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CLEP World Literature
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1. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Adventure
The love of travel
John Milton
Gulliver
2. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Achilles
Dante
Sir Walter Scott
3. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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4. 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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5. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Icarus
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Odes
6. 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...
Tamburlaine the Great
Dante
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Robert Browning
7. 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
Don Juan
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Rape of the Lock
The Alchemist
8. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
John Keats
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Pulpit
Dante
9. 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.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Hamlet
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
10. Jane Austen wrote ...
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Pygmalion
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
11. 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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12. 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
Bells and Pomegranates.
Pride and Prejudice
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
13. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Sir Walter Scott
Paradise Lost
14. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Oliver Twist
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
15. 17th century authors
Bells and Pomegranates.
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Rape of the Lock
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
16. 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
Divine Comedy
Canterburry Tales
Astrophel and Stella
A frame story/narrative
17. 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.
Jungle Book
Astrophel and Stella
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Piers Plowman
18. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
The love of travel
Dante
Claudius
Emma by Jane Austen
19. 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.
Pygmalion
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Prometheus Unbound
Rape of the Lock
20. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Shakespeare
Bells and Pomegranates.
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
21. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Wuthering Heights
Divine Comedy
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Graham Greene
22. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Prometheus Unbound
Joseph Conrad
George Elliot
23. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
The love of travel
John Bunyan
Sir Walter Scott
Gulliver
24. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Canterburry Tales
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
Chaucer
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Tamburlaine the Great
26. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Waste Land
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
27. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Polonius
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Bells and Pomegranates.
28. 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.
Rape of the Lock
Achilles
Sonnet sequence
Ann Radcliffe
29. 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
Jonathon Swift
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Pilgrim's Progress
Emma by Jane Austen
30. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Icarus
Pygmalion
31. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Dante
The absurdity of life
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
A frame story/narrative
32. 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 Book of Thel
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Graham Greene
Odes
33. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Percy Shelley
A frame story/narrative
Paradise Lost
34. 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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dante
Adventure
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
35. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Great Expectations
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
36. The 'shrew' of the title
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Katherine
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
William Blake
37. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Mary Shelley
Dante
Sonnet sequence
38. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Graham Greene
Christopher Marlowe
John Keats
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
39. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
Sonnet sequence
Pride and Prejudice
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
40. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
The Book of Thel
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Hamlet
Edmund Spenser
41. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Claudius
Idylls of the King
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
42. 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
Oliver Twist
Wuthering Heights
'Spenserian stanza'
43. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Alexander Pope
T.S. Elliot
Claudius
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
44. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Sir Walter Scott
45. 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.
William Blake
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Tower
Sonnet sequence
46. 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.
Philip Sidney
Icarus
The Jew of Malta
Jungle Book
47. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
Graham Greene
The Knight's Tale
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
48. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Edmund Spenser
Utopia
Achilles
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
49. Works by Charles Dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
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The Alchemist
50. 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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Graham Greene