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CLEP World Literature
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1. Is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things - Amelia and Becky are characters in what story?
Philip Sidney
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
2. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Oliver Twist
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Polonius
3. The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes
Wuthering Heights
Polonius
Rape of the Lock
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
4. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
Jonathon Swift
The Book of Thel
Prometheus Unbound
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5. Jane Austen wrote ...
Achilles
Pulpit
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Great Expectations
6. 18th Century authors
Samuel Coleridge
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Pilgrim's Progress
7. 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
Wuthering Heights
Emma by Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
8. Book of poems
John Bunyan
Sailing to Byzantium
The Renaissance 1485-1660
The absurdity of life
9. 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
Paradise Lost
Pygmalion
The Book of Thel
Graham Greene
10. Wrote Rape of the Lock - most famous for his heroic couplet
Hamlet
The love of travel
Alexander Pope
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
11. 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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12. Biographia Literaria - coined the term suspension of disbelief - a long - loosely structured autobiography of who? Samuel Coleridge
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
Samuel Coleridge
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
13. The Comedians was written by who
Graham Greene
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Don Juan
Ann Radcliffe
14. 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
Gulliver
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
15. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Divine Comedy
Katherine
Percy Shelley
16. Who is taken as prisoner to a people group smaller than him in Jonathon Swifts famous work?
Gulliver
George Elliot
William Wordsworth
The love of travel
17. 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
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Divine Comedy
Dante
Christopher Marlowe
18. Hamlet is acting mad but he thinks that _________ killed his brother to gain power - has to admit to killing
Claudius
Oliver Twist
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William Langland
19. 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
Divine Comedy
Bells and Pomegranates.
Pride and Prejudice
William Blake
20. 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.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Othello
Rape of the Lock
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
21. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Adventure
Ode to a Nightingale
Utopia
22. 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?'
The Book of Thel
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Robert Browning
23. 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
Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Ode to a Nightingale
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
24. Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel.is associated with what?
Samuel Coleridge
The Jew of Malta
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Ann Radcliffe
25. 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
Pride and Prejudice
The Book of Thel
'Spenserian stanza'
26. Tamburlaine the Great was written by who?
Tamburlaine the Great
Christopher Marlowe
The Waste Land
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
27. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Jonathon Swift
Divine Comedy
Mary Shelley
Ode to a Nightingale
28. Written by George Bernard Shaw - old version of My Fair Lady
Bells and Pomegranates.
Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Pygmalion
29. '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.
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
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Gulliver
30. The 'shrew' of the title
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Katherine
The Jew of Malta
Great Expectations
31. 17th century authors
George Elliot
Graham Greene
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Alexander Pope
32. Orphan who endures hardships - ends up with pickpocket-ers
Prometheus Unbound
John Milton
The Waste Land
Oliver Twist
33. 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
Astrophel and Stella
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
34. 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
John Keats
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
William Langland
Odes
35. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Odes
John Keats
Percy Shelley
36. What are Mary Anne Evans writings well known for?
Most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Bells and Pomegranates.
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
The Knight's Tale
37. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
Jungle Book
Jonathon Swift
The love of travel
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
38. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Wuthering Heights
Philip Sidney
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Don Juan
39. Two famous magicians in Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
The Tower
Valdes and Cornelius
Hamlet
Oliver Twist
40. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to a Nightingale
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
William Wordsworth
John Keats
41. Wrote 'Astrophel and Stella' - one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age - English poet - courtier - and soldier
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Ode to a Nightingale
Philip Sidney
Samuel Coleridge
42. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Polonius
43. Works by Charles Dickens
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Mary Shelley
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Claudius
44. Who wrote Faerie Queen? Recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy
Astrophel and Stella
'Spenserian stanza'
Edmund Spenser
Odes
45. '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.'
Claudius
Percy Shelley
Polonius
The Waste Land
46. 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...
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Robert Browning
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Tower
47. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Achilles
Edward II written by Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
48. 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
T.S. Elliot
Songs of Innocence (and of experience)
Ivanhoe
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
49. 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.
Samuel Coleridge
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Pride and Prejudice
50. 19th Century authors
John Milton
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Icarus
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson