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CLEP World Literature
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1. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Gulliver
The Waste Land
Pride and Prejudice
John Keats
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.
Dante
The Knight's Tale
Pride and Prejudice
Astrophel and Stella
3. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Prometheus Unbound
Pygmalion
Utopia
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
4. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Mary Shelley
Katherine
Sir Walter Scott
Bells and Pomegranates.
5. 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
Don Juan
Robert Browning
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Pride and Prejudice
6. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Tower
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
William Wordsworth
7. 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...
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Robert Browning
Tamburlaine the Great
Canterburry Tales
8. 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
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Piers Plowman
The absurdity of life
9. 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.
William Blake
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Ann Radcliffe
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
10. 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)
Mary Shelley
George Elliot
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
11. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Jonathon Swift
A frame story/narrative
John Keats
Philip Sidney
12. 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
John Milton
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Wuthering Heights
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
13. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Edmund Spenser
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Philip Sidney
14. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
'Spenserian stanza'
William Wordsworth
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
15. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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16. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Pride and Prejudice
William Blake
17. 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
Dante
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
18. 18th Century authors
Graham Greene
Emma by Jane Austen
Robert Browning
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
19. 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.
Achilles
Percy Shelley
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
20. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
A frame story/narrative
21. The first tale from Canterbury Tales - this story was written in iambic pentameter - about courtly love and ethical dilemmas - Arcite and Palamon are imprisoned. They both fall for a woman named Emily which causes tension and hate.
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22. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Great Expectations
The Tower
Samuel Coleridge
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
23. 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
Rape of the Lock
The Alchemist
William Langland
Wuthering Heights
24. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ode to a Nightingale
Christopher Marlowe
The Book of Thel
25. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
Valdes and Cornelius
Othello
Joseph Conrad
26. Works by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Sir Walter Scott
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
27. 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
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Canterburry Tales
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
28. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Samuel Coleridge
The Jew of Malta
John Milton
29. The Comedians was written by who
Ann Radcliffe
The Alchemist
Great Expectations
Graham Greene
30. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
The Jew of Malta
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Idylls of the King
Joseph Conrad
31. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Piers Plowman
The Knight's Tale
Graham Greene
32. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Canterburry Tales
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Emma by Jane Austen
33. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Mary Shelley
Sonnet sequence
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
34. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Valdes and Cornelius
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
35. Works by Jonathon Swift
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36. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Divine Comedy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
37. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Great Expectations
The Tower
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
38. 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
Jungle Book
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Gulliver
39. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Pygmalion
40. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Othello
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Sonnet sequence
Jungle Book
41. 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
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Chaucer
Percy Shelley
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
42. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Edmund Spenser
Piers Plowman
Pilgrim's Progress
43. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Astrophel and Stella
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Robert Browning
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44. 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
Hamlet
Ivanhoe
The Tower
Wuthering Heights
45. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Astrophel and Stella
Christopher Marlowe
Don Juan
Philip Sidney
46. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Othello
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Pulpit
George Elliot
47. Jane Austen wrote ...
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
'Spenserian stanza'
48. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Utopia
The Waste Land
49. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Ode to a Nightingale
Icarus
T.S. Elliot
50. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
Graham Greene
William Blake
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
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