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CLEP World Literature
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1. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Philip Sidney
Hamlet
Utopia
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
2. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Philip Sidney
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
3. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Tower
Divine Comedy
Sir Walter Scott
4. 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
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
John Keats
Prometheus Unbound
A frame story/narrative
5. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
The absurdity of life
6. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
Macbeth
Alexander Pope
John Keats
7. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Othello
Idylls of the King
Graham Greene
Dante
8. 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.
Edmund Spenser
The Jew of Malta
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Macbeth
9. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Philip Sidney
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Edmund Spenser
10. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Pulpit
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Valdes and Cornelius
11. 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.
Astrophel and Stella
Samuel Coleridge
A frame story/narrative
Utopia
12. '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 -
Ann Radcliffe
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Bells and Pomegranates.
Achilles
13. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
The Jew of Malta
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Ababbcbcc
Ivanhoe
14. 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
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ivanhoe
Pygmalion
Pride and Prejudice
15. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Mary Shelley
Adventure
George Elliot
Canterburry Tales
16. 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?'
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Book of Thel
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
17. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Tamburlaine the Great
A frame story/narrative
18. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Macbeth
Valdes and Cornelius
Astrophel and Stella
19. 19th Century authors
The Waste Land
Joseph Conrad
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
20. 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
Oliver Twist
The Knight's Tale
John Milton
21. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Odes
Graham Greene
22. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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23. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Sonnet sequence
Gulliver
The love of travel
Graham Greene
24. 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.
T.S. Elliot
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Rape of the Lock
Sonnet sequence
25. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
John Milton
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Pride and Prejudice
Divine Comedy
26. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Icarus
William Blake
Prometheus Unbound
Astrophel and Stella
27. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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28. Book of poems
Ivanhoe
Sailing to Byzantium
Sir Walter Scott
William Wordsworth
29. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Waste Land
Canterburry Tales
30. Jane Austen wrote ...
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Prometheus Unbound
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Astrophel and Stella
31. The 'shrew' of the title
John Milton
Dante
Katherine
George Elliot
32. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Tamburlaine the Great
Polonius
Sir Walter Scott
33. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Shakespeare
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
William Blake
34. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Oliver Twist
Robert Browning
Canterburry Tales
Samuel Coleridge
35. The Comedians was written by who
Philip Sidney
Ann Radcliffe
Graham Greene
A frame story/narrative
36. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Othello
William Langland
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
37. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
William Wordsworth
Katherine
Pygmalion
The Renaissance 1485-1660
38. Works by Charles Dickens
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
William Blake
Graham Greene
39. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Samuel Coleridge
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
John Milton
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
40. Written by Emily Bronte - the name of a farmhouse - the all-encompassing and passionate - yet thwarted - love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.
Wuthering Heights
Graham Greene
Achilles
Rape of the Lock
41. Mary Shelley was his second wife
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Paradise Lost
Percy Shelley
'Spenserian stanza'
42. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Percy Shelley
Canterburry Tales
Macbeth
43. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'
The Waste Land
Prometheus Unbound
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
44. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Shakespeare
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Edmund Spenser
Odes
45. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Don Juan
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
46. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Don Juan
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Rape of the Lock
47. 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
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Emma by Jane Austen
Piers Plowman
48. 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.
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Sonnet sequence
Gulliver
49. 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.
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Robert Browning
Mary Shelley
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
50. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Achilles
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Idylls of the King
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