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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Chaucer
John Bunyan
Ode to a Nightingale
Mary Shelley
2. 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.
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Adventure
Joseph Conrad
The Jew of Malta
3. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Edmund Spenser
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Ivanhoe
4. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Coleridge
Chaucer
Great Expectations
5. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Alchemist
6. '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
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
T.S. Elliot
Jungle Book
7. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
William Wordsworth
Divine Comedy
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Samuel Coleridge
8. 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?'
William Blake
The Book of Thel
Utopia
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
9. 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
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Jungle Book
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
10. 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
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Othello
Utopia
11. 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
William Langland
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Oliver Twist
12. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Prometheus Unbound
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Waste Land
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.
Sailing to Byzantium
William Wordsworth
John Milton
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
14. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Pygmalion
Oliver Twist
15. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Odes
Tamburlaine the Great
Pulpit
Don Juan
16. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Christopher Marlowe
Idylls of the King
Astrophel and Stella
17. 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
Pilgrim's Progress
Ivanhoe
'Spenserian stanza'
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
18. 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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19. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Jew of Malta
20. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
The absurdity of life
Bells and Pomegranates.
Utopia
Gulliver
21. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Claudius
Graham Greene
22. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Don Juan
John Keats
23. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The love of travel
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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24. 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
Don Juan
Mary Shelley
The Knight's Tale
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
25. Wrote 'Troilus and Criseyde' - 'The Knight's Tale' - 'Canterbury Tales' - known as the 'Father of English Literature' - considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages - first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Tower
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Chaucer
26. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Alexander Pope
Idylls of the King
Tamburlaine the Great
27. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Pride and Prejudice
The Knight's Tale
Joseph Conrad
Ann Radcliffe
28. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
'Spenserian stanza'
John Milton
Chaucer
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
29. 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
William Blake
The Waste Land
Divine Comedy
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
30. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
The Jew of Malta
Pilgrim's Progress
John Milton
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
31. William Yeats wrote...
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Pulpit
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
32. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
The Tower
Othello
Hamlet
Joseph Conrad
33. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Samuel Coleridge
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
A frame story/narrative
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
34. 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
Canterburry Tales
Valdes and Cornelius
Pride and Prejudice
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
35. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Robert Browning
Bells and Pomegranates.
Chaucer
The Tower
36. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Don Juan
Odes
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37. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Pride and Prejudice
Edmund Spenser
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Bells and Pomegranates.
38. 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.
George Elliot
Wuthering Heights
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Canterburry Tales
39. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Canterburry Tales
Prometheus Unbound
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Utopia
40. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
The Tower
Rape of the Lock
Idylls of the King
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
41. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Christopher Marlowe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Philip Sidney
Mary Shelley
42. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Sailing to Byzantium
Pulpit
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
43. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Mary Shelley
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Claudius
44. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Gulliver
Utopia
Graham Greene
William Wordsworth
45. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Ann Radcliffe
Chaucer
Graham Greene
Dante
46. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
William Wordsworth
Canterburry Tales
The Waste Land
47. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Don Juan
Claudius
The Jew of Malta
48. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Oliver Twist
Wuthering Heights
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
49. 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
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Astrophel and Stella
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Emma by Jane Austen
50. 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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