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CLEP World Literature
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1. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Christopher Marlowe
William Blake
The Tower
2. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Knight's Tale
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
3. 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?'
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Alexander Pope
Rape of the Lock
The Book of Thel
4. 17th century authors
Adventure
Ivanhoe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Pulpit
5. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Gulliver
Jonathon Swift
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Polonius
6. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
William Blake
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Dante
7. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
The Alchemist
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Idylls of the King
8. 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
William Wordsworth
Pygmalion
9. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Tamburlaine the Great
Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
John Milton
10. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Sir Walter Scott
T.S. Elliot
Samuel Coleridge
Philip Sidney
11. The Comedians was written by who
Tamburlaine the Great
The love of travel
Graham Greene
Valdes and Cornelius
12. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Tower
Pride and Prejudice
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
13. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Katherine
Sir Walter Scott
John Keats
Percy Shelley
14. 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.
Pulpit
'Spenserian stanza'
Mary Shelley
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
15. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Canterburry Tales
Percy Shelley
16. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Robert Browning
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
17. 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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18. 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
Achilles
The love of travel
The Renaissance 1485-1660
19. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
The Jew of Malta
Pilgrim's Progress
The Waste Land
Mary Shelley
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.
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Jungle Book
Tamburlaine the Great
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
21. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Edmund Spenser
Macbeth
A frame story/narrative
Claudius
22. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
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Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
John Keats
23. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Katherine
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Utopia
The Waste Land
24. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Utopia
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Great Expectations
T.S. Elliot
25. 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
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Chaucer
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
The Jew of Malta
26. 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
Icarus
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Graham Greene
27. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Graham Greene
Divine Comedy
Pride and Prejudice
Jungle Book
28. 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
Utopia
Alexander Pope
Pride and Prejudice
The Book of Thel
29. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Ode to a Nightingale
Valdes and Cornelius
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
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)
Shakespeare
The Waste Land
George Elliot
Adventure
31. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Emma by Jane Austen
Percy Shelley
Alexander Pope
Claudius
32. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
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Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
William Wordsworth
Wuthering Heights
33. 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
Icarus
The Alchemist
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
George Elliot
34. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Jungle Book
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Langland
35. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Graham Greene
Achilles
Valdes and Cornelius
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
36. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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37. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Emma by Jane Austen
Achilles
Don Juan
Shakespeare
38. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Canterburry Tales
Adventure
Sonnet sequence
A frame story/narrative
39. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Polonius
Graham Greene
Chaucer
Ann Radcliffe
40. 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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41. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Sailing to Byzantium
Don Juan
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
42. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The absurdity of life
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Claudius
43. 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.
Philip Sidney
Othello
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
44. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
George Elliot
Shakespeare
Claudius
45. '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 -
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Chaucer
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
46. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Rape of the Lock
Canterburry Tales
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
47. '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.
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
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In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
48. The poem satirises a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods - Pope keeps a sense that beauty is fragile - and that the loss of a lock of hair touches Belinda deeply.
Rape of the Lock
Graham Greene
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
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49. Book of poems
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Sailing to Byzantium
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Renaissance 1485-1660
50. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Katherine
Ann Radcliffe
Don Juan
Paradise Lost