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CLEP World Literature
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1. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
The Knight's Tale
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
2. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Emma by Jane Austen
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Prometheus Unbound
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3. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Great Expectations
Polonius
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
4. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
The absurdity of life
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Philip Sidney
5. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Sonnet sequence
Shakespeare
'Spenserian stanza'
6. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Pride and Prejudice
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
7. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Adventure
Bells and Pomegranates.
Mary Shelley
John Milton
8. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Alexander Pope
9. 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
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Icarus
Ivanhoe
The Jew of Malta
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.
Graham Greene
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
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11. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
Piers Plowman
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Othello
12. 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
The Waste Land
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Christopher Marlowe
Dante
13. 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.
14. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Utopia
John Milton
Don Juan
15. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
The absurdity of life
Graham Greene
Samuel Coleridge
Icarus
16. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Paradise Lost
William Wordsworth
Sir Walter Scott
17. 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
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Odes
Pride and Prejudice
18. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Blake
William Langland
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Bells and Pomegranates.
19. Written by John Milton - epic poem in blank verse - separated into 12 books - the story of the Fall of Man - contains two arcs: One of Satan (Lucifer) and another of Adam and Eve - about how Satan volunteers himself to poison the newly created Earth
Great Expectations
Paradise Lost
Adventure
Ode on a Grecian Urn
20. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Prometheus Unbound
Pygmalion
Jonathon Swift
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
21. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Rape of the Lock
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Icarus
22. Book of poems
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Don Juan
Sailing to Byzantium
Samuel Coleridge
23. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Valdes and Cornelius
Jungle Book
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Idylls of the King
24. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Shakespeare
Macbeth
Bells and Pomegranates.
Divine Comedy
25. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
John Keats
The Knight's Tale
Alexander Pope
26. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment - and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice.
The Book of Thel
Odes
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Don Juan
27. 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
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
28. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
William Blake
The Tower
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Odes
29. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Astrophel and Stella
Oliver Twist
William Wordsworth
30. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
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The Waste Land
Mary Shelley
Idylls of the King
31. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
William Langland
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Rape of the Lock
32. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Pride and Prejudice
33. 'April is the cruellest month' (its first line); 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'; and (its last line) the mantra in the Sanskrit language 'Shantih shantih shantih.'
Achilles
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Christopher Marlowe
The Waste Land
34. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Ann Radcliffe
Icarus
Piers Plowman
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
35. 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
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
Pygmalion
36. 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
Othello
Emma by Jane Austen
William Wordsworth
37. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Don Juan
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Ode to a Nightingale
Ivanhoe
38. 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
William Langland
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
39. 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
Robert Browning
Pygmalion
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40. '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.
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Icarus
Bells and Pomegranates.
William Langland
41. 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
Paradise Lost
Astrophel and Stella
Emma by Jane Austen
A frame story/narrative
42. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
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John Keats
Wuthering Heights
William Langland
43. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Mary Shelley
John Milton
William Blake
The absurdity of life
44. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
George Elliot
Utopia
William Wordsworth
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
45. Jane Austen wrote ...
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Sonnet sequence
The Knight's Tale
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
46. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Tamburlaine the Great
Joseph Conrad
John Milton
The absurdity of life
47. 17th century authors
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Graham Greene
Wuthering Heights
Icarus
48. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Graham Greene
Sonnet sequence
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Divine Comedy
49. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Christopher Marlowe
Rape of the Lock
Macbeth
T.S. Elliot
50. Works by Jonathon Swift