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CLEP World Literature
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1. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Percy Shelley
'Spenserian stanza'
2. Works by Jonathon Swift
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3. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Robert Browning
The Alchemist
Idylls of the King
4. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
'Spenserian stanza'
Pulpit
The Jew of Malta
5. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Icarus
6. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Bells and Pomegranates.
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
7. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jungle Book
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Jonathon Swift
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
8. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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9. 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.
T.S. Elliot
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Paradise Lost
Wuthering Heights
10. 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
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Adventure
Ivanhoe
Othello
11. 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.
Jungle Book
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Ann Radcliffe
12. The 'shrew' of the title
Jungle Book
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Katherine
Mary Shelley
13. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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14. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Alexander Pope
Utopia
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Canterburry Tales
15. Works by Charles Dickens
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Pulpit
Achilles
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
16. 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...
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice
Edmund Spenser
Robert Browning
17. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Christopher Marlowe
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
18. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Gulliver
Mary Shelley
19. 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.
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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Jew of Malta
Ann Radcliffe
20. A poem
Piers Plowman
Pygmalion
Hamlet
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
21. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Tamburlaine the Great
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ode to a Nightingale
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
22. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
Valdes and Cornelius
Odes
The absurdity of life
23. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Valdes and Cornelius
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
William Wordsworth
24. '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.
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
25. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Alexander Pope
Divine Comedy
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
26. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
The Book of Thel
Rape of the Lock
Jungle Book
Pilgrim's Progress
27. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Percy Shelley
Graham Greene
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
28. 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
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Adventure
Jungle Book
Dante
29. 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.
Rape of the Lock
Pygmalion
Ivanhoe
Ann Radcliffe
30. 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
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
A frame story/narrative
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Hamlet
31. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
T.S. Elliot
Prometheus Unbound
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Icarus
32. 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
Don Juan
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Langland
33. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
William Langland
Chaucer
Othello
34. 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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35. 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
Rape of the Lock
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Emma by Jane Austen
William Blake
36. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Sailing to Byzantium
Utopia
37. 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.
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Graham Greene
38. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Sir Walter Scott
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Utopia
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
39. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
William Langland
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Jungle Book
40. Book of poems
Percy Shelley
Paradise Lost
Sailing to Byzantium
Graham Greene
41. 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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42. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Edmund Spenser
Gulliver
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
43. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Jungle Book
The Waste Land
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
44. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Icarus
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
45. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Valdes and Cornelius
46. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Canterburry Tales
Odes
The love of travel
Achilles
47. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Book of Thel
48. 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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49. The Comedians was written by who
Piers Plowman
Wuthering Heights
Graham Greene
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
50. 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
Rape of the Lock
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice