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CLEP World Literature
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1. '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.'
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The absurdity of life
The Waste Land
2. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Shakespeare
The Knight's Tale
3. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Wuthering Heights
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Claudius
Mary Shelley
4. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
William Wordsworth
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The love of travel
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
5. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Alexander Pope
Odes
The Knight's Tale
6. 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
Jungle Book
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Graham Greene
7. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Adventure
Emma by Jane Austen
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Achilles
8. '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.
Oliver Twist
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
9. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Prometheus Unbound
Canterburry Tales
Dante
Gulliver
10. 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.
Pygmalion
John Bunyan
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Chaucer
11. 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)
Ivanhoe
Dante
Shakespeare
George Elliot
12. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
John Milton
Katherine
Canterburry Tales
The Tower
13. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Katherine
Bells and Pomegranates.
Canterburry Tales
Pulpit
14. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Joseph Conrad
Achilles
15. 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
William Wordsworth
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
A frame story/narrative
Gulliver
16. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Ann Radcliffe
Sailing to Byzantium
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
17. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Achilles
Tamburlaine the Great
The absurdity of life
John Milton
18. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Sailing to Byzantium
Utopia
Pygmalion
Mary Shelley
19. Book of poems
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Sailing to Byzantium
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
20. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
Robert Browning
T.S. Elliot
Claudius
21. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Oliver Twist
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
22. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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23. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
William Langland
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
24. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Canterburry Tales
Odes
25. Jane Austen wrote ...
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
A frame story/narrative
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
26. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Claudius
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Adventure
Pygmalion
27. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
The Book of Thel
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Valdes and Cornelius
Christopher Marlowe
28. 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.
Mary Shelley
Astrophel and Stella
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The Jew of Malta
29. 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
Divine Comedy
Pilgrim's Progress
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
30. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
Emma by Jane Austen
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Philip Sidney
31. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Chaucer
John Keats
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Pride and Prejudice
32. 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
Othello
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Wuthering Heights
Ode to a Nightingale
33. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Pride and Prejudice
Sailing to Byzantium
Mary Shelley
Polonius
34. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
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35. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dante
Samuel Coleridge
36. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Ann Radcliffe
Mary Shelley
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Idylls of the King
37. Modern English authors
The Knight's Tale
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
'Spenserian stanza'
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
38. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Odes
William Wordsworth
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
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.
Prometheus Unbound
The Book of Thel
John Milton
Rape of the Lock
40. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Dante
Percy Shelley
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
41. 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?'
Don Juan
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Book of Thel
The love of travel
42. William Yeats wrote...
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Bells and Pomegranates.
John Keats
43. Works by Jonathon Swift
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44. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Shakespeare
Othello
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Alchemist
45. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Knight's Tale
John Keats
Pride and Prejudice
T.S. Elliot
46. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Divine Comedy
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Achilles
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
47. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Oliver Twist
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
48. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Pilgrim's Progress
The absurdity of life
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Divine Comedy
49. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Piers Plowman
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
50. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Christopher Marlowe
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens