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CLEP World Literature
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1. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Tamburlaine the Great
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
2. 17th century authors
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
3. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
Icarus
John Keats
4. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Hamlet
5. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Othello
Divine Comedy
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
6. Works by Charles Dickens
John Bunyan
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Pride and Prejudice
Rape of the Lock
7. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Gulliver
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
8. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Samuel Coleridge
Percy Shelley
John Milton
T.S. Elliot
9. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Valdes and Cornelius
Sir Walter Scott
Oliver Twist
Othello
10. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
George Elliot
The Alchemist
William Langland
Claudius
11. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Rape of the Lock
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
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12. 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
Chaucer
Polonius
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
13. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
Chaucer
Othello
14. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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15. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Astrophel and Stella
Macbeth
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
16. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
17. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Rape of the Lock
Utopia
Icarus
18. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Tower
The love of travel
19. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Graham Greene
Mary Shelley
A frame story/narrative
Pilgrim's Progress
20. 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
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Adventure
21. 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
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Blake
Dante
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
22. 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
Don Juan
Dante
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
23. Works by Jonathon Swift
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24. 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.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Pilgrim's Progress
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Astrophel and Stella
25. 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
Emma by Jane Austen
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
John Milton
The Alchemist
26. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
Hamlet
27. Leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it - employs a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed - at least in part - for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of
T.S. Elliot
Pride and Prejudice
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
A frame story/narrative
28. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Jonathon Swift
Samuel Coleridge
Philip Sidney
Valdes and Cornelius
29. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Rape of the Lock
Gulliver
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Book of Thel
30. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Don Juan
Edmund Spenser
31. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Ivanhoe
Adventure
32. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
John Milton
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The Knight's Tale
Don Juan
33. 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?'
Ode to a Nightingale
The Book of Thel
Katherine
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
34. 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)
Katherine
George Elliot
The Waste Land
35. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Joseph Conrad
Ivanhoe
Icarus
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Sir Walter Scott
Jonathon Swift
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
37. 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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38. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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39. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Sir Walter Scott
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
40. A poem
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Claudius
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Piers Plowman
41. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
The Waste Land
Utopia
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
42. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
The Alchemist
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
William Blake
43. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
William Langland
Philip Sidney
Jonathon Swift
The love of travel
44. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Ivanhoe
Katherine
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Pilgrim's Progress
45. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Sonnet sequence
George Elliot
William Blake
Samuel Coleridge
46. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Sailing to Byzantium
The Book of Thel
John Bunyan
47. 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
Astrophel and Stella
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Pilgrim's Progress
Paradise Lost
48. 19th Century authors
The Jew of Malta
Shakespeare
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
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49. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Sailing to Byzantium
Don Juan
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
50. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Rape of the Lock
Sir Walter Scott
Bells and Pomegranates.
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)