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CLEP World Literature
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1. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Divine Comedy
Mary Shelley
William Wordsworth
2. The 'shrew' of the title
Katherine
Sailing to Byzantium
The love of travel
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
3. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
A frame story/narrative
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Achilles
4. William Yeats wrote...
Pride and Prejudice
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Robert Browning
Pilgrim's Progress
5. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
John Milton
The Tower
6. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Graham Greene
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Utopia
7. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Idylls of the King
The Waste Land
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Divine Comedy
8. 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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9. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
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Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Idylls of the King
10. 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
William Langland
The love of travel
Adventure
Chaucer
11. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Alchemist
The absurdity of life
12. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Edmund Spenser
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
13. 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.
Mary Shelley
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Canterburry Tales
Ode on a Grecian Urn
14. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Tamburlaine the Great
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Idylls of the King
15. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Gulliver
George Elliot
Great Expectations
16. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
William Wordsworth
Jonathon Swift
17. 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?'
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The Book of Thel
18. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Ann Radcliffe
Chaucer
Adventure
19. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Pilgrim's Progress
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
20. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Dante
Hamlet
Polonius
Divine Comedy
21. 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.
The Alchemist
Canterburry Tales
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
22. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Pygmalion
Oliver Twist
John Milton
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
23. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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24. 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
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
A frame story/narrative
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Sonnet sequence
25. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
The absurdity of life
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Polonius
Joseph Conrad
26. 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...
Robert Browning
Hamlet
Polonius
John Milton
27. 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
Adventure
Ivanhoe
Paradise Lost
Samuel Coleridge
28. Book of poems
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Sailing to Byzantium
29. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Hamlet
William Langland
Mary Shelley
John Milton
30. 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
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Dante
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
31. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Graham Greene
Othello
32. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Tamburlaine the Great
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
33. 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
The love of travel
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
34. 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
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The Alchemist
Alexander Pope
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
35. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Pride and Prejudice
The Book of Thel
T.S. Elliot
Oliver Twist
36. 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
Great Expectations
John Bunyan
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Joseph Conrad
37. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Odes
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Prometheus Unbound
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
38. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
The Knight's Tale
Idylls of the King
Graham Greene
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
39. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Sailing to Byzantium
Don Juan
Sir Walter Scott
The love of travel
40. 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.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
The Tower
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Astrophel and Stella
41. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
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Edmund Spenser
The Tower
42. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Prometheus Unbound
Tamburlaine the Great
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Alexander Pope
43. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Claudius
William Blake
Jonathon Swift
The Waste Land
44. 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
The Alchemist
Sonnet sequence
Icarus
45. Works by Charles Dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Shakespeare
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
46. 18th Century authors
Canterburry Tales
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
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The absurdity of life
47. 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.
Paradise Lost
T.S. Elliot
George Elliot
The Jew of Malta
48. 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.
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
'Spenserian stanza'
Ann Radcliffe
Graham Greene
49. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Ode to a Nightingale
Philip Sidney
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
50. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Jonathon Swift
Pulpit
Shakespeare
Adventure