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CLEP World Literature
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1. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Jungle Book
Odes
Don Juan
Tamburlaine the Great
2. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
Graham Greene
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Hamlet
3. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Paradise Lost
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
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'Spenserian stanza'
4. Works by Jonathon Swift
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5. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Gulliver
The Tower
Achilles
6. A poem
John Bunyan
T.S. Elliot
Piers Plowman
Great Expectations
7. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe
8. 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
Paradise Lost
Alexander Pope
Prometheus Unbound
9. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
William Wordsworth
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
10. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
William Wordsworth
Canterburry Tales
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
11. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
12. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Christopher Marlowe
The absurdity of life
13. '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
The Book of Thel
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Robert Browning
14. 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
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Samuel Coleridge
Pilgrim's Progress
15. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Idylls of the King
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Utopia
Christopher Marlowe
16. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Great Expectations
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Alexander Pope
17. William Yeats wrote...
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Ode to a Nightingale
Great Expectations
18. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
John Bunyan
Pulpit
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Adventure
19. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Graham Greene
Pulpit
The absurdity of life
Othello
20. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Ababbcbcc
Pride and Prejudice
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Sonnet sequence
21. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
The Alchemist
'Spenserian stanza'
Christopher Marlowe
Don Juan
22. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
George Elliot
A frame story/narrative
23. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
A frame story/narrative
Prometheus Unbound
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
24. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Ode on a Grecian Urn
William Blake
Sailing to Byzantium
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
25. 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
Gulliver
Paradise Lost
Othello
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
26. '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.'
The Waste Land
The love of travel
Ivanhoe
Astrophel and Stella
27. 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
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Shakespeare
Graham Greene
28. 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)
Othello
Chaucer
The Waste Land
George Elliot
29. 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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30. 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.
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Pulpit
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Wuthering Heights
31. 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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32. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Chaucer
Joseph Conrad
Hamlet
The Waste Land
33. 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...
Robert Browning
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Joseph Conrad
Tamburlaine the Great
34. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Astrophel and Stella
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Waste Land
35. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
William Blake
36. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
The Book of Thel
George Elliot
Prometheus Unbound
37. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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38. The Comedians was written by who
William Blake
The absurdity of life
Bells and Pomegranates.
Graham Greene
39. 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.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Icarus
Astrophel and Stella
Alexander Pope
40. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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41. 18th Century authors
Robert Browning
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
42. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Emma by Jane Austen
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Tower
The love of travel
43. Works by Charles Dickens
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Wuthering Heights
44. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Astrophel and Stella
William Wordsworth
Odes
45. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Ann Radcliffe
Edmund Spenser
Mary Shelley
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
46. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Othello
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
47. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Christopher Marlowe
Ann Radcliffe
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Renaissance 1485-1660
48. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Percy Shelley
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
William Langland
Tamburlaine the Great
49. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Pygmalion
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
50. 19th Century authors
The Book of Thel
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Pilgrim's Progress