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CLEP World Literature
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1. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Pride and Prejudice
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
2. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The Knight's Tale
3. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
Don Juan
Polonius
Graham Greene
4. 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
Macbeth
Polonius
Ode to a Nightingale
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
5. 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
Canterburry Tales
Achilles
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
6. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Samuel Coleridge
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Prometheus Unbound
A frame story/narrative
7. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Great Expectations
John Milton
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
8. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Dante
Pulpit
Edmund Spenser
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
9. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Achilles
Divine Comedy
T.S. Elliot
John Milton
10. 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
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Emma by Jane Austen
Percy Shelley
11. Modern English authors
Pride and Prejudice
Pilgrim's Progress
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
12. 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
Pilgrim's Progress
Graham Greene
'Spenserian stanza'
Chaucer
13. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Ann Radcliffe
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Joseph Conrad
Oliver Twist
14. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Utopia
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Pulpit
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
15. 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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16. 18th Century Irish Satirist
The Waste Land
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Samuel Coleridge
Jonathon Swift
17. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
John Keats
Pride and Prejudice
18. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
A frame story/narrative
Utopia
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
19. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Samuel Coleridge
20. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Pulpit
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Christopher Marlowe
21. The 'shrew' of the title
Idylls of the King
Katherine
Macbeth
John Keats
22. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Macbeth
Great Expectations
Jonathon Swift
23. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Rape of the Lock
Dante
The Jew of Malta
24. 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
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
A frame story/narrative
Jungle Book
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
25. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Jew of Malta
Jungle Book
Hamlet
26. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Jonathon Swift
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Oliver Twist
William Langland
27. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Hamlet
Jonathon Swift
Alexander Pope
Astrophel and Stella
28. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Gulliver
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
29. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice
The Tower
Pygmalion
30. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Edmund Spenser
Emma by Jane Austen
John Milton
Sonnet sequence
31. 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.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Percy Shelley
Divine Comedy
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
32. 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
Paradise Lost
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Tower
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
33. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
The love of travel
William Langland
Sonnet sequence
34. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Katherine
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
35. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Claudius
Samuel Coleridge
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
36. 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.
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Sonnet sequence
Pilgrim's Progress
The love of travel
37. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
'Spenserian stanza'
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
38. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Ode on a Grecian Urn
'Spenserian stanza'
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Macbeth
39. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
The Jew of Malta
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Odes
40. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
'Spenserian stanza'
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John Bunyan
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
41. 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
Sailing to Byzantium
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Pulpit
42. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Ode to a Nightingale
Jungle Book
Samuel Coleridge
43. A poem
Piers Plowman
Robert Browning
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
44. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Graham Greene
Don Juan
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
45. 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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46. 18th Century authors
Claudius
Alexander Pope
Great Expectations
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
47. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
The absurdity of life
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Renaissance 1485-1660
48. 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.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Jew of Malta
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
49. The Comedians was written by who
Jonathon Swift
Graham Greene
Shakespeare
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
50. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Great Expectations
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Most difficult - but most masterly satire