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CLEP World Literature
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1. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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2. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Graham Greene
Valdes and Cornelius
Idylls of the King
3. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Joseph Conrad
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
T.S. Elliot
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
4. Works by Charles Dickens
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
John Keats
5. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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6. 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.
Adventure
Samuel Coleridge
Astrophel and Stella
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
7. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Ode to a Nightingale
Canterburry Tales
Wuthering Heights
A frame story/narrative
8. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Ivanhoe
Macbeth
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
9. 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
A frame story/narrative
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Canterburry Tales
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
10. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
William Wordsworth
T.S. Elliot
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
11. 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
The Tower
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
George Elliot
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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Percy Shelley
William Blake
Divine Comedy
13. 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
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Piers Plowman
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
14. The Comedians was written by who
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Graham Greene
15. '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.
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Great Expectations
Pilgrim's Progress
Philip Sidney
16. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
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The absurdity of life
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Prometheus Unbound
17. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Percy Shelley
Achilles
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Valdes and Cornelius
18. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Pulpit
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Graham Greene
The Tower
19. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Rape of the Lock
Sir Walter Scott
John Bunyan
20. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Rape of the Lock
Samuel Coleridge
Jungle Book
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
21. 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.
Rape of the Lock
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Sonnet sequence
Oliver Twist
22. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Katherine
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
23. 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.
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Tamburlaine the Great
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
24. 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.
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25. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Dante
Sir Walter Scott
The absurdity of life
Great Expectations
26. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Bells and Pomegranates.
27. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Don Juan
Joseph Conrad
Samuel Coleridge
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
28. 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?'
The Book of Thel
Joseph Conrad
Alexander Pope
Robert Browning
29. 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.
Ann Radcliffe
Graham Greene
Katherine
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
30. 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.
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Icarus
Rape of the Lock
31. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
32. '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.'
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Pilgrim's Progress
The Waste Land
Edmund Spenser
33. 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.
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Milton
Icarus
34. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The Jew of Malta
The Knight's Tale
35. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Adventure
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
William Wordsworth
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
36. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The love of travel
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The Knight's Tale
37. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Piers Plowman
The absurdity of life
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
38. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
John Keats
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
39. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Achilles
Dante
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
40. 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
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Ababbcbcc
The Alchemist
Jungle Book
41. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Gulliver
The Jew of Malta
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
42. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Gulliver
Pygmalion
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Piers Plowman
43. 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
Pulpit
Pilgrim's Progress
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
A frame story/narrative
44. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The Alchemist
John Keats
John Bunyan
45. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Percy Shelley
Sonnet sequence
The Tower
Graham Greene
46. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Katherine
Polonius
Emma by Jane Austen
47. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Odes
Gulliver
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
48. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Mary Shelley
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Jew of Malta
Divine Comedy
49. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Samuel Coleridge
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
50. 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.
Ababbcbcc
Wuthering Heights
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Idylls of the King
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