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CLEP World Literature
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1. 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
Odes
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
2. 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.
Sir Walter Scott
Astrophel and Stella
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
3. William Yeats wrote...
The Tower
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Claudius
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4. Works by Jonathon Swift
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5. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Hamlet
Rape of the Lock
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Utopia
6. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
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Ivanhoe
Idylls of the King
Tamburlaine the Great
7. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Claudius
Idylls of the King
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
The Tower
8. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
The Jew of Malta
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
William Wordsworth
William Langland
9. 19th Century authors
Othello
Achilles
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Utopia
10. 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 Renaissance 1485-1660
Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet sequence
Wuthering Heights
11. 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.
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
'Spenserian stanza'
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
John Keats
12. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Macbeth
Pygmalion
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Percy Shelley
13. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
The Knight's Tale
The love of travel
Icarus
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
14. The Comedians was written by who
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Samuel Coleridge
Graham Greene
Wuthering Heights
15. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Sailing to Byzantium
John Bunyan
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Jungle Book
16. 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
Graham Greene
Pilgrim's Progress
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
17. 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.
Divine Comedy
Pulpit
Rape of the Lock
Samuel Coleridge
18. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Jonathon Swift
Othello
Pride and Prejudice
Jungle Book
19. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
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20. 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?'
Christopher Marlowe
Othello
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The Book of Thel
21. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Oliver Twist
Samuel Coleridge
22. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Graham Greene
The Knight's Tale
Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
23. Three witches - protagonist loses himself to insanity and gets his wife involved as well - is declared king
Prometheus Unbound
Jungle Book
Macbeth
Tamburlaine the Great
24. 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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25. 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.
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
The Jew of Malta
Sailing to Byzantium
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
26. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Philip Sidney
Alexander Pope
Valdes and Cornelius
Astrophel and Stella
27. 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)
Edmund Spenser
Tamburlaine the Great
George Elliot
Astrophel and Stella
28. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Astrophel and Stella
Polonius
29. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Odes
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Oliver Twist
Sir Walter Scott
30. 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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31. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Astrophel and Stella
Don Juan
Chaucer
32. '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
Christopher Marlowe
Oliver Twist
Philip Sidney
33. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Achilles
Ode to a Nightingale
Tamburlaine the Great
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
34. 17th century authors
Ivanhoe
Icarus
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
35. Jane Austen wrote ...
Jonathon Swift
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
William Blake
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36. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Ivanhoe
Divine Comedy
The absurdity of life
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
37. The 'shrew' of the title
Katherine
Achilles
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
38. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Sailing to Byzantium
William Blake
Ivanhoe
Hamlet
39. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Pulpit
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
40. 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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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 Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Don Juan
Hamlet
42. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Sailing to Byzantium
The love of travel
Idylls of the King
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
43. 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
William Blake
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Dante
Katherine
44. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Tamburlaine the Great
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
45. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
William Blake
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Waste Land
46. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Idylls of the King
Shakespeare
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
John Milton
47. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The absurdity of life
Great Expectations
48. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Pride and Prejudice
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Paradise Lost
49. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Katherine
Tamburlaine the Great
Astrophel and Stella
50. 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
Ivanhoe
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
A frame story/narrative
The Tower