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CLEP World Literature
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1. Modern English authors
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Alexander Pope
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The Renaissance 1485-1660
2. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Adventure
Valdes and Cornelius
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
3. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Christopher Marlowe
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Don Juan
4. 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
Paradise Lost
Pride and Prejudice
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
5. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Graham Greene
Polonius
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
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. 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.
Great Expectations
Sonnet sequence
Claudius
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
8. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
'Spenserian stanza'
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
T.S. Elliot
Pygmalion
9. Mary Shelley was his second wife
George Elliot
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
Percy Shelley
10. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
John Keats
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
11. '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.
Canterburry Tales
The Jew of Malta
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
12. 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
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
John Bunyan
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Ode to a Nightingale
13. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Sir Walter Scott
14. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Dante
Hamlet
Sailing to Byzantium
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
15. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
William Langland
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Oliver Twist
Katherine
16. 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
Adventure
Alexander Pope
17. 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
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Gulliver
Christopher Marlowe
18. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Ann Radcliffe
Sir Walter Scott
19. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Astrophel and Stella
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Wuthering Heights
20. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Joseph Conrad
Emma by Jane Austen
21. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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22. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
The Waste Land
Rape of the Lock
George Elliot
Bells and Pomegranates.
23. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
The Waste Land
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Prometheus Unbound
24. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Idylls of the King
William Wordsworth
Great Expectations
Icarus
25. 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.
Piers Plowman
Emma by Jane Austen
Othello
The Jew of Malta
26. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Langland
Hamlet
Divine Comedy
Pilgrim's Progress
27. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Pygmalion
Christopher Marlowe
Utopia
28. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Katherine
Claudius
The Alchemist
Robert Browning
29. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
Utopia
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Alchemist
30. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Knight's Tale
The Renaissance 1485-1660
31. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Edmund Spenser
32. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
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Dante
Gulliver
Utopia
33. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Pulpit
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Oliver Twist
34. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Shakespeare
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Great Expectations
Jungle Book
35. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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36. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The absurdity of life
Samuel Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Oliver Twist
37. 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
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Graham Greene
The Knight's Tale
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
38. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Alchemist
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
39. The 'shrew' of the title
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Katherine
Sonnet sequence
William Langland
40. 19th Century authors
The Waste Land
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Odes
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
41. 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
The Knight's Tale
Macbeth
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Book of Thel
42. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Piers Plowman
Great Expectations
Gulliver
43. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Edmund Spenser
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The absurdity of life
Pulpit
44. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
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Icarus
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Dante
45. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
The Jew of Malta
Ivanhoe
Rape of the Lock
Achilles
46. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
The Waste Land
Oliver Twist
William Wordsworth
Othello
47. '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 -
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Claudius
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
48. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
The Waste Land
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Pride and Prejudice
49. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Macbeth
John Milton
50. 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
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Chaucer
Macbeth