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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Sonnet sequence
The Alchemist
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
2. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
'Spenserian stanza'
The Alchemist
Prometheus Unbound
3. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Pride and Prejudice
4. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Prometheus Unbound
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
George Elliot
5. 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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6. 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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Gulliver
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
T.S. Elliot
7. Story written by Ben Johnson - there is an outbreak of the plague - and Lovewit leaves for the country - leaving a butler in charge of his house - -crazy things happen in the house - and the depravity of man and greed are shown by their actions when
John Bunyan
The Alchemist
Othello
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
8. The Comedians was written by who
Ode to a Nightingale
Oliver Twist
Sir Walter Scott
Graham Greene
9. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Wuthering Heights
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
10. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
Percy Shelley
A frame story/narrative
'Spenserian stanza'
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
Graham Greene
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
William Wordsworth
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
12. 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
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Sir Walter Scott
13. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Jungle Book
The Tower
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
14. 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 - Chaucer and Langland
T.S. Elliot
Graham Greene
Dante
15. A poem
Piers Plowman
George Elliot
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Samuel Coleridge
16. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
George Elliot
17. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Ababbcbcc
Christopher Marlowe
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Katherine
18. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
The Book of Thel
William Blake
Pilgrim's Progress
Jonathon Swift
19. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Emma by Jane Austen
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
20. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Katherine
Robert Browning
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
21. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
T.S. Elliot
22. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Adventure
Pride and Prejudice
The Jew of Malta
23. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Philip Sidney
Valdes and Cornelius
The Jew of Malta
24. 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.
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Othello
25. 18th Century authors
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Great Expectations
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
26. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Odes
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Canterburry Tales
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
27. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Great Expectations
John Bunyan
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Hamlet
28. 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
Ode to a Nightingale
Paradise Lost
Joseph Conrad
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
29. 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
Edmund Spenser
Ivanhoe
William Langland
Samuel Coleridge
30. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Othello
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The love of travel
31. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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32. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
John Bunyan
Claudius
Achilles
33. '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.
Emma by Jane Austen
Paradise Lost
Utopia
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
34. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Edmund Spenser
Mary Shelley
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Divine Comedy
35. '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.'
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The Tower
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Waste Land
36. 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
Emma by Jane Austen
Percy Shelley
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
37. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Divine Comedy
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Pilgrim's Progress
38. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment - and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice.
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ode on a Grecian Urn
'Spenserian stanza'
Mary Shelley
39. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Divine Comedy
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Paradise Lost
40. Jane Austen wrote ...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Tamburlaine the Great
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
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...
Gulliver
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Achilles
Robert Browning
42. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Pilgrim's Progress
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Tamburlaine the Great
Graham Greene
43. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Sailing to Byzantium
George Elliot
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
44. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Christopher Marlowe
45. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Mary Shelley
Ababbcbcc
William Wordsworth
46. Sent to a boarding school - walks to find his only relative - his aunt - marries Agnes and has a child whom he names after Aunt Betsy
The Waste Land
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Mary Shelley
Katherine
47. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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48. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
George Elliot
John Keats
John Milton
Othello
49. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Icarus
Oliver Twist
Utopia
Samuel Coleridge
50. 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.
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Sonnet sequence
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1