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CLEP World Literature
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1. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Macbeth
Ann Radcliffe
2. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
William Blake
John Milton
Great Expectations
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
Icarus
Ode to a Nightingale
Ivanhoe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
4. 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
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Divine Comedy
5. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Percy Shelley
Macbeth
Tamburlaine the Great
6. 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
Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Valdes and Cornelius
Graham Greene
7. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet
John Keats
8. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Odes
Claudius
Sailing to Byzantium
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
9. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
10. '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
Hamlet
Oliver Twist
The Alchemist
11. 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
John Milton
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Jonathon Swift
The Renaissance 1485-1660
12. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Utopia
Valdes and Cornelius
Graham Greene
13. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
William Blake
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Odes
14. 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.
The Alchemist
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Great Expectations
Hamlet
15. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
T.S. Elliot
Graham Greene
Achilles
16. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Don Juan
Ode to a Nightingale
17. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Shakespeare
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
18. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Pilgrim's Progress
Paradise Lost
Philip Sidney
Shakespeare
19. 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
Sailing to Byzantium
Divine Comedy
Prometheus Unbound
20. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Joseph Conrad
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Achilles
Samuel Coleridge
21. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
The Knight's Tale
Ivanhoe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Odes
22. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Sir Walter Scott
Achilles
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
23. 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
John Keats
Astrophel and Stella
Paradise Lost
Piers Plowman
24. Jane Austen wrote ...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Rape of the Lock
25. 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.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Jew of Malta
Achilles
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
26. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Pygmalion
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Don Juan
27. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
The Knight's Tale
Odes
Prometheus Unbound
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
28. 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?'
William Blake
The Book of Thel
William Wordsworth
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
29. 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)
Hamlet
Icarus
The absurdity of life
George Elliot
30. 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
Odes
T.S. Elliot
'Spenserian stanza'
31. Works by Charles Dickens
Ann Radcliffe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
32. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Valdes and Cornelius
John Bunyan
Idylls of the King
33. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Pride and Prejudice
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
34. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
William Blake
Edmund Spenser
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
35. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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36. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Claudius
Piers Plowman
Adventure
37. Works by Jonathon Swift
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38. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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39. 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
Divine Comedy
John Bunyan
Ivanhoe
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
40. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Percy Shelley
41. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Pilgrim's Progress
Idylls of the King
Christopher Marlowe
42. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Percy Shelley
'Spenserian stanza'
Edmund Spenser
A frame story/narrative
43. Falls into a stream after going crazy
T.S. Elliot
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Bells and Pomegranates.
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
44. 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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45. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Valdes and Cornelius
Jonathon Swift
John Milton
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
46. 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.
William Blake
Rape of the Lock
Robert Browning
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
47. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Shakespeare
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
48. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Oliver Twist
Hamlet
49. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Edmund Spenser
Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
50. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Graham Greene
Great Expectations
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
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