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CLEP World Literature
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1. 'Tis better to have loved and lost - Than never to have loved at all. is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period.
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Icarus
Ann Radcliffe
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.
Mary Shelley
Shakespeare
Astrophel and Stella
Oliver Twist
3. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ann Radcliffe
Prometheus Unbound
4. Modern English authors
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
George Elliot
John Keats
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
5. 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
John Bunyan
Pilgrim's Progress
Canterburry Tales
6. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
T.S. Elliot
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
William Wordsworth
William Langland
7. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Oliver Twist
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
8. 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.
Graham Greene
Achilles
Sonnet sequence
Claudius
9. The 'shrew' of the title
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Katherine
The Book of Thel
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
10. 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
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Claudius
Dante
11. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
Alexander Pope
Canterburry Tales
Tamburlaine the Great
12. 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
Emma by Jane Austen
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Achilles
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
13. 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...
Emma by Jane Austen
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Robert Browning
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
14. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Sailing to Byzantium
Samuel Coleridge
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
15. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Tamburlaine the Great
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Achilles
16. Works by Charles Dickens
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Graham Greene
17. 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
The Alchemist
Pulpit
Icarus
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
18. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Odes
Philip Sidney
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Astrophel and Stella
19. 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
Ann Radcliffe
Ivanhoe
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
William Wordsworth
20. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Pride and Prejudice
William Langland
Jungle Book
21. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Sonnet sequence
Tamburlaine the Great
22. '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 -
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Achilles
Percy Shelley
Ode to a Nightingale
23. 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.
Gulliver
Hamlet
Pride and Prejudice
Rape of the Lock
24. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Mary Shelley
Pulpit
Pride and Prejudice
Philip Sidney
25. 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
Ode to a Nightingale
Bells and Pomegranates.
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
26. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
27. 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?'
The Book of Thel
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Christopher Marlowe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
28. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
The absurdity of life
The Knight's Tale
Utopia
Adventure
29. '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.'
William Langland
The Waste Land
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
30. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Pygmalion
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
31. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Mary Shelley
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Polonius
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
32. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Sailing to Byzantium
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Polonius
33. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Wuthering Heights
34. 18th Century authors
Pulpit
Christopher Marlowe
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
35. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Pride and Prejudice
Pulpit
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
36. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Divine Comedy
Chaucer
The absurdity of life
William Langland
37. 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
Claudius
The Alchemist
The Knight's Tale
38. 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.
The Knight's Tale
Odes
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
39. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
William Wordsworth
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Jungle Book
40. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
John Milton
William Blake
Dante
The Book of Thel
41. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
T.S. Elliot
Ode to a Nightingale
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
William Langland
42. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Edmund Spenser
Valdes and Cornelius
Piers Plowman
43. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
44. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Tamburlaine the Great
Canterburry Tales
45. Works by Jonathon Swift
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46. 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.
Claudius
Adventure
The Waste Land
Ode on a Grecian Urn
47. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Sir Walter Scott
Canterburry Tales
Odes
Paradise Lost
48. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Pride and Prejudice
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Shakespeare
49. 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)
William Wordsworth
Graham Greene
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
George Elliot
50. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
John Keats
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Othello