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CLEP World Literature
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1. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Othello
William Wordsworth
John Milton
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2. 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
Astrophel and Stella
A frame story/narrative
George Elliot
Shakespeare
3. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Claudius
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Canterburry Tales
Rape of the Lock
4. Falls into a stream after going crazy
The Jew of Malta
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
5. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Emma by Jane Austen
Great Expectations
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
6. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Samuel Coleridge
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Idylls of the King
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
7. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
William Blake
The Alchemist
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Utopia
8. 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...
Robert Browning
Mary Shelley
Samuel Coleridge
Polonius
9. 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
Shakespeare
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Samuel Coleridge
Ivanhoe
10. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Don Juan
11. The 'shrew' of the title
Katherine
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Alexander Pope
12. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Canterburry Tales
Sir Walter Scott
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
13. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Graham Greene
14. 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
Pulpit
Mary Shelley
Paradise Lost
Ann Radcliffe
15. 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
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Dante
Tamburlaine the Great
16. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Great Expectations
17. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Jonathon Swift
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Bells and Pomegranates.
18. 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
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
William Langland
Chaucer
19. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Utopia
Alexander Pope
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
20. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Gulliver
Great Expectations
Dante
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
21. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Philip Sidney
Dante
Ivanhoe
22. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Sir Walter Scott
Macbeth
The absurdity of life
23. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Ode to a Nightingale
The love of travel
Mary Shelley
24. William Yeats wrote...
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
T.S. Elliot
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Rape of the Lock
25. 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
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Valdes and Cornelius
William Blake
26. 19th Century authors
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Pulpit
Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
27. 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
Pulpit
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Philip Sidney
Emma by Jane Austen
28. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
The Alchemist
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Tamburlaine the Great
Philip Sidney
29. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
'Spenserian stanza'
Gulliver
Hamlet
T.S. Elliot
30. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Ann Radcliffe
William Langland
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
31. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
John Milton
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
32. Works by Charles Dickens
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Prometheus Unbound
33. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Othello
Oliver Twist
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Edmund Spenser
34. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ode on a Grecian Urn
35. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Sonnet sequence
Christopher Marlowe
Canterburry Tales
Katherine
36. Jane Austen wrote ...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Waste Land
The Knight's Tale
37. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Robert Browning
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
38. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Great Expectations
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Prometheus Unbound
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
39. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
A frame story/narrative
Philip Sidney
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
40. 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.
Rape of the Lock
The Book of Thel
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Percy Shelley
41. 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
Gulliver
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Valdes and Cornelius
42. 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 Knight's Tale
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Ode to a Nightingale
Astrophel and Stella
43. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Pulpit
Shakespeare
44. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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45. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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46. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
The Jew of Malta
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
47. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Ivanhoe
William Blake
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
48. 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?'
The Tower
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Book of Thel
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
49. 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.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Sailing to Byzantium
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
50. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Percy Shelley
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Knight's Tale
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene