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CLEP World Literature
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1. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
The Alchemist
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Macbeth
2. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
3. 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.
Achilles
Wuthering Heights
Astrophel and Stella
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
4. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Christopher Marlowe
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Pulpit
5. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Alexander Pope
Canterburry Tales
6. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
7. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Edmund Spenser
Rape of the Lock
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
John Milton
8. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Achilles
Polonius
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Macbeth
9. 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
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
10. 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
Canterburry Tales
Emma by Jane Austen
Ode to a Nightingale
Piers Plowman
11. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
William Blake
Gulliver
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
12. 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.
Sailing to Byzantium
Astrophel and Stella
Samuel Coleridge
Sonnet sequence
13. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Pulpit
A frame story/narrative
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
14. Jane Austen wrote ...
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
John Keats
Astrophel and Stella
15. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Adventure
The Tower
16. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Idylls of the King
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Paradise Lost
17. 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
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Dante
Graham Greene
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
18. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Jew of Malta
Oliver Twist
Sailing to Byzantium
19. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
The absurdity of life
Odes
Prometheus Unbound
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
20. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Graham Greene
Piers Plowman
21. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Ode to a Nightingale
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Mary Shelley
John Bunyan
22. Works by Charles Dickens
Sailing to Byzantium
Shakespeare
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
23. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Rape of the Lock
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Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
24. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Jungle Book
Idylls of the King
William Wordsworth
25. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
26. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
A frame story/narrative
Jungle Book
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Prometheus Unbound
27. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Gulliver
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Canterburry Tales
John Keats
28. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Percy Shelley
T.S. Elliot
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Samuel Coleridge
29. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Samuel Coleridge
John Milton
Philip Sidney
Ann Radcliffe
30. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
Dante
Jonathon Swift
The absurdity of life
31. The 'shrew' of the title
Percy Shelley
Katherine
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Jungle Book
32. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
33. 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
Dante
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Ivanhoe
34. 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.
Astrophel and Stella
Samuel Coleridge
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
35. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
The absurdity of life
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Piers Plowman
Graham Greene
36. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
The absurdity of life
The Jew of Malta
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
37. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
The Knight's Tale
The Jew of Malta
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
38. The Comedians was written by who
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Graham Greene
39. 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.
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Gulliver
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
40. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
Polonius
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Piers Plowman
41. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Don Juan
Valdes and Cornelius
Jonathon Swift
Alexander Pope
42. 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
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Emma by Jane Austen
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode on a Grecian Urn
43. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Claudius
Mary Shelley
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
44. '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.'
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
John Bunyan
The Waste Land
45. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Ode to a Nightingale
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Edmund Spenser
William Wordsworth
46. 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
Prometheus Unbound
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
47. A poem
Sailing to Byzantium
Hamlet
Piers Plowman
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
48. 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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great
Great Expectations
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
49. 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.
Valdes and Cornelius
Rape of the Lock
Divine Comedy
The love of travel
50. 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
Polonius
Robert Browning
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
A frame story/narrative
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