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CLEP World Literature
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1. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Sir Walter Scott
Achilles
Sonnet sequence
2. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
William Blake
Rape of the Lock
Piers Plowman
Mary Shelley
3. 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
Adventure
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Pride and Prejudice
4. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Ode to a Nightingale
Divine Comedy
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
5. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Pygmalion
The Waste Land
Emma by Jane Austen
Joseph Conrad
6. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Astrophel and Stella
William Blake
Utopia
John Milton
7. 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.
Tamburlaine the Great
Ann Radcliffe
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
The Alchemist
8. Jane Austen wrote ...
Valdes and Cornelius
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Joseph Conrad
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
9. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Achilles
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
10. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Oliver Twist
Katherine
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
11. 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.
Percy Shelley
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Knight's Tale
Christopher Marlowe
12. 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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13. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Achilles
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
14. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Shakespeare
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
15. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Oliver Twist
Icarus
16. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Adventure
Christopher Marlowe
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Katherine
17. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Edmund Spenser
Valdes and Cornelius
Ivanhoe
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
18. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
A frame story/narrative
Icarus
Polonius
19. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
Graham Greene
The Tower
Oliver Twist
20. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Tamburlaine the Great
Jungle Book
Jonathon Swift
Rape of the Lock
21. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
The Knight's Tale
Wuthering Heights
John Keats
22. The Comedians was written by who
Jungle Book
The Jew of Malta
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Graham Greene
23. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Pride and Prejudice
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Sailing to Byzantium
24. '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 -
Claudius
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Valdes and Cornelius
Philip Sidney
25. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
The Tower
Sailing to Byzantium
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
George Elliot
26. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
John Keats
The Knight's Tale
Paradise Lost
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
27. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Gulliver
Polonius
Jungle Book
Graham Greene
28. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Sailing to Byzantium
Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
29. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Astrophel and Stella
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Graham Greene
William Blake
30. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)
Ann Radcliffe
Odes
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
George Elliot
31. 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
Paradise Lost
The Tower
Pygmalion
Piers Plowman
32. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Pride and Prejudice
Ivanhoe
Percy Shelley
John Bunyan
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
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Tamburlaine the Great
Ode to a Nightingale
The Tower
34. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Tower
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Macbeth
35. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Ababbcbcc
William Wordsworth
Divine Comedy
Tamburlaine the Great
36. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Book of Thel
37. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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38. 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...
Pilgrim's Progress
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Robert Browning
Prometheus Unbound
39. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Book of Thel
Oliver Twist
40. Works by Charles Dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Ababbcbcc
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
41. 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
Divine Comedy
Joseph Conrad
Oliver Twist
Ivanhoe
42. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Graham Greene
Hamlet
Prometheus Unbound
43. 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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44. Modern English authors
John Milton
Wuthering Heights
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
45. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Percy Shelley
46. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare
The Knight's Tale
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Percy Shelley
47. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
48. '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
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
William Langland
Valdes and Cornelius
49. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when
The Alchemist
Hamlet
Shakespeare
Philip Sidney
50. '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
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Prometheus Unbound
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower