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CLEP World Literature
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1. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Adventure
Graham Greene
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
2. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when
The Alchemist
Mary Shelley
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
3. 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 frame story/narrative
Jungle Book
Chaucer
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
4. 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
Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Tamburlaine the Great
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
5. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Christopher Marlowe
6. Is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work - although generally - unlike the stanza - each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit.
The Waste Land
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Sonnet sequence
7. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Gulliver
Joseph Conrad
8. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Ivanhoe
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Canterburry Tales
9. 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.
Ann Radcliffe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Pygmalion
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
10. Jane Austen wrote ...
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Graham Greene
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Rape of the Lock
11. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Don Juan
12. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Idylls of the King
Prometheus Unbound
Macbeth
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
13. '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.'
Percy Shelley
Wuthering Heights
George Elliot
The Waste Land
14. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
Gulliver
15. 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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16. 19th Century authors
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The Knight's Tale
17. 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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18. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Rape of the Lock
19. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Alchemist
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Pygmalion
20. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Idylls of the King
William Wordsworth
Alexander Pope
Great Expectations
21. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Pulpit
The love of travel
Mary Shelley
22. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
The Knight's Tale
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Philip Sidney
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
23. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
24. 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
Shakespeare
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Oliver Twist
25. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
John Milton
26. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
27. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
The love of travel
Jungle Book
28. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
William Blake
Gulliver
Emma by Jane Austen
Othello
29. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Dante
Bells and Pomegranates.
The absurdity of life
Ode on a Grecian Urn
30. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
31. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Ann Radcliffe
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Hamlet
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
Emma by Jane Austen
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
William Blake
33. 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.
Shakespeare
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Gulliver
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
34. 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
Achilles
Tamburlaine the Great
Piers Plowman
Dante
35. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
John Keats
Mary Shelley
Piers Plowman
36. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Bells and Pomegranates.
Othello
William Wordsworth
37. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Sonnet sequence
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Icarus
38. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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39. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Sir Walter Scott
Ababbcbcc
Tamburlaine the Great
Hamlet
40. 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
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Ivanhoe
41. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Alexander Pope
Robert Browning
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Don Juan
42. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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43. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
44. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Pygmalion
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
John Keats
45. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Alexander Pope
Philip Sidney
Pulpit
Dante
46. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Pilgrim's Progress
Robert Browning
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
47. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Don Juan
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Robert Browning
48. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Percy Shelley
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
49. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Ababbcbcc
Pride and Prejudice
Macbeth
50. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
William Blake
Pilgrim's Progress
Dante