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CLEP World Literature
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1. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Pygmalion
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Samuel Coleridge
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
2. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Macbeth
Jungle Book
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
3. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
The Alchemist
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
4. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
The Waste Land
5. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
Pilgrim's Progress
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Ode on a Grecian Urn
6. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Don Juan
The absurdity of life
The Tower
7. 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
The Waste Land
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Joseph Conrad
8. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Polonius
Adventure
Tamburlaine the Great
Macbeth
9. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Pilgrim's Progress
Don Juan
Emma by Jane Austen
Jonathon Swift
10. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Ann Radcliffe
Piers Plowman
11. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The Waste Land
Gulliver
12. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Jungle Book
'Spenserian stanza'
The Book of Thel
13. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley
14. 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
William Langland
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Adventure
The Waste Land
15. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
16. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Polonius
Pygmalion
William Langland
17. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
A frame story/narrative
Graham Greene
Tamburlaine the Great
18. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Macbeth
Odes
Sir Walter Scott
Rape of the Lock
19. 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.
Ivanhoe
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Great Expectations
20. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Shakespeare
John Keats
Rape of the Lock
21. 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
Percy Shelley
Dante
Graham Greene
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
22. 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.
Ann Radcliffe
Alexander Pope
Wuthering Heights
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
23. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
John Milton
William Blake
Alexander Pope
Graham Greene
24. Works by Jonathon Swift
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25. 19th Century authors
The love of travel
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Piers Plowman
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
26. Pen name for Mary Anne Evans - one of the leading writers of the Victorian era - went by a male name so that she would be taken seriously. Wrote The Mill on the Floss (1860) - Silas Marner (1861) - Middlemarch (1871-72) - and Daniel Deronda (1876)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Samuel Coleridge
George Elliot
Chaucer
27. 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
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Mary Shelley
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Rape of the Lock
28. 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
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
George Elliot
29. The Comedians was written by who
Alexander Pope
Graham Greene
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
30. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Bells and Pomegranates.
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Emma by Jane Austen
The Waste Land
31. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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32. 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
Hamlet
T.S. Elliot
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
33. '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
Great Expectations
Odes
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
34. '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.'
Pride and Prejudice
John Milton
The Waste Land
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
35. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Astrophel and Stella
Don Juan
The Waste Land
36. 17th century authors
Percy Shelley
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Emma by Jane Austen
37. 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
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Christopher Marlowe
Paradise Lost
38. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
John Milton
Tamburlaine the Great
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Macbeth
39. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Astrophel and Stella
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
40. '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 -
George Elliot
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Shakespeare
Ode on a Grecian Urn
41. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
The Book of Thel
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Paradise Lost
Idylls of the King
42. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
William Blake
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Odes
43. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Alexander Pope
Graham Greene
John Milton
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
44. The 'shrew' of the title
Pilgrim's Progress
Katherine
The Waste Land
Ann Radcliffe
45. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Tamburlaine the Great
Canterburry Tales
46. Christian allegory - main character's name is CHRISTIAN - about his journey from his hometown 'city of Destruction' to the 'celestial City' (Heaven)
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47. Jane Austen wrote ...
Gulliver
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
48. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Don Juan
Adventure
The Tower
The absurdity of life
49. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
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50. 18th Century authors
Macbeth
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene