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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Idylls of the King
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Chaucer
2. 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.
Paradise Lost
Katherine
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode on a Grecian Urn
3. The 'shrew' of the title
Katherine
Tamburlaine the Great
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
4. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The love of travel
5. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Percy Shelley
Achilles
Graham Greene
Gulliver
6. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Claudius
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Hamlet
Oliver Twist
7. '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
George Elliot
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Ode on a Grecian Urn
8. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Don Juan
9. Written by Christopher Marlowe - Barabas is the protagonist - who uses his daughter (Abigail) to make others mad - and when she finds out - she joins a nunnery. She is then poisoned.
The Jew of Malta
John Milton
Shakespeare
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
10. A poem
Christopher Marlowe
Piers Plowman
William Langland
Prometheus Unbound
11. 17th century authors
Canterburry Tales
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Robert Browning
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
12. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Philip Sidney
Graham Greene
The love of travel
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
13. 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
Dante
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Wuthering Heights
T.S. Elliot
14. 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
Paradise Lost
Dante
'Spenserian stanza'
15. 18th Century authors
Pilgrim's Progress
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
16. 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.
T.S. Elliot
Don Juan
Pride and Prejudice
Sonnet sequence
17. 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.
William Langland
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Wuthering Heights
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
18. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
George Elliot
Christopher Marlowe
19. William Yeats wrote...
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Pilgrim's Progress
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
20. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Sonnet sequence
21. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Idylls of the King
Sailing to Byzantium
22. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Waste Land
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
23. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Sir Walter Scott
Canterburry Tales
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
24. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Jungle Book
Divine Comedy
Graham Greene
The absurdity of life
25. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The Waste Land
Gulliver
The absurdity of life
The love of travel
26. 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.
27. 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.
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Samuel Coleridge
Ann Radcliffe
Wuthering Heights
28. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Wuthering Heights
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Alchemist
The Knight's Tale
29. 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.
Gulliver
Oliver Twist
William Blake
Astrophel and Stella
30. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Oliver Twist
Polonius
Pygmalion
31. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
32. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Joseph Conrad
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Gulliver
The Tower
33. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
34. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
William Langland
Jonathon Swift
Oliver Twist
35. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
The Book of Thel
Christopher Marlowe
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
36. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
William Blake
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
37. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
T.S. Elliot
38. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
39. 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.
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Rape of the Lock
Divine Comedy
40. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Prometheus Unbound
Sailing to Byzantium
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Macbeth
41. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
William Langland
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Graham Greene
42. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Achilles
The love of travel
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Valdes and Cornelius
43. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Joseph Conrad
Pygmalion
Rape of the Lock
Bells and Pomegranates.
44. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Hamlet
45. Jane Austen wrote ...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Mary Shelley
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
46. 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
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Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
T.S. Elliot
47. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Graham Greene
48. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Emma by Jane Austen
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Graham Greene
49. 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?
50. 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)
Alexander Pope
George Elliot
The absurdity of life
Tudor and Elizabeth 1