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CLEP World Literature
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1. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
The Alchemist
Graham Greene
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Book of Thel
2. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
William Wordsworth
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Idylls of the King
3. 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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4. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Katherine
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Don Juan
5. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Achilles
Graham Greene
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
6. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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7. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Percy Shelley
Joseph Conrad
Oliver Twist
The absurdity of life
8. 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
The Alchemist
Samuel Coleridge
Sir Walter Scott
'Spenserian stanza'
9. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Emma by Jane Austen
Pygmalion
10. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Achilles
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
John Bunyan
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
11. 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
Polonius
Pride and Prejudice
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)
12. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
A frame story/narrative
The Renaissance 1485-1660
William Wordsworth
13. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Dante
John Milton
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
14. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Pilgrim's Progress
Icarus
Utopia
Sailing to Byzantium
15. 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
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
A frame story/narrative
Paradise Lost
16. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
John Bunyan
Idylls of the King
Piers Plowman
Pygmalion
17. 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.
Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
Rape of the Lock
Sir Walter Scott
18. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
William Blake
19. Book of poems
Chaucer
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Sailing to Byzantium
Emma by Jane Austen
20. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode to a Nightingale
Mary Shelley
Macbeth
21. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Edmund Spenser
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Adventure
22. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Pilgrim's Progress
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
Alexander Pope
Graham Greene
'Spenserian stanza'
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
24. 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
Macbeth
The love of travel
Robert Browning
25. 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...
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Robert Browning
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
26. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
George Elliot
Icarus
John Milton
A frame story/narrative
27. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Gulliver
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Wuthering Heights
Samuel Coleridge
28. '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.'
The Waste Land
Graham Greene
William Langland
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
29. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Jonathon Swift
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
30. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Macbeth
Pilgrim's Progress
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
31. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Katherine
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
William Blake
Prometheus Unbound
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)
Edmund Spenser
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
George Elliot
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
33. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
The absurdity of life
Sonnet sequence
34. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Canterburry Tales
35. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Sonnet sequence
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
John Keats
36. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Paradise Lost
Percy Shelley
Pulpit
37. 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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38. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Chaucer
The Jew of Malta
William Blake
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39. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
John Milton
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Mary Shelley
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
40. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Pilgrim's Progress
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Ann Radcliffe
41. 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
Ode to a Nightingale
Othello
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
42. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Sailing to Byzantium
Utopia
Joseph Conrad
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
43. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The love of travel
Dante
Christopher Marlowe
44. 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
Ivanhoe
Gulliver
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
45. 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
Wuthering Heights
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Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
46. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
47. 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
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The love of travel
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
48. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Tamburlaine the Great
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Icarus
Divine Comedy
49. 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
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Emma by Jane Austen
50. Works by Charles Dickens
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Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Ivanhoe
Pride and Prejudice
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