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CLEP World Literature
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1. Works by Jonathon Swift
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2. 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
Graham Greene
George Elliot
Chaucer
Christopher Marlowe
3. 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...
Robert Browning
Claudius
Macbeth
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
4. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Odes
Pygmalion
William Blake
5. 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.
Wuthering Heights
The Alchemist
Mary Shelley
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
6. 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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7. '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 -
Jungle Book
William Langland
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Mary Shelley
8. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Ann Radcliffe
Polonius
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
9. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Edmund Spenser
Percy Shelley
John Keats
The Alchemist
10. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Philip Sidney
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Gulliver
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
11. William Yeats wrote...
Katherine
Jungle Book
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
12. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The Tower
The absurdity of life
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Pride and Prejudice
13. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Graham Greene
Claudius
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Blake
14. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Emma by Jane Austen
Pulpit
Shakespeare
Alexander Pope
15. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
A frame story/narrative
Edmund Spenser
16. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Valdes and Cornelius
Idylls of the King
17. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Adventure
Divine Comedy
Achilles
The love of travel
18. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
'Spenserian stanza'
19. 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
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Mary Shelley
A frame story/narrative
20. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Claudius
Divine Comedy
John Keats
Christopher Marlowe
21. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Ann Radcliffe
Bells and Pomegranates.
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
22. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Gulliver
Othello
Sonnet sequence
Piers Plowman
23. 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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24. 18th Century authors
Icarus
Joseph Conrad
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
25. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Emma by Jane Austen
26. 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.
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Pilgrim's Progress
Ivanhoe
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
27. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Canterburry Tales
Icarus
28. Modern English authors
The Alchemist
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
29. 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.
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Astrophel and Stella
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30. A poem
Macbeth
Piers Plowman
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Mary Shelley
31. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
The Renaissance 1485-1660
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Philip Sidney
Sir Walter Scott
32. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Paradise Lost
Achilles
Oliver Twist
Joseph Conrad
33. 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
Robert Browning
Jonathon Swift
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Ode to a Nightingale
34. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Gulliver
Hamlet
Wuthering Heights
35. 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.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Philip Sidney
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
36. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
T.S. Elliot
37. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
William Langland
Don Juan
Robert Browning
38. '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
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Joseph Conrad
Oliver Twist
39. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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40. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth
William Wordsworth
Paradise Lost
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Pygmalion
41. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
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T.S. Elliot
The Alchemist
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
42. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Ivanhoe
Oliver Twist
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Edmund Spenser
43. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Ann Radcliffe
Pride and Prejudice
Utopia
John Bunyan
44. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
William Wordsworth
45. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Divine Comedy
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Utopia
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
46. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Achilles
Tamburlaine the Great
47. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Claudius
Tamburlaine the Great
Emma by Jane Austen
Bells and Pomegranates.
48. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Utopia
The Tower
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
William Blake
49. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Samuel Coleridge
Joseph Conrad
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Tower
50. 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.
Samuel Coleridge
The Jew of Malta
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage