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CLEP World Literature
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1. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Rape of the Lock
The Knight's Tale
Odes
2. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Samuel Coleridge
George Elliot
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
3. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Achilles
Pulpit
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
4. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Gulliver
Ann Radcliffe
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Waste Land
5. 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.
Wuthering Heights
Idylls of the King
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Bells and Pomegranates.
6. 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.
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Percy Shelley
Rape of the Lock
7. 18th Century authors
Graham Greene
Canterburry Tales
The Alchemist
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
8. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Polonius
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Sailing to Byzantium
9. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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William Wordsworth
10. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Waste Land
11. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Edmund Spenser
The Tower
Othello
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
12. 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
Philip Sidney
Jungle Book
Ivanhoe
Bells and Pomegranates.
13. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
The Book of Thel
Ode to a Nightingale
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
14. 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
Prometheus Unbound
A frame story/narrative
Wuthering Heights
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
15. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Robert Browning
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Samuel Coleridge
Astrophel and Stella
16. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Jungle Book
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Utopia
17. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Joseph Conrad
Othello
18. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Graham Greene
Samuel Coleridge
19. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
A frame story/narrative
Icarus
Joseph Conrad
William Blake
20. 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
Sailing to Byzantium
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
21. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Rape of the Lock
The Knight's Tale
The Tower
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
22. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Sailing to Byzantium
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
William Wordsworth
23. 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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24. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
The Waste Land
Claudius
John Bunyan
Ode to a Nightingale
25. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Achilles
Gulliver
The Jew of Malta
Piers Plowman
26. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
The Book of Thel
Macbeth
Tamburlaine the Great
Katherine
27. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Utopia
Paradise Lost
28. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
The Book of Thel
The Alchemist
Ode to a Nightingale
29. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Astrophel and Stella
Tamburlaine the Great
Philip Sidney
Sonnet sequence
30. 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.
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Graham Greene
Rape of the Lock
31. '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.'
Pilgrim's Progress
The love of travel
The Waste Land
Macbeth
32. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Ode to a Nightingale
Emma by Jane Austen
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
33. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
Astrophel and Stella
Adventure
Emma by Jane Austen
34. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Pygmalion
A frame story/narrative
Mary Shelley
Robert Browning
35. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
Gulliver
Philip Sidney
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
36. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Great Expectations
John Bunyan
John Milton
37. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Graham Greene
T.S. Elliot
38. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
The love of travel
Wuthering Heights
Pilgrim's Progress
39. The first of 4 stanzas discusses concerns about lost vision - the second of 4 stanzas describes how age causes man to lose sight of the divine - and the third of 3 stanzas is hopeful in that the memory of the divine allows us to sympathise with our f
Astrophel and Stella
Wuthering Heights
Gulliver
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
40. '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.
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Katherine
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
41. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
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Christopher Marlowe
42. 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
Jonathon Swift
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Dante
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
43. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
'Spenserian stanza'
Adventure
Mary Shelley
Emma by Jane Austen
44. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Sonnet sequence
John Bunyan
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
45. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
John Bunyan
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Wuthering Heights
Katherine
46. Modern English authors
Ivanhoe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
John Keats
Percy Shelley
47. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
William Blake
Utopia
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Emma by Jane Austen
48. Jane Austen wrote ...
Samuel Coleridge
Pilgrim's Progress
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
49. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Divine Comedy
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Odes
50. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The absurdity of life
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Jonathon Swift
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