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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Waste Land
Ode on a Grecian Urn
2. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Emma by Jane Austen
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ivanhoe
Percy Shelley
3. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
'Spenserian stanza'
Icarus
Valdes and Cornelius
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
4. William Yeats wrote...
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
5. 'Tis better to have loved and lost - Than never to have loved at all. is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period.
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Piers Plowman
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Rape of the Lock
6. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Idylls of the King
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Great Expectations
Valdes and Cornelius
7. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)
Adventure
George Elliot
Idylls of the King
John Bunyan
8. 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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Alexander Pope
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Achilles
9. 19th Century authors
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Bells and Pomegranates.
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
10. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The love of travel
Sailing to Byzantium
Hamlet
11. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Astrophel and Stella
Mary Shelley
The Knight's Tale
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
12. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Samuel Coleridge
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
13. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Alexander Pope
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Sir Walter Scott
Macbeth
14. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Edmund Spenser
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Katherine
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
15. 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.
The Jew of Malta
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Knight's Tale
Percy Shelley
16. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Paradise Lost
Valdes and Cornelius
Rape of the Lock
Divine Comedy
17. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Jonathon Swift
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Bells and Pomegranates.
18. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
John Keats
Chaucer
Sir Walter Scott
19. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Edmund Spenser
Jonathon Swift
Ababbcbcc
20. 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?'
'Spenserian stanza'
William Langland
Sonnet sequence
The Book of Thel
21. 18th Century authors
Utopia
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
22. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Rape of the Lock
Divine Comedy
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
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
William Blake
Sonnet sequence
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Pride and Prejudice
24. 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
Katherine
Emma by Jane Austen
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Icarus
25. 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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26. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
John Keats
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Claudius
Odes
27. 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
Divine Comedy
The Alchemist
Chaucer
28. '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.'
Prometheus Unbound
Odes
Rape of the Lock
The Waste Land
29. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Pulpit
Katherine
30. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Polonius
The absurdity of life
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
31. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
'Spenserian stanza'
William Wordsworth
Christopher Marlowe
Paradise Lost
32. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
33. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Ann Radcliffe
Polonius
Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
34. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Gulliver
Idylls of the King
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
35. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Utopia
Samuel Coleridge
The Renaissance 1485-1660
36. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
William Blake
'Spenserian stanza'
Pulpit
Alexander Pope
37. Jane Austen wrote ...
The Tower
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Piers Plowman
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
38. Criseyde becomes the object of affection for Troilus (a man who had scoffed at love) - There is an exchange of prisoners between the Trojans and the Greeks. Criseyde has to escape - but promises she will return to Troilus in 10 days. Who wrote this s
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Pulpit
Valdes and Cornelius
John Milton
39. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
Robert Browning
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
40. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Katherine
'Spenserian stanza'
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Chaucer
41. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Bells and Pomegranates.
T.S. Elliot
Pygmalion
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
42. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Percy Shelley
Graham Greene
Macbeth
43. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Don Juan
Sir Walter Scott
Paradise Lost
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
44. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Adventure
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
William Blake
45. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Great Expectations
46. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The Tower
Ode to a Nightingale
George Elliot
47. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Idylls of the King
Sir Walter Scott
Macbeth
48. 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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49. 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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50. 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
Alexander Pope
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Edmund Spenser
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
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