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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Paradise Lost
Percy Shelley
Prometheus Unbound
John Keats
2. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Graham Greene
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Ivanhoe
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
3. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Philip Sidney
Valdes and Cornelius
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
4. 17th century authors
Canterburry Tales
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Knight's Tale
5. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Odes
Alexander Pope
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Icarus
6. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
John Milton
The Renaissance 1485-1660
7. 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.
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Wuthering Heights
Great Expectations
Graham Greene
8. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Astrophel and Stella
The Tower
Ivanhoe
John Keats
9. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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10. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Shakespeare
William Blake
11. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
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
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Achilles
12. 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)
Piers Plowman
George Elliot
Oliver Twist
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
13. 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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14. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ode to a Nightingale
15. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Adventure
Ivanhoe
16. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
Canterburry Tales
Shakespeare
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
17. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Pulpit
Adventure
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
John Keats
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
Ann Radcliffe
Macbeth
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
19. '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.
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Sailing to Byzantium
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
20. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Great Expectations
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Tamburlaine the Great
21. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Edmund Spenser
'Spenserian stanza'
Ann Radcliffe
Joseph Conrad
22. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Idylls of the King
Dante
Polonius
Divine Comedy
23. 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
John Keats
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Pygmalion
24. Book of poems
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Joseph Conrad
Canterburry Tales
Sailing to Byzantium
25. Works by Jonathon Swift
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26. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Divine Comedy
John Bunyan
Chaucer
The absurdity of life
27. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
The love of travel
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
28. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Christopher Marlowe
William Blake
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
29. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Divine Comedy
The Book of Thel
30. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Prometheus Unbound
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Idylls of the King
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
31. 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
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Samuel Coleridge
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
32. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Knight's Tale
Edmund Spenser
33. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
The Knight's Tale
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Idylls of the King
William Blake
34. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
A frame story/narrative
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
35. 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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36. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Macbeth
The absurdity of life
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
37. 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?'
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Sonnet sequence
John Bunyan
The Book of Thel
38. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Odes
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
39. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Achilles
Percy Shelley
Joseph Conrad
40. The 'shrew' of the title
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Graham Greene
Katherine
Claudius
41. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Scott
Dante
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
42. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Achilles
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Dante
The Renaissance 1485-1660
43. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Icarus
John Keats
The Tower
Astrophel and Stella
44. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Sonnet sequence
Rape of the Lock
Pygmalion
The Alchemist
45. 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 Book of Thel
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Dante
46. 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
William Langland
Robert Browning
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Pride and Prejudice
47. 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.
John Milton
Astrophel and Stella
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to a Nightingale
48. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Don Juan
Graham Greene
William Wordsworth
The Knight's Tale
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.
Graham Greene
Ann Radcliffe
Sonnet sequence
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
50. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare
Canterburry Tales