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CLEP World Literature
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1. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Pulpit
The Knight's Tale
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Ann Radcliffe
2. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Philip Sidney
3. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Shakespeare
The absurdity of life
Jungle Book
Gulliver
4. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
A frame story/narrative
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Paradise Lost
5. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Ann Radcliffe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
6. '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.
Tamburlaine the Great
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Sailing to Byzantium
T.S. Elliot
7. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
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Dante - Chaucer and Langland
8. 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...
Mary Shelley
Macbeth
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Robert Browning
9. The 'shrew' of the title
Katherine
Valdes and Cornelius
Graham Greene
Gulliver
10. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Alexander Pope
11. 17th century authors
Valdes and Cornelius
Graham Greene
William Wordsworth
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
12. 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.
The absurdity of life
Sonnet sequence
Philip Sidney
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
13. 18th Century authors
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
A frame story/narrative
Claudius
14. 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
Adventure
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Piers Plowman
The Tower
15. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
John Milton
Christopher Marlowe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Macbeth
16. William Yeats wrote...
William Blake
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
17. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
The Jew of Malta
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
18. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Gulliver
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Samuel Coleridge
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
19. '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 -
George Elliot
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Pilgrim's Progress
Shakespeare
20. 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
Chaucer
The Alchemist
John Milton
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
21. 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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22. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Samuel Coleridge
Gulliver
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
John Milton
23. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Shakespeare
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
John Bunyan
Don Juan
24. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Wuthering Heights
25. Jane Austen wrote ...
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Idylls of the King
Don Juan
26. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
William Blake
The Tower
Sailing to Byzantium
27. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Pilgrim's Progress
John Milton
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
28. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
29. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Jungle Book
Emma by Jane Austen
John Bunyan
Polonius
30. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Ivanhoe
Dante
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Shakespeare
31. 19th Century authors
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Joseph Conrad
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
32. 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.
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
33. Works by Jonathon Swift
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34. 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
George Elliot
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Pulpit
Emma by Jane Austen
35. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Pygmalion
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
36. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
A frame story/narrative
Pilgrim's Progress
The absurdity of life
William Wordsworth
37. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Ode to a Nightingale
Graham Greene
Piers Plowman
38. 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
Edmund Spenser
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Astrophel and Stella
Canterburry Tales
39. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Chaucer
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
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Joseph Conrad
40. 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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41. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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42. 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.
Jonathon Swift
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Gulliver
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
43. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Divine Comedy
Emma by Jane Austen
Ode to a Nightingale
'Spenserian stanza'
44. 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
Polonius
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
John Keats
45. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Don Juan
The absurdity of life
Othello
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
46. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
George Elliot
Achilles
Wuthering Heights
47. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Sailing to Byzantium
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
William Wordsworth
48. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Bells and Pomegranates.
Great Expectations
49. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
William Wordsworth
Pilgrim's Progress
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
50. 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.
Tamburlaine the Great
Macbeth
The Jew of Malta
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats