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CLEP World Literature
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1. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Oliver Twist
The Tower
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'Spenserian stanza'
2. 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
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Pride and Prejudice
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ann Radcliffe
3. 19th Century authors
Mary Shelley
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Bells and Pomegranates.
A frame story/narrative
4. 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.
A frame story/narrative
Edmund Spenser
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
5. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
John Milton
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
6. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ivanhoe
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Canterburry Tales
7. 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.
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8. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Polonius
Jungle Book
9. 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?
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10. 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)
Jungle Book
The absurdity of life
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
George Elliot
11. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Sonnet sequence
Jonathon Swift
Ann Radcliffe
John Milton
12. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Piers Plowman
Katherine
Christopher Marlowe
13. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Piers Plowman
Gulliver
14. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Edmund Spenser
Gulliver
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
15. 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
Polonius
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Jonathon Swift
16. 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
William Langland
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
17. 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
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Joseph Conrad
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
18. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Ann Radcliffe
Adventure
Pilgrim's Progress
Idylls of the King
19. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Philip Sidney
Graham Greene
Christopher Marlowe
Mary Shelley
20. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
The Jew of Malta
Katherine
Christopher Marlowe
Pygmalion
21. '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.'
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Don Juan
A frame story/narrative
The Waste Land
22. Works by Charles Dickens
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Emma by Jane Austen
Bells and Pomegranates.
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
23. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Piers Plowman
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
24. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
William Blake
Alexander Pope
The Book of Thel
25. A poem
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Piers Plowman
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
26. 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.
Divine Comedy
Robert Browning
Wuthering Heights
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
27. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Samuel Coleridge
Graham Greene
Gulliver
Utopia
28. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Pride and Prejudice
The Jew of Malta
Prometheus Unbound
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
29. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Polonius
The Book of Thel
Emma by Jane Austen
30. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Christopher Marlowe
A frame story/narrative
Sir Walter Scott
31. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
The Alchemist
Joseph Conrad
Utopia
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
32. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Alexander Pope
Adventure
33. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Edmund Spenser
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Achilles
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
34. 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
Pygmalion
Pilgrim's Progress
The Book of Thel
35. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
William Langland
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
36. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Valdes and Cornelius
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Pilgrim's Progress
Shakespeare
37. 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.
George Elliot
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Bells and Pomegranates.
Adventure
38. 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
Alexander Pope
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Hamlet
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
39. 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.
Ann Radcliffe
Percy Shelley
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Sonnet sequence
40. The 'shrew' of the title
Katherine
Jungle Book
Utopia
The Book of Thel
41. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Don Juan
Edmund Spenser
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
42. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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43. Jane Austen wrote ...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Jew of Malta
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Pride and Prejudice
44. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
John Keats
William Blake
45. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Katherine
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
William Blake
Icarus
46. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
47. 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
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
A frame story/narrative
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
48. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Mary Shelley
Shakespeare
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
49. 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.
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The Jew of Malta
Joseph Conrad
50. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Percy Shelley
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Othello
The Tower