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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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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2. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Jonathon Swift
Oliver Twist
A frame story/narrative
3. 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.
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Wuthering Heights
Piers Plowman
A frame story/narrative
4. 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
Pulpit
Chaucer
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Mary Shelley
5. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
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Pygmalion
6. 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
Pilgrim's Progress
Pride and Prejudice
George Elliot
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
7. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Graham Greene
Pilgrim's Progress
The Knight's Tale
8. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Bells and Pomegranates.
Sir Walter Scott
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Blake
9. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Odes
William Wordsworth
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Tower
10. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Idylls of the King
Ivanhoe
Mary Shelley
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
11. 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
George Elliot
Achilles
Ode to a Nightingale
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
12. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
Gulliver
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13. 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
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Tamburlaine the Great
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
14. 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
The Jew of Malta
Piers Plowman
William Blake
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
15. 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)
Othello
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Renaissance 1485-1660
George Elliot
16. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Pilgrim's Progress
Samuel Coleridge
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
17. 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
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Joseph Conrad
Samuel Coleridge
18. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Percy Shelley
Edmund Spenser
Graham Greene
19. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
The Alchemist
William Langland
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Pride and Prejudice
20. 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
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Pygmalion
Dante
The Renaissance 1485-1660
21. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Valdes and Cornelius
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Tower
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
22. '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.'
The Waste Land
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Hamlet
The Knight's Tale
23. 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
Edmund Spenser
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
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24. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Alexander Pope
The Jew of Malta
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
25. 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.
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Edmund Spenser
Astrophel and Stella
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
26. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
William Wordsworth
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
John Keats
27. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Macbeth
Polonius
Hamlet
Katherine
28. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Claudius
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Renaissance 1485-1660
29. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Pulpit
Robert Browning
Adventure
30. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Divine Comedy
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
John Keats
31. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Canterburry Tales
Ode on a Grecian Urn
T.S. Elliot
32. 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
Alexander Pope
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Idylls of the King
33. 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
Valdes and Cornelius
Pulpit
Tamburlaine the Great
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
34. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Wuthering Heights
Emma by Jane Austen
Adventure
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
35. 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.
William Blake
Dante
Odes
The Jew of Malta
36. 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
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Icarus
T.S. Elliot
Emma by Jane Austen
37. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Divine Comedy
T.S. Elliot
Othello
Great Expectations
38. 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
Pride and Prejudice
John Bunyan
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ivanhoe
39. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Hamlet
Claudius
Othello
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
40. 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
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
John Milton
The Alchemist
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
41. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Utopia
Katherine
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
42. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Odes
Bells and Pomegranates.
The absurdity of life
43. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
George Elliot
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
John Keats
44. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Pilgrim's Progress
A frame story/narrative
The Waste Land
The absurdity of life
45. 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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46. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
'Spenserian stanza'
The Book of Thel
Bells and Pomegranates.
47. The 'shrew' of the title
Samuel Coleridge
Katherine
Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley
48. 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
Astrophel and Stella
The Alchemist
The Waste Land
49. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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50. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Claudius
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
John Milton
Rape of the Lock