English Literature Clep Questions
Ina pungent critique of humanity addressed to the mature imagination the author comments on human
nature by examining the life of the Lilliputians, Yahoos, and Houyhnhnm's. The book described above is: -
(correct Answer) - Gulliver's Travels
One of the great triumphs of the play is Shakespears addition of the character of the Fool, who attempts
to comfort his old master and is distressed and puzzled by his madness, but how also ironically
emphasizes the folly and tragedy of the old man.The play referred to above is: - (correct Answer) - King
Lear
Samuel Richardson Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett are best known as eighteenth century - (correct
Answer) - novelists
An anonymous narrative poem focusing on the climax of a particularly dramatic event and employing
frequent repetition , conventional figures of speech and sometimes a refrain- altered and transmitted
orally in a musical setting-is called a - (correct Answer) - popular ballad
Whan that April with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
The lines above are written by - (correct Answer) - Geoffrey Chaucer
Alfred Tennyson's " Ulysses" and T.S. Eliot's " The Love Song of J. ALfred Prufrock" are both - (correct
Answer) - dramatic monologues
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
This passage contains an example of ____and is a poem by who? - (correct Answer) - a metaphysical
conceit, John Donne
Which of the following is the first line of a poem by John Keats? - (correct Answer) - "Thou still
unravished bride of quietness.
O Threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
Ina pungent critique of humanity addressed to the mature imagination the author comments on human
nature by examining the life of the Lilliputians, Yahoos, and Houyhnhnm's. The book described above is: -
(correct Answer) - Gulliver's Travels
One of the great triumphs of the play is Shakespears addition of the character of the Fool, who attempts
to comfort his old master and is distressed and puzzled by his madness, but how also ironically
emphasizes the folly and tragedy of the old man.The play referred to above is: - (correct Answer) - King
Lear
Samuel Richardson Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett are best known as eighteenth century - (correct
Answer) - novelists
An anonymous narrative poem focusing on the climax of a particularly dramatic event and employing
frequent repetition , conventional figures of speech and sometimes a refrain- altered and transmitted
orally in a musical setting-is called a - (correct Answer) - popular ballad
Whan that April with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
The lines above are written by - (correct Answer) - Geoffrey Chaucer
Alfred Tennyson's " Ulysses" and T.S. Eliot's " The Love Song of J. ALfred Prufrock" are both - (correct
Answer) - dramatic monologues
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
This passage contains an example of ____and is a poem by who? - (correct Answer) - a metaphysical
conceit, John Donne
Which of the following is the first line of a poem by John Keats? - (correct Answer) - "Thou still
unravished bride of quietness.
O Threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
