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CLEP World Literature
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1. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Great Expectations
John Bunyan
2. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Ivanhoe
Joseph Conrad
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Edmund Spenser
3. 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
Astrophel and Stella
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Great Expectations
Ode to a Nightingale
4. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Pulpit
Mary Shelley
Pride and Prejudice
Jungle Book
5. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
Pilgrim's Progress
Piers Plowman
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
6. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
The Book of Thel
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great
Adventure
7. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Pilgrim's Progress
8. 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
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Odes
9. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Oliver Twist
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
10. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Gulliver
Philip Sidney
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
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.
The Book of Thel
Graham Greene
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Jew of Malta
12. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Graham Greene
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Dante
Prometheus Unbound
13. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Percy Shelley
Rape of the Lock
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
14. 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
Wuthering Heights
Shakespeare
Emma by Jane Austen
15. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
John Bunyan
Oliver Twist
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
16. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
17. 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.
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Wuthering Heights
Mary Shelley
Ode on a Grecian Urn
18. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Rape of the Lock
Utopia
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Renaissance 1485-1660
19. '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 -
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Sonnet sequence
Claudius
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
20. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
21. 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
Percy Shelley
William Langland
The absurdity of life
22. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Robert Browning
Bells and Pomegranates.
Hamlet
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
23. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Othello
Don Juan
Percy Shelley
24. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Robert Browning
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Tower
The love of travel
25. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Emma by Jane Austen
Sonnet sequence
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
26. The 'shrew' of the title
Bells and Pomegranates.
Katherine
William Wordsworth
Tamburlaine the Great
27. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
28. 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.
29. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Idylls of the King
T.S. Elliot
Ode to a Nightingale
30. Works by Jonathon Swift
31. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
William Langland
William Wordsworth
The Tower
32. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Alchemist
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
33. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Prometheus Unbound
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Renaissance 1485-1660
34. Jane Austen wrote ...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
35. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Tamburlaine the Great
The love of travel
Samuel Coleridge
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
36. 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.
Pride and Prejudice
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Astrophel and Stella
The Knight's Tale
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
The Alchemist
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The love of travel
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
38. 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
Astrophel and Stella
Shakespeare
39. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Oliver Twist
Pride and Prejudice
Gulliver
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
40. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
John Bunyan
Pilgrim's Progress
The Renaissance 1485-1660
41. 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.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Edmund Spenser
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
42. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Jungle Book
The Jew of Malta
Ababbcbcc
Sir Walter Scott
43. 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?
44. 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
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Othello
Alexander Pope
45. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Sir Walter Scott
Wuthering Heights
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
46. 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.
Don Juan
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The absurdity of life
47. 17th century authors
William Blake
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
John Keats
A frame story/narrative
48. 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
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Canterburry Tales
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
49. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Joseph Conrad
Canterburry Tales
Valdes and Cornelius
Pride and Prejudice
50. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Chaucer
William Blake
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage