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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Pygmalion
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
2. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Percy Shelley
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
3. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Prometheus Unbound
Christopher Marlowe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
4. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Mary Shelley
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Philip Sidney
Idylls of the King
5. 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
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Sonnet sequence
A frame story/narrative
6. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Icarus
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Sir Walter Scott
7. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Achilles
Chaucer
8. 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.
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'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Joseph Conrad
Astrophel and Stella
9. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
William Wordsworth
Divine Comedy
Gulliver
Hamlet
10. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Odes
Pygmalion
William Wordsworth
'Spenserian stanza'
11. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Chaucer
'Spenserian stanza'
Mary Shelley
Adventure
12. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Othello
Paradise Lost
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The love of travel
13. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
The Knight's Tale
Claudius
Percy Shelley
14. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Emma by Jane Austen
15. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Jungle Book
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Hamlet
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
16. 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
William Langland
Paradise Lost
The Waste Land
17. 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.
Pygmalion
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Ivanhoe
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
18. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Ann Radcliffe
19. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Robert Browning
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Oliver Twist
20. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
The Jew of Malta
Robert Browning
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
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
The Knight's Tale
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
A frame story/narrative
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
22. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Sonnet sequence
Pulpit
23. 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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24. 17th century authors
Achilles
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Wuthering Heights
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
25. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
William Blake
The Knight's Tale
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
26. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Utopia
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Alexander Pope
Ann Radcliffe
27. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
The Tower
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
T.S. Elliot
Graham Greene
28. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
The love of travel
Oliver Twist
Tamburlaine the Great
29. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Oliver Twist
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
Valdes and Cornelius
30. 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
Pilgrim's Progress
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The love of travel
31. 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
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Dante
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Achilles
32. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Shakespeare
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Book of Thel
33. 'Money - money - money - and what money can make of life' - a rich man dies - the will says that John Harmon will get the estate if he marries a woman named Bella whom he has never met -
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Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Idylls of the King
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
34. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Edmund Spenser
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
35. 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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36. 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.
Jungle Book
A frame story/narrative
Sonnet sequence
Robert Browning
37. Jane Austen wrote ...
William Wordsworth
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Utopia
38. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Divine Comedy
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
39. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Othello
Odes
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Achilles
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
Ivanhoe
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Tower
41. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Polonius
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Pulpit
42. 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
William Langland
Macbeth
Ode to a Nightingale
Jonathon Swift
43. 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
Emma by Jane Austen
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Percy Shelley
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
44. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
T.S. Elliot
Polonius
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Canterburry Tales
45. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Pilgrim's Progress
Othello
46. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
John Bunyan
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Divine Comedy
47. Book of poems
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In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Sailing to Byzantium
48. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Emma by Jane Austen
Graham Greene
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
49. 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.
A frame story/narrative
Ann Radcliffe
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
50. Works by Charles Dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Shakespeare
Graham Greene
Jonathon Swift