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CLEP World Literature
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1. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Ann Radcliffe
Astrophel and Stella
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
2. 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)
George Elliot
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Sailing to Byzantium
Achilles
3. 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
William Blake
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Percy Shelley
4. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Oliver Twist
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Dante
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
5. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Pulpit
Othello
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Astrophel and Stella
6. 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
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Alexander Pope
Chaucer
Don Juan
7. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Divine Comedy
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
8. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Ode to a Nightingale
Percy Shelley
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Odes
9. What does Troilus reflect on in the story of Troilus and Criseyde?
Samuel Coleridge
Joseph Conrad
Philip Sidney
The absurdity of life
10. 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
Pride and Prejudice
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ode to a Nightingale
Pulpit
11. 18th Century authors
The Alchemist
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
William Wordsworth
12. 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
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The Jew of Malta
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
13. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
John Keats
Pilgrim's Progress
Bells and Pomegranates.
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
14. 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.
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Sonnet sequence
Valdes and Cornelius
'Spenserian stanza'
15. 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 Waste Land
Bells and Pomegranates.
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
16. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Idylls of the King
Tamburlaine the Great
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
17. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Othello
Sir Walter Scott
Paradise Lost
Divine Comedy
18. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
John Keats
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
19. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Polonius
Idylls of the King
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
20. William Yeats wrote...
Sir Walter Scott
The absurdity of life
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
John Keats
21. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
William Blake
Macbeth
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
22. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
T.S. Elliot
23. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Great Expectations
Sailing to Byzantium
Paradise Lost
24. 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?
25. Works by Charles Dickens
Chaucer
Pilgrim's Progress
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Gulliver
26. 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.
Pulpit
Gulliver
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Astrophel and Stella
27. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Ann Radcliffe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Renaissance 1485-1660
28. Taming of the Shrew was written by...
Macbeth
William Langland
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Shakespeare
29. A poem
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Piers Plowman
Emma by Jane Austen
30. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Ababbcbcc
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
John Bunyan
Divine Comedy
31. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
The love of travel
Dante
Wuthering Heights
32. 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...
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Robert Browning
Sonnet sequence
33. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Pygmalion
Achilles
Sir Walter Scott
Rape of the Lock
34. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
Emma by Jane Austen
Claudius
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Langland
35. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Pygmalion
Gulliver
36. Famous works written by Lord Byron are?
37. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Polonius
Edmund Spenser
Oliver Twist
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
38. 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
A frame story/narrative
John Keats
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
39. Works by Jonathon Swift
40. What is significant about Jonathon Swift's story 'Tale of a Tub'
A frame story/narrative
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Jonathon Swift
41. 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
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Pilgrim's Progress
Gulliver
The Alchemist
42. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
John Milton
William Wordsworth
Piers Plowman
Idylls of the King
43. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Adventure
John Bunyan
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
44. 17th century authors
George Elliot
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Pygmalion
Bells and Pomegranates.
45. 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 Intimation of Immortality
Utopia
T.S. Elliot
Ode on a Grecian Urn
46. 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
Utopia
Pride and Prejudice
Joseph Conrad
Ivanhoe
47. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
The absurdity of life
Jonathon Swift
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
48. 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
Dante
Macbeth
Philip Sidney
Utopia
49. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Astrophel and Stella
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Claudius
50. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Graham Greene
Edmund Spenser
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
The absurdity of life