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CLEP World Literature
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1. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
A frame story/narrative
T.S. Elliot
2. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Utopia
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The Renaissance 1485-1660
3. 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
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Divine Comedy
4. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
The Waste Land
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Astrophel and Stella
Don Juan
5. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Polonius
Graham Greene
Shakespeare
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
6. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Edmund Spenser
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
7. 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
Gulliver
Sonnet sequence
John Keats
8. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Percy Shelley
William Blake
The absurdity of life
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
9. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Odes
Sailing to Byzantium
Valdes and Cornelius
John Bunyan
10. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Emma by Jane Austen
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
11. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
The Knight's Tale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
12. 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
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Ode to a Nightingale
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
13. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
William Langland
Valdes and Cornelius
Samuel Coleridge
The Waste Land
14. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Langland
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
John Milton
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
15. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
T.S. Elliot
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
William Langland
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
16. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Valdes and Cornelius
Hamlet
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
17. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
18. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
The Waste Land
A frame story/narrative
Ode on a Grecian Urn
19. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Odes
John Keats
William Langland
20. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Piers Plowman
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Utopia
Gulliver
21. 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.
Pride and Prejudice
T.S. Elliot
Sonnet sequence
Don Juan
22. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Graham Greene
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
23. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
A frame story/narrative
Bells and Pomegranates.
Claudius
24. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Don Juan
Jonathon Swift
The absurdity of life
John Keats
25. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The Alchemist
Prometheus Unbound
26. 18th Century Irish Satirist
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Jonathon Swift
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
John Bunyan
27. 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...
Idylls of the King
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Prometheus Unbound
Robert Browning
28. '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 Knight's Tale
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Edmund Spenser
29. Jane Austen wrote ...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Book of Thel
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Alchemist
30. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Claudius
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Astrophel and Stella
31. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
32. 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
Adventure
Paradise Lost
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Divine Comedy
33. 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.
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Jew of Malta
Joseph Conrad
34. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Ode to a Nightingale
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Rape of the Lock
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
35. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Prometheus Unbound
Ababbcbcc
Rape of the Lock
The Renaissance 1485-1660
36. A poem
Edmund Spenser
Idylls of the King
Piers Plowman
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
37. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Paradise Lost
The Book of Thel
38. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Philip Sidney
Sir Walter Scott
39. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Sonnet sequence
The Alchemist
William Wordsworth
Shakespeare
40. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Rape of the Lock
The Book of Thel
Pulpit
41. Wrote 'Troilus and Criseyde' - 'The Knight's Tale' - 'Canterbury Tales' - known as the 'Father of English Literature' - considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages - first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey
Chaucer
Macbeth
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Joseph Conrad
42. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Samuel Coleridge
Edmund Spenser
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
43. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Wuthering Heights
Shakespeare
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
44. 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
John Bunyan
Pilgrim's Progress
Philip Sidney
45. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Jungle Book
Adventure
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Utopia
46. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Achilles
Astrophel and Stella
47. 18th Century authors
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Astrophel and Stella
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
48. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Divine Comedy
Achilles
The Alchemist
49. 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
Achilles
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
The Jew of Malta
50. The Comedians was written by who
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Robert Browning
Graham Greene
Claudius