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CLEP World Literature
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1. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
John Bunyan
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Canterburry Tales
2. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Robert Browning
Adventure
Pilgrim's Progress
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3. 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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4. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Chaucer
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
T.S. Elliot
Wuthering Heights
5. 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.
Graham Greene
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Mary Shelley
Pride and Prejudice
6. 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
Robert Browning
The Knight's Tale
The Alchemist
7. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The love of travel
George Elliot
Pygmalion
8. 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.
Ode to a Nightingale
'Spenserian stanza'
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
9. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Edmund Spenser
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Idylls of the King
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
10. 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
Sir Walter Scott
Dante
The Alchemist
A frame story/narrative
11. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
The love of travel
Wuthering Heights
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Pygmalion
12. 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
Paradise Lost
The Alchemist
The Tower
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
13. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
George Elliot
Christopher Marlowe
Pygmalion
Icarus
14. 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
Philip Sidney
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Claudius
15. 19th Century authors
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Ode to a Nightingale
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Edmund Spenser
16. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Shakespeare
Bells and Pomegranates.
Macbeth
Utopia
17. 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.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Don Juan
Emma by Jane Austen
George Elliot
18. 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.
Rape of the Lock
Gulliver
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Sir Walter Scott
19. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Jungle Book
Icarus
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
20. Modern English authors
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
A frame story/narrative
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
21. 18th Century authors
Sonnet sequence
Ivanhoe
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
The Alchemist
22. 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.
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Sonnet sequence
Astrophel and Stella
Achilles
23. 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?'
Prometheus Unbound
The Book of Thel
Jonathon Swift
Pygmalion
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
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Pride and Prejudice
The Book of Thel
Sonnet sequence
25. 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
Jonathon Swift
A frame story/narrative
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Samuel Coleridge
26. 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
John Keats
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Emma by Jane Austen
27. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Edmund Spenser
The Alchemist
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
28. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Jungle Book
Sir Walter Scott
John Keats
Tamburlaine the Great
29. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Sir Walter Scott
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Pride and Prejudice
Valdes and Cornelius
30. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
The Alchemist
William Langland
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
31. 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
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Adventure
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
32. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Oliver Twist
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Valdes and Cornelius
33. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Icarus
The Tower
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
34. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Ivanhoe
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Valdes and Cornelius
35. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
John Keats
Tamburlaine the Great
36. 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
Chaucer
Ode to a Nightingale
Piers Plowman
Percy Shelley
37. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Prometheus Unbound
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
John Milton
The love of travel
38. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Sailing to Byzantium
The Tower
Chaucer
39. Works by Jonathon Swift
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40. A poem
Oliver Twist
Don Juan
Piers Plowman
Bells and Pomegranates.
41. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The Book of Thel
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Paradise Lost
42. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Divine Comedy
Odes
Joseph Conrad
Canterburry Tales
43. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
Emma by Jane Austen
The love of travel
The Jew of Malta
Prometheus Unbound
44. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Ode to a Nightingale
T.S. Elliot
The love of travel
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
45. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Idylls of the King
John Milton
Jonathon Swift
46. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Christopher Marlowe
Sailing to Byzantium
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Hamlet
47. 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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48. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Renaissance 1485-1660
William Wordsworth
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
49. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The absurdity of life
Pilgrim's Progress
Divine Comedy
Hamlet
50. '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 -
William Langland
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Tamburlaine the Great