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Raja Bahar Friday, October 31, 2014 06:34 PM

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1. The earliest surviving work in English Literature is
Ans: Caedmon's Hymn
2. The epic poem Beowulf consists
Ans: 3182 alliterative lines
3. Which epic poem from old English Literature has been declared the national epic poem of England?
Ans: Beowulf Epic Poem
4. The epic poem Beowulf is written in
Ans: Scandinavian Script
5. Who wrote the epic poem Beowulf?
Ans: Anonymous
6. The Old English "Martyrology" is a Merican collection of
Ans: Hagiographies
7. Eynsham was a prolific 10th-century writer of
Ans: Hagiographies and Homilies
8. The earliest English poet whose name is known is;
Ans: Caedmon
9. King Alfred's reign ended in
Ans: 9th century
10. In the battle of Maldon in 991, The Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent
Ans: Vikings' Invasion

11. "The Wanderer" is an old English poem that consists
Ans: 115 Lines of alliterative verse
12. A poem that mourns a loss, or has the more general meaning of a simply sorrowful piece of writing is called;
Ans: Elegy
13. The English Literature is generally seen as beginning with the;
Ans: Epic Poem Beowulf
14. Normans conquered the England in
Ans: 1066
15. Which language became the standard language of courts, parliament and polite society during the reign of Normans?
Ans: Law French
16. Who translated the Bible in the Middle English Period?
Ans: Wycliffe
17. Which pre-Reformation movement rejected many of the distinctive teachings of the Roman Catholic Church?
Ans: The Lollard Movement
18. The term "Lollard" refers to whom?
Ans: The followers of John Wycliffe
19. A prominent theologian who was dismissed from the University of Oxfard in 1381 for criticism of the Church was;
Ans: John Wycliffe
20. Middle English Period lasts up till the;
Ans: 1470

fasadi bacha Friday, October 31, 2014 10:14 PM

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Raja Bahar Saturday, November 01, 2014 08:01 PM

21. Patience and Purity are alliterative poems written by;
Ans: Sir Gawain
22. What is the term "Chancery Standard" meant in English Literature?
Ans: A form of London-based English
23. Where is the Geoffrey Chaucer buried in?
Ans: Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey
24. Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for his;
Ans: Canterbury Tales
25. The first recorded association of Valentine's Day is in Chaucer's;
Ans: Parliament of Fouls
26. Who was the personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer?
Ans: John Gower
27. Which book is believed to be the first published book written by a woman in the English language?
Ans: Revelation of Divine Love
28. William Caxton invented the printing press in
Ans: 1476
29. Pilgrim's progress is a famous allegory of medieval period written by;
Ans: John Bunyan
30. Renaissance is usually regarded as beginning in 14th-century in;
Ans: Italy

Raja Bahar Wednesday, November 05, 2014 06:18 PM

31. The term Renaissance in English Literature means
Ans: Re-birth
32. The English Renaissance was actually the;
Ans: Cultural and Artistic Movement
33. John Florio was an excellent;
Ans: Linguist and Lexicographer
34. Sonnet was introduced into English Literature from
Ans: Italian Literature
35. The Faerie Queene, an epic poem was written by
Ans: Edmund Spencer
36. The defense of the poetry is the work of
Ans: Sir Philip Sidney
37. What is significant about "Gorboduc" the first verse drama in English Literature?
Ans: Blank Verse was used in it for the first time ever
38. Reign of the Elizabeth-I started in
Ans: 1558
39. Reign of the James-I started in
Ans: 1603
40. Thomas Wyatt is one of the earliest English poet of
Ans: Renaissance Age

41. Who is known as the poets' poet in English Literature?
Ans: Edmund Spencer
42. Sonnet is a
Ans: 14-lines poem
43. What is called the first eight lines of Sonnet?
Ans: Octave
44. What is called the last six lines of Sonnet?
Ans: Sestet
45. What is the rhyming scheme of Octave in sonnet?
Ans: a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a
46. What is the rhyming scheme of sestet in sonnet?
Ans: : c-d-e-c-d-e or c-d-c-c-d-c.
47.William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe were
Ans:Elizabethan age playwrights.
48. Dr. Faustus is the very famous play, written by
Ans: Christopher Marlowe
49. The Alchemist, comedy was written by
Ans: Ben Johnson
50. The 'Table Alphabeticall' is believed to be first ever dictionary in English language was written in 1604 by;
Ans; Robert Cawdrey

Raja Bahar Sunday, January 25, 2015 06:37 PM

51. Who is known as the most important figure among the meta physical poets?
Ans: John Donne

52. English Civil War was fought during the reign of
Ans: King Charles I
53. Who was the last great poet of the age of renaissance?
Ans. John Milton
54. John Milton got blind at the age of
Ans. 40
55. The most dominant figure of the age of Restoration is
Ans. John Dryden

56. The first ever significant female novelist was
Ans. Aphra Behn
57. The first official/formal poet laureate is believed tobe
Ans. John Dryden
58. Who introduced Alexdandrine and Triplet into english poetry for the first time?
Ans. John Dryden
59. The age of enlightenment which started in 18th century is also known as
Ans. Age of reason/Augustan age
60. Which english poet is most discussed after Shakespeare?
Ans. Robert Burns

5asif Wednesday, March 25, 2015 02:04 PM

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Raja Bahar Monday, April 10, 2017 10:10 PM

61. What is the meaning of the term "Magnum Opus"?
Ans: Master Piece
62. Which English poet was born with deformed feet?
Ans: Lord Byron
63. Which drug did Samuel Taylor Coleridge use to take?
Ans: Opium
64. Name the English poet, who got blind at the age of 40.
Ans: John Milton
65. Which Irish poet, dramatist and novelist was accused of pons and sodomite.
Ans: Oscar Wild
66. Democracy is the tyranny of majority. Who said this?
Ans: JS Mill
67. Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, for the people and by the people. Whose statement is this?
Ans: Oscar Wilde
68. Due to which unique quality Oscar Wilde is so famous?
Ans: Hard Hitting Quotations
69. Man can be destroyed but can't be defeated. These words are taken from
Ans: Old Man and the Sea
70. How Ernest Hemingway was died?
Ans: He had killed himself/Suicided.

adeel abdullah Tuesday, April 11, 2017 09:46 AM

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Raja Bahar Tuesday, April 25, 2017 11:05 PM

71. Gulliver's travels is the Magnum opus of
Ans: Jonathon Swift
72. Who is believed as the father of English Literature?
Ans: Geoffrey Chaucer

Raja Bahar Saturday, April 29, 2017 06:56 PM

73. How many total stories are there in The Canterbury Tales?
Ans: 24
74. King James Bible that was first ever bible written in English Language, published in
Ans: 1611
75. Renaissance Movement is believed to be started first in fourteenth century in
Ans: Italy
76. Who is credited to introduce sonnet in English Literature?
Ans: Thomas Wyatt.

Raja Bahar Monday, May 01, 2017 10:44 PM

77. Who has written one of the all times best novel war and piece?
Ans: Leo Tolstoy ( a Russian novelist)
78. Name the very famous French novelist who wrote Madame Bovary?
Ans: Gastave Flaubert
79. How many total acts are in Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer' Night's Dream?
Ans: Five
80. Who is considered the most significant auther after Shakespeare in English Literature?
Ans: John Milton

Raja Bahar Friday, October 20, 2017 01:19 PM

1.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Literature
2.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Poetry
3.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Language
4.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Morning Star of the Renaissance
5.Geoffrey Chaucer = The First National Poet
6.Venerable Bede = The Father of English Learning.
7.Venerable Bede = The Father of English History
8.King Alfred the Great = The Father of English Prose
9.Aeschylus = The Father of Tragedy
10.Nicholas Udall = The First English Comedy Writer
11.Edmund Spenser = The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)
12.Edmund Spenser = The Child of Renaissance
13.Edmund Spenser = The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation
14.Gutenberg = The Father of Printing
15.William Caxton = Father of English Press
16.Francis Bacon = The Father of English Essay
17.John Wycliffe = The Morning Star of the Reformation
18.Christopher Marlowe = The Father of English Tragedy
19.William Shakespeare = Bard of Avon
20.William Shakespeare = The Father of English Drama
21.William Shakespeare = Sweet Swan of Avon
22.William Shakespeare = The Bard
23.Robert Burns = The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)
24.Robert Burns = The National Poet of Scotland
25.Robert Burns = Rabbie
26.Robert Burns = The Ploughman Poet
27.William Dunber = The Chaucer of Scotland
28.John Dryden = Father of English criticism
29.William of Newbury = Father of Historical Criticism
30.John Donne = Poet of love
31.John Donne = Metaphysical poet
32.John Milton = Epic poet
33.John Milton = The great master of verse
34.John Milton = Lady of the Christ College
35.John Milton = Poet of the Devil’s Party
36.John Milton = Master of the Grand style
38.John Milton = The Blind Poet of England
39.Alexander Pope = Mock heroic poet
40.William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature
41.William Wordsworth = The High Priest of Nature
42.William Wordsworth = The Poet of Nature
43.William Wordsworth = The Lake Poet
44.William Wordsworth = Poet of Childhood.

balochpervez Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:21 AM

Salam n h ru
Kindly suggest me any good professor for eng. Lecturer test though spsc as i wana do proper preparation in this regard.
Regards
Pervez li baloch

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:08 PM

81. Who uttered these words “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all” ?
John Keats
82. Which was Marlowe’s first play ?
Tamburlaine
83. To which theater was Christopher Marlow associated with ?
English Renaissance theatre
84. What was the first published title of Christopher Marlow’s play The Jew of Malta ?
The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta
85. The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by ?
Wyclif
86. Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance ?
15th
87. Renaissance first came to the ?
Italy
88. Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus’ character at the beginning of the play ?
arrogant
89. Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance ?
Spencer
90. “On his blindness”, a collection of sonnets is written by ?
John Milton
91. “The Prince Of Poets in his time”, on whom grave the inscription is written ?
Edmund Spencer
92. What is Faerie Queene ?
An allegory

93. Who wrote “Holy Sonnets” ?
John Donne
94. Who wrote “The Massacre at Paris” ?
Christopher Marlowe
95. Which famous work of John Milton’s was based on the fall of man ?
Paradise Lost
96. What is the meaning of Milton’s work Samson Agonistes ?
Wrestler
97. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?
How do I love thee
98. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
Meter
99. The repetition of similar ending sounds
Rhyme
100. Applying human qualities to non-human things
Personification

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:09 PM

101. The repetition of beginning consonant sound
Alliteration
102. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as
metaphor
103. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as
simile
104. Using words or letters to imitate sounds
onomatopoeia
105. a description that appeals to one of the five senses
imagery
106. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters
narrative
107. A poem with no meter or rhyme
free verse
108. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme
lyric
109. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Iambic pentameter
110. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
111. Who wrote this famous line: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate…'
Shakespeare

112. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
The 12th
113. From which of Shakespeare's plays is this famous line: 'Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night'
Romeo and Juliet
114. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Acrostic
115. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?
Robert Burns
116. How has Stephen Dunn been described in 'the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?
A poet of middleness
117. 'The Cambridge school' refers to a group who emerged when?
The 1960's
118. Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Ottowa
119. Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?
Skeptical & Impressionistic
120. Which Welsh poet wrote "Under Milk Wood?"
Dylan Thomas

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:09 PM

121. Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
122. Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles?"
Arthur Conan Doyle
123. ___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?
Camille
124. Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
125. Who wrote "Ten Little Niggers?"
Agatha Christie
126. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?
The Poor Man and the Lady & The Return of Native
127. Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, Wine, and Snuff?"
John Keats
128. "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden."This is an extract from:
Paradise Lost

129. William Shakespeare was born in the year:
1564
130. Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale?'
William Shakespeare
131. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.
132. What is the word for a "play on words"?
pun
133. Which represents an example of alliteration?
Peter Piper Picked Peppers
134. What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Onomatopoeia
135. The theme is ...?
the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
136. Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem.
theme, purpose, form, and mood.
137. Which is not a poetry form?
tale
138. Which is an example of a proverb?
You can't have your cake and eat it, too
139. Which is an exaggeration?
Hyperbole
140. Who has defined 'poetry' as a fundamental creative act using languages?
Dylan Thomas

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:10 PM

141. What is a sonnet?
A poem of fourteen lines
142. What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?
Prosody
143. Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
Hyperbole
144. There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by - This is a couplet from the Bailiff's Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?
Synecdoche
145. Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Arabic
146. Complete this Shakespearan line - Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:
Impediments
147. Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
a. Jintishi

148. What is the title of the poem that begins thus - 'What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare'?
Leisure
149. Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Wordsworth
150. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
Limerick
151. How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
A game of knowledge
152. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
War poems
153. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
St Louis
154. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?
Sylvia Plath
155. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
28
156. In what form did Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' first become known?
A radio play
157. The magazine 'Contemporary Poetry and Prose' was inspired by which exhibition?
The Surrealist Exhibition
158. Why did 'Poetry Quarterly' cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
159. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
Novelist
160. Of which poet was it said 'Even if he's not a great poet, he's certainly a great something'?
Kipling

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:11 PM

161. Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
the Anglo-Saxons
162. Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
French
163. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures?
Arthur

164. Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?
fourteenth
165. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?
Edward III
166. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
Geoffrey Chaucer
167. What was vellum?
parchment made of animal skin
168. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:
the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
169. What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?
a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert
170. Who was the first English Christian king?
Ethelbert
171. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
everlasting shame
172. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:
admiration and elegiac sympathy.
173. The use of "whale-road"for sea and "life-house"for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
kenning
174. Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry?
Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
175. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?
ironic understatement
176. How did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?
his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
177. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Dutch
178. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance"emerged, initially apply?
a work written in the French vernacular

179. Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to
the clergy
180. What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain?
the reign of King Arthur

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:12 PM

181. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for
women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
182. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering"of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?
the Gawain poet
183. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?
The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.
184. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
Dante's Divine Comedy
185. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
William Langland
186. What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?
the War of the Roses
187. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
the morality play
188. Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true?
She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.
189. Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot?
Sir Thomas Malory
190. Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first work?
The Spanish Tragedy
191. Marlowe born in________
1564
192. In "the tragic history of Doctor Faustus". Faustus was a :
German scholar
193. Who wrote "The Massacre at Paris"?
Christopher Marlowe
194. After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem "Hero and Leander"?
George Chapman
195. Who succeeded Lyly?
Robert Greene

196. Which of the Marlowe's plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash?
The tragedy of Dido and Queen of Carthage..
197. Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?
Thomas lodge
198. The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as:
The Paston letters
199. Who wrote "Holy Sonnets"?
John Donne
200. Who wrote following lines:
. "........ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
John Donne

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:12 PM

202. "On his blindness", a collection of sonnets is written by:
John Milton
203. "Paradise lost" was lost by:
Eve & Adam
204. In "Paradise regained" who regained the paradise?
Jesus
205. Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers?
The Shepherd's calendar
206. Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to --------------------------------------?
Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle
207. John Donne's "The Anniversaries" is a:
An elegy in two parts
208. Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?
Spencer
209. During Spencer's visit to his Kinsfolk in Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures as__________________ much of his work:
Rosalind
210. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?
Homer
211. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?
Allen Tate
212. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third sections from?
Dante
213. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land?
Sysyphus

214. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?
guardian
215. Estella is the daughter of?
Joe Gargery
216. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?
Unto This Last
217. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
Catholicism
218. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?
humour and pathos
219. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?
The Bible
220. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?
Satan

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:13 PM

221. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?
Gertrude
222. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
Ralph and Jack
223. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a
lawyer
224. What does the ‘I’ stand for in the following line?
‘To Carthage then I came’
Augustine
225. The following lines are an exampl of.............image.
‘The river sweats Oil and tar’
erotic
226. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
Vanity Fair
227. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?
Zeus
228. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?
Hopkins
229. Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?
Swinburne
230. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?
The Tempest
231. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?
Act III, Scene I

232. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor
Gonzalo
233. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
Or, What you Will
234. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.
Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
Hamlet
235. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
Earl of Northumberland
236. Paradise Lost was originally written in?
eight books
237. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?
Wickham
238. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?
S. T. Coleridge
239. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?
Philip Pip
240. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?
Mexico

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:14 PM

241. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
Lord of the Flies
242. Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
Mrs. Morel
243. Vanity Fair is a novel by?
W. M. Thackeray
244. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?
Keats
245. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
The White Peacock
246. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?
Dorothy
247. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics?
Wordsworth
248. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
249. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—
P. B. Shelley
250. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?
Leigh Hunt

251. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?
1833
252. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?
Keats
253. Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London?
Charles Lamb
254. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
T. S. Eliot
255. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?
A. H. Hallam
256. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?
Robert Browning
257. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?
Atalanta in Calydon
258. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History is a course of?
five lectures
259. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
Cromwell
260. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?
Modem Painters

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:14 PM

261. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
B. Disraeli
262. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—
D. G. Rossetti
263. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
OttavaRima
264. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?
Earl of Surrey
265. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
Matthew Arnold
266. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”
Oxymoron
267. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
Sailing to Byzantium

268. Who is Pip’s friend in London?
Jaggers
269. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
A thief
270. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from?
William Shakespeare
271. “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.” Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night?
Sir Toby Belch
272. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Milton’s?
Spirit of revolt
273. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge”?
Wordsworth
274. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?
Duke
275. What was the cause of William’s death in Sons and Lovers?
Pneumonia
276. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream?
Kubla Khan
277. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to theWest Wind’?
Terza rima
278. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?
John Ruskin
279. Tracts for the Times relates to?
The Oxford Movement
280. The Chartist Movement sought?
Protection of the political rights of the working class

Raja Bahar Monday, November 25, 2019 06:15 PM

281. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?
Coleridge
282. Who was “Fortinbras”?
Son to the king of Norway
283. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?
Five
284. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” The above lines have been taken from?
The Second Coming
285. The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is?
Sensuousness

286. The key-note of Browning’s philosophy of life is?
optimism
287. The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means?
Tailor Repatched
288. “Epipsychidion” is composed by?
Shelley
289. “The better part of valour is discretion” occurs in Shakespeare’s—?
Henry IV, Pt I
290. Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton?
Paradise Lost
291. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work?
Graham Greene
292. Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?
‘First Impressions’
293. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures
Pride and Prejudice
294. ‘There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” The line given above occurs in
Hamlet
295. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes?
John Ruskin
296. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s greatest?
comic figures
297. That Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it, was said by?
Blake
298. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain’?
Matthew Arnold
299. Essays of Ella are?
practically autobiographical fragments
300. The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ is?
Women’s Education and Rights

Raja Bahar Wednesday, June 10, 2020 12:57 PM

Restoration Age or Age of Dryden in English Literature
 
[url]https://youtu.be/RxlIjzvYMbs[/url]

Raja Bahar Friday, September 04, 2020 01:10 AM

50 Sessions for English Literature preparations of all sorts of exams.
 
[url]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpsTvL3a6JcgUMGiYOxuOQuq9SriZII6m[/url]

Do watch these sessions specifically for preparations regarding lecturer English.

Waterlily Saturday, September 12, 2020 12:52 PM

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English lecturer ka test kab hoga?

Raja Bahar Wednesday, November 18, 2020 11:59 AM

Waterlily, written test is expected in December if COVID-19 pandemic situation remains under control.


However for preparations do watch out this, [I][U]Master Class : The Lexis Academy (my youtube channel) [/U][/I] and don't forget to subscribe for latest and up-coming sessions.


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