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CLEP World Literature
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1. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Rape of the Lock
Don Juan
John Bunyan
William Langland
2. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Philip Sidney
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Othello
3. 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.
Great Expectations
Wuthering Heights
Christopher Marlowe
Rape of the Lock
4. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Mary Shelley
Samuel Coleridge
Alexander Pope
The Jew of Malta
5. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Robert Browning
The love of travel
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Prometheus Unbound
6. '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 -
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Adventure
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Christopher Marlowe
7. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
A frame story/narrative
Edmund Spenser
Graham Greene
Jungle Book
8. 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.
Graham Greene
T.S. Elliot
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
9. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Sonnet sequence
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Icarus
10. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Divine Comedy
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
11. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Emma by Jane Austen
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Claudius
12. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Pilgrim's Progress
Shakespeare
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
13. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Katherine
14. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Paradise Lost
A frame story/narrative
15. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
Paradise Lost
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Dante
16. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Polonius
Prometheus Unbound
Great Expectations
Emma by Jane Austen
17. 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.
18. 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.
Valdes and Cornelius
Claudius
Ann Radcliffe
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
19. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Canterburry Tales
Percy Shelley
20. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Mary Shelley
John Keats
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
21. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The Tower
Mary Shelley
Alexander Pope
The absurdity of life
22. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Pilgrim's Progress
23. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
24. 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
A frame story/narrative
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
John Keats
25. 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)
Oliver Twist
Shakespeare
George Elliot
Idylls of the King
26. 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
The Knight's Tale
Chaucer
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
27. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The love of travel
Don Juan
Astrophel and Stella
28. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
The Knight's Tale
Alexander Pope
The Jew of Malta
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
29. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth
Macbeth
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Paradise Lost
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
30. 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
Macbeth
Wuthering Heights
The Alchemist
Jonathon Swift
31. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
A frame story/narrative
Philip Sidney
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The absurdity of life
32. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Pilgrim's Progress
John Milton
Utopia
33. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Idylls of the King
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Graham Greene
34. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The absurdity of life
John Milton
Shakespeare
35. 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.
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Jew of Malta
Ann Radcliffe
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
36. 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?
37. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Valdes and Cornelius
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Jonathon Swift
Odes
38. The 'shrew' of the title
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Pygmalion
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Katherine
39. Works by Charles Dickens
Sailing to Byzantium
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
A frame story/narrative
Percy Shelley
40. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Sir Walter Scott
Robert Browning
41. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Paradise Lost
T.S. Elliot
Pygmalion
42. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Jonathon Swift
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Polonius
Ababbcbcc
43. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Hamlet
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Percy Shelley
44. '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.'
The Waste Land
Divine Comedy
Don Juan
T.S. Elliot
45. 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.
Robert Browning
Pride and Prejudice
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
46. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Book of Thel
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
47. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Claudius
Joseph Conrad
Edmund Spenser
Rape of the Lock
48. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
John Bunyan
49. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
50. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Utopia
Canterburry Tales