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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. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to a Nightingale
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Mary Shelley
3. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
The Waste Land
Odes
Emma by Jane Austen
The absurdity of life
4. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
5. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
Sailing to Byzantium
'Spenserian stanza'
Valdes and Cornelius
6. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Polonius
Valdes and Cornelius
Adventure
7. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Philip Sidney
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Divine Comedy
8. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
John Keats
Pulpit
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
9. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
The Knight's Tale
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Hamlet
Polonius
10. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Valdes and Cornelius
Adventure
Paradise Lost
11. 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
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
'Spenserian stanza'
Great Expectations
12. '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
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Tamburlaine the Great
13. 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.
'Spenserian stanza'
Canterburry Tales
Oliver Twist
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
14. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Great Expectations
The Waste Land
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
15. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The Jew of Malta
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
16. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Great Expectations
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
John Keats
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
17. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Pygmalion
Alexander Pope
Othello
Chaucer
18. 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.
Jungle Book
Graham Greene
Icarus
Rape of the Lock
19. Mary Shelley was his second wife
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Oliver Twist
Percy Shelley
Ode on a Grecian Urn
20. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Sailing to Byzantium
The absurdity of life
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Paradise Lost
21. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
22. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
23. 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.
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Macbeth
Pulpit
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
24. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Bells and Pomegranates.
Jungle Book
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
25. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Graham Greene
26. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Ann Radcliffe
Jungle Book
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
27. 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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28. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Graham Greene
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Wuthering Heights
John Milton
29. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Joseph Conrad
Icarus
Samuel Coleridge
Dante
30. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
John Milton
Pulpit
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
31. 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
Ivanhoe
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Claudius
32. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
The Book of Thel
Pilgrim's Progress
The love of travel
Joseph Conrad
33. 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
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Alexander Pope
The Alchemist
34. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Jungle Book
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
35. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
The Tower
Philip Sidney
T.S. Elliot
Gulliver
36. 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.
Macbeth
Wuthering Heights
Percy Shelley
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
37. 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.
William Wordsworth
Adventure
Sonnet sequence
The Book of Thel
38. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Jonathon Swift
39. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
Pilgrim's Progress
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
40. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Tower
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
41. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Polonius
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Christopher Marlowe
Dante
42. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Gulliver
Bells and Pomegranates.
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Macbeth
43. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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44. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Pride and Prejudice
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Utopia
45. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Prometheus Unbound
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
A frame story/narrative
46. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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47. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
John Keats
The Tower
48. William Yeats wrote...
Gulliver
Macbeth
Astrophel and Stella
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
49. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Langland
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Idylls of the King
50. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Canterburry Tales
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Emma by Jane Austen
The Tower