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CLEP World Literature
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1. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Pilgrim's Progress
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
2. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
The Jew of Malta
Othello
Graham Greene
3. '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.
The Tower
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Robert Browning
4. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Shakespeare
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
5. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Odes
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
6. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Pulpit
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The absurdity of life
7. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Canterburry Tales
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
8. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
The Tower
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Canterburry Tales
9. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Adventure
William Blake
10. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Othello
T.S. Elliot
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Adventure
11. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Sir Walter Scott
Claudius
12. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Jungle Book
George Elliot
13. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Achilles
Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Don Juan
14. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
Philip Sidney
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Macbeth
15. '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 -
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ode on a Grecian Urn
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.
'Spenserian stanza'
Divine Comedy
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
17. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Sonnet sequence
Odes
George Elliot
Robert Browning
18. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
John Keats
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
19. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Samuel Coleridge
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
20. 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.
Adventure
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Paradise Lost
A frame story/narrative
21. 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
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The Knight's Tale
The Alchemist
Don Juan
22. Works by Jonathon Swift
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23. The founder of gothic literature - Wrote The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Gaston de Blondeville - The Italian - The Mysteries of Udolpho - The Romance of the Forest and A Sicilian Romance.
Jonathon Swift
Utopia
Ann Radcliffe
Othello
24. Mary Shelley was his second wife
'Spenserian stanza'
Don Juan
T.S. Elliot
Percy Shelley
25. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
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George Elliot
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
26. 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
Macbeth
Pride and Prejudice
Jungle Book
Bells and Pomegranates.
27. 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
Valdes and Cornelius
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
28. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Emma by Jane Austen
Samuel Coleridge
29. 17th century authors
Sonnet sequence
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Pulpit
30. 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
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Graham Greene
Dante
The Knight's Tale
31. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Macbeth
The Alchemist
Idylls of the King
Alexander Pope
32. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Katherine
Paradise Lost
33. 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?'
The Alchemist
'Spenserian stanza'
The Book of Thel
Alexander Pope
34. 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
Prometheus Unbound
Katherine
Pilgrim's Progress
35. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
The Book of Thel
Pulpit
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Jungle Book
36. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
The Tower
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Pygmalion
37. The Comedians was written by who
The Tower
Graham Greene
The Alchemist
Canterburry Tales
38. 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
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
39. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
William Langland
Idylls of the King
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
40. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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41. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Shakespeare
Othello
Gulliver
Alexander Pope
42. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Pilgrim's Progress
Christopher Marlowe
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Rape of the Lock
43. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Adventure
Canterburry Tales
Claudius
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
44. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
T.S. Elliot
Alexander Pope
Icarus
Claudius
45. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Edmund Spenser
Graham Greene
The love of travel
Divine Comedy
46. 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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47. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Rape of the Lock
Adventure
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Mary Shelley
48. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
The Knight's Tale
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Macbeth
Adventure
49. 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
Idylls of the King
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
T.S. Elliot
Paradise Lost
50. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ann Radcliffe
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Pilgrim's Progress
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