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CLEP World Literature
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1. The 'shrew' of the title
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Divine Comedy
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Katherine
2. 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.
The Jew of Malta
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Rape of the Lock
Adventure
3. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Percy Shelley
4. Book of poems
Bells and Pomegranates.
Sailing to Byzantium
Philip Sidney
The Jew of Malta
5. 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.
Wuthering Heights
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Claudius
Adventure
6. 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
John Keats
The love of travel
Jungle Book
7. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Chaucer
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
8. 17th century authors
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Renaissance 1485-1660
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
9. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
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Edmund Spenser
Bells and Pomegranates.
10. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
William Blake
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
11. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Paradise Lost
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Icarus
12. 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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13. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
The love of travel
Macbeth
Tamburlaine the Great
14. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
John Keats
Don Juan
Graham Greene
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
15. '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 Waste Land
Ode to a Nightingale
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Bells and Pomegranates.
16. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Philip Sidney
Graham Greene
John Keats
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
17. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Langland
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Emma by Jane Austen
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
18. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Divine Comedy
Pride and Prejudice
George Elliot
Wuthering Heights
19. 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
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
20. 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
George Elliot
The Renaissance 1485-1660
William Langland
A frame story/narrative
21. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Sonnet sequence
22. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Rape of the Lock
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Alexander Pope
Pulpit
23. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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24. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The absurdity of life
Ann Radcliffe
A frame story/narrative
25. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Polonius
Hamlet
Divine Comedy
William Blake
26. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Sailing to Byzantium
Pride and Prejudice
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
27. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
George Elliot
28. What is it called when each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. what story is written this way?
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29. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Great Expectations
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Mary Shelley
Jonathon Swift
30. 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.
Emma by Jane Austen
Macbeth
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Jew of Malta
31. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
William Blake
Joseph Conrad
Piers Plowman
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
32. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Achilles
Oliver Twist
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
33. 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.
Graham Greene
Jungle Book
George Elliot
Sonnet sequence
34. 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
Bells and Pomegranates.
Pride and Prejudice
Pilgrim's Progress
Chaucer
35. Works by Jonathon Swift
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36. 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
Jonathon Swift
Emma by Jane Austen
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Edmund Spenser
37. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The love of travel
'Spenserian stanza'
Claudius
38. 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
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Wuthering Heights
Ivanhoe
39. '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.
Sir Walter Scott
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Bells and Pomegranates.
T.S. Elliot
40. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Samuel Coleridge
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
41. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Othello
The Knight's Tale
John Milton
Dante
42. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The absurdity of life
Canterburry Tales
43. William Yeats wrote...
Bells and Pomegranates.
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Idylls of the King
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
44. 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)
George Elliot
The Book of Thel
Samuel Coleridge
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
45. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
The Knight's Tale
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Wuthering Heights
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
46. A poem
Piers Plowman
Chaucer
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
47. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
48. 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
Robert Browning
Wuthering Heights
Macbeth
The Alchemist
49. Modern English authors
T.S. Elliot
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
50. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Achilles
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Ophelia in the story of hamlet