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CLEP World Literature
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1. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Graham Greene
The absurdity of life
The Tower
Macbeth
2. Modern English authors
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
3. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Polonius
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
4. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Claudius
Don Juan
Philip Sidney
Bells and Pomegranates.
5. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
The Jew of Malta
Wuthering Heights
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Pulpit
6. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Dante
Ababbcbcc
Katherine
7. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Tamburlaine the Great
8. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
9. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Oliver Twist
Valdes and Cornelius
10. 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.
Achilles
Idylls of the King
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Wuthering Heights
11. 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
Canterburry Tales
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Philip Sidney
12. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Wuthering Heights
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
13. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Don Juan
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Polonius
14. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Ode to a Nightingale
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
'Spenserian stanza'
Odes
15. 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
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Jonathon Swift
The Knight's Tale
Emma by Jane Austen
16. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Dante
Pride and Prejudice
George Elliot
17. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Pygmalion
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Christopher Marlowe
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
18. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
19. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment - and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice.
Pilgrim's Progress
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Shakespeare
Ode on a Grecian Urn
20. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Jonathon Swift
Gulliver
The Jew of Malta
Philip Sidney
21. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Oliver Twist
The Alchemist
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
22. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Pygmalion
Shakespeare
Idylls of the King
23. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Jungle Book
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Percy Shelley
Sailing to Byzantium
24. 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
The Knight's Tale
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Utopia
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
25. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Pilgrim's Progress
Macbeth
Alexander Pope
26. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Graham Greene
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Edmund Spenser
27. The first tale from Canterbury Tales - this story was written in iambic pentameter - about courtly love and ethical dilemmas - Arcite and Palamon are imprisoned. They both fall for a woman named Emily which causes tension and hate.
28. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Pilgrim's Progress
Sailing to Byzantium
John Bunyan
29. 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.
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Dante
The Book of Thel
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
30. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Graham Greene
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Wuthering Heights
Shakespeare
31. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
A frame story/narrative
Othello
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Edmund Spenser
32. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Christopher Marlowe
Utopia
Hamlet
Mary Shelley
33. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Icarus
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
34. 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
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ababbcbcc
Chaucer
35. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Dante
Sir Walter Scott
Pilgrim's Progress
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
36. Works by Charles Dickens
Percy Shelley
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Alexander Pope
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
37. 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
Idylls of the King
Philip Sidney
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
38. Jane Austen wrote ...
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
39. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Emma by Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
Shakespeare
The absurdity of life
40. 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
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Rape of the Lock
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
41. 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
The Alchemist
Sonnet sequence
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
42. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Percy Shelley
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
43. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Sailing to Byzantium
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
Ann Radcliffe
44. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
George Elliot
Hamlet
The love of travel
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
45. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
46. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Jungle Book
A frame story/narrative
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Polonius
47. 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
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The love of travel
Bells and Pomegranates.
T.S. Elliot
48. '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.
'Spenserian stanza'
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Divine Comedy
49. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Wuthering Heights
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The absurdity of life
50. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
William Wordsworth
Astrophel and Stella
Chaucer
Achilles