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CLEP World Literature
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1. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
2. 19th Century authors
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Mary Shelley
Astrophel and Stella
3. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Prometheus Unbound
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Ababbcbcc
4. Mary Shelley was his second wife
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
'Spenserian stanza'
Percy Shelley
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
5. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The love of travel
6. 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
Joseph Conrad
Pride and Prejudice
Pilgrim's Progress
Robert Browning
7. 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
The Alchemist
T.S. Elliot
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Blake
8. 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
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Don Juan
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Dante
9. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Christopher Marlowe
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
William Blake
10. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
William Wordsworth
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
Dante
11. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare
Canterburry Tales
12. 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.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Astrophel and Stella
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
13. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Don Juan
Icarus
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
14. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Prometheus Unbound
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
15. 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.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Ann Radcliffe
Adventure
16. 17th century authors
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Pride and Prejudice
Idylls of the King
The Knight's Tale
17. 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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18. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Oliver Twist
Claudius
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
William Wordsworth
19. Jane Austen wrote ...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Sailing to Byzantium
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
20. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
William Langland
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Claudius
21. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Edmund Spenser
Pulpit
Claudius
22. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Alchemist
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
23. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Icarus
George Elliot
Utopia
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
24. 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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25. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Wuthering Heights
Prometheus Unbound
Robert Browning
26. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Idylls of the King
The love of travel
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
27. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Astrophel and Stella
Tamburlaine the Great
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
28. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Pilgrim's Progress
John Milton
29. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Claudius
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Samuel Coleridge
Pulpit
30. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Divine Comedy
Idylls of the King
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Great Expectations
31. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
John Keats
32. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Jew of Malta
33. 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...
Jungle Book
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Robert Browning
William Blake
34. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Idylls of the King
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
William Langland
35. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Prometheus Unbound
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Odes
Graham Greene
36. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Philip Sidney
Ann Radcliffe
'Spenserian stanza'
Joseph Conrad
37. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Great Expectations
Ivanhoe
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
38. 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.
Wuthering Heights
Canterburry Tales
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
39. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Piers Plowman
Polonius
Dante
George Elliot
40. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
John Keats
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
William Langland
41. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Emma by Jane Austen
The Jew of Malta
Percy Shelley
42. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Edmund Spenser
John Keats
Astrophel and Stella
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?
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44. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Tower
45. 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
George Elliot
Ode to a Nightingale
Bells and Pomegranates.
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
46. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Divine Comedy
Hamlet
47. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
T.S. Elliot
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
48. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Adventure
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode on a Grecian Urn
49. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Icarus
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
50. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Don Juan
Shakespeare
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist