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CLEP World Literature
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1. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Utopia
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Katherine
William Blake
2. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Edmund Spenser
William Blake
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
3. 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
Ivanhoe
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Paradise Lost
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
4. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Hamlet
Mary Shelley
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Polonius
5. 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.
Icarus
John Bunyan
Samuel Coleridge
Sonnet sequence
6. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Ann Radcliffe
John Bunyan
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The absurdity of life
7. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Pulpit
William Langland
Robert Browning
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
8. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Pulpit
Jungle Book
9. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Sir Walter Scott
Samuel Coleridge
10. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Graham Greene
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Oliver Twist
11. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The absurdity of life
John Milton
12. '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.
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Ann Radcliffe
Tamburlaine the Great
13. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Mary Shelley
The Tower
Christopher Marlowe
14. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
The Renaissance 1485-1660
'Spenserian stanza'
Shakespeare
Rape of the Lock
15. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Utopia
Gulliver
Tamburlaine the Great
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
16. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Philip Sidney
Achilles
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
The absurdity of life
17. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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18. 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
Graham Greene
Samuel Coleridge
Dante
Mary Shelley
19. The 'shrew' of the title
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Katherine
20. 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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21. 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
Edmund Spenser
Pride and Prejudice
Pulpit
Chaucer
22. 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
The Jew of Malta
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
23. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Valdes and Cornelius
Adventure
William Langland
Macbeth
24. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
T.S. Elliot
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
25. 17th century authors
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Sonnet sequence
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
26. 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
The Waste Land
Ode to a Nightingale
John Milton
27. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Jungle Book
William Langland
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Bells and Pomegranates.
28. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Divine Comedy
William Wordsworth
29. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Astrophel and Stella
Sir Walter Scott
Alexander Pope
Paradise Lost
30. 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
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Tamburlaine the Great
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
31. Modern English authors
Graham Greene
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
32. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Pygmalion
Percy Shelley
John Bunyan
33. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Prometheus Unbound
Wuthering Heights
34. 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
Canterburry Tales
William Wordsworth
Jungle Book
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
35. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Joseph Conrad
Samuel Coleridge
Odes
Ode to a Nightingale
36. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
A frame story/narrative
Alexander Pope
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
37. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Jew of Malta
38. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
William Blake
Canterburry Tales
T.S. Elliot
39. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Philip Sidney
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Othello
John Keats
40. 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
Don Juan
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
41. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Paradise Lost
Jonathon Swift
Graham Greene
Percy Shelley
42. 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?'
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Book of Thel
Sonnet sequence
43. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
William Blake
Hamlet
Achilles
T.S. Elliot
44. '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 -
Achilles
Graham Greene
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Utopia
45. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
William Langland
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
The Alchemist
46. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Prometheus Unbound
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Langland
Oliver Twist
47. 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.
Ode to a Nightingale
Piers Plowman
Wuthering Heights
Valdes and Cornelius
48. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The absurdity of life
Joseph Conrad
Philip Sidney
49. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Achilles
Wuthering Heights
Odes
50. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Robert Browning