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CLEP World Literature
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1. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
John Milton
Alexander Pope
Wuthering Heights
2. 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
The Alchemist
Katherine
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
3. Men and Women - a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes - all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators - some identified and some not - was written by...
William Wordsworth
Robert Browning
William Langland
Pride and Prejudice
4. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Sonnet sequence
Don Juan
Jungle Book
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
5. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Sir Walter Scott
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
T.S. Elliot
6. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Joseph Conrad
George Elliot
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
7. 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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8. '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 -
Joseph Conrad
Odes
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
9. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Odes
Pygmalion
Jonathon Swift
Claudius
10. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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11. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Tamburlaine the Great
Katherine
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
12. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Sailing to Byzantium
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Alexander Pope
13. 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
Dante
Joseph Conrad
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
14. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Idylls of the King
Utopia
The Alchemist
A frame story/narrative
15. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Jonathon Swift
Pride and Prejudice
The Alchemist
16. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
John Milton
The Book of Thel
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
17. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Divine Comedy
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
18. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Alexander Pope
Prometheus Unbound
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Graham Greene
19. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
The Jew of Malta
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
20. 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?'
Percy Shelley
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Book of Thel
21. 18th Century authors
Valdes and Cornelius
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
John Milton
Adventure
22. Heroine thinks she is good at matchmaking and thinks that she will never find love for herself - ends up with Knightley after a long time
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Astrophel and Stella
Emma by Jane Austen
Macbeth
23. Book of poems
Don Juan
Piers Plowman
Sailing to Byzantium
Ann Radcliffe
24. 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
Idylls of the King
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
T.S. Elliot
25. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
The love of travel
Christopher Marlowe
Alexander Pope
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
26. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Ann Radcliffe
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
William Blake
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
27. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Polonius
Bells and Pomegranates.
Christopher Marlowe
28. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Astrophel and Stella
Idylls of the King
Odes
29. 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.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Pulpit
Rape of the Lock
Sailing to Byzantium
30. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
Odes
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
31. 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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32. William Yeats wrote...
Jungle Book
John Keats
T.S. Elliot
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
33. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Oliver Twist
Odes
Idylls of the King
34. 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.
The Tower
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Prometheus Unbound
Ode on a Grecian Urn
35. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Pilgrim's Progress
Paradise Lost
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
36. 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.
Tamburlaine the Great
Prometheus Unbound
The Alchemist
Ann Radcliffe
37. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Alchemist
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Hamlet
38. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Mary Shelley
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The Jew of Malta
Samuel Coleridge
39. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Waste Land
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
40. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Wuthering Heights
Polonius
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The Waste Land
41. 17th century authors
Sir Walter Scott
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
42. 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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43. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Divine Comedy
Joseph Conrad
William Wordsworth
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
44. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Valdes and Cornelius
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Divine Comedy
Sir Walter Scott
45. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Mary Shelley
Icarus
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Odes
46. 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 - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Dante
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
47. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
John Milton
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
48. Written by Emily Bronte - the name of a farmhouse - the all-encompassing and passionate - yet thwarted - love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.
Wuthering Heights
Philip Sidney
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
'Spenserian stanza'
49. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Book of Thel
50. Works by Charles Dickens
Polonius
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Pilgrim's Progress
The love of travel