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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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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2. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Ann Radcliffe
Prometheus Unbound
3. 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
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Robert Browning
Emma by Jane Austen
Pygmalion
4. Works by Jonathon Swift
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5. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Pygmalion
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Pride and Prejudice
6. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Othello
Joseph Conrad
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
7. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Wuthering Heights
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.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Idylls of the King
John Keats
9. 19th Century authors
Bells and Pomegranates.
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
John Bunyan
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
10. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Gulliver
T.S. Elliot
Othello
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
11. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Canterburry Tales
Graham Greene
12. Jane Austen wrote ...
Graham Greene
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
13. William Yeats wrote...
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Piers Plowman
T.S. Elliot
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
14. 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
Great Expectations
Don Juan
Dante
Othello
15. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
William Blake
Christopher Marlowe
Pulpit
16. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Jonathon Swift
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Sir Walter Scott
Graham Greene
17. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Claudius
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Valdes and Cornelius
Othello
18. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
The Book of Thel
Rape of the Lock
Mary Shelley
Pygmalion
19. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Pulpit
Utopia
20. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Gulliver
The Waste Land
Hamlet
21. 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
The Book of Thel
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Pride and Prejudice
Ivanhoe
22. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Oliver Twist
Philip Sidney
Don Juan
23. 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
Chaucer
Adventure
Don Juan
Polonius
24. 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?'
Rape of the Lock
The Alchemist
The Book of Thel
Othello
25. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Idylls of the King
Icarus
Ivanhoe
26. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Wuthering Heights
Sailing to Byzantium
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Percy Shelley
27. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Canterburry Tales
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
John Milton
28. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
William Wordsworth
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
29. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
George Elliot
Odes
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
30. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
The Tower
Alexander Pope
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Icarus
31. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Utopia
32. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Graham Greene
Ann Radcliffe
Christopher Marlowe
33. '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 -
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Achilles
The Book of Thel
Jonathon Swift
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
William Wordsworth
Shakespeare
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
T.S. Elliot
35. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Gulliver
Robert Browning
Pride and Prejudice
36. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
A frame story/narrative
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
37. Explores new thoughts on death by comparing/contrasting the mortal human with the immortal nightingale - ends with accepting the idea that pleasure must end and that death in not escapable
Don Juan
T.S. Elliot
Ode to a Nightingale
Odes
38. 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
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The love of travel
Graham Greene
39. '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.'
Robert Browning
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Waste Land
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
40. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Ababbcbcc
Adventure
Joseph Conrad
41. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Icarus
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
T.S. Elliot
42. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Percy Shelley
Tamburlaine the Great
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Alchemist
43. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Paradise Lost
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
44. 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)
Graham Greene
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
George Elliot
The Waste Land
45. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Tamburlaine the Great
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Astrophel and Stella
46. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Sir Walter Scott
William Blake
The Knight's Tale
47. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Macbeth
Jungle Book
Samuel Coleridge
Ivanhoe
48. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
The Waste Land
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Sailing to Byzantium
Macbeth
49. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Ivanhoe
Tamburlaine the Great
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
50. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Astrophel and Stella
Hamlet
Achilles
Samuel Coleridge