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CLEP World Literature
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1. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Divine Comedy
Dante
Othello
Paradise Lost
2. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Canterburry Tales
Samuel Coleridge
Mary Shelley
3. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Christopher Marlowe
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Samuel Coleridge
4. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Percy Shelley
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Achilles
Astrophel and Stella
5. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
John Milton
Polonius
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Graham Greene
6. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Ann Radcliffe
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
Valdes and Cornelius
Othello
7. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Ode to a Nightingale
Jungle Book
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Pilgrim's Progress
8. '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.'
The Alchemist
The Waste Land
Rape of the Lock
Edmund Spenser
9. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Jungle Book
Katherine
Odes
Ababbcbcc
10. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Wordsworth
The Jew of Malta
The Waste Land
William Langland
11. Book of poems
Sailing to Byzantium
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
William Wordsworth
12. 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
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Gulliver
Emma by Jane Austen
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
13. Works by Jonathon Swift
14. Many different types of people tell stories of their journeys - much more about the stories they tell - rather than the actual traveling.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Canterburry Tales
Ivanhoe
15. 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?
16. What is the ships name in Gullivers Travels
Dante
Adventure
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
The Renaissance 1485-1660
17. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
Claudius
A frame story/narrative
The love of travel
Macbeth
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
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Canterburry Tales
A frame story/narrative
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
19. 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.
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Astrophel and Stella
Pygmalion
Shakespeare
20. What form is Faerie Queen written in?
21. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Philip Sidney
Hamlet
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
22. The founder of gothic literature - Wrote The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Gaston de Blondeville - The Italian - The Mysteries of Udolpho - The Romance of the Forest and A Sicilian Romance.
Ivanhoe
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Ann Radcliffe
Piers Plowman
23. Works by Charles Dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
John Keats
24. Mary Shelley was his second wife
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Percy Shelley
Ode to a Nightingale
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
25. 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.
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
The absurdity of life
Rape of the Lock
Divine Comedy
26. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Alexander Pope
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
27. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Samuel Coleridge
Gulliver
Pulpit
Prometheus Unbound
28. 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)
Christopher Marlowe
George Elliot
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Percy Shelley
29. 17th century authors
Utopia
William Blake
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
William Langland
30. 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
William Langland
The absurdity of life
Pilgrim's Progress
Ode to a Nightingale
31. 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.
Sonnet sequence
Paradise Lost
Astrophel and Stella
The Alchemist
32. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with this work
The Book of Thel
Tamburlaine the Great
The Tower
Sonnet sequence
33. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
The Knight's Tale
Graham Greene
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
34. 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.
Katherine
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Waste Land
The Tower
35. '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.
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
36. 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.
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Adventure
37. 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
Percy Shelley
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
Ann Radcliffe
38. 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
Ivanhoe
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Dante
Idylls of the King
39. Written by William Blake - a collection of illustrated poems
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
'Spenserian stanza'
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Sir Walter Scott
40. The Lady of the Lake - an Arthurian Legend was written by...
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Sir Walter Scott
41. Written by Graham Greene - The plot concerns Querry - who is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference - he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life
The love of travel
Pilgrim's Progress
Graham Greene
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
42. 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
Philip Sidney
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
43. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
Ode on a Grecian Urn
A frame story/narrative
Alexander Pope
44. 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
Odes
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Percy Shelley
Jungle Book
45. Viewed as a precursor of modernist literature - His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors
Joseph Conrad
Pilgrim's Progress
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
The love of travel
46. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Hamlet
Graham Greene
Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
John Keats
47. Scobie - Yusef - Tallit - Dicky commits suicide - and tries to make it seem natural
Emma by Jane Austen
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
The Jew of Malta
48. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Prometheus Unbound
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
49. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Utopia
Ode to a Nightingale
Katherine
Chaucer
50. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Philip Sidney
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
William Blake
T.S. Elliot