopher Marlowe
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
29. 18th Century authors
Dante
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Claudius
30. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
31. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
32. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Achilles
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
John Keats
33. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Hamlet
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
34. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Christopher Marlowe
Gulliver
The Book of Thel
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
William Langland
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Paradise Lost
Piers Plowman
36. 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
Divine Comedy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Jew of Malta
A frame story/narrative
37. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Paradise Lost
38. 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
Pygmalion
John Milton
Valdes and Cornelius
Chaucer
39. 19th Century authors
Sonnet sequence
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
40. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Pygmalion
Sonnet sequence
41. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Ode to a Nightingale
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Adventure
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
42. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Alexander Pope
The absurdity of life
Adventure
43. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
The absurdity of life
Odes
Dante
Macbeth
44. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Wuthering Heights
Ann Radcliffe
Icarus
45. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
William Langland
Divine Comedy
Edmund Spenser
William Blake
46. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Dante
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
William Blake
47. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Ivanhoe
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Valdes and Cornelius
48. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Joseph Conrad
49. Jane Austen wrote ...
Odes
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
T.S. Elliot
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
50. 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
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Tamburlaine the Great
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Great Expectations