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CLEP World Literature
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1. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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2. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Philip Sidney
Samuel Coleridge
Percy Shelley
3. 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?'
Sonnet sequence
Pulpit
The Book of Thel
Divine Comedy
4. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Christopher Marlowe
Ann Radcliffe
Odes
5. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
Alexander Pope
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
6. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Dante
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
7. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Astrophel and Stella
Pygmalion
The absurdity of life
Ababbcbcc
8. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Othello
Christopher Marlowe
Icarus
9. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
Paradise Lost
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Sir Walter Scott
10. Book of poems
The Waste Land
Sailing to Byzantium
John Milton
Jungle Book
11. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Macbeth
The Jew of Malta
Odes
12. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Hamlet
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Mary Shelley
13. 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.
Piers Plowman
Rape of the Lock
The Waste Land
Ivanhoe
14. 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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15. 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
John Keats
Jonathon Swift
16. 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
Canterburry Tales
Sonnet sequence
Claudius
17. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
John Bunyan
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Macbeth
18. Written by Christopher Marlowe - story about a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge - allotted twenty-four years of life on Earth - during which time he will have Mephistophilis as his personal servant. Then - he must repay with ti
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
19. 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
Dante
Idylls of the King
Paradise Lost
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
20. '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.'
George Elliot
The Waste Land
Othello
Christopher Marlowe
21. 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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22. Modern English authors
Don Juan
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Percy Shelley
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
23. 17th century authors
Sonnet sequence
Ann Radcliffe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Book of Thel
24. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Bells and Pomegranates.
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Jungle Book
25. The 'shrew' of the title
Adventure
Utopia
Katherine
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
26. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Polonius
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
27. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Achilles
Graham Greene
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
28. 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
Robert Browning
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Edmund Spenser
29. 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.
Pygmalion
Piers Plowman
Mary Shelley
Ann Radcliffe
30. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Jungle Book
John Milton
31. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Gulliver
Christopher Marlowe
32. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Canterburry Tales
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
33. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Tamburlaine the Great
Utopia
The Waste Land
Emma by Jane Austen
34. '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.
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
The Tower
Achilles
35. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Philip Sidney
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
36. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Graham Greene
William Langland
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Hamlet
37. 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
Don Juan
William Wordsworth
Polonius
Chaucer
38. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
Polonius
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
39. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Jungle Book
John Milton
George Elliot
Icarus
40. 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
Don Juan
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
41. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Divine Comedy
Hamlet
Icarus
Mary Shelley
42. 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 Jew of Malta
Rape of the Lock
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
43. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sailing to Byzantium
Sir Walter Scott
Emma by Jane Austen
Percy Shelley
44. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Philip Sidney
Rape of the Lock
Pulpit
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
45. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
T.S. Elliot
The love of travel
The Knight's Tale
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.
Sonnet sequence
Christopher Marlowe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
47. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Rape of the Lock
48. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
49. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Alexander Pope
Hamlet
50. Jane Austen wrote ...
Macbeth
Emma by Jane Austen
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Alchemist