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CLEP World Literature
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1. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Sailing to Byzantium
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
2. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Ode to a Nightingale
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Tower
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
3. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Percy Shelley
Tamburlaine the Great
Shakespeare
4. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Shakespeare
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Sailing to Byzantium
Jungle Book
5. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Icarus
The Alchemist
6. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
Macbeth
Piers Plowman
7. 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.
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Jonathon Swift
Astrophel and Stella
Pride and Prejudice
8. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Bells and Pomegranates.
Mary Shelley
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Icarus
9. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Chaucer
T.S. Elliot
Emma by Jane Austen
10. William Yeats wrote...
Rape of the Lock
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
11. Modern English authors
Christopher Marlowe
Piers Plowman
Dante
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
12. 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
Dante
The Jew of Malta
The Alchemist
Piers Plowman
13. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Dante
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Rape of the Lock
Don Juan
14. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
John Keats
Oliver Twist
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Graham Greene
15. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Tower
Graham Greene
16. 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
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
George Elliot
Robert Browning
17. 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.
Ababbcbcc
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
The absurdity of life
The Jew of Malta
18. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Ode to a Nightingale
Canterburry Tales
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
19. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Valdes and Cornelius
Mary Shelley
Icarus
Alexander Pope
20. Wrote 'Troilus and Criseyde' - 'The Knight's Tale' - 'Canterbury Tales' - known as the 'Father of English Literature' - considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages - first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey
The Waste Land
Icarus
Chaucer
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
21. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Jonathon Swift
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Sir Walter Scott
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
22. 19th Century authors
A frame story/narrative
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Emma by Jane Austen
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
23. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Prometheus Unbound
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Achilles
William Wordsworth
24. 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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25. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
A frame story/narrative
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
26. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
T.S. Elliot
Don Juan
27. 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
Utopia
Icarus
Sailing to Byzantium
28. '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.
Sailing to Byzantium
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
29. 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
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
30. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Sir Walter Scott
Hamlet
Great Expectations
31. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Utopia
Shakespeare
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
32. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Achilles
The Book of Thel
Wuthering Heights
33. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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34. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Ababbcbcc
The Knight's Tale
Prometheus Unbound
Valdes and Cornelius
35. 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
The Tower
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Ivanhoe
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
36. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
William Wordsworth
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
37. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Samuel Coleridge
Idylls of the King
The love of travel
38. 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
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Adventure
Pulpit
39. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ann Radcliffe
Jungle Book
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
40. 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.
Robert Browning
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
41. 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
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Canterburry Tales
Christopher Marlowe
42. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Prometheus Unbound
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
43. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Utopia
Graham Greene
44. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The love of travel
Jonathon Swift
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
45. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Great Expectations
46. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
The Waste Land
William Wordsworth
Oliver Twist
Rape of the Lock
47. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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48. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Sir Walter Scott
Philip Sidney
Samuel Coleridge
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
49. Works by Jonathon Swift
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50. Book of poems
Pride and Prejudice
Sailing to Byzantium
Sir Walter Scott
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene