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221. 'The Good Earth' is written by-
★ Pearl S. Buck
222. Rudyard Kipling was-
★ Indian descendant but British novelist.
223. Famous novels of Rudyard Kipling -
★ Kim, The Jungle Book.
224. 'A Brief History of Time' is written by-
★ Stephen Hawking
225. 'The Clash of the Civilization ' is written by-
★ S.P. Huntington
226. T.S. Eliot -
★ Born in USA but settled in England.
227. 'The Waste Land' a famous poem is written by-
★ T.S. Eliot
228. Famous plays of T.S. Eliot -
★ Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party.
229. 'Gerontion' is written by-
★ T.S. Eliot
230. 'A Room of One's Own' is written by-
★ Virginia Woolf
231. W.B. Yeats-
★ He is the National Poet of Ireland.
232. Who wrote introduction of 'Songs Offerings' written by Rabindranath Tagore?
★ W.B. Yeats
233. 'Of Human Bondage ' is written by-
★ William Somerset Maugham
234. 'History of the Second World War' is written by-
★ Winston Churchill
235. The three national poets of USA -
★ Walt Whitman, Robert Frost & Emily Dickinson.
236. "Good fences make good neighbours. "- who quoted?
★ Robert Frost
237. Famous Irish writers-
★ Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats.
________
119. "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."- who said?
★ William Wordsworth.
120. Poet of supernaturalism -
★ S.T. Coleridge
121. Who was addicted to opium?
★ S.T. Coleridge ( Opium eater).
122. 'Biographia Literaria' is written by-
★ S.T. Coleridge
123. Famous poems of Coleridge -
★ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan
124. " Water, water, every where
Nor any drop to drink."- who quoted & which type this quotation?
★ S.T. Coleridge & this is an 'alliteration.'
125. Revolutionary poet-
★ P.B. Shelley
126. Lyrical poet/ Poet of Wind-
★ P.B. Shelley
127. ------ is often called the Shelley of Bangladesh.
★ Jibonanondo Das
128. 'The Revolt of Islam' is written by-
★ P.B. Shelley
129. 'Prometheus Unbound ' is written by-
★ P.B. Shelley
130. A famous elegy of P.B. Shelley -
★ Adonais.
131. Famous poems of P.B. Shelley -
★ Ode to the West Wind, Ode to a Skylark, Ozymandias.
132. "If Winter comes,
Can Spring be far behind? "- who said?
★ P.B. Shelley
133. " Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. "- is quoted by-
★ P.B. Shelley
134. Poet of Beauty-
★ John Keats
135. Poet of Sensuousness -
★ John Keats
136. Famous poems of John Keats-
★ Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn.
137. " Beauty is truth, Truth is beauty. "- is said by-
★ John keats
138. " A thing of beauty is a joy forever. "- said by-
★ John Keats.
139. 'Songs of Innocence ' is written by-
★ William Blake ( poet & painter).
140. ' Tales from Shakespeare ' is written by-
★ Charles Lamb
141. Rebel poet-
★ Lord Byron
142. Famous poem of Lord Byron -
★ Child Harold's Pilgrimage.
143. Famous epic of Lord Byron -
★ Don Juan.
144. " Man's conscience is the oracle of God."- is quoted by-
★ Lord Byron.
145. A domestic novel ' Pride & Prejudice ' is written by-
★ Jane Austen.
146. Who is protagonist in 'Pride & Prejudice '?
★ Elizabeth Bennet.
146. Famous poets of the Victorian period -
★ Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning & Mathew Arnold.
147. Famous elegy of Lord Alfred Tennyson -
★ In Memoriam ( sacrificed to Arthur Henny Hallam).
148. Famous poems of Tennyson -
★ Ulysses, Lotus Eaters, Oenone, Locksley Hall, Morte D' Arthur.
149. Who said -"The old order changeth yielding place to new."
★ Lord Alfred tennyson
150. "Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers."- who quoted?
★ Alfred Tennyson.
151. Robert Browning was-
★ the best poet of the Victorian period & famous poet of Dramatic Monologue.
152. Famous poems of Robert Browning -
★ The Patriot, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Fra Lippo Lippi, The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
153. Melancholic/ Elegiac poet-
★ Mathew Arnold.
154. " Poetry is the criticism of life."- is quoted by-
★ Mathew Arnold
155. The Greatest Novelist in the Victorian period -
★ Charles Dickens.
156. Famous novels of Charles Dickens -
★ A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations.
157. 'Mother ' a famous novel is written by-
★ Maxim Gorky
158. Famous novels of Thomas Hardy-
★ The Return of the Native, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree.
159. "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. "- is quoted by-
★ Benjamin Franklin
160. " Honesty is the best policy. "- who said?
★ Benjamin Franklin.
161. 'War and Peace' is written by-
★ Leo Tolstoy ( Russian novelist).
162. 'Jane Eyre' is written by-
★ Charlotte Bronte.
163. 'Wuthering Heights ' is written by-
★ Emily Bronte.
164. The real name of George Eliot -
★ Mary Ann Evans.
165. 'Silas Marner' is written by-
★ George Eliot
166. 'The Spanish Gypsy' is written by-
★ George Eliot
167. "Justice delayed, Justice denied
Justice hurried, Justice burried."- who said?
★ Gladstone.
168. 'Three Musketeers ' is written by-
★ Alexander Dumas.
169. Father of Socialism & Modern Scientific Communism-
★ Karl Marx.
170. Karl Marx -
★ Born in Germany but settled/died in England.
171. Famous books of Karl Marx-
★ Das Capital, Communist Manifesto.
#English_Literature_MCQ
The Elizabethan Period -
★ 1558-1603
2. The Commonwealth Period -
★ 1649-1660
3.The Romantic Period -
★ 1798-1832
4. The Victorian Period -
★ 1832-1901
5. Founder of English prose-
★ King Alfred the Great
6. First Monument in English Literature -
★ Beowulf
7. Father of English Modern Poetry -
★ Geoffrey Chaucer
8. Famous book of Geoffrey Chaucer -
★ Canterbury Tales
9. The Divine Comedy is an epic written by-
★ Dante ( Supreme poet of Italy)
10. Renaissance began --- in Italy.
★ 14th Century
11. Father of the Bengal Renaissance -
★ Raja Rammohan Ray
12. Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci's some famous arts-
★ The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, the Madona & Child
13. Italian artist Michelangelo's some arts-
★ Mozes, Pieta, the Creation of Adam
14. Golden/ Glorious period of English Literature -
★ the Elizabethan period
15. -------- means England's own church.
★ Anglicanism
16. "" A good face is the best letter of recommendation."- was said by---
★ Queen Elizabeth
17. Some famous writers of Elizabethan period -
★ Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare
18. The another name of ' the Tragedy of Gorboduc'-
★ Ferrex & Porrex
19. Some famous University Wits-
★ Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Robert Greene
20. Father of English Drama/Tragedy -
★ Christopher Marlowe
21. Who was Shakespeare's predecessor?
★ Christopher Marlowe
22. Father of 'Blank verse '-
★ Christopher Marlowe
23. Famous tragedies of Marlowe-
★ Doctor Faustus, the Jew of Malta
24. Faustus sold his soul for--
★ 24 years.
25. " Man is the maker of hid own fate."- quoted from?
★ Francis Bacon
26. The Poet of poets-
★ Edmund Spenser
27. An epic ' the Faerie Queen ' is composed by-
★ Edmund Spenser
28. The Shepherds Calendar, Amoretti are written by--
★ Edmund Spenser
29. Ralph Roister Doister is written by-
★ Nicholas Udall
30. Arcadia is a novel written by-
★ Sir Philip Sydney
31. The Duchess of Malfi is written by-
★ John Webster
32. ---- is called 'Machiavellian/ selfish ' character.
★ Bosola
33. Father of Comedy of Humours--
★ Ben Jonson
34. Famous plays of Ben Jonson-
★ The Silent Woman, Volpone
35. Famous play of Thomas Kyd-
★ The Spanish Tragedy
36. Father of Modern Political Science -
★ Niccolo Machiavelli
37. Who wrote 'the Prince'?
★ Niccolo Machiavelli
38. Father of English Essay -
★ Francis Bacon
39. Father of Modern prose-
★ Francis Bacon
40. "Reading maketh a full man..."- who said?
★ Francis bacon
41. " Some books are to be tasted..."- who quoted?
★ Francis bacon
42. Date of birth & death of William Shakespeare-
★ 1564-1616
43. National poet of England -
★ William Shakespeare
44. The Bard of Avon-
★ William Shakespeare
45. Poet of Human Nature-
★ William Shakespeare
46. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in---
★ iambic pentameter
47. A speech by an actor on a lonely stage-
★ Soliloquy
48. Shakespeare's sonnet style -
★ Three quatrains & a couplet.
49. Some famous plays of William Shakespeare -
★ the Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, Anthony & Cleopatra, Comedy of Errors, the Taming of the Shrew, the Tempest.
50. "All that glitters is not gold."- who noted?
★ William Shakespeare
51. " To be or not to be that is the question. " is written by-
★ William Shakespeare ( Hamlet)
52. "Frailty, thy name is woman." who said?
★ William Shakespeare ( Hamlet)
53. "Brevity is the soul of wit."- who quoted?
★ William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
54. Who wrote " When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions. "
★ William Shakespeare
55. "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."- who quoted this?
★ William Shakespeare ( Lady Macbeth)
56. Othello gave Desdemona a ------ as a token of love.
★ handkerchief
57. " Veni, Vidi, Vici"- said by--
★ Julius Caesar ( William Shakespeare)
58. "Cowards die many times before their death."- who quoted?
🍁 *Define plot.* What are its various elements?
Plot is a logical arrangement of events in a story or play. The exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution are the elements of plot.
🍁 *What is conflict?*
Conflict is a problem or struggle in a story or play. It occurs in rising action, climax and falling action. It creates suspense and excitement in the story or play.
Define black comedy.
Black comedy is a humorous work in which human suffering regards as absurd and funny..
🍁 *What do you mean by Theater of the absurd?*
Theater of the absurd is one kind of drama in which absurdity emphasized and lack realistic and logical structure. For example: “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett.
🍁*How can you differentiate between flat and round characters?*
A round character is a complex and dynamic. In this character improvement and change occurs during the course of work but flat character are uncomplicated and remains unchanged through the course of work.
🍁 *What was the Oxford movement?*
Oxford movement starts in 1833 and for the revival of Catholic doctrine in Anglican Church. It is against the conventional understanding of the religion.
🍁 *Define Puritanism?*
Puritanism is the religious movement starts in sixteen century and the goal of the movement is to purify the church of England from its Catholic practices.
🍁 *What is Imagism?*
Imagism is a movement of Anglo-American poets started in early nineteenth century in which they emphasize the use of clear images and simple and sharp language.
🍁 *What is meant by Stream of Consciousness?*
Stream of Consciousness is a technique of narration in which the series of thoughts in the mind of the character are presented. “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf is one example.
🍁*What is meant by Gothic Novel?*
Gothic Novel is one type of novel. In this type the cruel passions and supernatural terror is presented. Example: Monastery or Haunted Castle etc.
🍁*What is Metaphysical Poetry?*
Metaphysical poetry is a highly intellectualized poetry with the use of wit, imagery, conceits and paradox etc. It is obscure and rigid. For example: “John Donne’s poetry.
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1. Who, among the following poets, was a precursor to Romantic Poetry?
Answer: Robert Burns
2. Which novelists is widely known for his use of the stream-of –consciousness
technique?
Answer: James Joyce
3. Which year in the social history of England is associated with the Restoration?
Answer: 1660.
4. Which British dramatist attempted to reform English spelling?
Answer: G.B.Shaw
5. For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love
Which poem of Donne begins with these words
Answer: Cannonisation
6. How many pilgrims figure in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales?
Answer: 29
7. In which year was Henry VIII acknowledged the Supreme Head on the Earth of the
English church?
Answer: 1534
8. Identify the tragedy written by Ben Jonson
Answer: Sejanus
9. “…though we cannot make our sun / stand still, yet we will make him run”. Identify
the source of these lines from Marvell.
Answer: To His Coy Mistress
10. Which book of Paradise Lost opens with these lines:
‘Of Man’s first disobedience , and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world?
Answer: Book I
11. Who said of Chaucer’s characters: ‘it is sufficient to say, according to the proverb,
that here is God’s plenty?
Answer: Dryden
12. Which poem begins with these lines :
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
The lowing herd win slowly o’er the lea
The plowman homeward plots his weary way”?
Answer: Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
13. “ To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears”
In which poem of Wordsworth would you come across these lines?
Answer: Ode: Intimations of Immortality
• Goethe defined literature “the humanization of the whole world”
• In 450 coming of Saxons to England
• Bede wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People in 731
• Weimer Classicism is a cultural and literary movement, the movement from 1772 until 1805 involved John Wolfgang von Goethe as German literary writer.
• His first novel was The Sorrow of Young Werther
• Anglo-Saxon literature ranges from 7th to 11th
• Anglo-Saxons were people who in habitated from Germanic Tribes. Anglo-Saxon periods denote the early settlement of British history until the Norman conquest, between about 450 and 1066.
• Norman were from Scandinavia
• Norman defeat the Anglo Saxon King in the battle of Hastings in 1066
• Normans brought with them Chornicles
• Anglo Saxon Poetry has been derived from Church
• The main result of the victory of Normans over French as they lost their civilization
• William , the duke of Normandy became the master of England beating the last of the Saxon Kings
• The main outcome of the battle of the Hastings in 1066 was that it changed the civilization of whole nation
• Chanson National Epic is also known as “Chanson de Roland”
• Complete history of Britons was written by Geoffrey of Monmouth, who was a Welsh Monk
• Battle of Hastings , Death of Edward and William of Normandy becomes the king in 1066
• Advocate’s Library gives a complete picture of Normandy Literature
• Merri Greenwood Men ballads were later collected into Geste of Robin Hood
• Seven Wise Masters is a collection of French oriental tales
• The Matter of Greece , is related to tales of Alexander
• Alisoun is the melodious love song written at the end of 13th century
• Rule of Achoresses , an English prose written by Bishop Poore in 1225
• Battle of Brunan was an English victory in 937 by the army of the Athelstan, King of England and his brother Edmund over the Scots.
• Battle of Hastings was fought on 14th October 1066 between Norman French army an English Army under the Anglo Saxon King Harold II.
• The battle of Lewes took place in 1264, conflict known as Second Baron’s War. War took place between Henry III and Simon de Manfort .
• Henry II also known as Henry Curtmentle.( 1154-89)
• Edward I reign 1272 t0 1307 , was first son of Henry III
• Cursor Mundi, a metrical romance was written in 1320
• Edward III defeated the French at the Battle of Poitiers and battle of Crecy in 1336 and 1346. The Battle of Poitiers was a major battle between England and France, popularly known Hundred Years’ War.
• Laurence Minot (1330-1352 ) , he belongs to patriotic versifier.
• The first public school, Winchester College was established in 1373.
• Peasant Revolt also known as Wat Tyler’s revolt was a major revolt of 1381. The problems generated by the black death in 1340. It estimated 75 to 200 million people died in Europe.
• Fall of Constantinople, the capital of eastern Roman Empire (6th April -29th of May 1453.
• Black Death 1348-49
• Battle of Crecy was in 1346
• Henry IV ascended the throne in 1399 to 1413
• The war of roses was the series of dynastic wars of the throne of England. Between House of York and house of Lancaster (1455-1487)
• Post Chaucerian period is known as 1400-1455
• Edward III came to the throne in 1327.
• Richard II came to the throne in 1377
• East midland dialect became standard English (king’s English) by the time of Chaucer.
• In war of Roses , roses stands for Houses.
• Henry VII is also known as defender of the faith.
• French had become official language after Norman conquest in 1066
• Magna Carta in 1215
• 1340 , birth of Geoffrey Chaucer
• 1370 , Chaucer wrote Book of Duchess
• 1377 , Langland wrote Piers Plowmen
• 1400 , death of Chaucer and murder of Richard II
• 1415, Battle of Agincourt
• William Caxton, History of troy, the First book in Engl Iish in the year 1474-75.English Literature
between the languages of prose and metrical composition”. Identify the speaker.
Answer: Wordsworth in “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
75. “Poetry is something more scientific and more serious than history, because poetry
ends o give general truths while history gives particular facts.” Whose words are
these?
Answer: Aristotle
76. Who coined the term Neo-Colonialism
?
Nkrumah in 1960’s
77. Who described pastiche as “blank parody”?
Answer: Jameson
78. Whose theoretical framework has Edward Said used in Orientalism?
Answer: Derrida
79. Who proposed the concept of the carnivalesque?
Answer: Bhaktin
80. Which essay begins with these words: “ I began with the desire to speak with the
dead”?
Answer: Stephen Greenblatt’s The Circulation of Social Energy
81. In Frye’s “The Archetypes of Literature,” what is winter associated with?
Answer: Satire
82. Who is the author of The Wretched of the Earth?
Answer: Fanon
83. Which Yale Deconstructor was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer?
Answer: De man
84. Who wrote about organic intellectuals?
Answer: Gramsci
85. Who made a distinction between RSA and ISA?
Answer: Althusser
86. When was the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies established at the
University of Birmingham?
Answer: 1964 by Richard Hoggart
87. Who declared that “Chaucer is not one of the great classics’’?
Answer: Arnold in The Study of Poetry.
88. In which essay does T.S.Eliot declare that “Criticism is as inevitable as breathing’’?
Answer: Tradition and the Individual Talent
89. Who publicized the concept of “interpretive communities”?
Answer: Fish
90. Who coined the term ecriture feminine?
Answer: Cixous
91. Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017?
Answer: Ishiguro
92. What is /v/ in English phonetics?
Answer: Voiced labio-dental frictive
93. How many syllables does the word “inaccessibility”?
Answer: 7 (In-ac-ces-si-bil-i-ty)
94. Who coined the term PS (Phrase Structure) Grammar?
Answer: Chomsky
95. “An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable”-Identify the metre.
Answer: Iambic
96. “Crown” standing for the king-Identify the figure of speech.
Answer: Metonymy
97. The word “Pram” is derived from “perambulator”. What is this process known as?
Answer: Syncopation
98. To what family (of languages) does French belong?
Answer:caltic
99. What is an Alexandrine with reference to metre”?
Answer: A line of six iambic feet
100. Who wrote Refractions:Essays in Comparative Literature?
Answer: Harry Levin
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#THEORIES_WITH_Authors
1. Aestheticism –
often associated with Romanticism, a philosophy defining aesthetic value as the primary goal in understanding literature. This includes both literary critics who have tried to understand and/or identify aesthetic values and those like Oscar Wilde who have stressed art for art's sake.
I.Oscar Wilde,
II.Walter Pater,
III.Harold Bloom
2. American pragmatism and other American approaches
I.Harold Bloom,
II.Stanley Fish,
III.Richard Rorty
3. Cognitive Cultural Studies –
applies research in cognitive neuroscience, cognitive evolutionary psychology and anthropology, and philosophy of mind to the study of literature and culture
I.Frederick Luis Aldama,
II.Mary Thomas Crane,
III.Nancy Easterlin,
IV.William Flesch,
V.David Herman,
VI.Suzanne Keen,
VII.Patrick Colm Hogan,
VIIIAlan Richardson,
IX.Ellen Spolsky,
X.Blakey Vermeule,
XI.Lisa Zunshine
4. Cultural studies –
emphasizes the role of literature in everyday life
I.Raymond Williams,
II.Dick Hebdige, and Stuart Hall (British Cultural Studies);
III.Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno;
IV.Michel de Certeau; also Paul Gilroy, John Guillory
5. Deconstruction –
a strategy of "close" reading that elicits the ways that key terms and concepts may be paradoxical or self-undermining, rendering their meaning undecidable
I.Jacques Derrida,
II.Paul de Man,
III.J. Hillis Miller,
IV.Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe,
V.Gayatri Spivak,
VI.Avital Ronell
6. Eco-criticism –
explores cultural connections and human relationships to the natural world.
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears”
In which poem of Wordsworth would you come across these lines?
Answer: Ode: Intimations of Immortality
14. Which novel of Joyce begins with these words: “once upon a time and very good time
it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was
coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo….?
Answer: A Portrait of an artist as a Young Man.
15. In which novel would you come across this line: “Ralph wept for the end of
innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise
friend called Piggy’?
Answer: Lord of the Flies
16. Name the first novel of Dorris Lessing.
Answer: The Grass is Singing (1950)
17. Which novel of D.H.Lawrence ends with these words: “But no, he would not give in.
Turning sharply, he walked towards the city’s gold phosphorescence. His fists were
shut, his mouth set fast. He would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow
her. He walked towards the family humming, glowing town, quickly.”
Answer: Sons and Lovers.
18. “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once
more!”
Who makes this observation in Waiting for Godot?
Answer: Pozzo
19. What is the title of the second section of The Waste Land?
Answer: A Game of Chess
20. In which poem of Owen would you come across the following lines?
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- only the monstrous anger of eth guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons?
Answer: Anthem for the Doomed Youth
21. Which African American spoke about ‘Double-Consciousness’?
Answer: W.E.B.Du Bois
22. I too, sing America
I am the darker brother
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes”
Whose words are these?
Answer: Langston Hughes
23. Who is the author of Invisible Man?
Answer: Ellison
24. Who wrote In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens?
Answer: Alice Walker
25. Who is the first African American to be named poet laureate of USA?
Answer: Rita Dove
26. You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise
Whose words are these?
Answer: Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise.
27. Who is the young man in Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”?
Answer: Robin
28. “In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to
us with a certain alienated majesty.”
Answer: Emerson from Self –Reliance
29. What, according to Poe in ‘The Philosophy of Composition’, is the ‘proper length’ of a
poem?
Answer: About one Hundred Lines
30. When was Uncle Tom’s Cabin published as a book
Answer: 1852
31. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
For what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
Answer: Whitman form Song of Myself
32. In which novel do you come across Starbug and Queequeq?
Answer: Moby Dick
33. In which play of Arthur Miller do you come across the line
“A man is not an orange. You can’t eat the fruit and throw the peel away”?
Answer: Death of Salesman (Willy to Howard)
34. Which poem of Elizabeth Bishop begins with these lines:
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
So many things seem filled with the intent
So be lost that their loss is no disaster”?
Answer: One Art (first three lines)
35. In which novel would you come across the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords?
Answer: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
36. Who wrote the essay “The Art of Fiction”?
Answer: James
37. Who wrote ‘The Awakening’?
Answer: Kate Chopin
38. Which poem of Sylvia Plath opens with these lines?
“I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it-“?
Answer: Lady Lazarus
39. Name the author of Gravity’s Rainbow?
Answer: Thomas Pynchon
40. Name the author Oleanna.
Answer: Mamet
four books?
Answer: Graham Green
43. Which poem of A.K.Ramanujam begins with the following lines?
“In Madurai,
City of temples and poets,
Who sang of cities and temples,
Every summer…”
Answer: A River
44. In which Indian drama would you come across Om and Jaya?
Answer: Harvest by Manjula Padmanabhan
45. Among the following which novel has NOT won the Booker Prize?
Answer: Fasting, Feasting (but shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999)
46. In which of the novel of Anita Desai would you come across Nanda Kaul and Raka?
Answer: Fire on the Mountain
47. In which poem of Ezekiel would come across these words?
“A poet rascal-clown was born,
The frightened child who would not eat
Or sleep, a boy of meager bone.
He never learnt to fly a kite”.
Answer: Background, Casually
48. “We cannot write like the English. We should not. We cannot write only as Indiams.
…. Our method of expression therefore has to be a dialect which will someday prove
to be as distinctive and colourful as the Irish or the American”
Answer: Raja Rao’s in the preface to ‘Kanthapura’.
49. Which play of Dattani deals with the hijras?
Answer: Seven Steps Around the Fire
50. Which is Kamala Markandaya’s first novel?
Answer: Nectar in the Seive
51. Who established Dhvanyaloka, a centre for Indian English Literature?
Answer: C.D.Narasimhaiah in 1952.
52. Who is the author of The Perishable Empire?
Answer: Meenakshi Mukherjee
53. Which novel of Vikram Seth was inspired by Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin?
Answer: The Golden Gate
54. Who wrote The Great Indian Novel?
Answer: Shashi Tharoor
55. Name the missing novel in AMitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of
Smoke, and……?)
Answer: Flood of Fire
56. Which poem of Kamala Das begins with these lines
“I don’t know politics but I know the names
Of those in power, and can repeat them like
Days of Week, or names of months….”
Answer: An Introduction
57. Who is the author of The Algebra of Infinite Justice?
Answer: Arundhati Roy
58. Name the author of So Many Hungers.
Answer: Bhabani Bhattacharya
59. Name the author of The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.
Answer: Nirad Chaudhuri
60. Who wrote the poem “Our Casuarina Tree”?
Answer: Toru Dutt
61. What prize did Michael Ondaatje win for The English Patient?
Answer: Man Booker Prize
62. In White’s Voss, who is the patron of Voss’s expedition?
Answer: Bonner
63. Name the author of Funny Boy?
Answer: Shyam Selvadurai
64. Name the maiden novel of Chiamananda Ngozi Adichie.
Answer: Purple Hibiscus in 2003
65. In which novel of Margaret Atwood would you come across Offred and Serena Joy?
Answer: The Handmaid’s Tale
66. Who wrote The Ecstasy of Rita Joe?
Answer: George Ryga
67. Which country is referred to in these lines?
“And her five cities, like five teeming sores
Each drains her: a vast parasite-robber state
While second-hand Europeans pullulate
Timidly on the edge of alien shores”
Answer: Australia by A.D.Hope
68. Identify the author of the play Dream on Monkey Mountain.
Answer: Derek Walcott
69. Name the maiden novel of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Answer: The Mistress of Spices
70. Who edited The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English?
Answer: John Thieme
71. “The poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth”….
Answer: Sidney in “Apology for Poetry”
72. “There are four speakers in Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” (Eugenius, Crites,
Lisideius and …..) Who is the fourth speaker?
Answer: Neander
73. “His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.” Which playwright is
referred to in this comment?
Answer: Shakespeare in Johnson’s “Preface to Shakespeare”
74. “It may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential dfference
between the languages of prose and metrical composition”. Identify the speaker.
Answer: Wordsworth in “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
🍁 *Define plot.* What are its various elements?
Plot is a logical arrangement of events in a story or play. The exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution are the elements of plot.
🍁 *What is conflict?*
Conflict is a problem or struggle in a story or play. It occurs in rising action, climax and falling action. It creates suspense and excitement in the story or play.
Define black comedy.
Black comedy is a humorous work in which human suffering regards as absurd and funny..
🍁 *What do you mean by Theater of the absurd?*
Theater of the absurd is one kind of drama in which absurdity emphasized and lack realistic and logical structure. For example: “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett.
🍁*How can you differentiate between flat and round characters?*
A round character is a complex and dynamic. In this character improvement and change occurs during the course of work but flat character are uncomplicated and remains unchanged through the course of work.
🍁 *What was the Oxford movement?*
Oxford movement starts in 1833 and for the revival of Catholic doctrine in Anglican Church. It is against the conventional understanding of the religion.
🍁 *Define Puritanism?*
Puritanism is the religious movement starts in sixteen century and the goal of the movement is to purify the church of England from its Catholic practices.
🍁 *What is Imagism?*
Imagism is a movement of Anglo-American poets started in early nineteenth century in which they emphasize the use of clear images and simple and sharp language.
🍁 *What is meant by Stream of Consciousness?*
Stream of Consciousness is a technique of narration in which the series of thoughts in the mind of the character are presented. “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf is one example.
🍁*What is meant by Gothic Novel?*
Gothic Novel is one type of novel. In this type the cruel passions and supernatural terror is presented. Example: Monastery or Haunted Castle etc.
🍁*What is Metaphysical Poetry?*
Metaphysical poetry is a highly intellectualized poetry with the use of wit, imagery, conceits and paradox etc. It is obscure and rigid. For example: “John Donne’s poetry.
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1. Who, among the following poets, was a precursor to Romantic Poetry?
Answer: Robert Burns
2. Which novelists is widely known for his use of the stream-of –consciousness
technique?
Answer: James Joyce
3. Which year in the social history of England is associated with the Restoration?
Answer: 1660.
4. Which British dramatist attempted to reform English spelling?
Answer: G.B.Shaw
5. For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love
Which poem of Donne begins with these words
Answer: Cannonisation
6. How many pilgrims figure in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales?
Answer: 29
7. In which year was Henry VIII acknowledged the Supreme Head on the Earth of the
English church?
Answer: 1534
8. Identify the tragedy written by Ben Jonson
Answer: Sejanus
9. “…though we cannot make our sun / stand still, yet we will make him run”. Identify
the source of these lines from Marvell.
Answer: To His Coy Mistress
10. Which book of Paradise Lost opens with these lines:
‘Of Man’s first disobedience , and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world?
Answer: Book I
11. Who said of Chaucer’s characters: ‘it is sufficient to say, according to the proverb,
that here is God’s plenty?
Answer: Dryden
12. Which poem begins with these lines :
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
The lowing herd win slowly o’er the lea
The plowman homeward plots his weary way”?
Answer: Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
13. “ To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears”
In which poem of Wordsworth would you come across these lines?
Answer: Ode: Intimations of Immortality
25. What is the significance of the Harlem Renaissance in literature?
- *Answer: The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement that celebrated African American achievements and contributions in literature, music, and the arts.*
26. Who wrote "Frankenstein"?
- *Answer: Mary Shelley is the author of "Frankenstein."*
27. Define "protagonist" and "antagonist" in a play.
- *Answer: The protagonist is the main character, while the antagonist is the character or force opposing the protagonist in a play.*
28. What is a "sonnet" in poetry?
- *Answer: A sonnet is a 14-line poetic form, often with a specific rhyme scheme, used to express emotions or ideas.*
29. Who wrote "The Odyssey"?
- *Answer: Homer is traditionally credited with writing "The Odyssey."*
30. Define the term "epiphany" in literature.
- *Answer: An epiphany is a moment of sudden revelation or realization that often leads to personal growth or understanding in a character.*
31. What is the significance of the Beat Generation in literature?
- *Answer: The Beat Generation rebelled against societal norms, emphasizing personal freedom and spontaneity in literature.*
32. Who wrote "Brave New World"?
- *Answer: Aldous Huxley is the author of "Brave New World."*
33. Define "satire" in literature.
- *Answer: Satire uses humor, irony, or ridicule to criticize or mock individuals, society, or politics.*
34. What is the "hero's journey" in literature?
- *Answer: The hero's journey is a narrative structure involving a hero who embarks on an adventure, faces challenges, and undergoes personal growth.*
35. Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?
- *Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales."*
36. Define the term "metaphor" in poetry.
- *Answer: A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated things, suggesting a similarity without using "like" or "as."*
37. What is the purpose of the chorus in ancient Greek drama?
- *Answer: The chorus in ancient Greek drama serves as a collective voice, providing commentary, reflection, and interacting with the audience.*
38. Who wrote "Wuthering Heights"?
- *Answer: Emily Brontë is the author of "Wuthering Heights."*
39. Define the term "blank verse" in poetry.
- *Answer: Blank verse is unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter, commonly used in dramatic and narrative poetry.*
40. What is the significance of the Enlightenment in literature?
- *Answer: The Enlightenment emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, influencing literature.
"Paradise Lost" is an epic poem written by John Milton in the 17th century. Here are some interesting facts:
1. Epic Poem: It is considered one of the greatest epic poems in the English language, depicting the biblical story of the fall of humanity.
2. Blank Verse: Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" in blank verse, a form of unrhymed poetry, giving it a majestic and grand style.
3. Satan's Character: One of the most intriguing aspects is the portrayal of Satan as a complex and sympathetic character. Milton explores his motivations and internal struggles.
4. Influence on Literature: "Paradise Lost" has had a profound influence on literature and has inspired many other works, including Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and John Keats's poem "Hyperion."
5. Theological Themes: The poem delves into theological themes, addressing issues of free will, temptation, and the nature of God's justice.
6. Milton's Purpose: Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" with the intention of justifying the ways of God to men and exploring the consequences of disobedience.
7. Milton's Blindness: Interestingly, Milton wrote this epic after he had become blind, dictating the verses to his daughters and amanuenses.
8. Sensory Descriptions: Milton's vivid and elaborate sensory descriptions contribute to the immersive experience of the poem, allowing readers to visualize the epic scenes.
9. Eve's Independence: The character of Eve is depicted with a sense of independence and curiosity, challenging traditional views of women in literature.
10. Controversy: The poem was initially controversial due to its unconventional portrayal of Satan and its exploration of theological concepts, but it gained widespread acclaim over time.
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1. Dialect: A regional or social variation of a language, often characterized by differences in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Dialects can exist within a single language and may be specific to certain communities or geographical areas.
2. Pidgin: A simplified form of communication that develops as a means of communication between groups of people who do not share a common language. Pidgins often emerge in trade or contact situations and have a simplified grammar and vocabulary drawn from multiple languages.
3. Creole: A stable, natural language that has developed from a mixture of different languages. Creoles often arise in communities where people with diverse linguistic backgrounds come together and need a common means of communication. Creoles have unique grammar and vocabulary.
4. Register: A variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. Registers can vary in formality, tone, and vocabulary. For example, formal language might be used in academic writing, while informal language is common in casual conversation.
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172. 'Sherlock Holmes' is written by-
★ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
173. 'A Woman of No Importance ' is written by-
★ Oscar Wilde.
174. Father of English Short-story-
★ Edgar Allan Poe.
175. A famous poem ' To Helen' is written by-
★ Edgar Allan Poe.
176. "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of the fools."- is said by--?
★ Napoleon
177. " Democracy is the government of the people, by the people & for the people. "- is said by-
★ Abraham Lincoln
178. " The ballot is stronger than bullet."- is quoted by-
★ Abraham Lincoln.
179. Some famous writers of the Newclassical period-
★ John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Jonathan swift, Daniel defoe, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding.
180. Some famous writers of the Romantic period -
★ William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, P.B. Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byron, Jane Austen.
181. Some famous writers of the Victorian period --
★ Lord Alfred tennyson, Robert Browning, Mathew Arnold, Charles dickens, Thomas Hardy, Loe Tolstoy, George Eliot, Karl Marx.
182. Some famous writers of the Modern period -
★ D.H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, T.S. Eliot, William Falkner, Dylan Thomas, E.M. Milford, E.M. Forster, Earnest Hemingway, George Orwell.
183. Some famous books of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam-
★ Wings of Fire, Target 3 Billion.
184. Some famous books of Anthony Mascarenhas-
★ the Rape of Bangladesh, Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood.
185. 'Mein Kampf ' is written by-
★ Adolf Hitler
186. 'September on Jessore Road' is written by-
★ Allen Ginsberg.
187. 'Brave New World' is written by-
★ Aldous Huxley.
188. 'Poverty & Famines ' is written by-
★ Amartya Sen.
189. Some famous books of Barack Obama -
★ The Audacity of Hope, Dreams from my Father.
190. 'The Da Vinci Code' is written by-
★ Dan Brown.
191. D.H. Lawrence was a--
★ famous novelist of Modern age.
192. Some famous novels of D.H. Lawrence -
★ Sons & Lovers, Lady Chatterley's Lovers, The Rainbow.
193. 'A Passage to India' is written by-
★ E.M. Forster.
194. Some famous novels of Ernest Hemingway -
★ A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun also Rises.
195. 'Crime & Punishment ' is written by-
★ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
196. Lady with the Lamp-
★ Florence Nightingale
197. 'The Asian Drama', a famous novel is written by-
★ Gunnar Myrdal.
198. 'The Tin Drum' is written by-
★ Guntar Grass
199. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude ' is written by-
★ Gabriel Garcia Maequez.
200. The real name of George Orwell -
★ Eric Arthur Blair
201. Some famous novels of George Orwell -
★ Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty Four.
202. A famous essay ' Shooting an Elephant ' is written by-
★ George Orwell
203. George Bernard Shaw is-
★ the greatest playwright of the Modern period.
204. Famous plays of G.B. Shaw-
★ Man & Superman, Arms & the Man, Ceaser & Cleopatra, St. Joan of Arc, Man of Destiny, Candida, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Pygmalion.
205. "God is on the side of big battalions. "- who said?
★ George Bernard Shaw.
206. Father of Modern Drama-
★ Henrik Ibsen.
207. Father of Modern English Drama -
★ George Bernard Shaw.
208. 'A Doll's House ' is written by-
★ Henrik Ibsen.
209. 'Moby Dick' written by Herman Melville deals with --
★ a white whale.
210. 'Harry Poter' is written by-
★ J.K. Rawling
211. 'Ulysses ' a famous novel is written by-
★ James Joyce.
212. 'Heart of Darkness ' is written by-
★ Joseph Conrad
213. ' Around the World in Eighty Days' is written by-
★ Jules Verne
214. 'Stop Genocide ' is directed by--
★ Zahir Raihan.
215. 'The Story of My Experiment with Truth' is written by-
★ Mahatma Gandhi
216. 'I have a dream' who declared?
★ Martin Luther King Junior.
217. 'The Gift of the Magi' (short story) is written by-
★ O' Henry
218. The real name of O'Henry-
★ Wiliam Sidney Porter.
219. 'Discovery of India' is written by-
★ Pandit Nehru
220. " The country is good if its universities are good."- who said?
★ Pandit Nehru
★ William Shakespeare ( Julius Caesar)
59. " All the world's a stage.."- who quoted?
★ William Shakespeare
60. "Sweet are the uses of adversity. "- who said?
★ William Shakespeare
61. Which was Shakespear’s swan song/last work?
★ The Tempest.
62. John Donne is known as---
★ Metaphysical poet
63. Poet of love-
★ John Donne
64. Famous poems of John Donne -
★ the Good Morrow, the Sun Rising, Twicknam Garden, the Canonization, For Whom the Bell Tolls
65. " For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love."- who quoted?
★ John Donne
66. Religious poet-
★ George Herbert
67. Cavalier poet--
★ Robert Herrick ( a famous poet of Caroline period)
68. Epic poet-
★ John Milton
69. 'To Daffodils ' is written by-
★ Robert herrick
70. Who wrote ' Leviathan '?
★ Thomas Hobbes
71. Renaissance is a ----- word.
★ French
72. Duration of Restoration period -
★ 1660-1700
73. Some famous epics of John Milton-
★ Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained.
74. Some famous elegies of John Milton-
★ Lycidas, Song on Shakespeare.
75. Famous poetic drama of John Milton-
★ Samson Agonistes.
76. " It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven. "- who quoted?
★ Satan ( John Milton, Paradise Lost)
77. " Childhood shows the man as morning shows the day."- who said?
★ John Milton.
78. Father of Modern English Criticism -
★ John Dryden
79. 'All for Love ' is written by-
★ John Dryden
80. 'Absalom and Achitophel' is written by-
★ John Dryden ( a poetic political satire)
81. "They think too little who talk too much."- who quoted?
★ John Dryden
82. William Congreve was---
★ Famous for Comedy of Manners.
83. 'The Way of the World' is written by-
★ William Congreve
84. Father of Modern Democracy -
★ John Locke
85. 'Two Treaties on Civil Government ' is written by-
★ John Locke
86. 'Pilgrim's Progress ' is written by-
★ John Bunyan
87. 'Oroonoko' is written by-
★ Aphra Behn
88. Alexander Pope-
★ Mock Heroic Poet.
89. Famous epic of Alexander Pope-
★ The Rape of the Lock.
90. " A little learning is a dangerous thing."- who quoted?
★ Alexander Pope.
91. "Charms strike the sight but merit strikes the heart."- who quoted?
★ Alexander Pope
92. " Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."- who quoted?
★ Alexander Pope
93. The Greatest Satirist -
★ Jonathan Swift
94. Famous novel of Jonathan swift -
★ Gulliver’s Travels, A Tale of a Tub.
95. ' Robinson Crusoe ' is written by-
★ Daniel Defoe
96. Father of English Dictionary -
★ Dr. Samuel Johnson ( First Lexicographer in English).
97. Who wrote ' A Preface to Shakespeare '?
★ Dr. Samuel Johnson.
98. Father of English Novel -
★ Henry Fielding.
99. The pen name of Henry Fielding -
★ Captain Hercules Vinegar.
100. 'Tom Jones' is written by-
★ Henry fielding.
101. 'Rape Upon Rape' is a type of-
★ Play ( Henry fielding).
102. Some famous books of Oliver Goldsmith -
★ The Citizen of the World, The Vicar of Wakefield.
103. Thomas Gray is known as-
★ Graveyard Poet.
104. Famous elegy of Thomas Gray-
★ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
105. " Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise."- who said?
★ Thomas Gray.
106. Famous novel of Sir Walter Scott-
★ Ivanhoe
107. Famous poem of Sir Walter Scott -
★ Patriotism
108. ' A Grammar of Politics ' is written by-
★ Herold J Laski
109. Father of Economics, Adam Smith wrote-
★ the Wealth of Nations.
110. ' the Social Contract ' is written by-
★ Jean Jacques Rousseau.
111. " Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains."- who quoted?
★ Rousseau
112. ' Candide' is written by-
★ Voltaire
113. The Romantic period began publishing ---
★ Lyrical Ballads ( 1798).
114. Pioneers of romanticism -
★ William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge
115. Some famous Lake Poets-
★ Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robert Southy.
116. Poet of Nature -
★ William Wordsworth.
117. Famous poems of Wordsworth-
★ The Daffodils, Tintern Abbey, The Solitary Reaper, Rainbow.
118. " Child is the father of man."- who quoted?
★ William Wordsworth
14. Which novel of Joyce begins with these words: “once upon a time and very good time
it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was
coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo….?
Answer: A Portrait of an artist as a Young Man.
15. In which novel would you come across this line: “Ralph wept for the end of
innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise
friend called Piggy’?
Answer: Lord of the Flies
16. Name the first novel of Dorris Lessing.
Answer: The Grass is Singing (1950)
17. Which novel of D.H.Lawrence ends with these words: “But no, he would not give in.
Turning sharply, he walked towards the city’s gold phosphorescence. His fists were
shut, his mouth set fast. He would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow
her. He walked towards the family humming, glowing town, quickly.”
Answer: Sons and Lovers.
18. “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once
more!”
Who makes this observation in Waiting for Godot?
Answer: Pozzo
19. What is the title of the second section of The Waste Land?
Answer: A Game of Chess
20. In which poem of Owen would you come across the following lines?
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- only the monstrous anger of eth guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons?
Answer: Anthem for the Doomed Youth
21. Which African American spoke about ‘Double-Consciousness’?
Answer: W.E.B.Du Bois
22. I too, sing America
I am the darker brother
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes”
Whose words are these?
Answer: Langston Hughes
23. Who is the author of Invisible Man?
Answer: Ellison
24. Who wrote In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens?
Answer: Alice Walker
25. Who is the first African American to be named poet laureate of USA?
Answer: Rita Dove
26. You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise
Whose words are these?
Answer: Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise.
27. Who is the young man in Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”?
Answer: Robin
28. “In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to
us with a certain alienated majesty.”
Answer: Emerson from Self –Reliance
29. What, according to Poe in ‘The Philosophy of Composition’, is the ‘proper length’ of a
poem?
Answer: About one Hundred Lines
30. When was Uncle Tom’s Cabin published as a book
Answer: 1852
31. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
For what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
Answer: Whitman form Song of Myself
32. In which novel do you come across Starbug and Queequeq?
Answer: Moby Dick
33. In which play of Arthur Miller do you come across the line
“A man is not an orange. You can’t eat the fruit and throw the peel away”?
Answer: Death of Salesman (Willy to Howard)
34. Which poem of Elizabeth Bishop begins with these lines:
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
So many.
1. Father of English Novel ---
→ Henry Fielding
2. Father of English Poem--
→ Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Poet of poets ---
→ Edmund Spenser
4. English Epic poet ---
→ John Milton
5. Both a poet and painter ---
→ Blake
6. Famous mock heroic poet in English Literature
---
→ Alexander Pope
7. The poet of nature in English Literature
---
→ William Wordsworth
8. Poet of beauty in English Literature ---
→ John Keats
9. Rebel poet in English Literature ---
→ Lord Byron
10. Poet of Skylark and Winds---
→ P.B. Shelley
11. Father of Modern English Literature ---
→ G.B. Shaw
12. Most translated author of the world ---
→ V. I. Lenin
13. Bard of Avon ----
→ William Shakespeare
14. Poet of Love/ Metaphysical Poet---
→ John Donne
15. Father of English Criticism ---
→ John Dryden
16. Father of Romanticism ---
→ Coleridge & Wordsworth
17. The Founder of English Prose---
→ Alfred the Great
18. First Sonneteer in English Literature ---
→ Sir Thomas Wyatt
19. Poet of Supernaturalism / Opium Eater
---
→ S.T. Coleridge
20. Father of English Tragedy ---
→ Christopher Marlowe
21. Father of English Eassay ---
→ Francis Bacon
22. The Greatest Modern Dramatist ---
→ George Bernard Shaw...
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🍁 *What is a round character?*
A round character is a complex and dynamic. In this character improvement and change occurs during the course of work .
🍁 *What is a soliloquy?*
Soliloquy is a device use in drama in which a character speaks to himself or herself (thinking loud) by showing his feelings or thoughts to audience.
🍁 *What is Neo-classicism?*
Neo-classicism is a eighteenth century western movement of art, literature and architecture. They got inspiration from ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
🍁 *What is a mock-epic?*
Mock-epic is a poem in which satire, exaggeration, irony and sarcasm is used to mock the subject or used the epic style for the trivial subject etc.
🍁 *What is a complex plot?*
A complex plot according to Aristotle is that have ‘peripeteia’ (reversal) and ‘anagnorisis’ (denouement) without these is a simple plot.
🍁 *What is interior monologue?*
Interior monologue is the expression of internal thought, feelings and emotions of a character in dramatic or narrative form.
🍁 *What is blank verse?*
Blank verse is a form of poetry that written in iambic pentameter but un-rhymed.
🍁 *What is Art for Arts’ sake?*
“Art for Arts’ sake” is nineteenth century literary movement which gives importance to aesthetic pleasure instead of moral, didactic or utilitarian function of literature.
🍁 *What is Epistolary novel?*
Epistolary novel is a narrated work. In this type of novel the story is narrated through letters sent by the observer or by those who participating in the events. Example: 18th century’s novel ‘Richardson’s Pamela and Clarissa etc.
🍁 *Differentiate between novel and novella.*
Difference between novel and novella is length of the narrative work. Novella is shorter than novel and longer than short story but novel is long narrated work.
🍁 *What is the difference between “Open form poetry” and “Closed form poetry”?*
Close form poetry used the fix pattern of stanza, rhyme and meter etc. For example: sonnet, limerick, haiku and sestina etc. Open form poetry does not use these fix patterns.
🍁 *What is the structure of Spenserian stanza?*
Spenserian stanza consist of nine lines, eight lines are in iambic pentameter and followed by single line in iambic hexameter. The last line is called Alexandrine.
🍁 *Differentiate between ‘Blank verse’ and ‘Free verse’.*
‘Blank verse’ follows the fix meter like iambic pentameter and un-rhymed but ‘Free verse’ is also un-rhymed and does not follow the fix meter.
🍁 *How can you define “Pastoral elegy”?*
Pastoral elegy is a poem about death. In this poem poet expresses his grief for the dead in rural setting or about the shepherds.
🍁 *What is ‘Point of View’?*
‘Point of view’ is an opinion, judgment or attitude on a matter. It may be against are in favor.
7. Gender –
which emphasizes themes of gender relations
I.Luce Irigaray,
II.Judith Butler,
III.Hélène Cixous,
IV.Elaine Showalter
8. Formalism –
a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text
8. German hermeneutics and philology
I.Friedrich Schleiermacher,
II.Wilhelm Dilthey,
III.Hans-Georg Gadamer,
IV.Erich Auerbach,
V.René Wellek
9. Marxism (Marxist literary criticism) –
which emphasizes themes of class conflict
I.Georg Lukács,
II.Valentin Voloshinov,
III.Raymond Williams,
IV.Terry Eagleton,
V.Fredric Jameson,
VI.Theodor Adorno,
VII.Walter Benjamin
10.New Criticism –
looks at literary works on the basis of what is written, and not at the goals of the author or biographical issues
I.W. K. Wimsatt,
II.F. R. Leavis,
III.John Crowe Ransom,
IV.Cleanth Brooks,
V.Robert Penn Warren
11.New Historicism –
which examines the work through its historical context and seeks to understand cultural and intellectual history through literature
I.Stephen Greenblatt,
II.Louis Montrose,
III.Jonathan Goldberg,
IV.H. Aram Veeser
12. Postcolonialism –
focuses on the influences of colonialism in literature, especially regarding the historical conflict resulting from the exploitation of less developed countries and indigenous peoples by Western nations
I.Edward Said,
II.Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,
III.Homi Bhabha and Declan Kiberd
13. Postmodernism –
criticism of the conditions present in the twentieth century, often with concern for those viewed as social deviants or the Other
I.Michel Foucault,
II.Roland Barthes,
III.Gilles Deleuze,
IV.Félix Guattari
V. Maurice Blanchot
14. Post-structuralism –
a catch-all term for various theoretical approaches (such as deconstruction) that criticize or go beyond Structuralism's aspirations to create a rational science of culture by extrapolating the model of linguistics to other discursive and aesthetic formations
I.Roland Barthes,
II.Michel Foucault,
III.Julia Kristeva
15. Psychoanalysis (psychoanalytic literary criticism) – explores the role of consciousnesses and the unconscious in literature including that of the author, reader, and characters in the text
I. Sigmund Freud,
II.Jacques Lacan,
III.Harold Bloom,
IV.Slavoj Žižek,
V.Viktor Tausk
16. Queer theory –
examines, questions, and criticizes the role of gender identity and sexuality in literature
I.Judith Butler,
II.Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
III.Michel Foucault
17. Reader-response criticism –
focuses upon the active response of the reader to a text
I.Louise Rosenblatt,
II.Wolfgang Iser,
III.Norman Holland,
IV.Hans-Robert Jauss,
V.Stuart Hall
18. Russian formalism
I.Victor Shklovsky,
II.Vladimir Propp
19.Structuralism and semiotics (see semiotic literary criticism) –
examines the universal underlying structures in a text, the linguistic units in a text and how the author conveys meaning through any structures
I.Ferdinand de Saussure,
II.Roman Jakobson,
III.Claude Lévi-Strauss,
IV.Roland Barthes,
V.Mikhail Bakhtin,
VI.Yurii Lotman,
VII.Umberto Eco,
VIII.Jacques Ehrmann,
IX.Northrop FFry
Authors, Literary works & Important Characters
William Shakespeare:
King Lear (Play) King Lear; Goneril; Regan; Cordelia
Hamlet (Play) Hamlet; Ophelia; Claudius; Gertrude
Othello (Play) Othello; Desdemona
Macbeth (Play) Macbeth; Lady Macbeth; Duncan; Banquo; Three Witches
Twelfth Night(Play) Viola; Duke Orsino; Malvolio; Olivia; Sebastian
Measure for Measure (Play) Isabella; Juliet; Lucio; Angelo; Claudio
The Tempest (Play) Prospero; Miranda; Ferdinand; Caliban; Ariel
Merchant of Venice (Play) Shylock; Portia; Antonio; Bassanio; Jessica
John Milton:
Paradise Lost (Epic) Adam; Eve; Satan; Raphael; Michael.
Jane Austen:
Pride and Prejudice (Novel)
Mr. Darcy; Elizabeth Bennet; Jane Bennet; Charles Bingley;
Mr. William Collins; Kitty Bennet; Lydia Bennet.
Charlotte Bronte:
Jane Eyre (Novel)
Jane Eyre; Edward Rochester; Georgiana; Reed; Bertha Mason.
English Literature MCQ (Early -1550)
41. How many songs does Gitanjali Contain?
Answer: 103
42. Which British novelist was instrumental in getting a publisher for R.K.Narayan’s first
four books?
Answer: Graham Green
43. Which poem of A.K.Ramanujam begins with the following lines?
“In Madurai,
City of temples and poets,
Who sang of cities and temples,
Every summer…”
Answer: A River
44. In which Indian drama would you come across Om and Jaya?
Answer: Harvest by Manjula Padmanabhan
45. Among the following which novel has NOT won the Booker Prize?
Answer: Fasting, Feasting (but shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999)
46. In which of the novel of Anita Desai would you come across Nanda Kaul and Raka?
Answer: Fire on the Mountain
47. In which poem of Ezekiel would come across these words?
“A poet rascal-clown was born,
The frightened child who would not eat
Or sleep, a boy of meager bone.
He never learnt to fly a kite”.
Answer: Background, Casually
48. “We cannot write like the English. We should not. We cannot write only as Indiams.
…. Our method of expression therefore has to be a dialect which will someday prove
to be as distinctive and colourful as the Irish or the American”
Answer: Raja Rao’s in the preface to ‘Kanthapura’.
49. Which play of Dattani deals with the hijras?
Answer: Seven Steps Around the Fire
50. Which is Kamala Markandaya’s first novel?
Answer: Nectar in the Seive
51. Who established Dhvanyaloka, a centre for Indian English Literature?
Answer: C.D.Narasimhaiah in 1952.
52. Who is the author of The Perishable Empire?
Answer: Meenakshi Mukherjee
53. Which novel of Vikram Seth was inspired by Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin?
Answer: The Golden Gate
54. Who wrote The Great Indian Novel?
Answer: Shashi Tharoor
55. Name the missing novel in AMitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of
Smoke, and……?)
Answer: Flood of Fire
56. Which poem of Kamala Das begins with these lines
“I don’t know politics but I know the names
Of those in power, and can repeat them like
Days of Week, or names of months….”
Answer: An Introduction
57. Who is the author of The Algebra of Infinite Justice?
Answer: Arundhati Roy
58. Name the author of So Many Hungers.
Answer: Bhabani Bhattacharya
59. Name the author of The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.
Answer: Nirad Chaudhuri
60. Who wrote the poem “Our Casuarina Tree”?
Answer: Toru Dutt
61. What prize did Michael Ondaatje win for The English Patient?
Answer: Man Booker Prize
62. In White’s Voss, who is the patron of Voss’s expedition?
Answer: Bonner
63. Name the author of Funny Boy?
Answer: Shyam Selvadurai
64. Name the maiden novel of Chiamananda Ngozi Adichie.
Answer: Purple Hibiscus in 2003
65. In which novel of Margaret Atwood would you come across Offred and Serena Joy?
Answer: The Handmaid’s Tale
66. Who wrote The Ecstasy of Rita Joe?
Answer: George Ryga
67. Which country is referred to in these lines?
“And her five cities, like five teeming sores
Each drains her: a vast parasite-robber state
While second-hand Europeans pullulate
Timidly on the edge of alien shores”
Answer: Australia by A.D.Hope
68. Identify the author of the play Dream on Monkey Mountain.
Answer: Derek Walcott
69. Name the maiden novel of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Answer: The Mistress of Spices
70. Who edited The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English?
Answer: John Thieme
71. “The poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth”….
Answer: Sidney in “Apology for Poetry”
72. “There are four speakers in Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” (Eugenius, Crites,
Lisideius and …..) Who is the fourth speaker?
Answer: Neander
73. “His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.” Which playwright is
referred to in this comment?
Answer: Shakespeare in Johnson’s “Preface to Shakespeare”
74. “It may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential dfference
75. “Poetry is something more scientific and more serious than history, because poetry
ends o give general truths while history gives particular facts.” Whose words are
these?
Answer: Aristotle
76. Who coined the term Neo-Colonialism
?
Nkrumah in 1960’s
77. Who described pastiche as “blank parody”?
Answer: Jameson
78. Whose theoretical framework has Edward Said used in Orientalism?
Answer: Derrida
79. Who proposed the concept of the carnivalesque?
Answer: Bhaktin
80. Which essay begins with these words: “ I began with the desire to speak with the
dead”?
Answer: Stephen Greenblatt’s The Circulation of Social Energy
81. In Frye’s “The Archetypes of Literature,” what is winter associated with?
Answer: Satire
82. Who is the author of The Wretched of the Earth?
Answer: Fanon
83. Which Yale Deconstructor was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer?
Answer: De man
84. Who wrote about organic intellectuals?
Answer: Gramsci
85. Who made a distinction between RSA and ISA?
Answer: Althusser
86. When was the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies established at the
University of Birmingham?
Answer: 1964 by Richard Hoggart
87. Who declared that “Chaucer is not one of the great classics’’?
Answer: Arnold in The Study of Poetry.
88. In which essay does T.S.Eliot declare that “Criticism is as inevitable as breathing’’?
Answer: Tradition and the Individual Talent
89. Who publicized the concept of “interpretive communities”?
Answer: Fish
90. Who coined the term ecriture feminine?
Answer: Cixous
91. Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017?
Answer: Ishiguro
92. What is /v/ in English phonetics?
Answer: Voiced labio-dental frictive
93. How many syllables does the word “inaccessibility”?
Answer: 7 (In-ac-ces-si-bil-i-ty)
94. Who coined the term PS (Phrase Structure) Grammar?
Answer: Chomsky
95. “An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable”-Identify the metre.
Answer: Iambic
96. “Crown” standing for the king-Identify the figure of speech.
Answer: Metonymy
97. The word “Pram” is derived from “perambulator”. What is this process known as?
Answer: Syncopation
98. To what family (of languages) does French belong?
Answer:caltic
99. What is an Alexandrine with reference to metre”?
Answer: A line of six iambic feet
100. Who wrote Refractions:Essays in Comparative Literature?
Answer: Harry LevinTamilnadu Set Exam March2018 Answer key
1. Who, among the following poets, was a precursor to Romantic Poetry?
Answer: Robert Burns
2. Which novelists is widely known for his use of the stream-of –consciousness
technique?
Answer: James Joyce
3. Which year in the social history of England is associated with the Restoration?
Answer: 1660.
4. Which British dramatist attempted to reform English spelling?
Answer: G.B.Shaw
5. For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love
Which poem of Donne begins with these words
Answer: Cannonisation
6. How many pilgrims figure in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales?
Answer: 29
7. In which year was Henry VIII acknowledged the Supreme Head on the Earth of the
English church?
Answer: 1534
8. Identify the tragedy written by Ben Jonson
Answer: Sejanus
9. “…though we cannot make our sun / stand still, yet we will make him run”. Identify
the source of these lines from Marvell.
Answer: To His Coy Mistress
10. Which book of Paradise Lost opens with these lines:
‘Of Man’s first disobedience , and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world?
Answer: Book I
11. Who said of Chaucer’s characters: ‘it is sufficient to say, according to the proverb,
that here is God’s plenty?
Answer: Dryden
12. Which poem begins with these lines :
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
The lowing herd win slowly o’er the lea
The plowman homeward plots his weary way”?
Answer: Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
13. “ To me the meanest flower that blows can give
14. Which novel of Joyce begins with these words: “once upon a time and very good time
it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was
coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo….?
Answer: A Portrait of an artist as a Young Man.
15. In which novel would you come across this line: “Ralph wept for the end of
innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise
friend called Piggy’?
Answer: Lord of the Flies
16. Name the first novel of Dorris Lessing.
Answer: The Grass is Singing (1950)
17. Which novel of D.H.Lawrence ends with these words: “But no, he would not give in.
Turning sharply, he walked towards the city’s gold phosphorescence. His fists were
shut, his mouth set fast. He would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow
her. He walked towards the family humming, glowing town, quickly.”
Answer: Sons and Lovers.
18. “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once
more!”
Who makes this observation in Waiting for Godot?
Answer: Pozzo
19. What is the title of the second section of The Waste Land?
Answer: A Game of Chess
20. In which poem of Owen would you come across the following lines?
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- only the monstrous anger of eth guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons?
Answer: Anthem for the Doomed Youth
21. Which African American spoke about ‘Double-Consciousness’?
Answer: W.E.B.Du Bois
22. I too, sing America
I am the darker brother
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes”
Whose words are these?
Answer: Langston Hughes
23. Who is the author of Invisible Man?
Answer: Ellison
24. Who wrote In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens?
Answer: Alice Walker
25. Who is the first African American to be named poet laureate of USA?
Answer: Rita Dove
26. You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise
Whose words are these?
Answer: Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise.
27. Who is the young man in Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”?
Answer: Robin
28. “In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to
us with a certain alienated majesty.”
Answer: Emerson from Self –Reliance
29. What, according to Poe in ‘The Philosophy of Composition’, is the ‘proper length’ of a
poem?
Answer: About one Hundred Lines
30. When was Uncle Tom’s Cabin published as a book
Answer: 1852
31. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
For what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
Answer: Whitman form Song of Myself
32. In which novel do you come across Starbug and Queequeq?
Answer: Moby Dick
33. In which play of Arthur Miller do you come across the line
“A man is not an orange. You can’t eat the fruit and throw the peel away”?
Answer: Death of Salesman (Willy to Howard)
34. Which poem of Elizabeth Bishop begins with these lines:
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
So many things seem filled with the intent
So be lost that their loss is no disaster”?
Answer: One Art (first three lines)
35. In which novel would you come across the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords?
Answer: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
36. Who wrote the essay “The Art of Fiction”?
Answer: James
37. Who wrote ‘The Awakening’?
Answer: Kate Chopin
38. Which poem of Sylvia Plath opens with these lines?
“I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it-“?
Answer: Lady Lazarus
39. Name the author of Gravity’s Rainbow?
Answer: Thomas Pynchon
40. Name the author Oleanna.
Answer: Mamet
41. How many songs does Gitanjali Contain?
Answer: 103
42. Which British novelist was instrumental in getting a publisher for R.K.Narayan’s first
#English_Literature
1. Father of English Novel ---
→ Henry Fielding
2. Father of English Poem--
→ Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Poet of poets ---
→ Edmund Spenser
4. English Epic poet ---
→ John Milton
5. Both a poet and painter ---
→ Blake
6. Famous mock heroic poet in English Literature
---
→ Alexander Pope
7. The poet of nature in English Literature
---
→ William Wordsworth
8. Poet of beauty in English Literature ---
→ John Keats
9. Rebel poet in English Literature ---
→ Lord Byron
10. Poet of Skylark and Winds---
→ P.B. Shelley
11. Father of Modern English Literature ---
→ G.B. Shaw
12. Most translated author of the world ---
→ V. I. Lenin
13. Bard of Avon ----
→ William Shakespeare
14. Poet of Love/ Metaphysical Poet---
→ John Donne
15. Father of English Criticism ---
→ John Dryden
16. Father of Romanticism ---
→ Coleridge & Wordsworth
17. The Founder of English Prose---
→ Alfred the Great
18. First Sonneteer in English Literature ---
→ Sir Thomas Wyatt
19. Poet of Supernaturalism / Opium Eater
---
→ S.T. Coleridge
20. Father of English Tragedy ---
→ Christopher Marlowe
21. Father of English Eassay ---
→ Francis Bacon
22. The Greatest Modern Dramatist ---
→ George Bernard Shaw...
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🍁 *What is a round character?*
A round character is a complex and dynamic. In this character improvement and change occurs during the course of work .
🍁 *What is a soliloquy?*
Soliloquy is a device use in drama in which a character speaks to himself or herself (thinking loud) by showing his feelings or thoughts to audience.
🍁 *What is Neo-classicism?*
Neo-classicism is a eighteenth century western movement of art, literature and architecture. They got inspiration from ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
🍁 *What is a mock-epic?*
Mock-epic is a poem in which satire, exaggeration, irony and sarcasm is used to mock the subject or used the epic style for the trivial subject etc.
🍁 *What is a complex plot?*
A complex plot according to Aristotle is that have ‘peripeteia’ (reversal) and ‘anagnorisis’ (denouement) without these is a simple plot.
🍁 *What is interior monologue?*
Interior monologue is the expression of internal thought, feelings and emotions of a character in dramatic or narrative form.
🍁 *What is blank verse?*
Blank verse is a form of poetry that written in iambic pentameter but un-rhymed.
🍁 *What is Art for Arts’ sake?*
“Art for Arts’ sake” is nineteenth century literary movement which gives importance to aesthetic pleasure instead of moral, didactic or utilitarian function of literature.
🍁 *What is Epistolary novel?*
Epistolary novel is a narrated work. In this type of novel the story is narrated through letters sent by the observer or by those who participating in the events. Example: 18th century’s novel ‘Richardson’s Pamela and Clarissa etc.
🍁 *Differentiate between novel and novella.*
Difference between novel and novella is length of the narrative work. Novella is shorter than novel and longer than short story but novel is long narrated work.
🍁 *What is the difference between “Open form poetry” and “Closed form poetry”?*
Close form poetry used the fix pattern of stanza, rhyme and meter etc. For example: sonnet, limerick, haiku and sestina etc. Open form poetry does not use these fix patterns.
🍁 *What is the structure of Spenserian stanza?*
Spenserian stanza consist of nine lines, eight lines are in iambic pentameter and followed by single line in iambic hexameter. The last line is called Alexandrine.
🍁 *Differentiate between ‘Blank verse’ and ‘Free verse’.*
‘Blank verse’ follows the fix meter like iambic pentameter and un-rhymed but ‘Free verse’ is also un-rhymed and does not follow the fix meter.
🍁 *How can you define “Pastoral elegy”?*
Pastoral elegy is a poem about death. In this poem poet expresses his grief for the dead in rural setting or about the shepherds.
🍁 *What is ‘Point of View’?*
‘Point of view’ is an opinion, judgment or attitude on a matter. It may be against are in favor.
1. What is literature?
- *Answer: Literature refers to written works, especially those considered to have artistic or intellectual value, such as novels, poems, and plays.*
2. Who is considered the "Father of English Literature"?
- *Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer is often referred to as the "Father of English Literature."*
3. Define the term "genre" in literature.
- *Answer: Genre categorizes literary works based on shared characteristics, styles, or themes. Examples include fiction, poetry, and drama.*
4. What is the significance of the Renaissance in literature?
- *Answer: The Renaissance marked a revival of interest in classical learning and greatly influenced literature by fostering creativity and exploration of human experiences.*
5. Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?
- *Answer: William Shakespeare is the author of "Romeo and Juliet."*
6. What is the theme of George Orwell's "1984"?
- *Answer: "1984" explores themes of totalitarianism, censorship, and the impact of government control on individual freedom.*
7. Define "allegory" in literature.
- *Answer: An allegory is a narrative where characters, events, or elements symbolize abstract ideas, often with a moral or political message.*
8. Who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?
- *Answer: John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost."*
9. What is the "Stream of Consciousness" literary technique?
- *Answer: Stream of consciousness is a narrative style that presents a character's thoughts and feelings in a continuous flow, often without conventional punctuation.*
10. What is the difference between a protagonist and an antagonist?
- *Answer: The protagonist is the main character, while the antagonist is the character or force opposing the protagonist.*
11. Who is the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
- *Answer: Harper Lee is the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird."*
12. Define "foreshadowing" in literature.
- *Answer: Foreshadowing is a literary device where the author hints at future events in the narrative.*
13. What is the central theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"?
- *Answer: "The Great Gatsby" explores themes of the American Dream, wealth, and the illusion of social success.*
14. Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?
- *Answer: Jane Austen is the author of "Pride and Prejudice."*
15. Define the term "irony" in literature.
- *Answer: Irony involves a contrast between expectation and reality, often used to highlight humor, drama, or social commentary.*
16. What is magical realism in literature?
- *Answer: Magical realism blends magical elements with realistic settings, creating a narrative where the supernatural coexists with the ordinary.*
17. Who wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?
- *Answer: Gabriel García Márquez wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude."*
18. Define the term "symbolism" in literature.
- *Answer: Symbolism uses symbols to represent ideas or qualities beyond the literal meaning, adding depth to a literary work.*
19. What is the significance of the Romantic era in literature?
- *Answer: The Romantic era emphasized emotion, imagination, and nature, influencing literature with a focus on individual expression and beauty.*
20. Who is the author of "The Catcher in the Rye"?
- *Answer: J.D. Salinger wrote "The Catcher in the Rye."*
21. Define "motif" in literature.
- *Answer: A motif is a recurring theme, idea, or symbol in a literary work that contributes to its overall meaning.*
22. What is the "tragic flaw" in literary terms?
- *Answer: A tragic flaw is a character trait that leads to the downfall of a protagonist in a tragedy.*
23. Who wrote the play "Hamlet"?
- *Answer: William Shakespeare wrote the play "Hamlet."*
24. Define "allegorical interpretation" in literature.
- *Answer: Allegorical interpretation involves analyzing a work to uncover hidden meanings and symbolic representations.*
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Stanza Form
1. Heroic Couplet
Line - 2 rhymed in Iamb
Intro--Chaucer
Glorify -- Denham & Waller
PopulariZe - Pope&Dryden
2.Terza Rime
Line -- 6 (3+3)Rhymed
Intro--Dante
3. Rhyma Roya
Line-- 7
Intro -- Chaucer
4. Ottava Rima
Line -- 8 ( 4+4)
Intro-- Wyatt
5. Spencerian Stanza
Line - 9( 4+4+1)
Intro-Spenser
6. Ballad Stanza
Line-- 4
SONNET STANZA FORM
Sonnet form introduced to England by Thomas Wyatt , Earl of Surrey and Henry Howard
Lines -14
1. Petrarchian /Italian
Intro- Petrarch &Dante
Lines - 14(8+3+3)
Rhyming-- abba abba cde cde
2. English /Shakespearian sonnet
Intro -- Earl of Surrey
Lines-- 14(4+4+4+2)
Rhyming-- abab cdcd efef gg
3. Spencerian Sonnet
Intro -- Spenser
Lines --14(4+4+4+2)
Rhyming--abab bcbc cdcd ee
4. Curtal Sonnet
Intro- Hopkins
Lines - 11