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CLEP World Literature
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1. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tamburlaine the Great
A frame story/narrative
2. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
William Blake
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
3. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Achilles
4. 17th century authors
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Divine Comedy
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Jungle Book
5. 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
The absurdity of life
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Hamlet
6. 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.
Ann Radcliffe
Mary Shelley
George Elliot
Pilgrim's Progress
7. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Tamburlaine the Great
Rape of the Lock
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
8. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The Tower
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
9. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
A frame story/narrative
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
John Keats
Idylls of the King
10. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
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The Tower
Oliver Twist
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
11. '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.'
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Waste Land
The Tower
12. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
William Blake
Gulliver
Sir Walter Scott
Odes
13. 18th Century authors
Prometheus Unbound
Odes
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
14. 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
Divine Comedy
Othello
The Book of Thel
Ode to a Nightingale
15. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
John Bunyan
Dante
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
16. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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17. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
William Langland
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Don Juan
18. The first of 4 stanzas discusses concerns about lost vision - the second of 4 stanzas describes how age causes man to lose sight of the divine - and the third of 3 stanzas is hopeful in that the memory of the divine allows us to sympathise with our f
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Adventure
19. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Graham Greene
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Sonnet sequence
20. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
21. 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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22. The Comedians was written by who
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Paradise Lost
Icarus
Graham Greene
23. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
The Book of Thel
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Alchemist
Graham Greene
24. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Jungle Book
The absurdity of life
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
25. 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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26. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
27. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Sir Walter Scott
The Jew of Malta
Rape of the Lock
28. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Astrophel and Stella
John Keats
Utopia
Ode to a Nightingale
29. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Macbeth
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Divine Comedy
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
30. Works by Jonathon Swift
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31. The 'shrew' of the title
Katherine
Sonnet sequence
William Blake
Othello
32. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
Bells and Pomegranates.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
33. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
The Waste Land
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
William Langland
Ivanhoe
34. 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
Rape of the Lock
Don Juan
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
35. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Claudius
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
36. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Gulliver
Pulpit
Idylls of the King
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
37. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Shakespeare
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Adventure
38. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
John Bunyan
Christopher Marlowe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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39. 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.
Robert Browning
Philip Sidney
Rape of the Lock
Wuthering Heights
40. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Canterburry Tales
41. 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
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Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Piers Plowman
The Alchemist
42. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Paradise Lost
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
43. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
Emma by Jane Austen
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
William Blake
44. 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.
George Elliot
Sonnet sequence
'Spenserian stanza'
Don Juan
45. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Paradise Lost
Tamburlaine the Great
Adventure
46. 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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Shakespeare
Philip Sidney
John Milton
47. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Pilgrim's Progress
Hamlet
The Tower
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
48. 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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49. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Shakespeare
T.S. Elliot
Jungle Book
50. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Piers Plowman
The Tower