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CLEP World Literature
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1. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
John Milton
Don Juan
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
William Blake
2. 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
A frame story/narrative
Robert Browning
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Sir Walter Scott
3. 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.
The Jew of Malta
Astrophel and Stella
T.S. Elliot
Polonius
4. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
5. '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
Dante
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Divine Comedy
6. William Yeats wrote...
Samuel Coleridge
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
7. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Pulpit
Macbeth
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
8. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Othello
Paradise Lost
Hamlet
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
9. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Graham Greene
Alexander Pope
Paradise Lost
Pygmalion
10. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Wuthering Heights
Othello
The absurdity of life
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
11. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Jungle Book
Pilgrim's Progress
Utopia
Odes
12. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Pride and Prejudice
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Graham Greene
The Alchemist
13. Works by Jonathon Swift
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14. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Sonnet sequence
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Claudius
15. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Ivanhoe
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Wuthering Heights
Graham Greene
16. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Robert Browning
The Waste Land
17. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Alchemist
18. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Jonathon Swift
Chaucer
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
19. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Icarus
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
20. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Jonathon Swift
Sailing to Byzantium
Achilles
John Milton
21. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
The Book of Thel
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
22. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Jonathon Swift
The Renaissance 1485-1660
23. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Rape of the Lock
Mary Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
William Blake
24. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Dante
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
25. 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
Bells and Pomegranates.
Utopia
Ode to a Nightingale
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
26. 19th Century authors
Jungle Book
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
27. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Tower
Polonius
Divine Comedy
Icarus
28. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
'Spenserian stanza'
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Achilles
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
29. 'Tis better to have loved and lost - Than never to have loved at all. is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and feelings as he copes with his grief over such a long period.
Shakespeare
Alexander Pope
Joseph Conrad
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
30. 18th Century authors
Icarus
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
31. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Graham Greene
Pilgrim's Progress
The Tower
Percy Shelley
32. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
William Langland
John Bunyan
Oliver Twist
33. 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
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Emma by Jane Austen
The love of travel
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
34. 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.
William Wordsworth
The Alchemist
Sailing to Byzantium
Wuthering Heights
35. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
William Wordsworth
Joseph Conrad
Christopher Marlowe
Icarus
36. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Sir Walter Scott
T.S. Elliot
Oliver Twist
Jonathon Swift
37. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Valdes and Cornelius
T.S. Elliot
Tamburlaine the Great
38. What is it called when each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. what story is written this way?
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39. 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.
Hamlet
Sonnet sequence
Alexander Pope
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
40. Modern English authors
William Blake
Oliver Twist
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
41. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
42. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Piers Plowman
Samuel Coleridge
George Elliot
43. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Mary Shelley
Prometheus Unbound
The love of travel
Wuthering Heights
44. 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
'Spenserian stanza'
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Samuel Coleridge
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
45. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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46. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Graham Greene
The love of travel
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
47. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Adventure
A frame story/narrative
George Elliot
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
48. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Jungle Book
Oliver Twist
Mary Shelley
Percy Shelley
49. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Mary Shelley
A frame story/narrative
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
50. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Tamburlaine the Great
T.S. Elliot
Mary Shelley
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
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