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CLEP World Literature
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1. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
The Alchemist
'Spenserian stanza'
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
2. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Christopher Marlowe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Mary Shelley
Sir Walter Scott
3. Jane Austen wrote ...
Sonnet sequence
Graham Greene
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Don Juan
4. 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
Odes
Ivanhoe
Alexander Pope
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
5. 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
Odes
The Book of Thel
A frame story/narrative
6. 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
Graham Greene
Emma by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
7. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Othello
Ode to a Nightingale
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
8. 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.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
John Keats
The Alchemist
Wuthering Heights
9. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Prometheus Unbound
William Langland
Sir Walter Scott
10. 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
Dante
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
11. 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
Piers Plowman
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Emma by Jane Austen
12. 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
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Claudius
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The Alchemist
13. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Hamlet
Jungle Book
Icarus
14. 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 Tower
Sonnet sequence
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Edmund Spenser
15. 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.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Claudius
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - 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.'
The Waste Land
Icarus
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Rape of the Lock
17. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Rape of the Lock
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Icarus
18. Book of poems
The absurdity of life
Sailing to Byzantium
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
19. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Percy Shelley
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
A frame story/narrative
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
20. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
The Jew of Malta
Pygmalion
Shakespeare
21. 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
Valdes and Cornelius
Hamlet
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
22. The Comedians was written by who
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Graham Greene
John Bunyan
23. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Graham Greene
Sonnet sequence
Canterburry Tales
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
24. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Sailing to Byzantium
Polonius
Robert Browning
Pygmalion
25. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
The absurdity of life
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Oliver Twist
Macbeth
26. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Joseph Conrad
Mary Shelley
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
27. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
The Jew of Malta
Jonathon Swift
Piers Plowman
28. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Sailing to Byzantium
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Macbeth
Robert Browning
29. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Oliver Twist
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Sailing to Byzantium
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
30. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
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Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Percy Shelley
31. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Oliver Twist
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Achilles
32. 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
Graham Greene
Wuthering Heights
Great Expectations
33. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
John Bunyan
Sonnet sequence
34. 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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35. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Paradise Lost
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
John Bunyan
The Tower
36. 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
Utopia
Bells and Pomegranates.
37. A poem
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Piers Plowman
Christopher Marlowe
William Langland
38. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Claudius
Alexander Pope
Mary Shelley
Bells and Pomegranates.
39. Written by William Blake - the Lily - the Cloud - the Worm - the Clod of Clay...characters - asks the question 'why does the springtime of life inevitably fade so that all things must end?'
Christopher Marlowe
The Book of Thel
Astrophel and Stella
Jungle Book
40. Works by Charles Dickens
William Blake
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
41. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Don Juan
Idylls of the King
Piers Plowman
42. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Oliver Twist
Valdes and Cornelius
Alexander Pope
43. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Prometheus Unbound
Hamlet
Utopia
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
44. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Pulpit
Bells and Pomegranates.
45. Modern English authors
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Gulliver
Sailing to Byzantium
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
46. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Claudius
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Divine Comedy
Gulliver
47. 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.
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Ode to a Nightingale
The absurdity of life
48. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Ivanhoe
Gulliver
Paradise Lost
49. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
John Milton
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
50. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The Book of Thel
Graham Greene