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CLEP World Literature
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1. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
The Waste Land
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
John Keats
Joseph Conrad
2. 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
Philip Sidney
Sonnet sequence
Icarus
Ode to a Nightingale
3. Works by Jonathon Swift
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4. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Odes
The Alchemist
Bells and Pomegranates.
Philip Sidney
5. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Pride and Prejudice
The Tower
Edmund Spenser
6. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Oliver Twist
The Alchemist
Mary Shelley
7. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
'Spenserian stanza'
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Joseph Conrad
Gulliver
8. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
The Jew of Malta
Percy Shelley
Astrophel and Stella
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
9. 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
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
John Milton
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
10. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Gulliver
Don Juan
William Blake
11. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
John Bunyan
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Claudius
12. '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.
Don Juan
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Icarus
13. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
The Jew of Malta
Pulpit
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Piers Plowman
14. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Chaucer
Idylls of the King
John Milton
15. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Wuthering Heights
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Pride and Prejudice
16. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Othello
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Icarus
Rape of the Lock
17. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Edmund Spenser
Great Expectations
Jungle Book
Shakespeare
18. 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.
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Sailing to Byzantium
Robert Browning
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
19. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Oliver Twist
Othello
T.S. Elliot
Prometheus Unbound
20. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Mary Shelley
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Samuel Coleridge
21. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Pulpit
Percy Shelley
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Tamburlaine the Great
22. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Graham Greene
Pygmalion
Astrophel and Stella
Hamlet
23. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Ababbcbcc
Pilgrim's Progress
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
24. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
John Milton
Pygmalion
Claudius
25. 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
Rape of the Lock
Paradise Lost
Polonius
Chaucer
26. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Gulliver
Ivanhoe
Robert Browning
27. 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
Dante
Pilgrim's Progress
Pride and Prejudice
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
28. 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.
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Ann Radcliffe
Alexander Pope
Percy Shelley
29. 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
Canterburry Tales
Jungle Book
Icarus
Ivanhoe
30. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Claudius
Graham Greene
Chaucer
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
31. 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.
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Ivanhoe
Rape of the Lock
John Keats
32. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Katherine
Sailing to Byzantium
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
33. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Oliver Twist
'Spenserian stanza'
34. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
The Alchemist
Sir Walter Scott
Great Expectations
Alexander Pope
35. The Comedians was written by who
Adventure
Graham Greene
Pulpit
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
36. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
Icarus
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
37. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Philip Sidney
Christopher Marlowe
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
38. 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.
The Alchemist
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Tamburlaine the Great
39. 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
The Jew of Malta
Pulpit
Ode on a Grecian Urn
40. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Odes
Adventure
John Bunyan
41. 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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42. '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 -
Dante
Pulpit
John Bunyan
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
43. 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.
Philip Sidney
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Polonius
44. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
The Waste Land
William Blake
Philip Sidney
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
45. '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.'
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Alexander Pope
The Waste Land
46. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Joseph Conrad
Macbeth
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
47. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Paradise Lost
The Tower
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Divine Comedy
48. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Jungle Book
John Keats
49. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Percy Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
George Elliot
50. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
George Elliot
Macbeth
Graham Greene
John Keats
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