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CLEP World Literature
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1. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
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Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Piers Plowman
Icarus
2. 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
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Canterburry Tales
3. 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
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Sir Walter Scott
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Ode to a Nightingale
4. 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
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
A frame story/narrative
5. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Odes
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Utopia
6. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Philip Sidney
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Claudius
Valdes and Cornelius
7. '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 -
Pride and Prejudice
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Idylls of the King
Great Expectations
8. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Odes
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
John Milton
9. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Sonnet sequence
Astrophel and Stella
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
10. 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
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Sailing to Byzantium
11. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
The Knight's Tale
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
12. 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.
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Jew of Malta
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Alexander Pope
13. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
The Jew of Malta
Sailing to Byzantium
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Great Expectations
14. '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
Icarus
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Ode on a Grecian Urn
15. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Don Juan
16. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Ode on a Grecian Urn
17. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Ode to a Nightingale
Percy Shelley
Adventure
Dante
18. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
'Spenserian stanza'
Othello
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
John Bunyan
19. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Edmund Spenser
Philip Sidney
T.S. Elliot
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
20. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Sailing to Byzantium
Othello
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
William Langland
21. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Chaucer
Katherine
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
John Milton
22. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
John Keats
Prometheus Unbound
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
23. 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
Edmund Spenser
Astrophel and Stella
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
24. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Christopher Marlowe
'Spenserian stanza'
Robert Browning
25. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Rape of the Lock
Canterburry Tales
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26. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Hamlet
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
27. 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.
Astrophel and Stella
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Icarus
Oliver Twist
28. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
The love of travel
Sonnet sequence
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
29. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Icarus
Bells and Pomegranates.
Joseph Conrad
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
30. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Macbeth
Mary Shelley
Othello
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
31. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Ann Radcliffe
32. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Divine Comedy
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Chaucer
33. 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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34. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Hamlet
Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
Adventure
35. 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
Idylls of the King
Chaucer
Pride and Prejudice
Canterburry Tales
36. 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
Mary Shelley
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Paradise Lost
William Blake
37. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Pilgrim's Progress
Macbeth
Great Expectations
Percy Shelley
38. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Edmund Spenser
Claudius
The Knight's Tale
39. 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
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
40. 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
Edmund Spenser
Chaucer
Dante
Rape of the Lock
41. 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.
William Wordsworth
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
John Milton
Wuthering Heights
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
Great Expectations
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
43. Book of poems
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Wuthering Heights
Sailing to Byzantium
William Blake
44. 17th century authors
The Book of Thel
Sailing to Byzantium
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
45. 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
Odes
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
The Alchemist
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
46. 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
Oliver Twist
The absurdity of life
Chaucer
Dante
47. 19th Century authors
Mary Shelley
Joseph Conrad
Valdes and Cornelius
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
48. 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
Ivanhoe
Canterburry Tales
Hamlet
49. 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.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Canterburry Tales
Valdes and Cornelius
Mary Shelley
50. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Pride and Prejudice
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Piers Plowman