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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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)
Great Expectations
George Elliot
Robert Browning
The Book of Thel
2. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Jew of Malta
Bells and Pomegranates.
William Wordsworth
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
3. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Shakespeare
Oliver Twist
4. 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
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The love of travel
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
5. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Tower
The Jew of Malta
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
6. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Adventure
Graham Greene
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
7. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Alexander Pope
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Ivanhoe
8. 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.
Rape of the Lock
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
9. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
A frame story/narrative
Sailing to Byzantium
10. 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.
Claudius
Wuthering Heights
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Macbeth
11. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
Sailing to Byzantium
Tamburlaine the Great
Joseph Conrad
12. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Waste Land
Claudius
Sailing to Byzantium
13. 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
A frame story/narrative
Sailing to Byzantium
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
William Langland
14. The 'shrew' of the title
Percy Shelley
Katherine
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
15. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Ode to a Nightingale
Jungle Book
Divine Comedy
Prometheus Unbound
16. 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.
Graham Greene
Icarus
Ann Radcliffe
Percy Shelley
17. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Bells and Pomegranates.
18. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Great Expectations
Jonathon Swift
19. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Rape of the Lock
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The Renaissance 1485-1660
20. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Pulpit
Joseph Conrad
21. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Dante
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
George Elliot
22. Jane Austen wrote ...
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Chaucer
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
23. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Astrophel and Stella
Chaucer
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Dante
24. 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.
Ann Radcliffe
Graham Greene
Mary Shelley
Astrophel and Stella
25. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Oliver Twist
Canterburry Tales
John Keats
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
26. Works by Jonathon Swift
27. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Othello
Odes
Pride and Prejudice
28. A poem
Icarus
Pulpit
Piers Plowman
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
29. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Christopher Marlowe
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Ivanhoe
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
30. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Achilles
'Spenserian stanza'
31. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Percy Shelley
Prometheus Unbound
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
32. 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
Achilles
Pride and Prejudice
Dante
Rape of the Lock
33. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
John Bunyan
34. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
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Othello
Bells and Pomegranates.
Ivanhoe
35. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Divine Comedy
36. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
Astrophel and Stella
Ode to a Nightingale
'Spenserian stanza'
37. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
38. 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
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Gulliver
Alexander Pope
39. 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.
Paradise Lost
Pulpit
Ivanhoe
Wuthering Heights
40. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
41. Mary Shelley was his second wife
William Wordsworth
William Langland
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Percy Shelley
42. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Great Expectations
Samuel Coleridge
George Elliot
43. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
T.S. Elliot
Utopia
Polonius
Don Juan
44. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Hamlet
Icarus
Pygmalion
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
45. Book of poems
Robert Browning
Sailing to Byzantium
Utopia
Pride and Prejudice
46. 18th Century authors
Canterburry Tales
Alexander Pope
Don Juan
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
47. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Pygmalion
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Oliver Twist
48. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
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Paradise Lost
49. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Shakespeare
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
50. 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.
Percy Shelley
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
William Langland
Gulliver