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CLEP World Literature
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1. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Philip Sidney
Odes
Tamburlaine the Great
2. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
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John Keats
Hamlet
Emma by Jane Austen
3. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
William Wordsworth
Shakespeare
Canterburry Tales
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4. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Oliver Twist
5. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
The Alchemist
T.S. Elliot
Ann Radcliffe
The Tower
6. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
The Jew of Malta
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Piers Plowman
7. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Achilles
Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
8. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Macbeth
Hamlet
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
9. Works by Charles Dickens
T.S. Elliot
Dante
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Macbeth
10. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Ivanhoe
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
11. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
12. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Odes
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Pygmalion
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
13. 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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14. Jane Austen wrote ...
Bells and Pomegranates.
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Graham Greene
The love of travel
15. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Divine Comedy
Polonius
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Tower
16. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Pygmalion
William Wordsworth
Dante
17. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Jonathon Swift
Mary Shelley
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Pulpit
18. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Edmund Spenser
Odes
Claudius
19. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Book of Thel
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The love of travel
20. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Othello
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Macbeth
21. 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
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Gulliver
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
22. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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23. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Hamlet
Ann Radcliffe
Great Expectations
24. 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.
Sonnet sequence
George Elliot
Pilgrim's Progress
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
25. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Don Juan
Divine Comedy
John Keats
Bells and Pomegranates.
26. 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
Joseph Conrad
Shakespeare
Graham Greene
27. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Waste Land
28. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
The Alchemist
Gulliver
Jungle Book
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
29. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Idylls of the King
30. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Sailing to Byzantium
The absurdity of life
Gulliver
31. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Alexander Pope
T.S. Elliot
32. Works by Jonathon Swift
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33. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
The Jew of Malta
34. 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.
A frame story/narrative
Pygmalion
George Elliot
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
35. 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
Idylls of the King
Don Juan
Othello
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
36. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Prometheus Unbound
Great Expectations
Bells and Pomegranates.
Oliver Twist
37. 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
Achilles
The Book of Thel
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
38. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Divine Comedy
William Langland
Idylls of the King
39. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Wuthering Heights
'Spenserian stanza'
T.S. Elliot
40. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Sonnet sequence
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Renaissance 1485-1660
41. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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42. A poem
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Piers Plowman
Prometheus Unbound
Dante
43. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Pygmalion
William Blake
Samuel Coleridge
Wuthering Heights
44. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Prometheus Unbound
William Wordsworth
William Langland
45. 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
The Jew of Malta
Pulpit
Chaucer
John Bunyan
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.
John Milton
Adventure
William Wordsworth
Ode on a Grecian Urn
47. 19th Century authors
Emma by Jane Austen
The Jew of Malta
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Oliver Twist
48. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Canterburry Tales
William Wordsworth
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
49. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Joseph Conrad
The Waste Land
Divine Comedy
Achilles
50. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
'Spenserian stanza'
Pulpit
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Philip Sidney
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