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CLEP World Literature
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1. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Hamlet
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Othello
2. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Robert Browning
3. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Bells and Pomegranates.
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Don Juan
4. 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
A frame story/narrative
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Othello
5. 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
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Ivanhoe
Claudius
Odes
6. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley
Idylls of the King
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
7. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Blake
William Wordsworth
The love of travel
Robert Browning
8. William Yeats wrote...
Idylls of the King
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Prometheus Unbound
Edmund Spenser
9. 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
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Don Juan
Polonius
10. 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
William Blake
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Mary Shelley
11. 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...
John Keats
Hamlet
Canterburry Tales
Robert Browning
12. '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
Emma by Jane Austen
William Wordsworth
The Alchemist
13. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Macbeth
Astrophel and Stella
Piers Plowman
Pulpit
14. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
William Wordsworth
Edmund Spenser
Oliver Twist
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
15. 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.
Philip Sidney
Graham Greene
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ode on a Grecian Urn
16. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Polonius
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Joseph Conrad
The love of travel
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.
Astrophel and Stella
Macbeth
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Waste Land
18. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
The absurdity of life
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Pilgrim's Progress
19. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
William Wordsworth
Hamlet
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Astrophel and Stella
20. 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.
The absurdity of life
The love of travel
The Jew of Malta
Wuthering Heights
21. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Robert Browning
Rape of the Lock
William Blake
Ivanhoe
22. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Robert Browning
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Great Expectations
The Knight's Tale
23. Book of poems
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
T.S. Elliot
Sailing to Byzantium
Bells and Pomegranates.
24. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
The Knight's Tale
Polonius
Pygmalion
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
25. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
The Alchemist
Joseph Conrad
Oliver Twist
T.S. Elliot
26. 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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The Waste Land
Ann Radcliffe
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
27. 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.
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Canterburry Tales
The Waste Land
Sonnet sequence
28. 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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29. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Jungle Book
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
William Langland
Idylls of the King
30. 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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Graham Greene
Paradise Lost
Philip Sidney
31. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Ann Radcliffe
Edmund Spenser
Ode to a Nightingale
32. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Chaucer
Mary Shelley
T.S. Elliot
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
33. 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
Sir Walter Scott
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Achilles
34. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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35. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
The Book of Thel
Divine Comedy
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
36. '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.
Tamburlaine the Great
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
37. 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.
The Jew of Malta
Oliver Twist
Pilgrim's Progress
Alexander Pope
38. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Macbeth
Canterburry Tales
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Shakespeare
39. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Joseph Conrad
William Langland
40. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
Paradise Lost
The Knight's Tale
41. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Piers Plowman
Divine Comedy
Hamlet
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
42. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Piers Plowman
Shakespeare
43. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Claudius
The Jew of Malta
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
44. 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?'
Adventure
The Book of Thel
Ode to a Nightingale
The Alchemist
45. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
John Milton
Adventure
46. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Mary Shelley
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
'Spenserian stanza'
Wuthering Heights
47. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Wuthering Heights
Utopia
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
48. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Gulliver
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Claudius
49. 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
Great Expectations
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
50. 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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