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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Macbeth
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
The Jew of Malta
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
2. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
T.S. Elliot
The Alchemist
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
3. 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
'Spenserian stanza'
Ivanhoe
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The Tower
4. 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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5. The 'shrew' of the title
Pulpit
Katherine
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Waste Land
6. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Sir Walter Scott
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Canterburry Tales
7. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
George Elliot
John Keats
'Spenserian stanza'
8. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Alchemist
The love of travel
Valdes and Cornelius
John Keats
9. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Edmund Spenser
Canterburry Tales
Percy Shelley
Great Expectations
10. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Dante
Piers Plowman
11. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Polonius
Don Juan
Odes
12. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Tamburlaine the Great
Canterburry Tales
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
13. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
The Tower
Bells and Pomegranates.
Astrophel and Stella
14. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
The Tower
Ode to a Nightingale
Prometheus Unbound
Icarus
15. 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
Robert Browning
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
16. Works by Charles Dickens
Idylls of the King
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
17. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
William Langland
Gulliver
18. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Pulpit
Joseph Conrad
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Bells and Pomegranates.
19. 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 Tower
Sonnet sequence
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
20. 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
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Jew of Malta
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
21. 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
Idylls of the King
Rape of the Lock
Dante
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
22. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Tamburlaine the Great
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Hamlet
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
23. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Don Juan
William Blake
24. Book of poems
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Jew of Malta
Sailing to Byzantium
William Blake
25. '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.
Claudius
Philip Sidney
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
26. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
Achilles
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
William Langland
27. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Macbeth
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
28. 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.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Rape of the Lock
29. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Piers Plowman
Divine Comedy
The absurdity of life
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
30. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Adventure
Chaucer
Tamburlaine the Great
31. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
T.S. Elliot
Odes
William Blake
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
32. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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33. 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...
Chaucer
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Robert Browning
Shakespeare
34. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Prometheus Unbound
Robert Browning
Icarus
John Milton
35. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
T.S. Elliot
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Gulliver
36. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Claudius
A frame story/narrative
Philip Sidney
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
37. 'Money - money - money - and what money can make of life' - a rich man dies - the will says that John Harmon will get the estate if he marries a woman named Bella whom he has never met -
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The absurdity of life
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Waste Land
38. 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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39. Works by Jonathon Swift
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40. 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
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Emma by Jane Austen
Astrophel and Stella
41. 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.
William Blake
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Christopher Marlowe
42. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Oliver Twist
T.S. Elliot
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
43. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Adventure
Utopia
Sir Walter Scott
44. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Emma by Jane Austen
The absurdity of life
The love of travel
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
45. 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
John Keats
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Jungle Book
Ann Radcliffe
46. 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
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Othello
Prometheus Unbound
47. Falls into a stream after going crazy
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Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Oliver Twist
Paradise Lost
48. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Christopher Marlowe
Sonnet sequence
Divine Comedy
Idylls of the King
49. A poem
Piers Plowman
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Achilles
Percy Shelley
50. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
John Bunyan
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
William Blake