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CLEP World Literature
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1. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
T.S. Elliot
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The absurdity of life
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
2. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
3. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Pride and Prejudice
Philip Sidney
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
4. 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?'
Canterburry Tales
The Book of Thel
Samuel Coleridge
Rape of the Lock
5. Modern English authors
The Alchemist
Dante
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
6. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Dante
Pride and Prejudice
Claudius
John Keats
7. The Comedians was written by who
'Spenserian stanza'
Pygmalion
Graham Greene
Sir Walter Scott
8. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Pulpit
Graham Greene
Achilles
William Langland
9. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
Rape of the Lock
Sir Walter Scott
10. 17th century authors
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
The Waste Land
Emma by Jane Austen
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
11. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Oliver Twist
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Percy Shelley
12. 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
Polonius
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Odes
13. The poem satirises a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods - Pope keeps a sense that beauty is fragile - and that the loss of a lock of hair touches Belinda deeply.
Ode to a Nightingale
Ivanhoe
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Rape of the Lock
14. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Tower
John Milton
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Divine Comedy
15. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Pulpit
Shakespeare
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
16. Works by Charles Dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Emma by Jane Austen
The Jew of Malta
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
17. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
George Elliot
William Blake
Philip Sidney
Idylls of the King
18. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
John Milton
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Macbeth
19. '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 -
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Christopher Marlowe
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
20. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Great Expectations
John Bunyan
Polonius
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
21. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Bells and Pomegranates.
The Tower
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
John Keats
22. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Samuel Coleridge
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
23. 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
Oliver Twist
Utopia
Graham Greene
Ivanhoe
24. 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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25. 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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26. 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
Pulpit
The Alchemist
Prometheus Unbound
Samuel Coleridge
27. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights
Pygmalion
28. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Othello
Sonnet sequence
Jonathon Swift
Christopher Marlowe
29. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley
Samuel Coleridge
Polonius
30. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Pilgrim's Progress
Joseph Conrad
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
31. 18th Century authors
Divine Comedy
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
John Milton
Sir Walter Scott
32. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
William Blake
Valdes and Cornelius
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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
William Langland
The Alchemist
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
34. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Icarus
Achilles
Emma by Jane Austen
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
35. 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
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Ode to a Nightingale
36. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Prometheus Unbound
Bells and Pomegranates.
Sonnet sequence
37. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
John Bunyan
Prometheus Unbound
The love of travel
Pygmalion
38. 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.
Pulpit
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Pygmalion
Wuthering Heights
39. 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
Utopia
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Adventure
40. 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.
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Divine Comedy
The Knight's Tale
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
41. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
Percy Shelley
Astrophel and Stella
Robert Browning
42. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Paradise Lost
43. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Percy Shelley
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Achilles
44. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Icarus
Pilgrim's Progress
Edmund Spenser
Hamlet
45. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
The Alchemist
Alexander Pope
Sailing to Byzantium
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
46. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Prometheus Unbound
Dante
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
47. 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
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Achilles
The love of travel
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
48. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
The Waste Land
Sonnet sequence
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
49. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
The Tower
Jonathon Swift
Adventure
50. 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 absurdity of life
The Jew of Malta
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Edmund Spenser