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CLEP World Literature
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1. Book of poems
The absurdity of life
Great Expectations
Sailing to Byzantium
Ivanhoe
2. The 'shrew' of the title
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Alexander Pope
Great Expectations
Katherine
3. 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
Samuel Coleridge
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
4. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Prometheus Unbound
Don Juan
5. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Pilgrim's Progress
Wuthering Heights
6. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Achilles
Mary Shelley
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
William Langland
7. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
George Elliot
Wuthering Heights
Ode on a Grecian Urn
8. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Macbeth
9. 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
The Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
10. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Joseph Conrad
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Gulliver
Pride and Prejudice
11. 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
Samuel Coleridge
Chaucer
Robert Browning
A frame story/narrative
12. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Pilgrim's Progress
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Emma by Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott
13. 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
Adventure
Percy Shelley
Pride and Prejudice
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
14. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Robert Browning
Graham Greene
Valdes and Cornelius
Emma by Jane Austen
15. 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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16. 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
Pygmalion
Astrophel and Stella
Great Expectations
17. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Rape of the Lock
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Valdes and Cornelius
Alexander Pope
18. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Jungle Book
19. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Don Juan
Mary Shelley
Great Expectations
Jungle Book
20. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Tamburlaine the Great
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Odes
21. 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
John Keats
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Mary Shelley
22. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Gulliver
Philip Sidney
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
23. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
William Wordsworth
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
24. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Samuel Coleridge
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Tamburlaine the Great
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
25. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
26. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Ivanhoe
John Keats
27. 18th Century authors
Pulpit
John Keats
Sailing to Byzantium
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
28. 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.
Prometheus Unbound
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Pilgrim's Progress
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
29. 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
Ode to a Nightingale
Astrophel and Stella
T.S. Elliot
30. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
The love of travel
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Odes
31. 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.
William Wordsworth
Icarus
William Langland
Astrophel and Stella
32. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The Jew of Malta
Piers Plowman
33. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
Ann Radcliffe
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
34. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Polonius
35. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Oliver Twist
William Wordsworth
36. 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
Don Juan
The Alchemist
Pride and Prejudice
T.S. Elliot
37. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Polonius
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Percy Shelley
38. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Great Expectations
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
39. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Dante
Valdes and Cornelius
Ivanhoe
Samuel Coleridge
40. Works by Charles Dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Jungle Book
Graham Greene
Pilgrim's Progress
41. 17th century authors
William Langland
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
T.S. Elliot
42. 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
Alexander Pope
John Keats
Wuthering Heights
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
43. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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44. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The absurdity of life
Ababbcbcc
Astrophel and Stella
45. 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...
William Wordsworth
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
'Spenserian stanza'
Robert Browning
46. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Paradise Lost
47. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
William Langland
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Astrophel and Stella
48. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Paradise Lost
49. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Pride and Prejudice
John Milton
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
50. 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
Odes
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Astrophel and Stella
Paradise Lost