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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Emma by Jane Austen
The absurdity of life
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
2. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Langland
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Great Expectations
Odes
3. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
William Blake
Astrophel and Stella
The Jew of Malta
4. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Ode to a Nightingale
Rape of the Lock
Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet
5. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Pygmalion
Hamlet
Idylls of the King
6. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Edmund Spenser
Astrophel and Stella
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
7. 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
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
George Elliot
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Knight's Tale
8. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Pride and Prejudice
Samuel Coleridge
Wuthering Heights
Pulpit
9. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Achilles
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Dante
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
10. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Pilgrim's Progress
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Polonius
11. Works by Jonathon Swift
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12. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Dante
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Macbeth
13. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
14. 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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Polonius
Astrophel and Stella
15. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
William Wordsworth
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Canterburry Tales
Katherine
16. 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.
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Utopia
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Wuthering Heights
17. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
The absurdity of life
Pulpit
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
18. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Gulliver
Joseph Conrad
Idylls of the King
Utopia
19. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Pygmalion
Jungle Book
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Pulpit
20. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Achilles
Othello
Icarus
Shakespeare
21. 19th Century authors
The absurdity of life
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
22. William Yeats wrote...
Hamlet
Piers Plowman
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
23. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Macbeth
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
24. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
Canterburry Tales
Alexander Pope
Macbeth
25. 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
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The absurdity of life
Shakespeare
26. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Ode to a Nightingale
Pulpit
Christopher Marlowe
27. 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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28. 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
William Langland
Pride and Prejudice
Adventure
George Elliot
29. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Macbeth
Mary Shelley
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Bells and Pomegranates.
30. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Divine Comedy
Utopia
Achilles
Valdes and Cornelius
31. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Pilgrim's Progress
Polonius
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
32. 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.
Emma by Jane Austen
Sonnet sequence
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Don Juan
33. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Graham Greene
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
William Blake
34. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Wuthering Heights
Canterburry Tales
The Waste Land
Philip Sidney
35. 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.
Alexander Pope
Tamburlaine the Great
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Jungle Book
36. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
William Wordsworth
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Othello
Odes
37. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
The Waste Land
Macbeth
The love of travel
38. 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.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Astrophel and Stella
Sir Walter Scott
39. 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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40. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
A frame story/narrative
Sailing to Byzantium
41. The 'shrew' of the title
Pilgrim's Progress
The Waste Land
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Katherine
42. 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
Pygmalion
Pulpit
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Chaucer
43. '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 -
Percy Shelley
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Don Juan
44. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Great Expectations
Edmund Spenser
Samuel Coleridge
45. A poem
The love of travel
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Piers Plowman
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
46. Works by Charles Dickens
Tamburlaine the Great
'Spenserian stanza'
Claudius
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
47. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
T.S. Elliot
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Sir Walter Scott
Christopher Marlowe
48. 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)
George Elliot
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Waste Land
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
49. 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.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Claudius
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Rape of the Lock
50. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Piers Plowman
T.S. Elliot
Icarus
Prometheus Unbound
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