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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Pilgrim's Progress
Percy Shelley
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
2. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Prometheus Unbound
Alexander Pope
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
William Langland
3. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Icarus
4. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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5. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Christopher Marlowe
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Shakespeare
6. 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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7. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Paradise Lost
Othello
John Milton
8. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Jew of Malta
The Alchemist
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
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
Alexander Pope
Polonius
Rape of the Lock
Dante
10. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Pulpit
Prometheus Unbound
The love of travel
Bells and Pomegranates.
11. Book of poems
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Sailing to Byzantium
Sir Walter Scott
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
12. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Canterburry Tales
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Emma by Jane Austen
Joseph Conrad
13. Written by William Blake - the Lily - the Cloud - the Worm - the Clod of Clay...characters - asks the question 'why does the springtime of life inevitably fade so that all things must end?'
Dante
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Book of Thel
Achilles
14. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
William Wordsworth
Ivanhoe
John Bunyan
15. '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.
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Christopher Marlowe
Mary Shelley
16. 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.
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
John Keats
Percy Shelley
Astrophel and Stella
17. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
The Book of Thel
Graham Greene
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Don Juan
18. 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.
Divine Comedy
Pride and Prejudice
Christopher Marlowe
Wuthering Heights
19. William Yeats wrote...
'Spenserian stanza'
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Jonathon Swift
20. 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
John Milton
Adventure
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
21. 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
Samuel Coleridge
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Pilgrim's Progress
22. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
A frame story/narrative
George Elliot
23. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Paradise Lost
The love of travel
Ababbcbcc
Sonnet sequence
24. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
John Keats
The Knight's Tale
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ode on a Grecian Urn
25. 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
Odes
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Percy Shelley
26. 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
Samuel Coleridge
Ode to a Nightingale
Pilgrim's Progress
Jonathon Swift
27. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Don Juan
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
28. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Pulpit
29. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
A frame story/narrative
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Pilgrim's Progress
Achilles
30. Works by Charles Dickens
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The Book of Thel
'Spenserian stanza'
31. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Don Juan
Chaucer
Utopia
32. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
William Wordsworth
George Elliot
Robert Browning
33. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Pulpit
Pygmalion
Adventure
34. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Oliver Twist
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Achilles
35. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Tamburlaine the Great
Pygmalion
36. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Idylls of the King
John Keats
Alexander Pope
Shakespeare
37. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Philip Sidney
George Elliot
William Blake
Canterburry Tales
38. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Mary Shelley
The love of travel
Jonathon Swift
The Jew of Malta
39. The 'shrew' of the title
Gulliver
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Mary Shelley
Katherine
40. 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
The absurdity of life
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Ivanhoe
Joseph Conrad
41. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Macbeth
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Paradise Lost
Jungle Book
42. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Piers Plowman
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
43. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Pulpit
Achilles
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
William Blake
44. 17th century authors
Emma by Jane Austen
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Renaissance 1485-1660
45. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Tamburlaine the Great
Claudius
Percy Shelley
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
46. 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
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Book of Thel
Ivanhoe
47. 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
Hamlet
The Alchemist
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
48. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Pilgrim's Progress
Jungle Book
Utopia
Samuel Coleridge
49. 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
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Achilles
Joseph Conrad
50. 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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