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CLEP World Literature
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1. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Pride and Prejudice
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Don Juan
The Book of Thel
2. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The absurdity of life
3. 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.
The Jew of Malta
Emma by Jane Austen
Samuel Coleridge
Odes
4. Book of poems
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Sailing to Byzantium
Utopia
Gulliver
5. 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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6. 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
Utopia
Jonathon Swift
Icarus
7. 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
A frame story/narrative
Great Expectations
Edmund Spenser
Emma by Jane Austen
8. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Idylls of the King
Icarus
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Ann Radcliffe
9. 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
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Divine Comedy
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
10. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Book of Thel
George Elliot
William Wordsworth
John Keats
11. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Macbeth
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Pride and Prejudice
12. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Ode to a Nightingale
Don Juan
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The love of travel
13. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Great Expectations
Percy Shelley
Robert Browning
Shakespeare
14. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Rape of the Lock
15. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
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Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
16. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Don Juan
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
17. 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
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Chaucer
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
18. 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.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Bells and Pomegranates.
Gulliver
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
19. Works by Jonathon Swift
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20. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
21. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Divine Comedy
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
William Langland
22. 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
Pygmalion
Sonnet sequence
23. 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.
Ann Radcliffe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Bells and Pomegranates.
24. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Shakespeare
Odes
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Icarus
25. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Samuel Coleridge
Edmund Spenser
Graham Greene
26. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Piers Plowman
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
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Edmund Spenser
27. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Othello
William Blake
Jonathon Swift
Christopher Marlowe
28. 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.
Jonathon Swift
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Great Expectations
Rape of the Lock
29. 18th Century authors
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Robert Browning
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
30. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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31. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
32. 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)
Don Juan
George Elliot
Sailing to Byzantium
Samuel Coleridge
33. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Canterburry Tales
Astrophel and Stella
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
John Bunyan
34. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Icarus
Hamlet
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Bells and Pomegranates.
35. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Robert Browning
The Jew of Malta
Adventure
William Wordsworth
36. Modern English authors
Pride and Prejudice
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Othello
37. Mary Shelley was his second wife
The Book of Thel
Jonathon Swift
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Percy Shelley
38. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Tamburlaine the Great
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
39. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
William Langland
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Gulliver
40. 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
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Claudius
Ivanhoe
George Elliot
41. The 'shrew' of the title
Katherine
Ivanhoe
Jonathon Swift
'Spenserian stanza'
42. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Macbeth
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Percy Shelley
43. 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
Pride and Prejudice
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
44. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
The Alchemist
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Samuel Coleridge
Alexander Pope
45. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Percy Shelley
Alexander Pope
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Pygmalion
46. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
The love of travel
Gulliver
William Langland
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
47. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Canterburry Tales
Othello
Utopia
John Milton
48. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Jungle Book
Achilles
49. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Great Expectations
The absurdity of life
Philip Sidney
50. The Comedians was written by who
Pride and Prejudice
Graham Greene
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Jew of Malta
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