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CLEP World Literature
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1. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
William Blake
Chaucer
A frame story/narrative
2. 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
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Shakespeare
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
3. Jane Austen wrote ...
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
4. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Dante
Jungle Book
Alexander Pope
5. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
John Keats
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
William Blake
Achilles
6. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
John Bunyan
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Dante
T.S. Elliot
7. 18th Century authors
Valdes and Cornelius
Ode to a Nightingale
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Othello
8. 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
Dante
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Emma by Jane Austen
William Blake
9. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
John Bunyan
The Tower
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
10. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Sailing to Byzantium
The Knight's Tale
Ababbcbcc
Jungle Book
11. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Macbeth
William Langland
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
George Elliot
12. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Icarus
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
13. 19th Century authors
Sonnet sequence
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
14. 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
Emma by Jane Austen
Pygmalion
Canterburry Tales
Ode to a Nightingale
15. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Odes
Joseph Conrad
16. Mary Shelley was his second wife
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Percy Shelley
Oliver Twist
Achilles
17. 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?
18. A poem
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Idylls of the King
Shakespeare
Piers Plowman
19. 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
Oliver Twist
Pride and Prejudice
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Othello
20. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Macbeth
Wuthering Heights
The Knight's Tale
21. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Percy Shelley
Dante
John Bunyan
22. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Ivanhoe
Rape of the Lock
John Keats
23. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
John Milton
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The absurdity of life
Utopia
24. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Samuel Coleridge
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
25. The Comedians was written by who
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Icarus
Percy Shelley
26. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Pygmalion
Jonathon Swift
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
27. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Joseph Conrad
Shakespeare
Adventure
28. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Samuel Coleridge
Valdes and Cornelius
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
George Elliot
29. 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
Canterburry Tales
Sonnet sequence
Katherine
The Alchemist
30. 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.
Ann Radcliffe
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Ivanhoe
Claudius
31. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Piers Plowman
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Icarus
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
32. 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
Divine Comedy
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Pulpit
Dante
33. Works by Charles Dickens
The Knight's Tale
T.S. Elliot
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Samuel Coleridge
34. 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.
Claudius
Divine Comedy
Icarus
Sonnet sequence
35. Falls into a stream after going crazy
The Jew of Malta
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
36. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
37. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Hamlet
Sailing to Byzantium
Utopia
38. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Tamburlaine the Great
Dante
39. 17th century authors
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
John Milton
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Pilgrim's Progress
40. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Jungle Book
Icarus
Paradise Lost
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
41. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Sir Walter Scott
Rape of the Lock
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
42. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The absurdity of life
John Bunyan
43. 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
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
44. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Jungle Book
A frame story/narrative
Don Juan
45. 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)
Pulpit
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
George Elliot
46. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
John Milton
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
47. 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
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Astrophel and Stella
Percy Shelley
48. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
Astrophel and Stella
Christopher Marlowe
'Spenserian stanza'
49. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Graham Greene
George Elliot
Tamburlaine the Great
50. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Paradise Lost
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Prometheus Unbound