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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Pilgrim's Progress
Ivanhoe
2. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Christopher Marlowe
Pulpit
Tamburlaine the Great
3. '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
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ivanhoe
John Keats
4. 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.
Bells and Pomegranates.
Othello
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
5. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)
George Elliot
Achilles
Bells and Pomegranates.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
6. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
A frame story/narrative
The love of travel
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
'Spenserian stanza'
7. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Tower
Philip Sidney
8. 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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9. 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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10. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Prometheus Unbound
Icarus
11. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
John Keats
Jungle Book
William Blake
12. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Wordsworth
Valdes and Cornelius
T.S. Elliot
William Langland
13. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Tamburlaine the Great
John Milton
The Jew of Malta
14. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
A frame story/narrative
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
John Keats
15. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Wuthering Heights
The Knight's Tale
John Milton
16. The Comedians was written by who
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Graham Greene
Tamburlaine the Great
17. Works by Charles Dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
John Bunyan
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Odes
18. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Claudius
Hamlet
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Chaucer
19. 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.
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Book of Thel
Ann Radcliffe
Piers Plowman
20. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
William Wordsworth
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Mary Shelley
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
21. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
John Bunyan
Graham Greene
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
22. 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?'
George Elliot
William Blake
Jonathon Swift
The Book of Thel
23. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Joseph Conrad
Paradise Lost
24. 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
Rape of the Lock
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Wuthering Heights
Pilgrim's Progress
25. 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
Astrophel and Stella
Chaucer
Alexander Pope
Samuel Coleridge
26. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Pilgrim's Progress
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
27. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
John Bunyan
T.S. Elliot
28. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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29. 19th Century authors
John Keats
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
30. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Canterburry Tales
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
31. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Paradise Lost
Valdes and Cornelius
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Bells and Pomegranates.
32. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Emma by Jane Austen
The Waste Land
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
33. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Divine Comedy
Pulpit
34. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
William Langland
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Canterburry Tales
Gulliver
35. 17th century authors
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Oliver Twist
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Jonathon Swift
36. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Jew of Malta
Ode on a Grecian Urn
37. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Great Expectations
Adventure
Christopher Marlowe
38. 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
The love of travel
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Oliver Twist
39. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
The Waste Land
Graham Greene
Odes
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
40. 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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41. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Polonius
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Pride and Prejudice
42. 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
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The Waste Land
John Bunyan
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
43. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Joseph Conrad
Jonathon Swift
Rape of the Lock
Sonnet sequence
44. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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45. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
Prometheus Unbound
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
William Langland
46. 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
The love of travel
Ivanhoe
Claudius
47. 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
The absurdity of life
Sir Walter Scott
John Milton
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
48. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
49. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Tamburlaine the Great
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Othello
Ode on a Grecian Urn
50. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Edmund Spenser
Rape of the Lock
Hamlet
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
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