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CLEP World Literature
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1. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
2. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life
T.S. Elliot
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Piers Plowman
Ivanhoe
3. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Achilles
Claudius
Graham Greene
Shakespeare
4. 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
Pride and Prejudice
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Astrophel and Stella
5. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Edmund Spenser
The absurdity of life
Mary Shelley
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
6. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Dante
Macbeth
Chaucer
7. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Divine Comedy
Astrophel and Stella
8. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Othello
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The absurdity of life
The Waste Land
9. 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
Philip Sidney
Great Expectations
Dante
10. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Othello
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Paradise Lost
John Keats
11. 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.
Pulpit
Katherine
Claudius
The Jew of Malta
12. 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
Pulpit
The Waste Land
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
13. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
14. 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
Divine Comedy
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
William Langland
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
15. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Wuthering Heights
'Spenserian stanza'
16. 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
Ode to a Nightingale
William Blake
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
17. 17th century authors
Gulliver
Polonius
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Emma by Jane Austen
18. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Edmund Spenser
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
19. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Ode to a Nightingale
Odes
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
20. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
George Elliot
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Idylls of the King
21. 18th Century authors
Katherine
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Oliver Twist
Gulliver
22. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Alexander Pope
Samuel Coleridge
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
23. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
John Milton
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
24. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Robert Browning
Mary Shelley
Dante
25. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Prometheus Unbound
Divine Comedy
Canterburry Tales
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
26. 19th Century authors
Claudius
Prometheus Unbound
Sailing to Byzantium
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
27. William Yeats wrote...
Pride and Prejudice
The absurdity of life
Valdes and Cornelius
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
28. 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.
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Wuthering Heights
29. 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
The love of travel
Chaucer
Ivanhoe
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
30. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Odes
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Graham Greene
The Knight's Tale
31. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Pygmalion
Wuthering Heights
Katherine
Hamlet
32. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
William Wordsworth
Graham Greene
Sonnet sequence
33. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Book of Thel
The love of travel
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
34. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Pygmalion
Wuthering Heights
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
35. The 'shrew' of the title
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Wuthering Heights
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Katherine
36. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Paradise Lost
Shakespeare
Joseph Conrad
Canterburry Tales
37. 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
Ivanhoe
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
T.S. Elliot
The Knight's Tale
38. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Chaucer
Pygmalion
Jungle Book
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
39. 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.
William Wordsworth
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Valdes and Cornelius
Astrophel and Stella
40. A poem
Robert Browning
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Claudius
Piers Plowman
41. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
John Milton
The absurdity of life
Bells and Pomegranates.
Polonius
42. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Pride and Prejudice
Gulliver
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
William Blake
43. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Great Expectations
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
44. '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.'
Pilgrim's Progress
'Spenserian stanza'
The Waste Land
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
45. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Idylls of the King
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Bells and Pomegranates.
46. Works by Jonathon Swift
47. 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
Edmund Spenser
Philip Sidney
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
48. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Polonius
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Alexander Pope
49. '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.
The Book of Thel
Mary Shelley
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
50. 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
Icarus
Sonnet sequence
John Keats