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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
John Bunyan
Emma by Jane Austen
Sailing to Byzantium
Astrophel and Stella
2. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Sir Walter Scott
Canterburry Tales
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
3. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Bells and Pomegranates.
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
4. 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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Ode to a Nightingale
Sir Walter Scott
A frame story/narrative
5. 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.
Wuthering Heights
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Sonnet sequence
6. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Christopher Marlowe
7. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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8. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Ode to a Nightingale
Pygmalion
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
9. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
10. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
The love of travel
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Alexander Pope
11. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Prometheus Unbound
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
12. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Canterburry Tales
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
13. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Paradise Lost
Christopher Marlowe
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
14. 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
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Achilles
15. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Percy Shelley
Graham Greene
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
16. 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
Wuthering Heights
William Wordsworth
Mary Shelley
A frame story/narrative
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
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Ode to a Nightingale
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
18. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ode to a Nightingale
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
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19. 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...
T.S. Elliot
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Sir Walter Scott
Robert Browning
20. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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21. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
The Jew of Malta
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Alexander Pope
22. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
T.S. Elliot
Othello
Claudius
A frame story/narrative
23. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Utopia
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.
Emma by Jane Austen
The Jew of Malta
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
25. 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.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Valdes and Cornelius
Samuel Coleridge
26. Modern English authors
The Alchemist
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
T.S. Elliot
27. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Graham Greene
Bells and Pomegranates.
Katherine
Shakespeare
28. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The love of travel
John Bunyan
29. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Astrophel and Stella
Ode to a Nightingale
John Milton
Idylls of the King
30. Works by Charles Dickens
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Prometheus Unbound
Piers Plowman
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
31. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Philip Sidney
George Elliot
Pygmalion
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
32. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Sailing to Byzantium
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
33. 18th Century Irish Satirist
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Polonius
Adventure
Jonathon Swift
34. 19th Century authors
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Philip Sidney
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
35. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Pride and Prejudice
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
36. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
Pride and Prejudice
Utopia
Bells and Pomegranates.
37. One of the earliest English history plays - telescopes most of Edward II's reign into a single narrative - beginning with the recall of his favourite - Piers Gaveston - from exile - and ending with his son Edward III's execution of Mortimer Junior fo
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Percy Shelley
Emma by Jane Austen
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
38. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Graham Greene
39. 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
The Book of Thel
The Tower
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Ivanhoe
40. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
Percy Shelley
Don Juan
Shakespeare
41. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Katherine
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
42. '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.'
'Spenserian stanza'
Bells and Pomegranates.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Waste Land
43. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Graham Greene
Shakespeare
Percy Shelley
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
44. 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
Gulliver
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
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45. 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
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Divine Comedy
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
T.S. Elliot
46. 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.
Rape of the Lock
Hamlet
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Othello
47. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Utopia
Paradise Lost
William Wordsworth
The Knight's Tale
48. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Book of Thel
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
49. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Sailing to Byzantium
Ode to a Nightingale
John Milton
Graham Greene
50. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Odes
Percy Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
John Bunyan