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CLEP World Literature
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1. The 'shrew' of the title
Percy Shelley
The Tower
Rape of the Lock
Katherine
2. '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 -
Joseph Conrad
Hamlet
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Alchemist
3. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
A frame story/narrative
Divine Comedy
4. '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 Jew of Malta
Polonius
Alexander Pope
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
5. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Philip Sidney
The Tower
6. 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
William Langland
The Alchemist
A frame story/narrative
Paradise Lost
7. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
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Achilles
8. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
George Elliot
Idylls of the King
9. 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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10. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Dante
The love of travel
Wuthering Heights
11. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Pulpit
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12. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Bells and Pomegranates.
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.
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The Jew of Malta
Rape of the Lock
Emma by Jane Austen
14. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Valdes and Cornelius
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Tower
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
15. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Macbeth
16. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Sonnet sequence
17. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ivanhoe
Graham Greene
Dante
18. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
Mary Shelley
Pulpit
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
19. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Odes
Pride and Prejudice
20. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
The Tower
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Pilgrim's Progress
21. Modern English authors
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Great Expectations
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
22. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
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23. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
'Spenserian stanza'
T.S. Elliot
Polonius
Katherine
24. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
The Book of Thel
Tamburlaine the Great
Mary Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
25. 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
Valdes and Cornelius
Sir Walter Scott
William Langland
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.
Graham Greene
Rape of the Lock
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Adventure
27. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Divine Comedy
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Oliver Twist
28. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Prometheus Unbound
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Tower
29. 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
George Elliot
Wuthering Heights
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
T.S. Elliot
30. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Divine Comedy
Hamlet
The Tower
31. 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
Samuel Coleridge
Ode to a Nightingale
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
32. 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
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
33. 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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34. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Idylls of the King
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Jew of Malta
35. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Divine Comedy
Ivanhoe
Edmund Spenser
36. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Astrophel and Stella
William Langland
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Pygmalion
37. Book of poems
Jungle Book
Sailing to Byzantium
The Alchemist
The Renaissance 1485-1660
38. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
The Knight's Tale
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
John Bunyan
Joseph Conrad
39. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Samuel Coleridge
40. 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.
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Astrophel and Stella
Bells and Pomegranates.
41. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Ivanhoe
Polonius
The Tower
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
42. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
The Jew of Malta
Dante
John Keats
43. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
T.S. Elliot
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Graham Greene
44. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
The Tower
John Milton
John Keats
45. A poem
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Chaucer
T.S. Elliot
Piers Plowman
46. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Ode to a Nightingale
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
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
Jungle Book
T.S. Elliot
Claudius
48. 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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49. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Great Expectations
50. William Yeats wrote...
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Alchemist
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
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