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CLEP World Literature
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1. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Paradise Lost
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
William Langland
Dante
2. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Percy Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
Philip Sidney
The absurdity of life
3. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Rape of the Lock
Tamburlaine the Great
Valdes and Cornelius
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
4. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
William Langland
Hamlet
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Valdes and Cornelius
5. 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
Astrophel and Stella
Ivanhoe
Ode to a Nightingale
William Wordsworth
6. 18th Century authors
Odes
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Divine Comedy
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
7. 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
Christopher Marlowe
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
8. 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.
Shakespeare
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Graham Greene
9. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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10. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
Don Juan
Divine Comedy
11. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Canterburry Tales
Gulliver
Great Expectations
The absurdity of life
12. William Yeats wrote...
George Elliot
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to a Nightingale
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
13. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Emma by Jane Austen
John Bunyan
Alexander Pope
Pilgrim's Progress
14. Jane Austen wrote ...
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The love of travel
Hamlet
15. 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
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
The Alchemist
Tamburlaine the Great
16. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Graham Greene
William Langland
Bells and Pomegranates.
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
17. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
Polonius
18. 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?'
Polonius
The Book of Thel
Adventure
Chaucer
19. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Jonathon Swift
The Alchemist
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
20. 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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
John Keats
Astrophel and Stella
21. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Edmund Spenser
Canterburry Tales
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
22. 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
Jungle Book
Ivanhoe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
23. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The Jew of Malta
The Tower
24. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Dante
Jonathon Swift
25. 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
Shakespeare
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Claudius
26. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Pilgrim's Progress
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
John Keats
27. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Ode to a Nightingale
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Pride and Prejudice
28. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Christopher Marlowe
Emma by Jane Austen
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
29. '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 -
Odes
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Knight's Tale
30. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Shakespeare
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
31. 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)
Oliver Twist
Canterburry Tales
George Elliot
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
32. 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
Othello
Alexander Pope
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Langland
33. '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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Waste Land
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
34. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Katherine
Polonius
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Shakespeare
35. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Sailing to Byzantium
Rape of the Lock
Pulpit
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
36. 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.
Tamburlaine the Great
Robert Browning
Rape of the Lock
'Spenserian stanza'
37. Modern English authors
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Wuthering Heights
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
38. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
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Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
39. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The Jew of Malta
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Graham Greene
The love of travel
40. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Polonius
John Keats
41. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Philip Sidney
Robert Browning
The Alchemist
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
42. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Wuthering Heights
Emma by Jane Austen
Valdes and Cornelius
Sir Walter Scott
43. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
William Wordsworth
Claudius
Odes
Graham Greene
44. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Hamlet
Icarus
Jonathon Swift
45. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Sonnet sequence
A frame story/narrative
Jonathon Swift
46. 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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47. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Robert Browning
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
John Milton
48. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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49. 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.
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Jew of Malta
George Elliot
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
50. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
William Langland
Adventure
Robert Browning
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson