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CLEP World Literature
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1. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Great Expectations
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Canterburry Tales
Claudius
2. The Comedians was written by who
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Graham Greene
3. 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.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
John Keats
Astrophel and Stella
Philip Sidney
4. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Alexander Pope
Oliver Twist
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Dante - Chaucer and Langland
5. 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
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Jungle Book
Idylls of the King
6. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Samuel Coleridge
Emma by Jane Austen
7. 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
Chaucer
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Bells and Pomegranates.
Graham Greene
8. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Scott
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
9. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Emma by Jane Austen
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
William Langland
10. 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.
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Emma by Jane Austen
Sonnet sequence
The Alchemist
11. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Valdes and Cornelius
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The Knight's Tale
Canterburry Tales
12. 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
William Langland
Robert Browning
Bells and Pomegranates.
13. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Pygmalion
Othello
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Icarus
14. 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)
Gulliver
George Elliot
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
15. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
Paradise Lost
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Tower
16. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The Knight's Tale
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Don Juan
17. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
John Milton
Mary Shelley
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Claudius
18. Works by Charles Dickens
Icarus
Ode to a Nightingale
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Idylls of the King
19. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Valdes and Cornelius
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
20. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Katherine
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
21. 17th century authors
Canterburry Tales
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
22. 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?
23. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
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Ann Radcliffe
24. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Gulliver
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Astrophel and Stella
Jonathon Swift
25. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
26. Modern English authors
Jungle Book
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
William Langland
27. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Ann Radcliffe
Pygmalion
Edmund Spenser
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
28. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Mary Shelley
Icarus
Alexander Pope
Canterburry Tales
29. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Katherine
Divine Comedy
Hamlet
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
30. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Graham Greene
The absurdity of life
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
31. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
The Jew of Malta
Prometheus Unbound
The Alchemist
Shakespeare
32. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Polonius
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Gulliver
33. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Idylls of the King
Bells and Pomegranates.
34. 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
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Pride and Prejudice
Christopher Marlowe
Pilgrim's Progress
35. 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
Joseph Conrad
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Ode to a Nightingale
36. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Pulpit
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Sir Walter Scott
37. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Icarus
Christopher Marlowe
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
38. '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 -
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Othello
A frame story/narrative
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
39. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The absurdity of life
Tamburlaine the Great
Ann Radcliffe
40. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Prometheus Unbound
Graham Greene
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
41. 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...
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Jew of Malta
Robert Browning
Astrophel and Stella
42. 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.
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Knight's Tale
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Jew of Malta
43. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The absurdity of life
Sonnet sequence
44. 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
Sonnet sequence
John Milton
Canterburry Tales
45. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Great Expectations
Pygmalion
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The love of travel
46. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Astrophel and Stella
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Sir Walter Scott
47. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
48. '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.
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
49. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Jonathon Swift
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
50. 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.