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CLEP World Literature
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1. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Langland
Piers Plowman
Ivanhoe
Othello
2. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
William Wordsworth
Othello
Joseph Conrad
3. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Pulpit
Macbeth
Othello
Polonius
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
Sailing to Byzantium
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Chaucer
Paradise Lost
5. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
Robert Browning
Graham Greene
Chaucer
6. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Claudius
Graham Greene
Sir Walter Scott
7. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Samuel Coleridge
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
8. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Don Juan
The Waste Land
The absurdity of life
9. 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.
Ode to a Nightingale
The Jew of Malta
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Tamburlaine the Great
10. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Edmund Spenser
John Keats
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
11. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Shakespeare
Utopia
John Bunyan
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
12. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Book of Thel
The love of travel
13. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Pygmalion
Idylls of the King
14. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Othello
Sir Walter Scott
John Keats
The love of travel
15. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Othello
Achilles
Polonius
16. 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
Robert Browning
Percy Shelley
The Waste Land
17. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Divine Comedy
The Book of Thel
George Elliot
The Renaissance 1485-1660
18. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
The Waste Land
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Shakespeare
19. 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
Polonius
Joseph Conrad
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
20. 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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Icarus
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
21. 18th Century authors
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Divine Comedy
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
22. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
George Elliot
23. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Sonnet sequence
Mary Shelley
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
24. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Samuel Coleridge
Paradise Lost
Macbeth
25. What is it called when each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. what story is written this way?
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26. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
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Graham Greene
27. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Idylls of the King
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
28. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Jonathon Swift
Valdes and Cornelius
Ann Radcliffe
29. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Divine Comedy
William Wordsworth
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The love of travel
30. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Macbeth
William Wordsworth
Divine Comedy
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
31. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Dante
Robert Browning
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
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32. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
'Spenserian stanza'
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Ann Radcliffe
33. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Adventure
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Katherine
34. 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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35. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Graham Greene
Achilles
Percy Shelley
Sailing to Byzantium
36. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Hamlet
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Joseph Conrad
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
37. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Odes
John Milton
38. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Katherine
Oliver Twist
The Knight's Tale
39. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Don Juan
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Mary Shelley
Ode on a Grecian Urn
40. Works by Jonathon Swift
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41. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Graham Greene
Pygmalion
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Wuthering Heights
42. 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.
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Valdes and Cornelius
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Adventure
43. 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
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Chaucer
44. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
T.S. Elliot
Mary Shelley
45. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Odes
Polonius
Othello
46. 19th Century authors
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Prometheus Unbound
Rape of the Lock
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
47. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Alexander Pope
Valdes and Cornelius
T.S. Elliot
48. 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
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Hamlet
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
49. 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
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Jew of Malta
Pygmalion
Dante
50. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
Sonnet sequence
William Langland
Bells and Pomegranates.
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