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CLEP World Literature
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1. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Gulliver
Samuel Coleridge
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
2. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
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A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Robert Browning
John Bunyan
3. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Percy Shelley
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Jungle Book
4. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Sir Walter Scott
Odes
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Macbeth
5. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Claudius
William Wordsworth
John Keats
Paradise Lost
6. 17th century authors
Chaucer
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
John Keats
Graham Greene
7. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
The Tower
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
8. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Ann Radcliffe
Emma by Jane Austen
Hamlet
Gulliver
9. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Tamburlaine the Great
T.S. Elliot
Philip Sidney
Icarus
10. 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.
The Jew of Malta
Utopia
Ann Radcliffe
Sailing to Byzantium
11. 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
Hamlet
Pygmalion
Icarus
12. 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.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Astrophel and Stella
Utopia
The Tower
13. 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.
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Great Expectations
14. 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.
Rape of the Lock
Idylls of the King
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
15. '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.
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Gulliver
Odes
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
16. Works by Jonathon Swift
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17. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
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Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Adventure
18. 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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19. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Edmund Spenser
John Bunyan
20. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Rape of the Lock
Graham Greene
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
21. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Dante
William Blake
Astrophel and Stella
Icarus
22. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Prometheus Unbound
Emma by Jane Austen
John Milton
Dante
23. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Graham Greene
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
24. 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
Ivanhoe
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
John Bunyan
Ode on a Grecian Urn
25. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Odes
Pygmalion
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Icarus
26. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Langland
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The love of travel
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
27. A poem
Robert Browning
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Piers Plowman
Prometheus Unbound
28. '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 -
Hamlet
Idylls of the King
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Canterburry Tales
29. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Ann Radcliffe
Rape of the Lock
Divine Comedy
Percy Shelley
30. 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.
John Bunyan
The absurdity of life
Wuthering Heights
Ode on a Grecian Urn
31. Men and Women - a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes - all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators - some identified and some not - was written by...
Othello
Robert Browning
Ann Radcliffe
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
32. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
William Langland
Icarus
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
33. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Bells and Pomegranates.
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Jonathon Swift
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
34. Modern English authors
'Spenserian stanza'
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Prometheus Unbound
John Milton
35. William Yeats wrote...
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Oliver Twist
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Waste Land
36. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
The Waste Land
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Hamlet
37. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Emma by Jane Austen
Percy Shelley
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
38. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
39. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Othello
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
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Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
40. 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.
Oliver Twist
The Tower
Shakespeare
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
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?'
Canterburry Tales
Joseph Conrad
William Blake
The Book of Thel
42. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Divine Comedy
Katherine
43. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
The Alchemist
Don Juan
Joseph Conrad
44. 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
Great Expectations
The Book of Thel
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
45. Jane Austen wrote ...
Sailing to Byzantium
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Oliver Twist
46. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
John Keats
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Ivanhoe
47. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Sonnet sequence
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
48. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
Achilles
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
49. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Achilles
Great Expectations
Robert Browning
50. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Jonathon Swift
Ann Radcliffe
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