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CLEP World Literature
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1. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Edmund Spenser
Mary Shelley
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Rape of the Lock
2. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Graham Greene
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Prometheus Unbound
3. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Emma by Jane Austen
Shakespeare
Wuthering Heights
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
4. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Percy Shelley
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
John Bunyan
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
5. 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)
George Elliot
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'Spenserian stanza'
Wuthering Heights
6. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Emma by Jane Austen
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
7. The Comedians was written by who
Tamburlaine the Great
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Prometheus Unbound
Graham Greene
8. 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
Robert Browning
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Pilgrim's Progress
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
9. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
Polonius
John Milton
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
10. 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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11. Modern English authors
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Ivanhoe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
12. Leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it - employs a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed - at least in part - for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of
A frame story/narrative
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
13. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
The Tower
Gulliver
Idylls of the King
The Book of Thel
14. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
Alexander Pope
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John Bunyan
15. A poem
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Piers Plowman
Canterburry Tales
Paradise Lost
16. 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
Polonius
George Elliot
17. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Idylls of the King
Great Expectations
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Icarus
18. Works by Jonathon Swift
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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
Jonathon Swift
The Jew of Malta
Pride and Prejudice
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
20. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Valdes and Cornelius
Jonathon Swift
21. 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
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Rape of the Lock
22. '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 -
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Waste Land
William Wordsworth
23. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
William Langland
Emma by Jane Austen
Ode on a Grecian Urn
24. Works by Charles Dickens
Pilgrim's Progress
Mary Shelley
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Idylls of the King
25. 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
Samuel Coleridge
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Macbeth
26. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Waste Land
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
27. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Jungle Book
The Alchemist
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
'Spenserian stanza'
28. 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.
Joseph Conrad
Ann Radcliffe
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Philip Sidney
29. 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
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Sonnet sequence
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
30. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Gulliver
Jungle Book
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
31. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Polonius
Odes
Prometheus Unbound
Samuel Coleridge
32. Book of poems
George Elliot
Sailing to Byzantium
Rape of the Lock
Don Juan
33. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Mary Shelley
Emma by Jane Austen
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
34. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
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Oliver Twist
Wuthering Heights
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
35. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Katherine
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Alexander Pope
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
36. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Dante
Joseph Conrad
37. 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
Robert Browning
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
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
Wuthering Heights
Sailing to Byzantium
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
39. 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.
Achilles
Piers Plowman
Ode on a Grecian Urn
William Langland
40. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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41. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
Pygmalion
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Graham Greene
42. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
A frame story/narrative
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Sir Walter Scott
43. Jane Austen wrote ...
Icarus
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The absurdity of life
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
44. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Waste Land
Ode to a Nightingale
Chaucer
45. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Ann Radcliffe
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Utopia
46. 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
Macbeth
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Sailing to Byzantium
Pulpit
47. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
William Blake
48. 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.
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49. 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.
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
The Jew of Malta
Shakespeare
Jonathon Swift
50. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Graham Greene
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
John Bunyan