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CLEP World Literature
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1. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Utopia
Prometheus Unbound
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
2. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
William Langland
Othello
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Sir Walter Scott
3. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Astrophel and Stella
Polonius
The Jew of Malta
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
4. 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
William Langland
Canterburry Tales
Don Juan
5. Book of poems
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Pulpit
Graham Greene
Sailing to Byzantium
6. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Wordsworth
Graham Greene
William Langland
Joseph Conrad
7. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Philip Sidney
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Percy Shelley
Idylls of the King
8. 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
Tamburlaine the Great
Paradise Lost
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Pride and Prejudice
9. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
T.S. Elliot
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Rape of the Lock
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10. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Joseph Conrad
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
William Blake
11. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
The Waste Land
Valdes and Cornelius
Chaucer
12. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
William Langland
Chaucer
Pulpit
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
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.
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14. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Oliver Twist
T.S. Elliot
Valdes and Cornelius
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
15. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Tamburlaine the Great
The Tower
Jonathon Swift
16. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Knight's Tale
17. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Pride and Prejudice
T.S. Elliot
Oliver Twist
Utopia
18. 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...
Robert Browning
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
19. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Don Juan
Polonius
Graham Greene
Pulpit
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.
Claudius
Divine Comedy
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Rape of the Lock
21. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Samuel Coleridge
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
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
22. '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
Wuthering Heights
William Blake
Graham Greene
23. 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
Achilles
Paradise Lost
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
24. 19th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Alexander Pope
Idylls of the King
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
25. 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.
Don Juan
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Tamburlaine the Great
The Alchemist
26. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Great Expectations
Wuthering Heights
Sailing to Byzantium
Odes
27. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Oliver Twist
Joseph Conrad
Claudius
Astrophel and Stella
28. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Valdes and Cornelius
Odes
Pygmalion
29. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Gulliver
Canterburry Tales
30. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
The Book of Thel
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Ivanhoe
William Blake
31. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Sailing to Byzantium
Robert Browning
Valdes and Cornelius
T.S. Elliot
32. '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 -
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The Tower
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
33. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Achilles
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
34. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
The love of travel
Macbeth
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Achilles
35. 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
Don Juan
A frame story/narrative
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Odes
36. 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
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Idylls of the King
Ode on a Grecian Urn
37. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Utopia
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
38. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Joseph Conrad
Dante
39. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
T.S. Elliot
The Jew of Malta
Pygmalion
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
40. 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.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Christopher Marlowe
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Jonathon Swift
41. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Mary Shelley
Samuel Coleridge
42. 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
Idylls of the King
The Knight's Tale
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
43. 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
William Langland
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Oliver Twist
44. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
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Prometheus Unbound
Icarus
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
45. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Graham Greene
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
46. 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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47. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Utopia
Piers Plowman
48. 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.
Adventure
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Wuthering Heights
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
49. Works by Jonathon Swift
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50. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Dante
The love of travel