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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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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2. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Jonathon Swift
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Hamlet
3. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Philip Sidney
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
4. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
William Wordsworth
Othello
Valdes and Cornelius
Gulliver
5. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Don Juan
Mary Shelley
Othello
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6. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth
John Keats
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The Alchemist
Paradise Lost
7. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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8. 18th Century authors
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Odes
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Jonathon Swift
9. Leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it - employs a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed - at least in part - for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of
Prometheus Unbound
A frame story/narrative
Macbeth
The Renaissance 1485-1660
10. '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 -
Bells and Pomegranates.
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Dante
11. A poem
Piers Plowman
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
12. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Mary Shelley
Rape of the Lock
13. 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.
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Philip Sidney
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
14. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Achilles
Pulpit
Percy Shelley
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
15. 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
Prometheus Unbound
Edmund Spenser
Robert Browning
16. '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.'
John Keats
T.S. Elliot
The Waste Land
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
17. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Pulpit
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ann Radcliffe
18. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Piers Plowman
The Tower
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
19. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Christopher Marlowe
Idylls of the King
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
20. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
21. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Emma by Jane Austen
Alexander Pope
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Polonius
22. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Don Juan
Canterburry Tales
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
23. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
24. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Sailing to Byzantium
Great Expectations
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
25. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
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The Jew of Malta
Jungle Book
Joseph Conrad
26. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
Paradise Lost
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Claudius
27. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Valdes and Cornelius
Robert Browning
Ode to a Nightingale
28. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
The Alchemist
Bells and Pomegranates.
William Wordsworth
Idylls of the King
29. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Rape of the Lock
John Keats
Pilgrim's Progress
30. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Shakespeare
Claudius
Othello
Katherine
31. 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
Achilles
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Idylls of the King
Jungle Book
32. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
William Langland
Robert Browning
William Wordsworth
Prometheus Unbound
33. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Prometheus Unbound
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Christopher Marlowe
34. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
The love of travel
Sailing to Byzantium
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Jonathon Swift
35. 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.
Hamlet
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
The Jew of Malta
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
36. 19th Century authors
George Elliot
The love of travel
Valdes and Cornelius
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
37. 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
Pride and Prejudice
A frame story/narrative
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
38. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Christopher Marlowe
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39. 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
The Alchemist
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Tamburlaine the Great
Great Expectations
40. Works by Charles Dickens
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Katherine
Dante
41. 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
The Tower
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
42. This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character - a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela - encountering Native Americans - captives and mutineers before being rescued.
The Knight's Tale
Christopher Marlowe
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Graham Greene
43. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Alexander Pope
Divine Comedy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
44. 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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45. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Graham Greene
Macbeth
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
46. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
47. 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
Wuthering Heights
Jungle Book
Ode to a Nightingale
Emma by Jane Austen
48. 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
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
49. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
The Alchemist
William Blake
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
50. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Book of Thel
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.