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CLEP World Literature
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1. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Christopher Marlowe
Astrophel and Stella
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
2. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
John Milton
Adventure
The Tower
Jonathon Swift
3. 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
Othello
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The absurdity of life
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
4. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Wuthering Heights
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Pygmalion
William Wordsworth
5. 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
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
A frame story/narrative
Adventure
6. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Graham Greene
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Blake
Percy Shelley
7. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Achilles
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Othello
8. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Jungle Book
Ivanhoe
Graham Greene
Alexander Pope
9. 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.
The Jew of Malta
Wuthering Heights
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Canterburry Tales
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.
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Sailing to Byzantium
John Keats
Ann Radcliffe
11. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Idylls of the King
Ode to a Nightingale
12. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Ann Radcliffe
Jungle Book
Samuel Coleridge
John Keats
13. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Ode to a Nightingale
Great Expectations
Graham Greene
John Keats
14. 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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15. 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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16. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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17. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Ode to a Nightingale
Great Expectations
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Canterburry Tales
18. Jane Austen wrote ...
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Polonius
19. 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?'
The Book of Thel
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Rape of the Lock
20. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Chaucer
Sonnet sequence
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
21. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Icarus
22. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Gulliver
Great Expectations
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
23. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Jungle Book
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
The Tower
John Milton
24. 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
Rape of the Lock
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Chaucer
Alexander Pope
25. The 'shrew' of the title
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Katherine
The Tower
Icarus
26. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth
'Spenserian stanza'
William Langland
Paradise Lost
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
27. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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28. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Jonathon Swift
The Knight's Tale
Polonius
29. 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
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The love of travel
Idylls of the King
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
30. 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.
The Jew of Malta
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
31. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Canterburry Tales
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
32. 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
William Langland
A frame story/narrative
Hamlet
33. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Paradise Lost
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The absurdity of life
34. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Polonius
Odes
The Jew of Malta
William Blake
35. 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
Achilles
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
George Elliot
Ode to a Nightingale
36. A poem
Achilles
Piers Plowman
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Odes
37. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Prometheus Unbound
38. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Emma by Jane Austen
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Oliver Twist
39. 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.
Dante
Odes
Jungle Book
Astrophel and Stella
40. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
John Keats
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Sailing to Byzantium
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
41. 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
William Langland
Adventure
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
42. 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
Adventure
Ivanhoe
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Chaucer
43. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Ode to a Nightingale
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Jonathon Swift
Joseph Conrad
44. 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
Mary Shelley
Ivanhoe
Achilles
Wuthering Heights
45. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Jonathon Swift
Divine Comedy
John Keats
Graham Greene
46. 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
Shakespeare
Paradise Lost
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Samuel Coleridge
47. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Samuel Coleridge
48. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Jonathon Swift
Paradise Lost
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Bells and Pomegranates.
49. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Percy Shelley
Jonathon Swift
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Pygmalion
50. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Pulpit
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Paradise Lost