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CLEP World Literature
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1. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Graham Greene
Edmund Spenser
Graham Greene
2. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Oliver Twist
The Tower
Dante
3. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
John Bunyan
Valdes and Cornelius
Hamlet
4. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
George Elliot
Don Juan
Christopher Marlowe
5. 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
Bells and Pomegranates.
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Graham Greene
Astrophel and Stella
6. '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.
Pulpit
Gulliver
Christopher Marlowe
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
7. The Comedians was written by who
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Graham Greene
Ode to a Nightingale
Paradise Lost
8. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Percy Shelley
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
A frame story/narrative
9. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Katherine
Odes
Percy Shelley
Wuthering Heights
10. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Katherine
A frame story/narrative
Tamburlaine the Great
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
11. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Pilgrim's Progress
A frame story/narrative
Divine Comedy
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
12. 18th Century Irish Satirist
George Elliot
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Jonathon Swift
13. 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.
14. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
William Langland
Valdes and Cornelius
15. 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
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Ann Radcliffe
Ode to a Nightingale
16. 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)
Don Juan
George Elliot
William Blake
'Spenserian stanza'
17. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Canterburry Tales
Idylls of the King
Joseph Conrad
William Blake
18. The 'shrew' of the title
Katherine
John Bunyan
T.S. Elliot
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
19. 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.
Macbeth
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Sonnet sequence
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20. William Yeats wrote...
Percy Shelley
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
George Elliot
21. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Polonius
The absurdity of life
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
22. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
The Waste Land
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Prometheus Unbound
Christopher Marlowe
23. 18th Century authors
The Alchemist
Robert Browning
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
24. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Adventure
Pygmalion
25. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
William Langland
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
26. Jane Austen wrote ...
Pygmalion
Alexander Pope
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Gulliver
27. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Joseph Conrad
Pilgrim's Progress
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Graham Greene
28. 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.
Gulliver
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Sonnet sequence
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
29. Modern English authors
Icarus
Sonnet sequence
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
30. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Othello
Utopia
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
31. A poem
Piers Plowman
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Pilgrim's Progress
Christopher Marlowe
32. 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
Sir Walter Scott
A frame story/narrative
Polonius
33. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Great Expectations
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Macbeth
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
Ivanhoe
Ode on a Grecian Urn
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Canterburry Tales
35. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
36. 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
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The Alchemist
Sailing to Byzantium
Prometheus Unbound
37. 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
Claudius
Ode to a Nightingale
Pilgrim's Progress
Idylls of the King
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
The love of travel
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Chaucer
Achilles
39. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Pride and Prejudice
Divine Comedy
John Bunyan
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
40. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Emma by Jane Austen
Achilles
Graham Greene
Ann Radcliffe
41. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
William Langland
Alexander Pope
Jungle Book
42. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
43. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Hamlet
Adventure
Canterburry Tales
A frame story/narrative
44. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
The absurdity of life
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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45. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Robert Browning
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Idylls of the King
Edmund Spenser
46. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Alexander Pope
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The absurdity of life
47. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
A frame story/narrative
Mary Shelley
Samuel Coleridge
48. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
'Spenserian stanza'
Pulpit
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
49. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Katherine
T.S. Elliot
Astrophel and Stella
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
50. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Jungle Book
Gulliver
John Milton