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CLEP World Literature
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1. William Yeats wrote...
The Knight's Tale
Sonnet sequence
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
2. 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
Adventure
Alexander Pope
Dante
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
3. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The Alchemist
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Mary Shelley
4. 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
Rape of the Lock
Chaucer
The Alchemist
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
5. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Tamburlaine the Great
Bells and Pomegranates.
6. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Canterburry Tales
William Wordsworth
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Rape of the Lock
7. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
John Milton
Chaucer
Graham Greene
Great Expectations
8. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Pygmalion
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
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Achilles
9. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
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Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Icarus
The Alchemist
10. The 'shrew' of the title
Ivanhoe
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Katherine
Divine Comedy
11. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Wuthering Heights
Sir Walter Scott
12. 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
Philip Sidney
Bells and Pomegranates.
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Ode to a Nightingale
13. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Jew of Malta
Robert Browning
14. Jane Austen wrote ...
Rape of the Lock
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Edmund Spenser
15. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Great Expectations
Christopher Marlowe
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
16. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Odes
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Pride and Prejudice
17. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
The absurdity of life
Sonnet sequence
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
18. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
19. 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.
Ivanhoe
Valdes and Cornelius
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The Jew of Malta
20. 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
Percy Shelley
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
21. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
22. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Don Juan
23. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Tower
The absurdity of life
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
24. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ode to a Nightingale
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Katherine
25. 19th Century authors
John Keats
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Samuel Coleridge
26. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
John Milton
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
27. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Claudius
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Piers Plowman
Valdes and Cornelius
28. 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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29. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Oliver Twist
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Samuel Coleridge
30. 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
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Don Juan
Ode on a Grecian Urn
31. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Sir Walter Scott
Christopher Marlowe
Polonius
T.S. Elliot
32. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Piers Plowman
33. 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.
Rape of the Lock
Adventure
Pulpit
Wuthering Heights
34. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Icarus
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
35. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Oliver Twist
Gulliver
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
36. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
The Jew of Malta
Achilles
Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
37. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
William Wordsworth
Achilles
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
38. 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
Hamlet
Robert Browning
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
39. A poem
Katherine
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Piers Plowman
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
40. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Emma by Jane Austen
Bells and Pomegranates.
John Bunyan
The Jew of Malta
41. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Jonathon Swift
William Blake
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
42. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Sir Walter Scott
Astrophel and Stella
Hamlet
43. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Dante
Macbeth
Great Expectations
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
44. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The absurdity of life
Jonathon Swift
Graham Greene
45. 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
Piers Plowman
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
William Langland
Othello
46. 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.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Pulpit
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
47. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Philip Sidney
Divine Comedy
48. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Prometheus Unbound
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Alchemist
49. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Katherine
Sonnet sequence
Tamburlaine the Great
Idylls of the King
50. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Rape of the Lock
The love of travel
The Tower
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower