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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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.
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Jew of Malta
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
2. 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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3. 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.
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Chaucer
Odes
Wuthering Heights
4. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
William Blake
5. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
'Spenserian stanza'
Tamburlaine the Great
Claudius
6. The Comedians was written by who
Pilgrim's Progress
Graham Greene
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
7. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
John Keats
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
8. 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
Divine Comedy
Othello
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
9. 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)
George Elliot
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Paradise Lost
10. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Achilles
Mary Shelley
T.S. Elliot
11. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
John Bunyan
T.S. Elliot
Percy Shelley
12. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Katherine
Odes
13. 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?
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14. 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
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Canterburry Tales
15. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Othello
16. 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
George Elliot
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Percy Shelley
A frame story/narrative
17. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
John Keats
The Tower
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
18. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Samuel Coleridge
Utopia
Oliver Twist
19. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Waste Land
Icarus
20. 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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21. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
John Keats
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
22. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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23. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
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The Jew of Malta
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
24. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Prometheus Unbound
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
25. 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
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Ivanhoe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
The absurdity of life
26. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Mary Shelley
27. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Polonius
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
28. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
The Tower
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Jonathon Swift
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
29. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
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30. Works by Jonathon Swift
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31. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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32. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Oliver Twist
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
William Blake
Prometheus Unbound
33. Mary Shelley was his second wife
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Percy Shelley
Sailing to Byzantium
John Keats
34. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Robert Browning
Ivanhoe
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Philip Sidney
35. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
T.S. Elliot
Samuel Coleridge
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Canterburry Tales
36. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Hamlet
Astrophel and Stella
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Alexander Pope
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
Shakespeare
Robert Browning
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Oliver Twist
38. Works by Charles Dickens
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
John Keats
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
39. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Paradise Lost
Idylls of the King
Sonnet sequence
Bells and Pomegranates.
40. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Samuel Coleridge
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Polonius
41. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Dante
Canterburry Tales
Robert Browning
Claudius
42. '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 -
The Alchemist
Paradise Lost
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
43. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Icarus
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ivanhoe
44. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Christopher Marlowe
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ivanhoe
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
45. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Prometheus Unbound
Bells and Pomegranates.
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
46. Book of poems
Chaucer
Sailing to Byzantium
Katherine
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
47. 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
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Rape of the Lock
Graham Greene
48. A poem
Bells and Pomegranates.
Sonnet sequence
Piers Plowman
John Keats
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. 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.
William Blake
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Othello
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