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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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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2. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
'Spenserian stanza'
3. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
George Elliot
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
John Milton
4. 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?'
Alexander Pope
A frame story/narrative
The Book of Thel
The Knight's Tale
5. 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
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
George Elliot
6. 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)
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Sir Walter Scott
George Elliot
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
7. Jane Austen wrote ...
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Knight's Tale
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
'Spenserian stanza'
8. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Paradise Lost
William Wordsworth
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Joseph Conrad
9. 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
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The absurdity of life
Ivanhoe
Divine Comedy
10. Modern English authors
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
11. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jonathon Swift
Katherine
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Jungle Book
12. 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
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Sir Walter Scott
A frame story/narrative
13. 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.
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The Jew of Malta
William Wordsworth
Pygmalion
14. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Alexander Pope
Don Juan
Pride and Prejudice
Odes
15. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
16. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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17. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Utopia
The Waste Land
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Divine Comedy
18. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Rape of the Lock
Shakespeare
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
19. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Gulliver
A frame story/narrative
Sailing to Byzantium
20. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Icarus
Don Juan
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Robert Browning
21. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Samuel Coleridge
The absurdity of life
Valdes and Cornelius
John Milton
22. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Sir Walter Scott
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
23. 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
Odes
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The absurdity of life
24. 18th Century Irish Satirist
George Elliot
Jonathon Swift
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Katherine
25. 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.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Ivanhoe
Rape of the Lock
26. 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.
Christopher Marlowe
Rape of the Lock
John Milton
Oliver Twist
27. 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
John Milton
William Langland
Chaucer
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
28. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
29. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Hamlet
Achilles
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
30. '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.'
The Book of Thel
The Waste Land
Joseph Conrad
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
31. 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
Graham Greene
Hamlet
Pilgrim's Progress
32. 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...
Valdes and Cornelius
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Robert Browning
Dante
33. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Ann Radcliffe
34. 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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35. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
William Langland
36. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Percy Shelley
37. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Prometheus Unbound
T.S. Elliot
The Jew of Malta
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
38. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Utopia
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
39. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Bells and Pomegranates.
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Katherine
The Renaissance 1485-1660
40. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Percy Shelley
Shakespeare
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
41. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
William Blake
Robert Browning
Icarus
42. 18th Century authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Canterburry Tales
43. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Joseph Conrad
44. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
William Wordsworth
The Jew of Malta
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
45. Works by Jonathon Swift
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46. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Pulpit
Mary Shelley
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
47. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Sonnet sequence
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
48. 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.
Pygmalion
Graham Greene
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Sonnet sequence
49. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
John Bunyan
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
50. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The Tower
Odes