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CLEP World Literature
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1. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Percy Shelley
2. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Samuel Coleridge
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The love of travel
3. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Percy Shelley
The absurdity of life
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
4. 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
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Achilles
5. This story is made up of 108 sonnets and 11 songs - 'aster' (star) Greek 'Stella' (star) Latin - 'Phil' (lover) - Thus Astrophel is the star lover - and Stella is his star.
Macbeth
Astrophel and Stella
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
6. 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?
7. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Pilgrim's Progress
Jungle Book
Hamlet
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
8. 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
Ode to a Nightingale
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The Alchemist
9. 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.
Gulliver
The Jew of Malta
The Waste Land
Ode to a Nightingale
10. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Divine Comedy
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Othello
11. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Robert Browning
John Milton
The absurdity of life
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
12. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Oliver Twist
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Idylls of the King
13. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Philip Sidney
John Milton
Icarus
Samuel Coleridge
14. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
15. 18th Century Irish Satirist
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Joseph Conrad
Achilles
Jonathon Swift
16. 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
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Othello
Ivanhoe
Christopher Marlowe
17. 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...
Christopher Marlowe
Robert Browning
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
18. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Shakespeare
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Percy Shelley
Adventure
19. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Pygmalion
Pride and Prejudice
Ode to a Nightingale
Alexander Pope
20. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
A frame story/narrative
Hamlet
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Great Expectations
21. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Paradise Lost
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
22. 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
Pilgrim's Progress
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Othello
Katherine
23. 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.
A frame story/narrative
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
24. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
25. '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.'
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Waste Land
Joseph Conrad
26. 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
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Dante
Adventure
27. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The love of travel
28. 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
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Don Juan
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Graham Greene
29. Works by Charles Dickens
Piers Plowman
Utopia
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
30. '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.
William Blake
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
31. The first tale from Canterbury Tales - this story was written in iambic pentameter - about courtly love and ethical dilemmas - Arcite and Palamon are imprisoned. They both fall for a woman named Emily which causes tension and hate.
32. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
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William Blake
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Ode on a Grecian Urn
33. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
A frame story/narrative
Valdes and Cornelius
Adventure
34. 19th Century authors
Graham Greene
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The Knight's Tale
Jonathon Swift
35. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Book of Thel
Pygmalion
36. 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 Book of Thel
The Waste Land
William Wordsworth
Polonius
37. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
John Bunyan
Wuthering Heights
Christopher Marlowe
38. 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 Knight's Tale
Tamburlaine the Great
Sonnet sequence
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
39. The 'shrew' of the title
The Knight's Tale
Katherine
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
'Spenserian stanza'
40. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
Sailing to Byzantium
Chaucer
41. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
The Jew of Malta
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
William Langland
Don Juan
42. William Yeats wrote...
Icarus
Great Expectations
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Piers Plowman
43. Works by Jonathon Swift
44. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Emma by Jane Austen
Pilgrim's Progress
45. 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
Ode to a Nightingale
Katherine
Sonnet sequence
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
46. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Ann Radcliffe
Sir Walter Scott
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Tamburlaine the Great
47. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Polonius
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
John Milton
48. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Mary Shelley
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
49. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Robert Browning
Canterburry Tales
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Bells and Pomegranates.
50. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Percy Shelley