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CLEP World Literature
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1. 18th Century Irish Satirist
The Knight's Tale
Ann Radcliffe
Jonathon Swift
2. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
John Keats
Bells and Pomegranates.
Emma by Jane Austen
3. The 'shrew' of the title
Rape of the Lock
Katherine
William Blake
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
4. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Odes
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
William Langland
Shakespeare
5. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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6. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Paradise Lost
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
7. 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)
Macbeth
Polonius
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
George Elliot
8. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Katherine
Percy Shelley
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Philip Sidney
9. Works by Jonathon Swift
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10. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Sailing to Byzantium
Shakespeare
Pulpit
11. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Astrophel and Stella
Pygmalion
12. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Astrophel and Stella
Graham Greene
Philip Sidney
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
13. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Sailing to Byzantium
John Bunyan
Claudius
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
14. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Graham Greene
The Waste Land
15. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Astrophel and Stella
John Milton
Icarus
Oliver Twist
16. Modern English authors
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Icarus
Gulliver
17. 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
Piers Plowman
Utopia
Ivanhoe
Ode on a Grecian Urn
18. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
19. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
'Spenserian stanza'
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
20. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Emma by Jane Austen
T.S. Elliot
William Blake
William Langland
21. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
The love of travel
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
William Blake
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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great
Christopher Marlowe
Philip Sidney
23. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
Graham Greene
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Othello
24. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
John Keats
Dante
Ann Radcliffe
25. '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 -
Tamburlaine the Great
A frame story/narrative
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
26. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Don Juan
Edmund Spenser
Polonius
The absurdity of life
27. '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.
Wuthering Heights
Christopher Marlowe
Othello
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
28. '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.'
The absurdity of life
Ode to a Nightingale
The Waste Land
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
29. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Sir Walter Scott
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
30. 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
Shakespeare
Emma by Jane Austen
'Spenserian stanza'
George Elliot
31. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Divine Comedy
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Robert Browning
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
32. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Oliver Twist
Valdes and Cornelius
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
33. A poem
Prometheus Unbound
John Keats
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Piers Plowman
34. Written by Christopher Marlowe - Barabas is the protagonist - who uses his daughter (Abigail) to make others mad - and when she finds out - she joins a nunnery. She is then poisoned.
Macbeth
Utopia
The Jew of Malta
Dante
35. 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.
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Philip Sidney
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Pride and Prejudice
36. 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
Adventure
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Renaissance 1485-1660
37. 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
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Pride and Prejudice
William Blake
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
38. 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?'
Tamburlaine the Great
Macbeth
The Book of Thel
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
39. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Polonius
Piers Plowman
Astrophel and Stella
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
40. 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
Astrophel and Stella
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Robert Browning
The Waste Land
41. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Piers Plowman
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Book of Thel
42. 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.
Mary Shelley
Ann Radcliffe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
43. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
A frame story/narrative
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Samuel Coleridge
Mary Shelley
44. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Book of Thel
Othello
William Wordsworth
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
45. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Pride and Prejudice
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Jew of Malta
Pulpit
46. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Odes
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Ababbcbcc
47. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
The Alchemist
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Graham Greene
Wuthering Heights
48. William Yeats wrote...
John Keats
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Dante
49. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Gulliver
T.S. Elliot
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
50. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Achilles
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Alexander Pope
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)