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CLEP World Literature
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1. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Tamburlaine the Great
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
2. Falls into a stream after going crazy
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Chaucer
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
3. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Piers Plowman
Pilgrim's Progress
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Macbeth
4. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Claudius
Pygmalion
Graham Greene
Jungle Book
5. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Rape of the Lock
Jungle Book
A frame story/narrative
Ann Radcliffe
6. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Pride and Prejudice
Divine Comedy
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
7. The Comedians was written by who
Ann Radcliffe
The Jew of Malta
Graham Greene
Jonathon Swift
8. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Piers Plowman
The love of travel
Utopia
Graham Greene
9. 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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Othello
Macbeth
10. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Shakespeare
Sir Walter Scott
11. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Canterburry Tales
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Mary Shelley
12. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
The Book of Thel
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Othello
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
13. 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
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Mary Shelley
Emma by Jane Austen
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
14. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Piers Plowman
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Jonathon Swift
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
15. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
The love of travel
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
16. '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.'
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
William Langland
The Waste Land
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
17. 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.
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Sonnet sequence
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
18. 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
Joseph Conrad
Rape of the Lock
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
19. 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.
Samuel Coleridge
Mary Shelley
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
20. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
John Milton
Sonnet sequence
T.S. Elliot
21. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Ivanhoe
Astrophel and Stella
22. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Emma by Jane Austen
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Gulliver
23. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Oliver Twist
Don Juan
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
24. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
John Milton
The Tower
Rape of the Lock
Claudius
25. The 'shrew' of the title
A frame story/narrative
Katherine
Robert Browning
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
26. 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.
Dante
The Jew of Malta
Pilgrim's Progress
Polonius
27. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Sonnet sequence
The absurdity of life
Polonius
28. '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 -
Ode to a Nightingale
Adventure
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
29. 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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30. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Pygmalion
The absurdity of life
Idylls of the King
William Langland
31. 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
William Langland
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Macbeth
Polonius
32. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Graham Greene
Percy Shelley
William Wordsworth
Hamlet
33. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
John Keats
The Waste Land
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
34. 17th century authors
Edmund Spenser
Katherine
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Jungle Book
35. Works by Jonathon Swift
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36. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Paradise Lost
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Alexander Pope
37. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Graham Greene
Christopher Marlowe
Sailing to Byzantium
38. 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.
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Astrophel and Stella
William Wordsworth
39. Mary Shelley was his second wife
The Waste Land
Percy Shelley
Piers Plowman
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
40. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Philip Sidney
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Valdes and Cornelius
41. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Samuel Coleridge
Astrophel and Stella
Mary Shelley
The Waste Land
42. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Edmund Spenser
Percy Shelley
Polonius
43. 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
John Keats
Ivanhoe
Pride and Prejudice
44. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Icarus
Sailing to Byzantium
John Milton
Gulliver
45. 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.
Alexander Pope
John Keats
The Waste Land
Ode on a Grecian Urn
46. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
John Bunyan
Great Expectations
William Wordsworth
Pulpit
47. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Graham Greene
Mary Shelley
Joseph Conrad
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
48. 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.
Pulpit
Wuthering Heights
The Tower
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
49. '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.
Philip Sidney
The Jew of Malta
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Bells and Pomegranates.
50. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Book of Thel