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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
Gulliver
Valdes and Cornelius
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The love of travel
2. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Samuel Coleridge
3. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Alexander Pope
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
A frame story/narrative
4. 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)
William Langland
George Elliot
The Waste Land
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
5. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Valdes and Cornelius
Philip Sidney
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Graham Greene
6. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Pulpit
Polonius
Jungle Book
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
7. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The love of travel
Sailing to Byzantium
Divine Comedy
8. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Tamburlaine the Great
Pride and Prejudice
Divine Comedy
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
9. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
The Tower
Christopher Marlowe
Great Expectations
10. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Chaucer
The love of travel
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Divine Comedy
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
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
William Wordsworth
12. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Mary Shelley
Achilles
Percy Shelley
The Tower
13. 19th Century authors
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Othello
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The Renaissance 1485-1660
14. 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
Emma by Jane Austen
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Robert Browning
15. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
The Knight's Tale
George Elliot
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Prometheus Unbound
16. Works by Charles Dickens
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Alexander Pope
17. 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
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Great Expectations
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
A frame story/narrative
18. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Icarus
Samuel Coleridge
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
19. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Sailing to Byzantium
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
William Langland
Dante
20. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Oliver Twist
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
John Milton
21. '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.
Astrophel and Stella
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
22. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Book of Thel
Alexander Pope
23. 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.
Alexander Pope
Ann Radcliffe
Canterburry Tales
The Waste Land
24. William Yeats wrote...
Sonnet sequence
Don Juan
Ann Radcliffe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
25. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
A frame story/narrative
The Waste Land
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
26. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
John Bunyan
William Blake
Paradise Lost
27. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
A frame story/narrative
Pride and Prejudice
William Wordsworth
28. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Sir Walter Scott
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Pride and Prejudice
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
29. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Piers Plowman
The Alchemist
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The absurdity of life
30. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Tamburlaine the Great
31. 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
'Spenserian stanza'
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Ann Radcliffe
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
32. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Odes
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
33. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
William Langland
Oliver Twist
Hamlet
Samuel Coleridge
34. 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.
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Odes
The Jew of Malta
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
35. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Great Expectations
Tamburlaine the Great
'Spenserian stanza'
Don Juan
36. Jane Austen wrote ...
Philip Sidney
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ivanhoe
Christopher Marlowe
37. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The Knight's Tale
Othello
38. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
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Pulpit
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
39. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Pride and Prejudice
George Elliot
Astrophel and Stella
40. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Achilles
Christopher Marlowe
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
41. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Pulpit
Adventure
Mary Shelley
42. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Othello
T.S. Elliot
Joseph Conrad
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
43. 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
Jungle Book
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
44. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Wuthering Heights
William Blake
45. 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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46. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Dante
Pygmalion
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The love of travel
47. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
John Bunyan
Mary Shelley
Alexander Pope
Edmund Spenser
48. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
John Bunyan
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
49. 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
Mary Shelley
Bells and Pomegranates.
Graham Greene
50. 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
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Pride and Prejudice
Jonathon Swift
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens