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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Katherine
William Langland
Ann Radcliffe
2. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Ode to a Nightingale
Paradise Lost
William Langland
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
3. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Graham Greene
Divine Comedy
The Tower
Percy Shelley
4. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
William Langland
Gulliver
5. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Joseph Conrad
John Milton
6. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Shakespeare
Sonnet sequence
Graham Greene
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
7. 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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8. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Joseph Conrad
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Valdes and Cornelius
9. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Utopia
John Keats
10. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Tamburlaine the Great
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Prometheus Unbound
Idylls of the King
11. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Shakespeare
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Othello
12. 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.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Robert Browning
Samuel Coleridge
Pulpit
13. William Yeats wrote...
The Alchemist
William Langland
Ann Radcliffe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
14. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Graham Greene
Odes
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Valdes and Cornelius
15. '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 -
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Divine Comedy
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
16. 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
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Graham Greene
Samuel Coleridge
17. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Chaucer
Pulpit
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
William Langland
18. Modern English authors
Utopia
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Canterburry Tales
19. 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.
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Canterburry Tales
20. 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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21. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Pulpit
22. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
William Blake
Don Juan
Divine Comedy
23. 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...
The Alchemist
Robert Browning
Shakespeare
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
24. 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.
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
William Langland
Wuthering Heights
'Spenserian stanza'
25. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Shakespeare
Jungle Book
Jonathon Swift
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
26. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
John Bunyan
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
27. 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
George Elliot
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
John Keats
28. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Jungle Book
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Bells and Pomegranates.
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
29. 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.
Graham Greene
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Rape of the Lock
Joseph Conrad
30. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Idylls of the King
Divine Comedy
Joseph Conrad
Graham Greene
31. 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
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Samuel Coleridge
32. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Sonnet sequence
Paradise Lost
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
33. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Ode to a Nightingale
34. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
John Bunyan
Katherine
William Langland
35. 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
Edmund Spenser
Macbeth
William Langland
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
36. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ivanhoe
37. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Alchemist
Achilles
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
38. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Christopher Marlowe
39. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Polonius
The Tower
Don Juan
Graham Greene
40. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Mary Shelley
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41. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Jonathon Swift
The Knight's Tale
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
42. Book of poems
Gulliver
Achilles
Sailing to Byzantium
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
43. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Divine Comedy
Valdes and Cornelius
Prometheus Unbound
Macbeth
44. 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
Prometheus Unbound
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
William Langland
Dante
45. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Utopia
Edmund Spenser
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
46. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The absurdity of life
Jungle Book
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
47. 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.
John Bunyan
Jungle Book
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Sonnet sequence
48. 19th Century authors
Pygmalion
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
John Milton
Ivanhoe
49. 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
Chaucer
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Icarus
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
50. The 'shrew' of the title
Utopia
'Spenserian stanza'
Katherine
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
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