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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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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2. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Divine Comedy
Alexander Pope
3. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
John Keats
Rape of the Lock
4. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Emma by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Claudius
5. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Ann Radcliffe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Valdes and Cornelius
Wuthering Heights
6. Works by Jonathon Swift
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7. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Alexander Pope
George Elliot
Macbeth
8. 17th century authors
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ann Radcliffe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
9. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
John Bunyan
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Pygmalion
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
10. 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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11. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Chaucer
Tamburlaine the Great
12. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Christopher Marlowe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Achilles
13. 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.
Dante
Sir Walter Scott
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Joseph Conrad
14. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Alexander Pope
Odes
William Wordsworth
The Renaissance 1485-1660
15. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Tamburlaine the Great
16. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
The Waste Land
John Milton
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
17. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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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
Samuel Coleridge
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
19. 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.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Robert Browning
Wuthering Heights
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
20. This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character - a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela - encountering Native Americans - captives and mutineers before being rescued.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Philip Sidney
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
21. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Polonius
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Wuthering Heights
22. 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
Icarus
A frame story/narrative
Hamlet
23. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Valdes and Cornelius
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Samuel Coleridge
24. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
The absurdity of life
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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
25. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Sonnet sequence
William Blake
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
26. 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.
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
John Keats
Rape of the Lock
Paradise Lost
27. Jane Austen wrote ...
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
The Jew of Malta
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
28. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Jungle Book
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
T.S. Elliot
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
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
Pride and Prejudice
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Chaucer
Pygmalion
30. 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
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
31. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Valdes and Cornelius
'Spenserian stanza'
T.S. Elliot
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
32. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
Samuel Coleridge
Ivanhoe
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
33. Book of poems
The Knight's Tale
Sailing to Byzantium
John Milton
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
34. 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
Shakespeare
Piers Plowman
Emma by Jane Austen
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
35. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Philip Sidney
36. 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
Mary Shelley
The Tower
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
37. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Odes
38. '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.'
Great Expectations
The Waste Land
The Tower
Macbeth
39. 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
Mary Shelley
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
A frame story/narrative
40. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Achilles
Jungle Book
Pulpit
William Wordsworth
41. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Prometheus Unbound
The absurdity of life
Edmund Spenser
42. 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.
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Sonnet sequence
Paradise Lost
43. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Paradise Lost
Samuel Coleridge
44. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Jungle Book
Idylls of the King
Astrophel and Stella
Dante
45. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Rape of the Lock
Prometheus Unbound
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
46. 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.
William Blake
Emma by Jane Austen
Ann Radcliffe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
47. 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 Waste Land
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
48. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Alexander Pope
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
49. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
William Blake
Utopia
Adventure
The Book of Thel
50. 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
Sir Walter Scott
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
William Wordsworth
Emma by Jane Austen