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CLEP World Literature
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1. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Idylls of the King
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Valdes and Cornelius
The absurdity of life
2. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Don Juan
Jungle Book
The Waste Land
John Keats
3. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Chaucer
Idylls of the King
Oliver Twist
4. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
The Alchemist
Icarus
Katherine
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.
George Elliot
Mary Shelley
The Waste Land
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
6. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
William Langland
William Wordsworth
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
7. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Percy Shelley
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
William Blake
8. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Emma by Jane Austen
William Langland
9. 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
A frame story/narrative
The Waste Land
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
John Keats
10. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ann Radcliffe
Pulpit
11. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Oliver Twist
Pygmalion
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The Jew of Malta
12. 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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13. Works by Jonathon Swift
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14. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Valdes and Cornelius
Astrophel and Stella
15. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
A frame story/narrative
Joseph Conrad
Philip Sidney
William Blake
16. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Great Expectations
Othello
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
17. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
A frame story/narrative
Ode on a Grecian Urn
18. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Samuel Coleridge
Idylls of the King
Mary Shelley
'Spenserian stanza'
19. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Samuel Coleridge
Sonnet sequence
20. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
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Gulliver
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The love of travel
21. 18th Century authors
William Blake
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
22. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Gulliver
Robert Browning
Percy Shelley
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. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Canterburry Tales
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Pulpit
Adventure
25. 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.
The Alchemist
Paradise Lost
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
26. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Prometheus Unbound
Icarus
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Idylls of the King
27. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Prometheus Unbound
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
28. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Bells and Pomegranates.
Claudius
William Blake
Jonathon Swift
29. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Pride and Prejudice
T.S. Elliot
John Keats
Macbeth
30. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Odes
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Sonnet sequence
John Milton
31. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
John Milton
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
32. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Macbeth
Wuthering Heights
Sonnet sequence
Divine Comedy
33. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
John Bunyan
Gulliver
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode on a Grecian Urn
34. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Samuel Coleridge
The Waste Land
Gulliver
35. 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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36. 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
Idylls of the King
The Waste Land
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Chaucer
37. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Robert Browning
Bells and Pomegranates.
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
38. '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.'
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
William Wordsworth
The Waste Land
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
39. '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.
John Bunyan
Pygmalion
Chaucer
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
40. 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
Polonius
Alexander Pope
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
41. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Edmund Spenser
Othello
Great Expectations
Pilgrim's Progress
42. 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.
Sailing to Byzantium
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Sonnet sequence
Astrophel and Stella
43. Book of poems
Robert Browning
The Jew of Malta
Sailing to Byzantium
A frame story/narrative
44. 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.
Alexander Pope
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Sir Walter Scott
Rape of the Lock
45. 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?'
William Wordsworth
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Mary Shelley
The Book of Thel
46. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Achilles
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
47. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Emma by Jane Austen
Graham Greene
Achilles
48. 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
Ode to a Nightingale
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Icarus
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
49. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Sir Walter Scott
Jungle Book
Pride and Prejudice
Graham Greene
50. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
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The Renaissance 1485-1660
Katherine
Graham Greene
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