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CLEP World Literature
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1. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Idylls of the King
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The Tower
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
2. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Jonathon Swift
Percy Shelley
The absurdity of life
3. Works by Jonathon Swift
4. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
5. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
Idylls of the King
Edmund Spenser
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
6. Works by Charles Dickens
Macbeth
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Graham Greene
Ode on a Grecian Urn
7. 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.
Canterburry Tales
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Robert Browning
8. 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
Shakespeare
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Sonnet sequence
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
9. 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?
10. '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 Tower
The Waste Land
Rape of the Lock
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
11. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Utopia
12. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Divine Comedy
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
13. 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.
14. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Odes
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Divine Comedy
15. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Alexander Pope
Utopia
Odes
The Waste Land
16. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
Graham Greene
Valdes and Cornelius
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
17. 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.
Canterburry Tales
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The absurdity of life
Sonnet sequence
18. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
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William Wordsworth
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Pygmalion
19. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Emma by Jane Austen
Graham Greene
20. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Prometheus Unbound
Astrophel and Stella
George Elliot
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
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.
22. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
The love of travel
Percy Shelley
Graham Greene
The Book of Thel
23. If the daughters don't marry and the father dies - the girls and their mom will be left without a home. Main characters: Elizabeth Bennett and Darcy
Adventure
Sir Walter Scott
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Pride and Prejudice
24. Modern English authors
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
T.S. Elliot
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
25. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Samuel Coleridge
26. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Ivanhoe
Utopia
Bells and Pomegranates.
Idylls of the King
27. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Divine Comedy
28. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Ann Radcliffe
Dante
Philip Sidney
29. 19th Century authors
Mary Shelley
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
John Bunyan
30. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Icarus
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
31. Written by William Blake - the Lily - the Cloud - the Worm - the Clod of Clay...characters - asks the question 'why does the springtime of life inevitably fade so that all things must end?'
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Book of Thel
Joseph Conrad
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
32. 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
Polonius
Dante
Pulpit
Graham Greene
33. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Shakespeare
A frame story/narrative
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34. A poem
Astrophel and Stella
Edmund Spenser
Graham Greene
Piers Plowman
35. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Ann Radcliffe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Mary Shelley
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
36. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Christopher Marlowe
Katherine
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
37. 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
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Tower
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
38. Book of poems
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Sailing to Byzantium
39. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet
Great Expectations
Astrophel and Stella
40. 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
Dante
Joseph Conrad
Christopher Marlowe
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
41. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Jew of Malta
Claudius
Sailing to Byzantium
42. 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
Great Expectations
Odes
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
43. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Edmund Spenser
Prometheus Unbound
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
44. 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.
John Milton
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
45. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Valdes and Cornelius
Christopher Marlowe
46. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Oliver Twist
Polonius
William Langland
47. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
Divine Comedy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
48. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Pilgrim's Progress
Othello
The Book of Thel
49. 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.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
A frame story/narrative
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Prometheus Unbound
50. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)