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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Pulpit
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Idylls of the King
Don Juan
2. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
T.S. Elliot
Canterburry Tales
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Robert Browning
3. 19th Century authors
Dante
Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
4. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Hamlet
Alexander Pope
Ann Radcliffe
Pilgrim's Progress
5. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Odes
Sailing to Byzantium
6. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Dante
T.S. Elliot
A frame story/narrative
Pulpit
7. Book of poems
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The Alchemist
Polonius
Sailing to Byzantium
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. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Dante
William Blake
Bells and Pomegranates.
10. Works by Jonathon Swift
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11. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Great Expectations
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Claudius
12. 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)
Mary Shelley
Pygmalion
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
George Elliot
13. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Utopia
Pulpit
Percy Shelley
14. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Adventure
Pulpit
Alexander Pope
15. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Utopia
Percy Shelley
Achilles
16. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
The Tower
George Elliot
Canterburry Tales
17. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Ivanhoe
The Tower
Philip Sidney
Gulliver
18. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Prometheus Unbound
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
19. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Chaucer
Macbeth
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
20. 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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21. 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
The Tower
John Keats
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
22. 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.
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Jew of Malta
George Elliot
23. Works by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Pulpit
24. '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
Achilles
William Blake
Christopher Marlowe
25. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Alexander Pope
Odes
Jonathon Swift
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
26. 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
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Icarus
Rape of the Lock
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
27. 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.
Samuel Coleridge
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ann Radcliffe
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
28. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Canterburry Tales
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
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
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Ivanhoe
Divine Comedy
Sir Walter Scott
30. 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
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Paradise Lost
Pride and Prejudice
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
31. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
The Tower
The Book of Thel
Icarus
A frame story/narrative
32. Modern English authors
'Spenserian stanza'
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
33. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Claudius
Rape of the Lock
34. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Philip Sidney
Rape of the Lock
Pulpit
Macbeth
35. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
George Elliot
Rape of the Lock
The absurdity of life
Joseph Conrad
36. 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 absurdity of life
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
John Keats
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
37. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Macbeth
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
38. 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?'
Achilles
The Book of Thel
Emma by Jane Austen
Sailing to Byzantium
39. 17th century authors
John Keats
Emma by Jane Austen
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
40. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Adventure
Gulliver
The Waste Land
41. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Macbeth
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Dante
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
42. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Canterburry Tales
Gulliver
Chaucer
Polonius
43. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Robert Browning
Tamburlaine the Great
44. 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.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to a Nightingale
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Ann Radcliffe
45. 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
The Alchemist
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Piers Plowman
46. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Polonius
Alexander Pope
Hamlet
Sonnet sequence
47. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Valdes and Cornelius
Mary Shelley
Robert Browning
Odes
48. 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
Achilles
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Don Juan
Odes
49. 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.
Macbeth
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
50. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Samuel Coleridge
Philip Sidney
The Knight's Tale
Adventure