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CLEP World Literature
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1. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
John Milton
The Knight's Tale
Prometheus Unbound
2. A poem
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Edmund Spenser
The love of travel
Piers Plowman
3. 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
Pulpit
William Wordsworth
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
4. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Othello
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Polonius
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
5. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Macbeth
6. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
7. The Comedians was written by who
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Icarus
Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
8. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Robert Browning
Graham Greene
Canterburry Tales
The Tower
9. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Pilgrim's Progress
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Icarus
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
10. 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.
Sailing to Byzantium
The Jew of Malta
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
11. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet
Bells and Pomegranates.
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
12. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Katherine
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Alexander Pope
13. 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
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Tamburlaine the Great
Pride and Prejudice
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
14. 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
Gulliver
A frame story/narrative
Paradise Lost
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
15. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Achilles
William Langland
16. 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.
Divine Comedy
Rape of the Lock
William Blake
Graham Greene
17. 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
Rape of the Lock
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Alchemist
Pulpit
18. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
The Knight's Tale
Oliver Twist
Don Juan
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
19. 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.
Pride and Prejudice
Don Juan
Wuthering Heights
T.S. Elliot
20. 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.
21. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Pulpit
Samuel Coleridge
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Ivanhoe
22. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Percy Shelley
23. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Wuthering Heights
Samuel Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Bells and Pomegranates.
24. Book of poems
Utopia
Adventure
Sailing to Byzantium
Sonnet sequence
25. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
26. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Dante
Adventure
27. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Ode to a Nightingale
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Samuel Coleridge
'Spenserian stanza'
28. 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...
Pygmalion
Robert Browning
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
29. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Ivanhoe
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
30. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
31. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Percy Shelley
Macbeth
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Prometheus Unbound
32. 19th Century authors
Shakespeare
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Bells and Pomegranates.
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
33. 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
Emma by Jane Austen
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
34. 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.
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Sir Walter Scott
Sonnet sequence
35. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Ivanhoe
The Jew of Malta
36. 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?'
Great Expectations
Don Juan
T.S. Elliot
The Book of Thel
37. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Dante
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Ode to a Nightingale
38. 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
Piers Plowman
Edmund Spenser
The Waste Land
39. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
William Blake
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Emma by Jane Austen
40. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Pygmalion
Odes
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
41. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Jungle Book
Sir Walter Scott
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
42. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Astrophel and Stella
Katherine
43. William Yeats wrote...
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Hamlet
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
44. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
John Milton
Achilles
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Icarus
45. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The absurdity of life
Pulpit
46. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Bells and Pomegranates.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
47. 18th Century authors
The Knight's Tale
Philip Sidney
Othello
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
48. Works by Charles Dickens
Adventure
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Robert Browning
49. This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character - a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela - encountering Native Americans - captives and mutineers before being rescued.
Wuthering Heights
Prometheus Unbound
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
50. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
A frame story/narrative
Robert Browning
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Divine Comedy