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CLEP World Literature
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1. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Oliver Twist
The absurdity of life
'Spenserian stanza'
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
2. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Tamburlaine the Great
The Tower
3. Book of poems
Icarus
The Book of Thel
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Sailing to Byzantium
4. In Faustus the protagonist is compared to ________ and indicates a fall from hubris (excessive pride)
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Oliver Twist
The love of travel
Icarus
5. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Paradise Lost
6. '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
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Tamburlaine the Great
Don Juan
7. An English poet - polemicist - and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England - wrote Paradise Lost
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
John Milton
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Pride and Prejudice
8. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Hamlet
9. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
George Elliot
John Milton
Macbeth
Hamlet
10. Works by Jonathon Swift
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11. Written by Percy Shelley - the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus.
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Prometheus Unbound
Piers Plowman
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
12. '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.'
Paradise Lost
The Waste Land
Pride and Prejudice
The Alchemist
13. Jane Austen wrote ...
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Idylls of the King
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
The Tower
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
Prometheus Unbound
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Tamburlaine the Great
15. William Yeats wrote...
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Alexander Pope
Gulliver
Ode to a Nightingale
16. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Oliver Twist
George Elliot
The love of travel
17. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Jonathon Swift
'Spenserian stanza'
William Blake
Icarus
18. 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
Oliver Twist
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
The Alchemist
Philip Sidney
19. Heroine thinks she is good at matchmaking and thinks that she will never find love for herself - ends up with Knightley after a long time
Emma by Jane Austen
Dante
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Shakespeare
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?'
Dante
The Book of Thel
Sir Walter Scott
Utopia
21. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Katherine
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Christopher Marlowe
22. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
23. '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
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Waste Land
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
24. 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.
Rape of the Lock
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Sonnet sequence
25. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Oliver Twist
Samuel Coleridge
Othello
T.S. Elliot
26. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Blake
Samuel Coleridge
27. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Book of Thel
Astrophel and Stella
Valdes and Cornelius
The absurdity of life
28. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Emma by Jane Austen
William Wordsworth
Sailing to Byzantium
29. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Claudius
Ivanhoe
John Milton
30. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Valdes and Cornelius
Macbeth
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Astrophel and Stella
31. 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.
The Renaissance 1485-1660
John Bunyan
Jungle Book
Astrophel and Stella
32. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Sonnet sequence
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Prometheus Unbound
Divine Comedy
33. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
John Keats
Graham Greene
34. 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)
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Jew of Malta
George Elliot
Ode on a Grecian Urn
35. 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
George Elliot
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice
Sonnet sequence
36. 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.
Bells and Pomegranates.
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Joseph Conrad
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
37. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Mary Shelley
William Langland
Othello
Christopher Marlowe
38. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
John Milton
Samuel Coleridge
39. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Jonathon Swift
Odes
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
40. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Waste Land
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Pulpit
41. 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
Samuel Coleridge
Paradise Lost
Astrophel and Stella
42. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
The Knight's Tale
The absurdity of life
Christopher Marlowe
Jungle Book
43. Mary Shelley was his second wife
George Elliot
William Blake
Katherine
Percy Shelley
44. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
William Wordsworth
Prometheus Unbound
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
45. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
The love of travel
Jungle Book
Tamburlaine the Great
Othello
46. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Samuel Coleridge
Dante
Edmund Spenser
47. 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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48. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Sir Walter Scott
Pygmalion
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Philip Sidney
49. 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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50. 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
Emma by Jane Austen
George Elliot
Christopher Marlowe
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe