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CLEP World Literature
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1. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Astrophel and Stella
Mary Shelley
Joseph Conrad
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
2. 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
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
John Milton
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Utopia
3. 17th century authors
Divine Comedy
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Tower
Christopher Marlowe
4. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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5. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
George Elliot
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Graham Greene
6. 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
T.S. Elliot
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Alchemist
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
7. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Christopher Marlowe
Adventure
8. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Pulpit
'Spenserian stanza'
Joseph Conrad
9. The Comedians was written by who
William Langland
Percy Shelley
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Graham Greene
10. 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)
George Elliot
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
11. The 'shrew' of the title
Graham Greene
Adventure
Ode to a Nightingale
Katherine
12. Jane Austen wrote ...
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
John Milton
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
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13. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Gulliver
Divine Comedy
Jungle Book
Idylls of the King
14. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Mary Shelley
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Claudius
15. 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
Achilles
Pygmalion
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
16. 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.
The Alchemist
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
17. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Rape of the Lock
Edmund Spenser
Philip Sidney
18. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
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Sir Walter Scott
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
19. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Sailing to Byzantium
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Claudius
Graham Greene
20. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Great Expectations
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Rape of the Lock
21. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
The Alchemist
Percy Shelley
Oliver Twist
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
22. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Pride and Prejudice
Canterburry Tales
Paradise Lost
Percy Shelley
23. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
John Bunyan
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Tower
24. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
'Spenserian stanza'
Polonius
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
25. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
Hamlet
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Icarus
26. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Jonathon Swift
Ann Radcliffe
27. 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.
A frame story/narrative
Wuthering Heights
Jonathon Swift
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
28. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Joseph Conrad
Don Juan
The Jew of Malta
29. 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
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Ivanhoe
A frame story/narrative
Edmund Spenser
30. 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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31. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Pilgrim's Progress
The absurdity of life
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
32. 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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33. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
A frame story/narrative
Adventure
34. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Icarus
Great Expectations
Divine Comedy
35. 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
Katherine
John Keats
Graham Greene
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
36. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Katherine
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Sonnet sequence
37. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Odes
The love of travel
The Renaissance 1485-1660
38. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
39. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Samuel Coleridge
Sonnet sequence
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
40. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Pilgrim's Progress
41. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Joseph Conrad
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Oliver Twist
42. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Dante
Bells and Pomegranates.
Icarus
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.
Rape of the Lock
Samuel Coleridge
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ode on a Grecian Urn
44. 18th Century authors
John Keats
William Blake
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
45. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
A frame story/narrative
Utopia
Adventure
46. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Christopher Marlowe
Macbeth
Graham Greene
47. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Idylls of the King
Icarus
Philip Sidney
48. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Bells and Pomegranates.
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
49. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Idylls of the King
Achilles
Chaucer
50. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Astrophel and Stella
Samuel Coleridge
Shakespeare
John Keats