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CLEP World Literature
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1. The Comedians was written by who
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Graham Greene
2. 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...
Hamlet
Robert Browning
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Canterburry Tales
3. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The love of travel
Othello
4. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Sailing to Byzantium
The Knight's Tale
The absurdity of life
5. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
Pride and Prejudice
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Great Expectations
6. 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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7. 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
Dante
Pride and Prejudice
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
8. Jane Austen wrote ...
Graham Greene
Ivanhoe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
9. 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.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Prometheus Unbound
10. 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.
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
A frame story/narrative
Valdes and Cornelius
Sonnet sequence
11. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
12. The 'shrew' of the title
Percy Shelley
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Wuthering Heights
Katherine
13. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Canterburry Tales
14. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Jonathon Swift
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
15. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Joseph Conrad
Graham Greene
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Jungle Book
16. Works by Jonathon Swift
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17. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Renaissance 1485-1660
George Elliot
Odes
18. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
A frame story/narrative
Jungle Book
Don Juan
Ivanhoe
19. 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?'
The Book of Thel
Paradise Lost
Dante
Idylls of the King
20. 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.
Sailing to Byzantium
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Percy Shelley
Sir Walter Scott
21. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Adventure
William Wordsworth
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
22. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Tamburlaine the Great
Rape of the Lock
Icarus
Jungle Book
23. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Percy Shelley
Paradise Lost
Joseph Conrad
24. 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.
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
The Jew of Malta
Adventure
25. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
The absurdity of life
Utopia
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Pulpit
26. 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
William Blake
Astrophel and Stella
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
27. 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
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Piers Plowman
Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley
28. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Chaucer
Achilles
Robert Browning
George Elliot
29. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
The absurdity of life
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Icarus
Achilles
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)
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
George Elliot
Jonathon Swift
The Tower
31. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Dante
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The Knight's Tale
Sir Walter Scott
32. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
William Wordsworth
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Idylls of the King
33. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
The love of travel
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Christopher Marlowe
Oliver Twist
34. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Katherine
Philip Sidney
Pygmalion
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
35. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
The Waste Land
The Knight's Tale
Canterburry Tales
William Langland
36. 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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37. 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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Emma by Jane Austen
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
38. 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
A frame story/narrative
Othello
John Bunyan
Wuthering Heights
39. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Joseph Conrad
John Keats
Odes
40. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Jungle Book
Hamlet
William Blake
Othello
41. 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.
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
42. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
T.S. Elliot
Ann Radcliffe
Dante
43. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Pulpit
John Bunyan
Chaucer
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
44. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Christopher Marlowe
The Alchemist
John Bunyan
45. '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.'
Pygmalion
The Waste Land
T.S. Elliot
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
46. Modern English authors
Don Juan
William Blake
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Christopher Marlowe
47. 18th Century authors
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Icarus
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
48. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Jonathon Swift
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The Alchemist
49. 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
Robert Browning
Idylls of the King
Ode to a Nightingale
Dante
50. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Jonathon Swift
Jungle Book
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