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CLEP World Literature
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1. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Hamlet
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Edmund Spenser
2. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Sir Walter Scott
Ode to a Nightingale
Joseph Conrad
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
3. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
William Langland
George Elliot
4. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Philip Sidney
Gulliver
Don Juan
5. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
The Tower
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
John Milton
6. 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
Adventure
Ivanhoe
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Chaucer
7. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Scott
Mary Shelley
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
8. Jane Austen wrote ...
Icarus
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Graham Greene
9. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
Katherine
Polonius
The Jew of Malta
10. 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.
William Wordsworth
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Pilgrim's Progress
Ann Radcliffe
11. 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.
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Jungle Book
12. 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
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
A frame story/narrative
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
William Langland
13. 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
Robert Browning
John Bunyan
Paradise Lost
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
14. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
15. 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.
Bells and Pomegranates.
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Rape of the Lock
16. 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.
Pilgrim's Progress
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Sonnet sequence
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
17. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
The absurdity of life
Alexander Pope
Claudius
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
18. 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
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Ivanhoe
Graham Greene
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
19. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Sir Walter Scott
Robert Browning
Bells and Pomegranates.
Shakespeare
20. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
John Bunyan
21. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Ode to a Nightingale
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Sonnet sequence
Chaucer
22. 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...
Joseph Conrad
Robert Browning
Sailing to Byzantium
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
23. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Robert Browning
John Milton
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
24. This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character - a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela - encountering Native Americans - captives and mutineers before being rescued.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Don Juan
Pilgrim's Progress
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
25. 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
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Ann Radcliffe
Prometheus Unbound
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
26. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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27. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Astrophel and Stella
Sir Walter Scott
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
28. 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
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Dante
29. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Astrophel and Stella
Pulpit
30. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Graham Greene
Chaucer
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
31. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
Valdes and Cornelius
Philip Sidney
Chaucer
32. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Odes
George Elliot
Sir Walter Scott
The love of travel
33. 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
George Elliot
William Blake
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Ode to a Nightingale
34. 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.
The Tower
Piers Plowman
Valdes and Cornelius
Astrophel and Stella
35. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Percy Shelley
The love of travel
Paradise Lost
36. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
William Blake
John Milton
Great Expectations
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
37. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Ababbcbcc
Idylls of the King
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ivanhoe
38. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Samuel Coleridge
Don Juan
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Graham Greene
39. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
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40. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Odes
The love of travel
Samuel Coleridge
Dante
41. Works by Charles Dickens
Hamlet
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Tamburlaine the Great
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
42. 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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43. 19th Century authors
Pygmalion
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
44. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Ode to a Nightingale
Shakespeare
45. '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.'
Wuthering Heights
The Waste Land
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
46. 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.
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Pulpit
47. The Comedians was written by who
William Langland
Macbeth
Graham Greene
Pilgrim's Progress
48. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Ababbcbcc
T.S. Elliot
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
49. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Shakespeare
Gulliver
Emma by Jane Austen
Joseph Conrad
50. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
The Tower
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Shakespeare
The Book of Thel