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CLEP World Literature
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1. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Rape of the Lock
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Pulpit
2. Works by Jonathon Swift
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3. The Comedians was written by who
Joseph Conrad
Graham Greene
The Waste Land
Wuthering Heights
4. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Odes
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The absurdity of life
Katherine
5. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
6. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
William Langland
Gulliver
Dante
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
7. 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...
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Hamlet
Robert Browning
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
8. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
The love of travel
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Sonnet sequence
Ivanhoe
9. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Percy Shelley
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Canterburry Tales
10. 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
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
The Renaissance 1485-1660
John Bunyan
11. Book of poems
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Sailing to Byzantium
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
12. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Joseph Conrad
Claudius
Don Juan
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
13. 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.
Ode to a Nightingale
Sailing to Byzantium
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
14. 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.
Icarus
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Dante
15. 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
Graham Greene
Canterburry Tales
Divine Comedy
Dante
16. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Wuthering Heights
Percy Shelley
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
17. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
Pygmalion
Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
18. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Philip Sidney
John Milton
Pulpit
19. 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
Mary Shelley
Prometheus Unbound
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
20. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Samuel Coleridge
Canterburry Tales
Othello
21. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Oliver Twist
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
John Bunyan
22. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Ode to a Nightingale
Achilles
William Blake
23. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Chaucer
Tamburlaine the Great
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
24. 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.
Hamlet
John Milton
Wuthering Heights
Icarus
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 -
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Paradise Lost
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
26. 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.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Jew of Malta
Jungle Book
Ann Radcliffe
27. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Alexander Pope
Philip Sidney
28. 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.
John Milton
The Jew of Malta
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Paradise Lost
29. 17th century authors
Astrophel and Stella
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Valdes and Cornelius
Ann Radcliffe
30. Written by Christopher Marlowe - story about a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge - allotted twenty-four years of life on Earth - during which time he will have Mephistophilis as his personal servant. Then - he must repay with ti
Mary Shelley
Claudius
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
31. 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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32. 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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33. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
The Book of Thel
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode to a Nightingale
34. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Rape of the Lock
Bells and Pomegranates.
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
35. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Robert Browning
Macbeth
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Most difficult - but most masterly satire
36. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Pride and Prejudice
The Tower
Philip Sidney
Achilles
37. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
Othello
Sailing to Byzantium
Graham Greene
38. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Sir Walter Scott
Ann Radcliffe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
39. Works by Charles Dickens
Edmund Spenser
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Chaucer
Ode on a Grecian Urn
40. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Great Expectations
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Piers Plowman
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
41. 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
Paradise Lost
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
42. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Piers Plowman
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
43. '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.'
Idylls of the King
The Waste Land
Gulliver
Prometheus Unbound
44. The 'shrew' of the title
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Katherine
Oliver Twist
John Bunyan
45. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Mary Shelley
Idylls of the King
46. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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47. 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.
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Sonnet sequence
Achilles
Alexander Pope
48. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Prometheus Unbound
Pride and Prejudice
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
49. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Emma by Jane Austen
Valdes and Cornelius
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
50. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Oliver Twist
Pygmalion
John Keats