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CLEP World Literature
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1. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Adventure
Pygmalion
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
2. 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.
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Idylls of the King
Ivanhoe
The Jew of Malta
3. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Ababbcbcc
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Polonius
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
4. 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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5. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Shakespeare
6. 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.
Icarus
Astrophel and Stella
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Pilgrim's Progress
7. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Samuel Coleridge
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Utopia
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
8. Works by Jonathon Swift
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9. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Graham Greene
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Christopher Marlowe
10. Mary Shelley was his second wife
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Pulpit
Jonathon Swift
Percy Shelley
11. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Astrophel and Stella
Odes
Pride and Prejudice
Shakespeare
12. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Emma by Jane Austen
John Milton
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
13. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
'Spenserian stanza'
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Percy Shelley
14. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Chaucer
Oliver Twist
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Utopia
15. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Tamburlaine the Great
William Langland
Mary Shelley
16. 'Tub' is a pun for what?
Wuthering Heights
Ababbcbcc
Alexander Pope
Pulpit
17. Modern English authors
Pilgrim's Progress
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Bells and Pomegranates.
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
18. 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
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Divine Comedy
A frame story/narrative
Great Expectations
19. 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
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
20. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Othello
William Blake
Ode to a Nightingale
Philip Sidney
21. 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...
Robert Browning
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
The absurdity of life
22. 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
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Claudius
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
23. '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.'
Jungle Book
Sir Walter Scott
Paradise Lost
The Waste Land
24. 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
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Polonius
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Paradise Lost
25. About the legend og King Aurthur who is still in love with who?.
Oliver Twist
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
26. 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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27. First person point of view of the orphan Pip - Miss Havisham and Estella are characters
Great Expectations
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Sailing to Byzantium
Chaucer
28. 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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29. A cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet
Idylls of the King
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Ode on a Grecian Urn
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
30. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Valdes and Cornelius
Pride and Prejudice
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
31. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Divine Comedy
Hamlet
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Don Juan
32. The Comedians was written by who
Odes
Astrophel and Stella
Ababbcbcc
Graham Greene
33. 19th Century authors
Sonnet sequence
Robert Browning
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
The absurdity of life
34. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Canterburry Tales
Robert Browning
Mary Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
35. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
John Keats
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Philip Sidney
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
36. 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
Jungle Book
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
37. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Gulliver
Achilles
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
38. English Christian writer and preacher Wrote Pilgrim's Progress - during his first imprisonment
Macbeth
Utopia
John Bunyan
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
39. '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.
Sonnet sequence
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Canterburry Tales
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
40. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
Ann Radcliffe
William Wordsworth
Sonnet sequence
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
41. 18th Century authors
Valdes and Cornelius
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
John Milton
42. A poem
The love of travel
The Book of Thel
Odes
Piers Plowman
43. Alfred Tennyson wrote what ?
Utopia
The Book of Thel
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
44. 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.
Ivanhoe
George Elliot
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
45. 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
Sonnet sequence
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Claudius
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
46. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
The love of travel
Pride and Prejudice
William Langland
47. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Christopher Marlowe
Valdes and Cornelius
The Renaissance 1485-1660
48. 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
The Waste Land
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Chaucer
Ivanhoe
49. 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.
The Knight's Tale
Rape of the Lock
Dante
A frame story/narrative
50. The 'shrew' of the title
Astrophel and Stella
Divine Comedy
Katherine
Othello