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CLEP World Literature
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1. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
John Milton
Dante
John Keats
Bells and Pomegranates.
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.
T.S. Elliot
Ann Radcliffe
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
3. 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
Idylls of the King
Chaucer
The absurdity of life
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
4. '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 -
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Gulliver
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
5. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Dante
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Graham Greene
Adventure
6. Written by Sir Walter Scott - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disliked by his father because he loves a girl and is friends with some of the Normans -there is a tournament - and Ivanhoe is injured and the daughter wants to take him to get help - -battles e
Ivanhoe
Astrophel and Stella
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Adventure
7. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Odes
William Langland
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
8. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Idylls of the King
Robert Browning
The Jew of Malta
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
9. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Graham Greene
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
10. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Valdes and Cornelius
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
11. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
12. 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
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Don Juan
John Bunyan
Paradise Lost
13. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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14. 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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15. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Joseph Conrad
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
16. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Samuel Coleridge
Great Expectations
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Katherine
17. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Prometheus Unbound
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
18. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
John Keats
The Knight's Tale
John Bunyan
19. The Comedians was written by who
Canterburry Tales
Shakespeare
Graham Greene
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
20. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
T.S. Elliot
Canterburry Tales
Claudius
John Milton
21. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Christopher Marlowe
The Alchemist
Rape of the Lock
Percy Shelley
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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Sonnet sequence
Ann Radcliffe
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
23. '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.
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Rape of the Lock
John Bunyan
Graham Greene
24. 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
Oliver Twist
Pride and Prejudice
Idylls of the King
Mary Shelley
25. Jane Austen wrote ...
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
26. 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
Odes
Alexander Pope
John Keats
27. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
The Book of Thel
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Rape of the Lock
Macbeth
28. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Great Expectations
Pygmalion
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Divine Comedy
29. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
John Keats
John Bunyan
Achilles
30. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Alexander Pope
Hamlet
Tamburlaine the Great
Utopia
31. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Icarus
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Don Juan
32. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Claudius
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
33. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
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34. 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
Ode to a Nightingale
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dante
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
35. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Macbeth
Sir Walter Scott
A frame story/narrative
36. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Jew of Malta
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
37. 17th century authors
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Jew of Malta
John Keats
Prometheus Unbound
38. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Divine Comedy
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
39. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Don Juan
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Samuel Coleridge
40. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Christopher Marlowe
41. 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.
Astrophel and Stella
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Wuthering Heights
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
42. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
Alexander Pope
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Prometheus Unbound
43. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
William Langland
The absurdity of life
John Keats
William Wordsworth
44. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Macbeth
The love of travel
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Canterburry Tales
45. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Wuthering Heights
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
46. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Robert Browning
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Rape of the Lock
47. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
Great Expectations
Shakespeare
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
48. 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.
Valdes and Cornelius
Divine Comedy
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Jungle Book
49. 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
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Don Juan
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
50. Works by Jonathon Swift
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