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CLEP World Literature
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1. The Heart of the Matter - A Burnt Out Case - The Comedians
Gulliver
Graham Greene
Emma by Jane Austen
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
2. Self published books by Robert Browning are entitled as what?
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
Bells and Pomegranates.
T.S. Elliot
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
3. Hamlet thinks ________ is Claudius and kills him through the curtain
Idylls of the King
Polonius
Utopia
The Waste Land
4. 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
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
John Milton
Chaucer
Most difficult - but most masterly satire
5. The Comedians was written by who
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Graham Greene
Icarus
6. Lord Byron wrote a satiric poem based on the legend of who?
Achilles
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Don Juan
Great Expectations
7. 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
Adventure
Paradise Lost
Tamburlaine the Great
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
8. William Yeats wrote...
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Our Mutual Friend by charles dickens
9. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes - Ode to a Nightingale - Ode on a Grecian Urn
The love of travel
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
John Keats
Macbeth
10. Criseyde then falls for Deiphobus - Troilus is killed by who?
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
Achilles
Christopher Marlowe
11. Cassio -Iago - Roderigo are characters in which Shakespeare play?
Philip Sidney
Claudius
The Tower
Othello
12. 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
William Blake
Divine Comedy
Prometheus Unbound
A frame story/narrative
13. Surface meaning: hell - Heaven - and purgatory -The Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Divine Comedy
Hamlet
The Book of Thel
Great Expectations
14. John Keats was known for what kind of writings?
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
Odes
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
15. 18th Century Irish Satirist
Philip Sidney
Pilgrim's Progress
'Spenserian stanza'
Jonathon Swift
16. Wrote Frankenstein - started writing at age 18 - and published at age 21
Hamlet
William Wordsworth
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Mary Shelley
17. 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
Pride and Prejudice
George Elliot
The Alchemist
Wuthering Heights
18. 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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19. 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 - Chaucer and Langland
Dante
Canterburry Tales
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
20. Written by Thpmas Moore - in Latin -frame narrative - primarily depicting a fictional island society and the religious - social - and political customs.
Divine Comedy
Utopia
Emma by Jane Austen
The Alchemist
21. Rudyard Kipling wrote what story?
'Spenserian stanza'
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Jungle Book
22. Songs of Innocence (and of experience) written by who
Scobie in The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
William Blake
23. Gertrude - Claudius - Ophelia - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - 'double - double - toil and trouble.'
Mary Shelley
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Hamlet
'spenserian stanza' . Faerie Queen written by Edmund Spenser
24. The 'shrew' of the title
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Katherine
Ivanhoe
25. Written about - Emperor of Persia... defeats different countries - He claims he is greater than God and is struck dead - his sons gain power
Tamburlaine the Great
Paradise Lost
Idylls of the King
Macbeth
26. A collection of English poems by Robert Browning - first published in 1845 as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
T.S. Elliot
Pulpit
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer Middle English
27. Middle English Authors (1066-1485)
Dante - Chaucer and Langland
Prometheus Unbound
Christopher Marlowe
Alexander Pope
28. 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
John Bunyan
The Book of Thel
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
Divine Comedy
29. The Faerie Queene - an allegorical work - written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I - an epic - incomplete poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the?
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
Joseph Conrad - William Yeats - T.S. Elliot - Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub - Modest Proposal
30. What are the three things that are represented in 'Tale of the Tub'?
Hamlet
Odes
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Emma by Jane Austen
31. 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.
The Alchemist
Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe
William Blake
The love of travel
32. The first tale from Canterbury Tales - this story was written in iambic pentameter - about courtly love and ethical dilemmas - Arcite and Palamon are imprisoned. They both fall for a woman named Emily which causes tension and hate.
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33. Jane Austen wrote ...
Canterburry Tales
John Bunyan
Emma - Pride and Prejudice
Don Juan - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
34. His magnum opus was called 'The Prelude' - also wrote Ode on Intimation of Immortality
William Wordsworth
Astrophel and Stella
Rape of the Lock
In Memorium by Alfred L. Tennyson
35. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Langland
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Wuthering Heights
Achilles
36. 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.
Sir Walter Scott
Don Juan
Sonnet sequence
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
37. 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
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Don Juan
Sir Walter Scott
Ode on Intimation of Immortality
38. What is the rhyme scheme of Faerie Queen?
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
Utopia
Pulpit
Ababbcbcc
39. Falls into a stream after going crazy
Ophelia in the story of hamlet
Joseph Conrad
Pilgrim's Progress
In Memoriam and Idylls of the King
40. 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
Paradise Lost
Christopher Marlowe
Oliver Twist
41. Works by Jonathon Swift
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42. 19th Century authors
Charles Dickens - Rudyard Kipling - Emily Bronte - George Bernard Shaw - George Elliot - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson
Don Juan
Guinevere (the woman) Idylls of the King (book)
The Knight's Tale
43. What is Gulliver's downfall in Gullivers Travels?
The love of travel
Pride and Prejudice
Three brothers represent three different types of Christianity in the world
Robert Browning
44. '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.'
Great expectations - David Copperfield - Our Mutual Friend - A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist
Tudor and Elizabeth 1
The Waste Land
Robert Browning
45. 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.
Ode to a Nightingale
Ann Radcliffe
Claudius
John Bunyan - John Milton - Ben Jonson
46. Written by Emily Bronte - the name of a farmhouse - the all-encompassing and passionate - yet thwarted - love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.
Oliver Twist
William Langland
Irish writer - The Winding Stair - The Tower
Wuthering Heights
47. What is the satirical hyperbole in Jonathon Swifts 'A Modest Proposal'?
Graham Greene
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor - as well as British policy in Ireland in general.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
48. What time period are -Thomas Moore -Philip Sidney -Edmund Spenser -Shakespeare -Christopher Marlowe
The Renaissance 1485-1660
Pygmalion
Odes
Chaucer
49. The Waste Land and Four Quartets are written by...
T.S. Elliot
Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - Jonathon Swift - Ann Radcliffe
Claudius
Robert Browning
50. A poem
Piers Plowman
John Keats
Paradise Lost
The absurdity of life