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CLEP World Literature
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1. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Mary Shelley
John Milton
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
2. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
William Langland
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
John Milton
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
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.
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
John Keats
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Pygmalion
4. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
The absurdity of life
Sonnet sequence
Great Expectations
John Keats
5. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Hamlet
Macbeth
John Bunyan
6. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Achilles
7. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
George Elliot
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The Knight's Tale
Don Juan
8. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Sir Walter Scott
9. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Jonathon Swift
Jungle Book
The Book of Thel
10. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Jew of Malta
'Spenserian stanza'
Joseph Conrad
11. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Graham Greene
The Book of Thel
William Blake
William Langland
12. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The love of travel
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
13. The Comedians was written by who
The Alchemist
Astrophel and Stella
'Spenserian stanza'
Graham Greene
14. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Jew of Malta
The Tower
Hamlet
15. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Percy Shelley
Pulpit
Pygmalion
16. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Ivanhoe
Sailing to Byzantium
Katherine
Idylls of the King
17. A poem
Piers Plowman
Sir Walter Scott
Pulpit
The Alchemist
18. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Tower
19. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Chaucer
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Rape of the Lock
Sir Walter Scott
20. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Sonnet sequence
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Mary Shelley
Piers Plowman
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
Jungle Book
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
T.S. Elliot
Prometheus Unbound
22. 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
Jonathon Swift
Katherine
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
23. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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Don Juan
24. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
The Waste Land
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Prometheus Unbound
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
25. 18th Century authors
William Wordsworth
Divine Comedy
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
26. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
John Keats
Philip Sidney
John Milton
Ann Radcliffe
27. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The Jew of Malta
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Achilles
28. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Robert Browning
Emma by Jane Austen
Christopher Marlowe
29. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Canterburry Tales
Divine Comedy
Graham Greene
Shakespeare
30. Deals with man's relationship with time - the universe - and the divine - only through realizing Christ's sacrifice for mankind is an individual capable of being saved.
Graham Greene
Hamlet
The Jew of Malta
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
31. 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
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Prometheus Unbound
Emma by Jane Austen
32. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Katherine
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Alchemist
33. 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.
Samuel Coleridge
A frame story/narrative
Polonius
Wuthering Heights
34. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Christopher Marlowe
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Canterburry Tales
35. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
Oliver Twist
William Blake
Edmund Spenser
36. The 'shrew' of the title
Mary Shelley
Rape of the Lock
Gulliver
Katherine
37. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Katherine
Adventure
38. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Astrophel and Stella
Graham Greene
39. 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
Sailing to Byzantium
Gulliver
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
40. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Jew of Malta
John Bunyan
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
41. 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...
Robert Browning
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
42. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Canterburry Tales
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
43. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Divine Comedy
Sailing to Byzantium
Macbeth
Wuthering Heights
44. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Odes
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Katherine
The absurdity of life
45. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
T.S. Elliot
Hamlet
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
46. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Claudius
Valdes and Cornelius
William Wordsworth
Oliver Twist
47. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Icarus
Adventure
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
48. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
Sailing to Byzantium
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
49. Jane Austen wrote ...
T.S. Elliot
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
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The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
50. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Hamlet
Great Expectations
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Polonius