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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
William Langland
Chaucer
Bells and Pomegranates.
2. Book of poems
William Langland
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Sailing to Byzantium
3. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
John Bunyan
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
4. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Canterburry Tales
Pride and Prejudice
Sir Walter Scott
5. 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.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Pride and Prejudice
6. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
A frame story/narrative
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Graham Greene
William Blake
7. 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
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Shakespeare
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
8. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
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9. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Samuel Coleridge
Othello
10. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Astrophel and Stella
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Hamlet
Utopia
11. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
George Elliot
William Blake
Odes
Prometheus Unbound
12. 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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13. 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
A frame story/narrative
Polonius
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Pygmalion
Graham Greene
15. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Dante
Pygmalion
Ababbcbcc
Idylls of the King
16. 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
Utopia
Odes
17. 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
Dante
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Samuel Coleridge
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
18. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Great Expectations
George Elliot
Christopher Marlowe
19. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Oliver Twist
The Waste Land
Canterburry Tales
Jonathon Swift
20. '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
The love of travel
Valdes and Cornelius
Pilgrim's Progress
21. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Idylls of the King
Utopia
22. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Ivanhoe
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
23. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
A frame story/narrative
The Tower
Canterburry Tales
Philip Sidney
24. 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
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
25. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Dante
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Polonius
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
26. Works by Charles Dickens
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Idylls of the King
27. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Ivanhoe
28. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
'Spenserian stanza'
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Great Expectations
29. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Dante
Percy Shelley
30. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
The Knight's Tale
Chaucer
Tamburlaine the Great
Emma by Jane Austen
31. 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
Mary Shelley
Emma by Jane Austen
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Alexander Pope
32. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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33. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Jungle Book
Idylls of the King
Katherine
34. 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
The Tower
Ivanhoe
Paradise Lost
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
35. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Percy Shelley
Divine Comedy
Piers Plowman
36. 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
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Canterburry Tales
Robert Browning
37. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
John Milton
The love of travel
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
38. '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
Macbeth
The absurdity of life
Tamburlaine the Great
39. 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.
A frame story/narrative
Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
40. 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
Prometheus Unbound
Ode to a Nightingale
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
41. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Bells and Pomegranates.
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
42. 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.
Sir Walter Scott
Wuthering Heights
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Oliver Twist
43. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
The Knight's Tale
William Langland
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
44. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Bells and Pomegranates.
Icarus
Chaucer
The love of travel
45. '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 -
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Jungle Book
Valdes and Cornelius
Gulliver
46. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Edmund Spenser
Hamlet
'Spenserian stanza'
47. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
William Langland
Alexander Pope
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Rape of the Lock
48. 19th Century authors
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Gulliver
The Knight's Tale
49. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Great Expectations
Chaucer
Paradise Lost
50. The Comedians was written by who
Piers Plowman
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Graham Greene