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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Chaucer
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Joseph Conrad
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
2. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Sailing to Byzantium
William Langland
3. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
4. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Utopia
Idylls of the King
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
5. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
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Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Pride and Prejudice
6. 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.
Sailing to Byzantium
Ann Radcliffe
Jonathon Swift
Valdes and Cornelius
7. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Pulpit
Ann Radcliffe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
8. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Edmund Spenser
The Tower
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Oliver Twist
9. 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.
The Alchemist
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Sonnet sequence
A frame story/narrative
10. Works by Charles Dickens
Pilgrim's Progress
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Pride and Prejudice
11. A poem
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Pulpit
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Piers Plowman
12. What is it called when each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. what story is written this way?
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13. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Tamburlaine the Great
Prometheus Unbound
Paradise Lost
The Tower
14. '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.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Sonnet sequence
15. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
The Book of Thel
Claudius
Sir Walter Scott
16. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Christopher Marlowe
'Spenserian stanza'
Valdes and Cornelius
William Wordsworth
17. Book of poems
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Sailing to Byzantium
Canterburry Tales
Christopher Marlowe
18. '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.'
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Hamlet
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The Waste Land
19. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
The love of travel
Mary Shelley
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Percy Shelley
20. 17th century authors
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Piers Plowman
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
21. 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.
The Jew of Malta
Philip Sidney
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
22. 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
T.S. Elliot
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Chaucer
23. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
The Tower
A frame story/narrative
John Bunyan
24. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Valdes and Cornelius
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Odes
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
25. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Achilles
Claudius
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
26. 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
Robert Browning
Ivanhoe
Jungle Book
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
27. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Utopia
Graham Greene
Sir Walter Scott
Shakespeare
28. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
The Alchemist
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ann Radcliffe
29. 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.
Idylls of the King
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Gulliver
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
30. Works by Jonathon Swift
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31. 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.
Astrophel and Stella
Hamlet
Canterburry Tales
Adventure
32. 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
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Jungle Book
Ode to a Nightingale
Tamburlaine the Great
33. 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
Astrophel and Stella
Jungle Book
Wuthering Heights
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
34. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Percy Shelley
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Utopia
35. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Philip Sidney
William Blake
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
36. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Sir Walter Scott
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Utopia
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
37. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
T.S. Elliot
Joseph Conrad
The Waste Land
38. 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
Samuel Coleridge
Astrophel and Stella
39. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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40. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Graham Greene
Edmund Spenser
Canterburry Tales
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
41. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Ode to a Nightingale
John Bunyan
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Philip Sidney
42. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Paradise Lost
Prometheus Unbound
John Keats
Shakespeare
43. 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
Sonnet sequence
A frame story/narrative
Sir Walter Scott
The Tower
44. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Knight's Tale
Christopher Marlowe
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45. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Pulpit
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
46. 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...
Icarus
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Robert Browning
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
47. 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
The love of travel
'Spenserian stanza'
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Alchemist
48. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
John Keats
Don Juan
Chaucer
49. 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.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Bells and Pomegranates.
50. 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
T.S. Elliot
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Knight's Tale
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