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CLEP World Literature
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1. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Samuel Coleridge
The Knight's Tale
Philip Sidney
2. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
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Canterburry Tales
Sir Walter Scott
T.S. Elliot
3. '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.'
Jungle Book
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Tamburlaine the Great
The Waste Land
4. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
Valdes and Cornelius
Mary Shelley
5. 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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6. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
John Milton
Christopher Marlowe
Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
7. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
The Waste Land
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
8. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Oliver Twist
Odes
Shakespeare
Gulliver
9. 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.
The Jew of Malta
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Samuel Coleridge
10. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
The love of travel
Edmund Spenser
Paradise Lost
11. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Icarus
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
William Wordsworth
12. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Idylls of the King
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Waste Land
13. 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
Piers Plowman
George Elliot
The Alchemist
The Book of Thel
14. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
The Knight's Tale
Pilgrim's Progress
Icarus
Chaucer
15. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Edmund Spenser
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Philip Sidney
16. Falls into a stream after going crazy
William Blake
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Canterburry Tales
Samuel Coleridge
17. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
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Alexander Pope
The absurdity of life
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
18. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Divine Comedy
Ivanhoe
19. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Sir Walter Scott
Dante
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Polonius
20. Works by Jonathon Swift
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21. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Hamlet
Pilgrim's Progress
Adventure
22. 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
Samuel Coleridge
Ode to a Nightingale
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Paradise Lost
23. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
William Wordsworth
John Keats
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Ivanhoe
24. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Claudius
Percy Shelley
Utopia
Chaucer
25. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Chaucer
John Bunyan
Katherine
Joseph Conrad
26. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Don Juan
Utopia
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Adventure
27. 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?'
Don Juan
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Book of Thel
28. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Bells and Pomegranates.
Shakespeare
29. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Jew of Malta
The absurdity of life
Oliver Twist
30. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Canterburry Tales
31. 'Money - money - money - and what money can make of life' - a rich man dies - the will says that John Harmon will get the estate if he marries a woman named Bella whom he has never met -
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
William Langland
Achilles
32. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Jungle Book
Ann Radcliffe
Sir Walter Scott
33. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
T.S. Elliot
34. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Edmund Spenser
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
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
Ode to a Nightingale
Prometheus Unbound
Percy Shelley
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
36. 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.
The Alchemist
Sir Walter Scott
Dante
Ode on a Grecian Urn
37. 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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38. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Philip Sidney
Oliver Twist
A frame story/narrative
39. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
40. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Edmund Spenser
Adventure
Prometheus Unbound
Mary Shelley
41. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Philip Sidney
William Wordsworth
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
42. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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43. 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
Samuel Coleridge
Dante
Achilles
Katherine
44. 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
Samuel Coleridge
'Spenserian stanza'
The Knight's Tale
45. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Macbeth
Canterburry Tales
John Bunyan
46. Jane Austen wrote ...
Idylls of the King
Icarus
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Piers Plowman
47. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Katherine
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
48. 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.
Ann Radcliffe
Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet sequence
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
49. 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.
Jungle Book
Pride and Prejudice
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
50. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
T.S. Elliot
Joseph Conrad
Polonius
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray