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✍️Who defined literature as "the humanization of the whole world"? -

Goethe.

✍️In which century Anglo Saxon period ended? - 11th

✍️Anglo Saxon period literature is vastly speaking of the centuries - 07th to 11th
✍️The term "Widsith" means - Far Traveller.
✍️Black Death is the name given to - The Epidemic of plague.
✍️The first native English poet is - Caedmon.
✍️After the death of Chaucer which period of English history was known as PostChaucerian age?
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✍️Edward III came to the throne in - 1327

✍️Caedmon works are generally contained in the form of - Caedmon manuscript collection.
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Eastmidland dialect.

✍️The war of Roses was fought between -

The House of York and the House of Lancaster.

🙏🌟✍️Who wrote Juliana and Elene -

Cynewulf.

✍️St. Paul's school served as a model school for the teaching of -

Greek and Latin.

✍️Who headed the French army during the reign of Henry IV -

Joan of Arc.

✍️Which symbols stood for Roses in The War of Roses -

Houses.

✍️Whose metres is marked by Accent and Persistent Alliteration -

Anglo Saxon.

✍️The medieval feudal system came to an end with the coming of the rule of-
Henry VII.

✍️who translated Scandinavian sagas into English during the nineteenth century
William Morris.

✍️G. Cambrensis wrote Gemma Ecclesiastica at the end of the century

- 12th century.

✍️Who has been called the father of English history? -

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- 1533.
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✍️During whose reign The Reformation began

- Henry VIII.

✍️Who won the title of "the Defender of the faith "? -

Henry VII.

✍️Who pioneered popular education in the Old English period?

- Alfred.

✍️Which language became the official language in England after the Norman Conquest?
- French.

✍️ Who wrote Homilies and biblical commentaries - also known as first english translator of old
testament.

Aelfric
✍️Which War fought between England and France in 1338 -
The Hundred Years.

✍️The last battle of Beowulf takes place in the Kingdom of

- Geatland.

✍️The oldest Anglo Saxon biblical poem is

- Exodus.

✍️Which is the oldest extant Germanic poem in English.

- Widsith.

✍️Beowulf is contained in the manuscript collection of -

Nowell Codex.

✍️In which dialect Beowulf is written -

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West Saxon.

✍️Which is the earliest poem in our literature?

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- Beowulf.
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✍️What is Heorot in Beowulf

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- The place of king Heorot.

✍️Which poem depicts variously the tribal life and rites of ancient days? -
Beowulf.

✍️The earliest surviving literature of the Old English period was written in the dialect of-
Northumbrian.

✍️In which work Caedmon was described with details -

Ecclesiastical History.

✍️Who wrote History of the World?

- Orosius.
✍️Which is Caedmon's known surviving work?
- Caedmon's Hymn.

✍️Who wrote Handlyng Synne -

Robert Brunne.

✍️Who wrote Le Roman de Brut -

Wace.

✍️Who printed Le Morte d' Arthur in which characters Sir Launcelot and Queen Gwenyvere? -
William Caxton.

✍️. Who is the author of Beowulf? -

Unknown.

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✍️Who is called the father of English learning? -

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✍️Agamemnon is Aescylus's most famous work.

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✍️The Clouds played by Aristophanes caricatured Socrates cruelly.

✍️Ecclesiastical History of the English People was written by -
Bede.

✍️Who is the most important dramatist of Greek Old Comedy? -

Aristophanes.

✍️Bede wrote his Ecclesiasticle History in

- Latin.

Who is believed to have founded the city of Rome? - Romulus and Remus.

.Who is known as the Anglo Saxon Milton? - Caedmon.

. (00-336. BC) time period is known as the Greek Classical Period.

✍️Who wrote the poem The Fates of the Apostles-

Cynewulf.

✍️The Norman Conquest occurred in -

1066.(ugc)

✍️The Christ is written by -

Cynewulf.

✍️Besides being a translator Alfred is a great

- Poet.

✍️Pericles ruled Athens during the Greek Classical Period.

✍️Who wrote the poem The Battle of Maldon. - n
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Anonymous.
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✍️In which classical tragedy Laius and Jocasta are appeared -

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Oedipus Rex.(ugc)
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✍️Who wrote a Treatise on science in Latin -

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Alexander Neckham.

✍️Which is the oldest surviving English poem in the form of dream? -

The Dream of the Road.

✍️Who wrote Praise of Virginity -

Aldhelm.

✍️The Battle of Brunanburh deals with

contemporary history.

✍️Which tragic hero has a name which means 'swollen foot'-( UGC)
Oedipus
✍️Cura Pastoralis was translated by -
Alfred.

✍️De Consolatine Philosophiae is a work of -

Philosophy.

✍️Who translated the work Boethius -

Alfred.

✍️Juliana was written by -

Cynewulf.

✍️Which war fought between England and France -

The Hundred Years.

✍️Who developed Pindaric Ode in the 17th century?

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✍️Who is Helen of Troy's twin sister? -

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Clytemnestra.
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✍️Oedipus Rex, Oedipuis at Colonus and Antigone are known as the

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Theban trilogy. (V Important)

✍️Who wrote Sir Gawayne and the Greene Knight? -

Unknown.

✍️Who wrote The Romance of the Rose -

De Lorris and De Meung.

✍️Most of Plato's work has been written in the form of

- Dialogues.

✍️Which work originated the dream convention in English? -

Romance of the Rose.

✍️Poetics is Aristotle's surviving works on ethics.

✍️Who wrote Ars Amatoria? -
Ovid

✍️Who became the first emperor of Rome and took the title 'Augustus"? -
Octavian.

✍️The legend of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table was first related in -
Layamon's Brut.

✍️Chanson de Roland was a famous epic written in

- French.

✍️Fabliau a poem from -

French.

✍️Fable a popular medieval literary form came to the Middle Ages from -
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✍️Roman de Renart is in which language? -

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✍️Who wrote the poem The Fates of the Apostles-

Cynewulf.

✍️The Norman Conquest occurred in -

1066.(ugc)

✍️The Christ is written by -

Cynewulf.

✍️Besides being a translator Alfred is a great

- Poet.

✍️Pericles ruled Athens during the Greek Classical Period.

✍️Who wrote the poem The Battle of Maldon. -
Anonymous.

✍️In which classical tragedy Laius and Jocasta are appeared -

Oedipus Rex.(ugc)

✍️Who wrote a Treatise on science in Latin -

Alexander Neckham.

✍️Which is the oldest surviving English poem in the form of dream? -

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The Dream of the Road.

✍️Who wrote Praise of Virginity -

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Aldhelm.
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contemporary history.

✍️Which tragic hero has a name which means 'swollen foot'-( UGC)
Oedipus

✍️Cura Pastoralis was translated by -

Alfred.

✍️De Consolatine Philosophiae is a work of -

Philosophy.

✍️Who translated the work Boethius -

Alfred.

✍️Juliana was written by -

Cynewulf.

✍️Which war fought between England and France -

The Hundred Years.

✍️Who developed Pindaric Ode in the 17th century?

- Abraham Cowley.(assistance professor RPSC exam)

✍️Who is Helen of Troy's twin sister? -

Clytemnestra.

✍️Oedipus Rex, Oedipuis at Colonus and Antigone are known as the

Theban trilogy. (V Important)

✍️Who wrote Sir Gawayne and the Greene Knight? -

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✍️Who wrote The Romance of the Rose -
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- Dialogues.

✍️Which work originated the dream convention in English? -

Romance of the Rose.

✍️Poetics is Aristotle's surviving works on ethics.

✍️Who wrote Ars Amatoria? -
Ovid

✍️Who became the first emperor of Rome and took the title 'Augustus"? -
Octavian.

✍️The legend of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table was first related in -
Layamon's Brut.

✍️Chanson de Roland was a famous epic written in

- French.

✍️Fabliau a poem from -

French.

✍️Fable a popular medieval literary form came to the Middle Ages from -
Greek and Indian sources.

✍️Roman de Renart is in which language? -

French.

✍️ During Augustus' reign

did live

Virgil, Horace and Ovid .

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1. The Manciple's Tale.(story of Coronis and Phoebus )

2. The Wife of Bath's Tale. (The story of Midas).

3. The Book of the Duchess. (The story of Ceyx and Alcyone )

The Metamorphoses' influence on William Shakespeare.

1. Romeo and Juliet ( the story of Pyramus and Thisbe)

2. A Midsummer Night's Dream ( a band of amateur actors performs a play about Pyramus and
Thisbe.)

3. Venus and Adonis expands on the myth in Book X of the Metamorphoses.

4. Titus Andronicus (the story of Lavinia's rape is drawn from Tereus' rape of Philomela, the text of the
Metamorphoses is used within the play to enable Titus to interpret his daughter's story.
5. The Tempest
Most of Prospero's renunciative speech in Act V of is taken word-for-word from a speech by Medea in
Book VII of the Metamorphoses.

✍️ Metamorphoses was an inspiration are John Milton—who made use of it in Paradise Lost.
✍️ L'Amorosa Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio (the story of Pyramus and Thisbe appears).
✍️ Ted Hughes collected together and retold twenty-four passages from the Metamorphoses in his
Tales from Ovid.

✍️ Metamorphosis : an allegorical novella written by Franz Kafka 1915.

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✍️Patience, Pearl, and Purity poems are written in -

Northern Dialect.

✍️Which is Seneca's famous tragedy of blood that tells the story of the House of Atreus? -
Thyeste.

✍️Sir Gawayne and the Greene Knight is an anonymous poem of

romance.7

✍️Which classical tragedy tells the story of Orestes. -

The Oresteia.

✍️The poems Pearl, Patience and Purity have been written by -

Anonymous
✍️ In the poem Pearl, pearl is a -
Girl.

✍️ The Pearl is
- An Elegy.

✍️ Who wrote Amphitryon and Menaechmi? -

Plautus.
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✍️ Which classical work became the greatest source of mythology for Renaissance writers? -
The Decameron.

✍️ Princess Goldburgh is a character in

- Havelock.

✍️ Scale of Perfection has been written by -

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An unexamined life is not worth living.

It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I still have a lot.

-Socrates (460-399 B.C.E.)

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✍️ Dante, in canto 26 of the Inferno of his Divine Comedy encounters Odysseus near the very bottom
of hell with Diomedes.

✍️ Ovid retells parts of Ulysses's journeys, focusing on his romantic involvements with Circe and
Calypso and recast him as in Herold Bloom's phrase "one of the great wondering womanizer. "

✍️ Odysseus appears in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida "Set during the Trojan War.
✍️ Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses presents an aging king who has seen too much of the world
to be happy sitting on a throne idling his days away.

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story of Odysseus.

✍️ James Joyce's novel "Ulysses "narrate a single day in the life of a Dublin businessman named
Leopold Bloom. In this work Bloom's Day is parallels to Odysseus twenty years of wandering.

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✍️ Odysseus is the hero of "The Luck of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green.
"The Penelopiad" by Margaret Atwood retells his story from the point of view of his wife Penelope.

✍️ "Return To Ithaca " by Eyvind Johnson is a more realistic retelling of the events that adds a deeper
psychological study of the characters of Odysseus, Penelope and Telemachus.

✍️ Odysseus is also character in David Gemmell's Troy trilogy.

Troy novels
Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
Shield of Thunder (2006)
Fall of Kings (2007)
✍️ Dan Simmons novel "Illium and Olympos" Odysseus encountered both at Troy and on a futuristic
Earth .

✍️ Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier about a soldier’s perilous journey back
to his beloved near the Civil War's end. At once a love story & a harrowing account of one man’s long
walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a new talent in American literature
the story shares several similarities with Homer's Odyssey.

✍️Auden's Birthday Poem is addressed to -

Christopher Isherwood.

✍️Who said Close the Byon, open thy Goethe? -

Thomas Carlyle.

✍️How many poems are there in Houseman's A Shropshire Lad?

- 63.

✍️Who wrote the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps? - n

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✍️ Which Victorian protagonist says I care for myself. The more solitary, the more ( autobiosony)
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Jane Eyre.
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✍️Joe Christians the tragic figure appears in -

William Faulkner's Light in August.

✍️I have met them at close of day. Who is Yeats referring to? -
The Irish people.

✍️ D.G. Rossetti's devoted friend Thomas Gordon Hakle was also a -

Physician.

✍️Dr. Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes Express -

Cynicism.

✍️The Bishop's Bible was published in

1568.
11. The success of the Spectator was immediate and permanent. Whose view is this? -

Deighton.

✍️The term fourth wall is associated with -

Theatre.

✍️Dickens is best known for his -

Character Portraits.

✍️Pope's Prologue to satires is known by the name -

An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.

✍️George Eliot's Middlemarch is called an epic novel, comparable to War and Peace, by which critic? -
F.R. Leavis

✍️ Who is the author of the massive six-volume History of English Drama?

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Allardyce Nicoll
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Eight years 1747-55.

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✍️Senecan plays were translated into English by -

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Jasper Heywood. ( 1 535 -1598]

✍️"Imagined Communities" is a concept propounded by - (imp)

Benedict Anderson.

✍️D.G. Rossetti was a true descendant of -

Keats.

✍️Bob Cratchit a kind man with a large family is a character in

A Christmas Carol.

✍️Who was the first editor of The Atlantic Monthly? -

James Russell Lowell.
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✍️In which novel does Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies figure?
Vanity Fair. (Subtitle- A Novel without Hero)
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✍️Y.Y. is the pseudonym of an essayist and literary critic whose real name
Robert Lynd.

✍️Which book is written by Tennyson in collaboration with his brothers Frederick and Charles? -
Poems by Two Brothers.

✍️In The Unknown Citizen Auden satirizes modern society where the individual is unimportant
✍️Which English poet was a great influence on Philip Larkin?
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✍️Who said that Tennyson had the finest ear, perhaps of any English poet?
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W.H. Auden.
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✍️Which of Kipling's poems is an English version of Indian lullaby?

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Shiva and the Grasshopper.

✍️Who in the essay The Decay of Lying claimed that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life? -
Oscar Wilde.

✍️ Leopard's Spots is an anti-Negro novel written by

Thomas Dixon

✍️Which character in Oliver Twist is constantly referred to as the Jew? -

Fagin.

✍️The sonnet-sequence in which D.G. Rossetti expresses his love for his wife
The House of Life.

✍️Wallace Stevens The Man with the Blue Guitar may be linked to the work of the artist
Picasso.
✍️Dr. Johnson whole-heartedly belonged to which literary School?
Augustan School.

Who said Give me the liberty to know?

John Milton.

✍️Which novel is considered the best of Thackrey?

Vanity Fair.

✍️Meredith is best known by which work? -

The Egoist

✍️Johnson's poem published in 1738 which was noticed by Pope is

London.

✍️John Gay's work which resembles Pope's Pastorals and is written in heroic couplets is
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Rural Sports.

✍️The Descent of Man was written by -

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Charles Darwin.
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✍️Unto This Last is a collection of - 04 essays on economics by

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Jhon Ruskin

✍️ In this poem new. there is no nature, for there is no truth, there is no art ,for there is nothing new
about which poem Johnson hold this view?

Lycidas(.by Milton)

✍️Petrarch is known as the Father of Humanism.

✍️The structural analysis of signs was practiced by
Rolad Barthes.

✍️Christina Rossetti's New Poems was edited after her death by

WIliams Morris.

✍️Who is Littimer in David Copperfield?

James Steerforth's servant.
✍️A writer of Banana Bottom, Claude Mckay is by birth
A Jamaican.

✍️ An early example of the Gothic genre in English is Ferdinand Count Fathom, who wrote this
romance?

Tobias Smollett.

✍️Who is known to have brought Narayan the focus of the international literary community?
Graham Greene.

✍️ The Angel in the House is a poem by-

Coventry Patmore

✍️ Auden's poem The Shield of Achilles re-imagines Homeric descriptions in the

✍️Apologia Pro Vita Sua is the spiritual autobiography of
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The Loved One( by Evelyn Waugh)

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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century.

✍️ The whole race is a poet that writes down, The eccentric propositions of its fate. Who wrote these
lines?

Wallace Stevens

✍️Josiah Bounderby is a character in -

Hard Times

✍️Goblin Market of Christina Rossetti is a charming excursion into

Fairyland.

✍️The mad woman in the attic is a specific reference to

Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre

✍️Alexander Pope is known as the

wasp of Twickenham

✍️Who was the first author who brought into vogue the proper English Novel?
Richardson.

✍️Which is George Eliot's first novel in which a woman is tried for murdering her own child?
Adam Bede.

✍️Who wrote Alice in Wonderland?

Lewis Carroll.

✍️Partridge in Swift's Elegy on Partridge is a

Quack Astrologer

✍️The Athenian Gazette was published in 1690 by

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Arthur Hugh Clough visited France in 1850 and began his most ambitious poem -
DipsyChus.
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✍️The actual name of Lewis Carroll was Charles Dodgson who was at Oxford
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A Mathematician.
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✍️Which is Henry Fielding's last novel in which he attacks law courts?

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Amelia.

✍️The most famous novel of Fielding is

Tom Jones.

✍️Robert Burns is the national poet of -

Scotland.

✍️ Which is an essentially Freudian concept?

The Uncanny

✍️"Well if this is poetry it is very easy to write" said by

William Morris.

✍️What is the main principle of Mr. Gradgrind's philosophy in Hard Times?

Fact.

✍️Walden or Life in the Woods published in 1854 is written by

H. D. Thoreau.

✍️Maxim Gorky's collection of short stories titled The City of the Yellow Devil centres on the city of
New York.

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✍️Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited is the result of his -

Army Experience.

✍️Who wrote Remembrance of Things Past? -

Marcel Proust.

✍️ In which poem does Stephen Spender expatiate his ideological positions on government,
economics, and education? -

An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum.

✍️Oscar
De Profundis is the autobiographieal work of -
Wilde.

✍️Which novel of Lionel Poles Hartley is a trilogy? - n

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Eustace and Hilda.

✍️Who is a Greatish hero from an early epic? -

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Beowulf.
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✍️The critics called him the prose Whitman. Who that writer was? -
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John Dos Passos.

✍️The character Sleary in Hard Times owns a -

Circus.

✍️He wrote an essay called Conrad's Darkness. Identify the writer. -

V.S. Naipaul.

✍️The first book published in English soil is -

The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers.

✍️Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham contains a satirical portrait of -

Thomas Hardy.

✍️New Grub Street by George Gissng is a -

Novel about a poor artist.

✍️Daniel Defoe started the publication of The Review in -

1704.

✍️George Moor's A Modern Lover was banned for being -

Immoral.

✍️Where did Somerset Maugham draw the title Cakes and Ale from -
Twelfth Night.

✍️Who is the author of Roderick Random? -

Smollett.

✍️Thomas More's Utopia was translated by Ralph Robinson in -

n
1551.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

✍️Who was named along with Mazzini and Hugo as one of the three gods the poets worship? -
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A.C. Swinburne.
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✍️Which character in Hard Times serves as a foil or contrast to Louisa Gradgrind? -

Sissy Jupe.

✍️ Mark Twain and Bret Harte are the master story-tellers in the American Realistic Period of Short
Story.

✍️ Who is the author of the book ABC of Reading which sets out an approach to the appreciation and
understanding of literature? -

Ezra Pound.u

✍️is Song of Lewes

a political poem in English which has survived in complete form.

✍️Which classical trilogy is the play The Libation Bearers part of -

The Oresteia.

✍️ In the poem Leda and the Swan by W.B. Yeats , the Swan represents the Greek god
Zeus.

😊In which poems Latin and English are both languages used together -
Macaronic.

✍️Who wrote Meditation of the Passion -

Richard Rolle.

✍️Carpe Diem means- Seize the day.

✍️The central concern of which book is this; who is happy, the just man or the unjust man? -
The Republic.

✍️Havelok and Horn the two romances were written at the end of the -
13th century.

✍️The Owl and the Nightingale was written in about -

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✍️Tragedy emerged as part of the religious festival -

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Dionysus.
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✍️The Poema Morale has been written in about -

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1170.

✍️Which philosopher's real name meant broad shouldered -

Plato.

✍️Which philosophical school was founded by Plato -

The Academy in 387 BC.

✍️Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is based on -

Boccaccio's Decameron.

✍️In which tale of Chaucer a daughter is killed by her father? -

The Physician's Tale.

✍️In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales which tale deals with two young Theban warriors? -
The Knight's.

✍️The Norman Conquest took place in the year -

1066.

✍️Which tales of Chaucer is based in part on a notable French sermon of Friar Laurence -
Pardoner's Tale.

✍️The name of prioress in The Canterbury Tales is -

Eglentyne.

✍️King Richard II succeeded to the Crown in -

1377

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✍️The writer who gave the first full expression of the English sense of humour was
- Geoffery Chaucer.

✍️Piers the Plowman was written by

- William Langland.

✍️ Le Romaunt de la Rose is a poem written by -

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung.

Who translated Romance of the Rose a French work into English -

Geoffery Chaucer.

✍️Morte d' Arthur is a prose romance by

- Thomas Malory.
✍️Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer's long poem adopted from -
Boccaccio.

✍️Who has been called the morning star of the Renaissance -

Geoffery Chaucer.

✍️Rhyme Royal was introduced into English poetry by

- Geoffery Chaucer.

✍️Chaucer's poem The House of Fame is written in -

Octosyllabic couplet.

✍️Which work of Chaucer was an allegory on the death of Blanche the wife of his patron? -
The Book of the Duchess.

✍️Everyman is an example of -
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✍️The pilgrims in Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales go on a pilgrimage to the tomb of
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- St. Thomas Becket.

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✍️How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent the military profession? -
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03.

✍️The Spanish Armada was defeated in the year -

1588.

✍️Chaucer virtually imported the decasyllabic lines in his poetry from -

France.

✍️To which shrine is the pilgrimage going? -

Shrine of St. ThomasatCanterbury.

✍️Gloriana in The Faerie Queene represents -

Queen Elizabeth.

✍️Chaucerian seven line stanza in English poetry is also known as -

Rima Royal.

✍️The character of Griselda appears in the story of -

The Clerk's Tale.

✍️Hieronimo is Mad Again is the subtitle of -

The Spanish Tragedy.

✍️The prevailing feature of Chaucer's humour is its

-Urbanity.

✍️Who tells the story of January and May in Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales? -
The Merchant.

✍️Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is a reply to -

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- William Langland.
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- Troilus and Cryseyde.

✍️Senecan tragedy of blood is based on the theme of -

Revenge.

✍️The motive of the work Piers the Plowman is

- To expose the sloth and vice of the church.

✍️Pandare is a character who appears in -

Troilus and Criseyde.

✍️The Tempest is a Shakespearean

- Romance.

✍️John Gower wrote his Speculum Meditantis in -

French language.
✍️John Gower wrote his Vox Clamantis in -
Latin Language.

✍️John Gower wrote his Confessio Amantis in -

English Language.

✍️No hadded I er now, my sweet heart deere, Ben yold, ywis, I were now nought here -
Cryseyde.

✍️The Forest of Arden appears in -

As You Like It.

✍️ The first Scottish poet to claim our attention in literature was -

John Barbour.

✍️New Atlantis of Becon is modelled on - n

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Utopia.
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✍️The main reason of the Hundred Years War was -

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✍️Which two tales of The Canterbury Tales are the example of Fabliau
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- Reeve's and Miller's Tales.

✍️The Anatomy of Melancholy is written by -

Robert Burton.

✍️ Tyler's Rebellion is also called

The Peasants Revolt.

✍️One of the portraits in the Prologue to the Wife of Bath , Bath is

The name of the town.

✍️Lycidas mourns the death of

Edward King.

✍️Which Revolt was based on the theory of Wat Tyler's democracy and socialism
The Peasant Revolt 1381.

✍️He was as fresh as the month of May, whom this line refers to
Squire.

✍️Milton's On His Blindness is -

A Sonnet.

✍️Who are Lollards?

John Wyclif and his Followers.

✍️Chaucer went diplomatic abroad from - 1370 to 1378.

✍️Which work of Chaucer bars close resemblance to Dante's Divine Comedy? -
The House of Fame.

✍️The sub- title of Richardson's Pamela is

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A Pure Woman.

✍️Who superintended the first complete English translation of the Bible?

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John Wyclif.
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✍️The ideas of which work of Chaucer has been taken from Decameron of Boccaccio -
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The Canterbury Tales.

✍️Who wrote this line, My love is like a red, red rose?

Robert Burns.

✍️Who is called the real originator of European Protestantisme

John Wyclif.

✍️The first English novel in verse is

Troilus and Cryseyde.

✍️ Whom does Keats call Sylvan a historian?

Grecian Urn.

✍️Chaucer retold the stories of Morte d' Arthur and The Marriage of Sir Gawain in his tale -
The Wife of Bath.

✍️ The first great comic character Pandarus in English literature has been depicted by -
Geoffery Chaucer

✍️Which are three periods in the literary career of Geoffery Chaucer?

The French Period 1359-72,
The Italian Period 1373-86,
The English period 1386-1400

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✍️Thanatopsis poems published in 1817 was written by the first of the American romantic poets -
William Cullen Bryant.

✍️Spenser's satirical poem is -

Mother Hubberd's Tale.

✍️James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, were called -
The Brahmins.

✍️The Jacobean Age - 1603-1625.

✍️The Caroline Age - 1625-1649.
✍️Who does the spider represent in Swift's The Battle of the Books? -
Moderns.

✍️Kenelphus the noble king of Mercia has appeared in n

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Nun's Priest's Tale.

✍️Which are the prose works of Geoffery Chaucer.

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👉A Treatise on the Astrolabe.

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✍️The first mention of Shakespeare's works is found in

Francis Meres Palladis Tamia.

✍️The Testament of Cresseid has been written by

Robert Henryson.

✍️William Dunbar wrote a political allegory of twenty seven stanzas in rime royale celebrating -
The marriage of King James IV.

✍️Sir Thomas Malory was imprisoned for participation in-

The War of the Roses.
✍️ The spirit of new learning in the transitional period from the medieval to the modern was chiefly the
influence of -

Italian Renaissance.

✍️Which works of Chaucer contain passages that have been directly taken from Dante? -
The Parliament of Fowls.

✍️Chaucer used Ottava rima the eight syllabic line rhyming in couplets in -
The Book of Duchess.

✍️ The first group of pilgrims to come to the Tabard Inn was the Knight, the Squire and Yeoman, who
are called

The Household Group.

✍️The name of the Prioress in The Canterbury Tales -

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John Henry Newman.

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✍️Sonnets from the Portuguese was written by -

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

✍️How many women characters figure in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales? -
03.

✍️The Pre-Raphaelite poet influenced by Chaucer is -

William Morris.

✍️Chaucer's Knight's Tale is based on -

Boccaccio's Teseida.

✍️What is the sub-title of The Windhover? -

To Christ of Lord.

✍️The Commonwealth regime under Cromwell covers the period -

1649-1660.

✍️In which year was the Globe Theatre built? -

1599.

✍️ His voice was merrier than the organ tone . In church on solemn mass days loudly blown . These
lines from

Nun's Priest Tale

✍️Who called Chaucer “The father of English Poetry"?

John Dryden

✍️The Clerk's Tale is otherwise known as

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✍️The wife of Bath was

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Deaf

✍️ Who is called the English Virgil

John Lydgate

✍️Which is the 1st political pamplet on English History?

The serpent of Division by John Lydgate.

✍️ During the 17th century English Puritans migrated to New England in America.
✍️In the prologue of Canterbury Tales Children afraid of
From Summon's Face.

✍️Chanticleer was the name of

Cock.

✍️In which novel Thomas Hardy introduced Wessex?

Under the Greenwood Tree (1872).

✍️Jhon Lydgate wrote a long love poem moddled on Chaucer's House of Fame?
Temple of Glass

✍️Letter of Cupid written by Thomas Occleve is -

A poetic Tale in honour of women.

✍️The peasant Revolt resulted in

End of Serfdom.

✍️The Mother of God poem written by-

Thomas Occleve

✍️ Who wrote a jeering satire on Cardinal Wolsey-

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The woman writer and the Nineteenth century Literary imagination.

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A prayer to Virgin A.B.C.

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✍️Who is generally considered to be the chief author of the Scottish Chaucerian period?
-William Dunbar.

✍️Who introduced blank verse into English? -

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.

✍️What was the first vision has been seen by Langland in

Piers Ploughman Field Full of Folks.

✍️Whose Tale in Canterbury Tales is introduced as a Breton lay? -

Franklin's Tale.

✍️In the Prologue which character is fond of hunting and riding? -

Monk.

✍️Which of Chaucer's work is a satire on human marital relationships? -

Nun's Priest's Tale.

✍️Quintessence of Ibsenism was written by -

G.B.Shaw.

✍️Why Come Ye Not to Court? is a satire on -

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✍️The gap tooth of Chaucer's Wife of Bath is a sign of her boldness, gluttony and lasciviousness.
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✍️Chaucer introduced the Heroic Couplet in English verse and invented the Rhyme Royal.
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✍️One of the main drawbacks of Troilus and Criseyde is

long and tiresome speeches.

✍️ The Miller's wart on the nose, wide black nostrils and mouth as big as a furnace are physiognomic
details pointing to his greed, vulgarity and coarseness.

✍️ Chaucer was called the earliest of the great moderns and was also called The Morning star of the
Renaissance. Who initiated these remarks? -

Albert.

✍️Philoclea and Pamela in The Arcadia the daughter of -

✍️Lifer of Shakespeare is written by
- Sidney Lee.
✍️Charles I was executed in -
1649.

✍️Nelly Dean is the narrator in

Wuthering Heights.
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✍️The Yeoman used to wear a coat of which colour -

Green.

✍️ Whose tale in The Canterbury Tales later appeared as The Wedding of sir Gawain and Dame
Ragnell? -

Wife of Bath.

✍️Wyclif's Bible is a translation of - n

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✍️Who wrote the first Eclogues in the English language? -

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✍️What is Carol -
The Carol is a song of religious praise.

✍️ The Monk is represented by Chaucer as a scorner of books and one who is interested in fine
clothes, hunting and full-blooded horse.

✍️In Prologue and The Canterbury Tales Chaucer employed the -

Heroic Couplet.

✍️Chaucer's Physician in the Doctor of Physic was heavily dependent on

Astrology:

✍️The words Amor Vincit Omnia are engraved on the brooch of the
Prioress.
✍️The Age of Restoration is so called because the king Charles II was restored to the throne.
✍️The theatres were closed down and open in -
1642-1660.

✍️The protagonist of The Waste Land is -

Tiresias.

✍️The pen name of Mary Ann Evans is -

George Eliot.

✍️The Manciple's Tale is based on - Ovid's Metamorphoses.

✍️Chaucer wrote The Book of Duchess in the -
French period.

✍️Thomas More's Utopia was written in - n

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1516.

✍️Who wrote Roister Doister the first regular comedy in English? -

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✍️Who wrote the first regular tragedy in English -

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Sackville and Norton in collaboration.

✍️The first sonnet in English was an adaptation of a sonnet by -

Petrarch.

✍️The first book printed in England was -

History of Troy.

✍️Who was led to imprisonment in 1534. for his refusal to accept the Actof Supremacy? -
Sir Thomas More.

✍️The most famous writer of masques in English is -

Ben Jonson.

✍️Who is the author of Steel Glass?

Gascoigne.

✍️The age of Chaucer was essentially an age of -

Unrest and Transition.

✍️Chaucer's celebrated princely betrothal in which of his work? -

The Parliament of Fowls.

✍️John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger was first performed in the year - 1956.
✍️ The Restoration marks the real moment of birth of our Modern English Prose who makes this
observation? -

Matthew Arnold.

✍️The Wife of Bath wears stocking of scarlet colour, which indicates her wealth.
✍️Who wrote Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity? -
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Richard Hooker.

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The infinite incredible patience of

Griselda under the tests imposed by her husband Walter -
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Clerk of Oxford.
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✍️Chaucer dedicated his Troilus to -

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John Gower.

✍️Piers the Plowman is divided into -

Visio and Vita.

✍️The poet known entirely for Bruce the supreme national poem of Scotland is
John Barbour.

✍️ One of the earliest works in English prose was the translation that appeared in 1377 of the French
Travels of Sir John Mandeville. It was the work of a French Physician. - Jean de Bourgone.

✍️Who called Bacon the first essayist as he remains for sheer mass and weight of genius? -
Hugh Walker.
✍️Who headed the Commonwealth regime after the execution of Charles I?
Cromwell.

✍️Which of Dickens's characters dare to ask more? -

Oliver Twist.

✍️Whose favourite dish was a fat roasted swan? -

Monk.

✍️Malory's famous Morte d'Arthur was written in -

1485.

✍️Caxton was the first to set up a printing press in England. -

1476.

✍️The concluding line of Spenserian stanza is known - n

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Iambic Hexameter or Alexandrine.
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✍️The Ship of Fools is a poem based on a translation of a German work authored by -

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Alexander Barclay.
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✍️Who wrote Desert Village. -

Oliver Goldsmith.

✍️Which of the earliest versions of the Bible?

William Tyndale's English New Testament.

✍️The Second Nun's Tale is based on - The Golden Legend translated by

William Caxton.

✍️ Name Chaucer's work in which a love story has been told which is a delicacy of psychological
awareness. -

Troilus and Cryseyde.

✍️Wessex is associated with the novels of -

Thomas Hardy.
✍️Puttenham identified Chaucer as the father of the English canon.
✍️Tamburlaine is the story of -
A Scythian Shepherd.

✍️Who wrote a sequel to Troilus and Criseyde -

Henryson.

✍️Which character sings the ballad Com hider, love, to me? -

Pardoner.

✍️Who said about Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales that here indeed is God's plenty?
John Dryden.

✍️Harrowing of Hell, St.Nicholas and Raising of Lazarus are examples of

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✍️Matthew Arnold criticizes Chaucer for lacking in -

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High seriousness.
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✍️Mystery plays and Morality plays were in vogue from the

14th century.

✍️Who is known as the connecting link between Chaucer and Spenser?

Thomas Sackville.

✍️ Whichcharacter is a wealthy gentleman farmer in whose house food was so plenteous that meat
and drink seemed to snow?

Franklin.

✍️The Neoclassical Age in English literature follows the models of

Greek and Roman Literature

✍️Castle of Otranto is -
Gothic novel.

✍️The Canterbury Tales is -

Allegorical work.

✍️Chaucer's A Treatise on the Astrolabe is dedicated to -

His son Little Lewis.

✍️Who is the author of Venus and Adonis? -

William Shakespeare.

✍️We can die by it, if not live by love from the poem -
✍️Who wrote Holy Sonnets? -
John Donne.

✍️Chaucerian stanza is called rime royale because - n

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✍️The rocks of Brittany feature in Chaucer's -

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Franklin's Tale.
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✍️The Miracle plays date back to the -

12th century.

✍️Who tells the last tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -

The Parson.

✍️Which tales are in prose? -

The Parson's Tale and the Tale of Melibee.

✍️Spenser's celebration of his own marriage is the subject of

Epithalamion.

✍️The term Augustan was first applied to a School of Poets by

Dr. Johnson.
✍️The theory of mimesis was introduced by -
Plato.

✍️The dialect popularized by Chaucer is -

East Midland.

✍️Shakespeare's sonnets were first published in -

1609.

✍️What is the name of the place where Satan held a solemn council with other fallen angels? -
Pandemonium.

✍️Calvinistic Geneva Bible which came in 1560 was given the popular name of Breeches Bible.
✍️Belinda is a character in the poem -
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John Lyly.
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✍️Which period was called by Kittredge as a singularly modern time? -

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The Age of Chaucer.

✍️The term objective correlative was introduced by Eliot in the essay

Hamlet and His Problems.

✍️The eighteenth century in English literature is also called -

The Age of Reason.

✍️who called the eighteenth century The Age of Prose and Reason?
Matthew Arnold.

✍️Our admirable and indispensable Eighteenth Century said by -

Matthew Arnold.

✍️In which play of Etherage the character Harriet appears? -

The Man of Mode.

✍️Who wrote A Room of One's Own? - Virginia Woolf.

✍️The Coffee House culture flourished in -
The Age of Dr. Johnson.

✍️Which character is wise, clever in his profession, wealthy and seems busier than he really is -
Sergeant of Law.

✍️The work of Wyatt and Surrey were published in Tottel's Miscellany in -

1557.

✍️Mystery plays deal with the themes of creation, fall and redemption.
✍️When did Henry II the patron of education come to throne? -
1485.

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✍️The Second Shepherds Play by Wakefield Master is an example of

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Mystery play.
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✍️The Licencing Act for closing of all theaters except Drury Lane and Covent Garden was passed in -
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1576.

✍️The Theatre was founded in -

1576.

✍️John is the name of the Nun's priest.

✍️In A Woman Killed with Kindness Heywood sounded a domestic note.
✍️Who was the intellectual father of the French Revolution
- Rousseau.

✍️W.B. Yeats uses the phrase a terrible beauty is born? -

Easter.
✍️When Sidney died, Spenser wrote an elegy on his death -
Astrophel.

✍️What is the meaning of Agonistes in the title of Samson Agonistes? -

Wrestler or Champion.

✍️ The Great Bible the first of the authorised versions appeared in -

1539.

✍️Who is the historical parallel of Zimri in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel?

George Villers second Duke of Buckingham.

✍️Spenser's Amoretti is -
a collection of his love sonnets.

✍️Spenser's Epithalamion is n
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a wedding hymn.
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✍️Who remarked that Chaucer found English a dialect and left it a language? -
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J.L. Lowes.
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✍️Who wrote Seven Types of Ambiguity? -

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William Empson.

✍️After whom did Wordsworth become the poet laureate of England? -

Robert Southey.

✍️William Congreve was a -

Restoration dramatist.

✍️When did the great fire of London take place? -

1666.

✍️The Four P's by John Heywood is

an Interlude.
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1.Pardoner
2.Pothecary
3.Palmer
4. Pedlar

✍️Interludes are short dramatic pieces filling intervals that grew under the patronage of -
Henry VIII.

✍️Which War in England paved the way for the enlightened and powerful Tudor rule? -
The War of Roses.

✍️ The New Grammar School of 15th century England was a result of - diversion of funds from going
to monasteries to education.

✍️ Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella is a sonnet sequence addressed to Penelope Devereaux
Rich.

✍️Which work of Scottish Chaucerians imitates Chaucer's House of Fame?

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✍️After whose refusal the Poet Laureateship was conferred on Robert Southey?
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Walter Scott.
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✍️Daddy is a confessional poem by

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Sylvia Plath.

✍️ Who is the novelist and naturalist who commented Chaucer was not in any sense a poet of the
people. He was a court poet who wrote for cultured readers and refined society.

William Henry Hudson.

✍️Spenser wrote a series of sonnets in honour of his lady love,ElizabethBoyle

Amoretti.

✍️The first tragedy Gorboduc was later entitled -

Ferrex and Porrex.

✍️The subtitle of Wordsworth's The Prelude. -

Growth of a Poet's Mind.
✍️W.H.Hudson's statement essentially the poet of the people reveals the personality of
William Langland.

✍️In which year was Lyrical Ballads published? -

1798.
More-
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 & considered to have marked the beginning of the English
Romantic movement in literature.
Preface in 1800.

✍️ In his Apologie for Poetrie is a reply to -

Gosson's School of Abuse.
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Philip Sidney defends poetry in his essay “Apology for Poetry” from the
accusations made by Stephen Gosson in his “School of Abuse” dedicated to him.
There, Gosson makes some objections against poetry. Sidney replies to the objections made by
Gosson very emphatically, defending poetry in his essay. Sidney does this in a very logical and

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✍️Who has been called the Prince of plagiarists? -

Chaucer.

✍️There is a reference of Goddess Venus in -

The House of Fame.

✍️The first section of Eliot's The Waste Land is titled -

The Burial of Death.
(1The Burial of the Dead
2.A Game of Chess
3.The Fire Sermon
4.Death by Water
5.What the Thunder Said)

✍️Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne after -

William IV.
✍️The Royalists spirit towards the Puritan was expressed in -
Hudibras.(an English mock-heroic narrative poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler)

✍️Ben Jonsen's first important and successful play was -

Everyman in His Humour.

✍️The Friars (Canterbury Tales) name is -

Hubert.

✍️Which is the first book in English in poetic prose? -

Morte d' Arthur.

✍️Sidney's Arcadia is a moral treatise in prose.

✍️The invention of the genre the Eclogues is attributed to -
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✍️"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships"? In which play does this line ocour? -
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus.
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Written in Blank verse
Full title: The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Elizabethan tragedy by
Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust
Themes: are folly of ambition, true versus illusive power, and good versus evil.
Major Characters:
Mephastophilis
Wagner
Lucifer
Helen of Troy
Valdes and Cornelius
Belzebub

an inscription on Faustus' arm "Homo fuge," Latin for "O man, fly"

The Icarus image is used in the opening passage to characterize the fall of Faustus. (NET 2020)

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✍️The Thistle and the Rose and The Golden Targe are two allegories of -
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William Dunbar.

✍️Queen Elizabeth ascended the English throne in -

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1558.
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Which work is considered to be the true prologue to the Renaissance? -

More's Utopia.

✍️John Lyly wrote his Euphues when he was in -

M.A.😀

✍️Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in -

1876.

✍️Who is the protagonist in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? -
Stephan Dedalus.

✍️Which work of Chaucer is called a psychological novel? -

Troilus and Cryseyde.
✍️The Scottish poet two wrote a poem mourning the death of Chaucer is -
Thomas Hoccleve in The Governail of Princes.

✍️ The pestilence that ravaged the country during the time of Chaucer is - Black Death or Bubonic
plague 1348-49

it reappeared in 1362,67,70.

✍️Who has written only Tragedies -

Christopher Marlowe.

✍️Who wrote The Lives of the Poets?

Dr. Samuel Johnson
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total 52 poets
Dr. Coined the term Metaphysical poets in Life of Cowley

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✍️O Lady we receive but what we give Identify the poem -

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Dejection: An 'O' Odeby Coleridge.

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✍️The name Chaucer is derived from the French word -

Chaussier meaning a maker of footwear

✍️Chaucer has used the technique of mock-heroic in -

Nun's Priest's Tale.

✍️The first English play in blank verse is -

Gorboduc.
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Earliest English tragedy in blank verse.
by Thomas Sackville & Thomas Norton.
Story of the play from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (1138). The play
premiered before Queen Elizabeth I on 18 January 1561.
Major Characters

Gorboduc, King of Great Britain.

Videna, wife to King Gorboduc.
Ferrex, Elder Son to King Gorboduc.
Porrex, Younger Son to King Gorboduc.

✍️Gower is represented as a figure of old poetic authority in Shakespeare's play.

Pericles

✍️The Origin of Species by Darwin is challenged to -

Biblical concept of the creation of the world.

✍️When did the great fire of London take place? -

1666.

✍️The credit for introducing Poulter's Measure in English poetry goes to -

Surrey.

✍️Friar tells a fabliau about a summoner who loses his soul to the devil.
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✍️The Travels of Sir John Mandeville has been written by -
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Jan de Bourgane.

✍️The famous educational and reformer of the 16th century who wrote The School Master? -
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Roger Ascham.
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(Not a general treatise on educational method, the book concentrates on the teaching of Latin and it
was not intended for schools, but "specially prepared for the private brynging up of youth in gentlemen
and noblemens houses")

✍️The most remarkable ballads of the 15th century include. -

Chevy- chase and The Nut-Brown Maid.

✍️The Paston Letters are considered among the important works of the 15th century because .-
of their value as reliable social chronicles.
(letters are a noted primary source for information about life in England during the Wars of the Roses
and the early Tudor period. They are also of interest to linguists and historians of the English
language, being written during the Great Vowel Shift, and documenting the transition from Late Middle
English to Early Modern English.)

✍️The Shepherd's Calendar which consists of 12 eclogues is work by

Spenser.

✍️Boccaccio first attempt prose adventure The Decameron in -

Italy.

✍️Tennyson was appointed the poet laureate after -

William Wordsworth.

✍️The peasants Revolt took place in the year -

1381.
(The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising
across large parts of England in 1381)

✍️Who used the phrase Marlowe's mighty line for Marlowe's Blank verse? -
Ben Jonson.
(mighty line refers to Blank verse)

✍️Kubla Khan was described by Coleridge as -

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✍️Border Ballads is a term that deals with -
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✍️Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes. Said by -

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John Ruskin.
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✍️A decasyllabic couplet is known as -

The Heroic Couplet.

✍️The king in the title Idylls of the King is -

King Arthur.

✍️The correct title of William Langland's poem is -

The Vision of Piers the Plowman.

✍️Who called Spenser the poet's poet?

Charles Lamb

✍️The Dynasts is an epic drama written by Hardy. It deals with -

The Napoleonic Wars.
✍️ The Clerk of Oxford's tale is about Griselda, an infinitely patient wife who endures the ill-treatment
of her husband.

✍️La Male Regale by Thomas Occleve is a satire on -

Poverty.

✍️The Faerie Queene is an allegorical heroic poem by -

Spenser

✍️The origin of English drama is attributed to -

The Liturgy ( a religious ceremony of the church.)

✍️Who wrote The Satire of the Three Estates? -

Sir John Lindsay.

✍️Gloriana in The Faerie Queene represents -

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✍️Roger Ascham's Toxophilus is a dialogue in praise of -

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Archery.
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✍️Roger Ascham was an admirer to

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Elizabeth.

✍️Who completed Marlowe's Hero and Leander? -

Chapman.

✍️In A Tale of Two Cities, the two cities refer to -

London and Paris.

✍️If music be the food of love play on appears in Shakespeare's -

Twelfth Night.

✍️There is a reference of Malvern Hills in -

Piers the Plowman.

✍️Chesterton called the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales the Prologue to Modern Fiction because of
its -

Narrative unity.

✍️John Gower was called a moral Gower for his -

Propensity for didacticism.

✍️For what is the phrase The Mousetrap used by Shakespeare? -

The play within the play in Hamlet.

✍️The three Upaishadic terms used by Eliot in The Waste Land are -
Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata.

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✍️In Macflecknoe Dryden ridiculed his principal opponent -
Thomas Shadwell.

✍️Spencer dedicates the Preface to The Faerie Queen to -

Sir Walter Raleigh.

✍️Name the greatest satirist of the 14th century who followed Juvenal
William Langland.

✍️The first satirical composition in English language is -

The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman.

✍️The chief weapon of Langland's allegory is -

Irony.

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A.C.Bradley.

✍️The major theme of Milton's Paradise Lost is -

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Fall of Man.
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✍️According to Bacon, wife and Children are hostages to fortune.

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✍️The theme of Tennyson's Idylls of the King is -

The story of King Arthur and His Round Table.

✍️Spenser's The Shepherd's Calendar was written in -

1579.

✍️Milton acted as Latin Secretary to

Oliver Cromwell.

✍️The Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales tells about her five marriages.
✍️Spenser's Prothalamion celebrates the marriage of the daughters of the
Earl of Worcester.
✍️Spenser's Epithalamion describes his own marriage with
Elizabeth Boyle.
(Epithalamion - a marriage song)

✍️What was the prize for the best story teller among the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales? -
A free supper.

✍️An important Senecan tragedy by George Gascoigne was -

Jocasta.

✍️Euphemism, a formal elaborate and stylized kind of prose, was introduced by

John Lyly
Euphemism is an appropriate expression used in the place of a phrase or words that may be found
inappropriate or offensive
*Example- " passed away" instead of died

✍️In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales whose story deals with two young Theban Warriors? -
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✍️The Wife of Bath has taken three trips to Jerusalem.
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✍️Who succeeded Robert Bridges as the Poet Laureate of England? -

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John Masefield.
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best known for children's novels The Midnight Folk ,The Box of Delights, & poems The Everlasting
Mercy & "Sea-Fever".

✍️A beautiful lady, Holy Church appears in -

Langland's Piers the Plowman.

✍️The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville appeared in -

1356.

✍️Gower refers to Chaucer towards the end of his work -

Confessio Amantis.
("The Lover's Confession")

✍️In which work did Spenser first use the Spenserian stanza? -
Faerie Queene.
✍️The author of Eminent Victorians is
Lytton Stratchey.
English writer and critic
founding member of the Bloomsbury Group.
His biography Queen Victoria (1921)

✍️The earliest Miracle play is by the record performed in England.

Ludus de Sancta Katharina.

✍️Total freedom of expression is the theme of Milton's work

Areopagitica
Full title:- Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the
Parlament of England. (1644)
It's tract , defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech & expression.

✍️ Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy is subtitled -

Hieronimo is Mad Again.

✍️Squire Allworthy is a country gentleman who appears in - n

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Tom Jones.
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Full title: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. comic novel by Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman
& picaresque novel.
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3.The Alchemist

✍️How many Cantos are there in Langland's Piers the Plowman?-

07.

✍️Who wrote Dr. Johnson's biography? -

James Boswell.

✍️In which year was G.B. Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize? -
1925.

✍️In Congreve's The Way of the World Millamant is loved by -

Mirabel.

✍️Millamant appears in which of the comedies of William Congreve?

The Way of the World.

✍️The Parson tells a merry tale about the seven deadly sins.
✍️In the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer used -
Ten Syllabic Line.

✍️The greatest shortcoming of 15th century poetry was -

Poor versification.

✍️Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde is the source for Shakespeare's -

As You Like It.

✍️ Who called the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, The Prologue to modern fiction?

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J. Long.
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✍️Which character played his bagpipe as the company of pilgrims left the town?
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Miller.

✍️The mistress of Charles Il who had given birth to James the Duke of Monmouth was -
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Lucy Waters.
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✍️Who was believed to be a classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglocatholic in religion?
T.S. Eliot.

✍️The first cantos of Piers the Plowman deals with -

The Vision of Holy Church.

✍️The character created by Chaucer who has a love for gold is -

The Doctor of Physic.

✍️ The Faerie Queene is basically a moral allegory. From whom did Spenser derive this concept of
moral allegory? -

Aristotle.

✍️The third voyage of Gulliver is to -

Laputa.

✍️ Who Said that Spencer writes no language -

Ben Jonson

✍️The battle of books is between

Ancients and Moderns
The battle of books short satire written by Jonathan Swift.
Depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library.
(In St James's Palace at the time of the writing).

✍️ "In Whose hands is wickedness and their rights hand is full of gifts."
This line has been taken from

- Piers the Plowman.

✍️Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were written by -

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Note- Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (1947) book by Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye
(Frye's book title Fearful Symmetry taken from Blake's Tyger poem .)
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✍️ The Exodus of Greek scholars and artists from their country started after - the fall of
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Constantinople at the hands of the Turks.

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✍️Who wrote Leviathan? -

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Thomas Hobbes.
Book published 1651
The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, & earliest and most influential
examples of social contract theory.
(individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit
to the authority)

✍️The Reeve is a slander choleric man named Oswald.

✍️Dream Allegory was a popular poetic form during the -
Medieval Period.

✍️ Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller or The Life of Jack Wilton is the first picaresque novel in English.
Protagonist- Jack Wilton

✍️Who satirized the vice of the clergy in his Book of Colin Clout? -
Skelton.
Note- Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - a pastoral poem by Edmund Spenser.

Colin Clout- Character( in title poem by John Skelton He then turned up again later in John Gay's The
Shepherd's Week.

✍️The prose work of Sir Thomas More included -

The Life of John Picus and The History of Richard III.

✍️ The play Dr.Faustus by Marlowe portrays a scholar hungry for more knowledge who sells his soul to
the Devil for twenty four years of unlimited power and pleasure.

✍️What does the word Lollard mean? -

Mumbling of prayers.

✍️Mac Flecknoe is -
mock heroic poem.
full title: Mac Flecknoe or A satyr upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet, T.S.) by John Dryden. It is a

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All humane things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must obey:

✍️Francis Bacon has written in -

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Latin and English.

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✍️Constantinople fell at the hands of the Turks in -

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1453.

✍️Renaissance reached England through -

France.

✍️Under what name does Lamb's sister Mary appear in his essays?
Bridget.

✍️The protagonist of Marlowe's The Jew of Malta is

The Jewish moneylender Barabas.

✍️John Barbour's Bruce a poem which deals with the scheme -

National.

✍️ William Blake said They are the physiognomies and lineaments of universal human life beyond
which nature never steps. Who are they? -
Chaucer's characters.

✍️Who wrote The New Atlantis? -

Francis Bacon.

✍️The autobiography of Coleridge is called -

Biographia Literaria.

✍️What is the theme of The Shepherds Calender? -

the unrequited love of Colin Clout for Rosalind.

✍️What was the name of Edmund Spenser's father-

John Spenser.

✍️Which book of Ruskin is said to have influenced Mahatma Gandhi? -

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Unto the Last.
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✍️Bacon's Essays are modelled on the Essays of -
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Montaigne.

✍️Froissart, a literary personality of Italy was the contemporary of -

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Chaucer.
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✍️Miroir de I' Homme, a French work was writtenby-

Gower.

✍️A tragicomedy
What is the subtitle of Waiting for Godot? -
in Two Acts.

✍️The Renaissance spirit is best expressed in -

Spenser's Faerie Queene.

✍️ The voluminous work of Robert Burton which had considerably influenced Dr.Johnson and Charles
Lamb is -

Anatomy of Melancholy.
Pub -1621
Burton's persona and pseudonym "Democritus Junior" explains, "I write of melancholy by being busy
to avoid melancholy."

✍️The Pardoner is womanish, probably homosexual, and has long blond hair.
✍️The first translator of Virgil into English was -
Douglas.

✍️Ralph Robinson's translation of More's Utopia appeared in -

1551.

✍️The hero of Spenser's The Faerie Queene is -

Prince Arthur.
The six books represents following virtues of the knights:

Red cross knight : Holiness of Anglican Church

Sir Guyon : Temperance
Lady Knight (Britomart) : Chastity
Trimond and Cambell : Friendship
Artegall : Justice
Sir Callidore : Courtesy
Mutability : Virtue of Constancy (incomplete).

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✍️In 1388. Wycliffe's translation of the Bible was revised by -
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John Purvey.

✍️All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. -
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Mac Flecknoe.
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✍️Reformation started in England in

The Elizabethan Age.

✍️Beauty is truth and truth is beauty is line from -

Ode on a Grecian Urn.

✍️Which work deals with the Peasant Revolt of 1381? -

Vox Clamantis.

✍️John Ball and Wat Tyler were the leaders of

Peasant Revolt of 1381.

✍️Langland's poem Piers Plowman was divided principally into two parts namely
Visio and Vita.
✍️Francis
Who wrote Novum Organum?
Bacon.
✓treatise on logic and syllogism.
✓written in Latin ( 1620.)
[The title is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon.
For Bacon, finding essence of thing was a simple process of reduction, & use of inductive reasoning.

✍️Sir Roger de Coverley is a member of -

The Spector.
✓Daily publication.
✓Founded by Joseph Addison & Richard Steele.
✓ From 1 March 1711 to 1712.

✍️Who was apostrophized by Shakespeare in As You Like It? -

Christopher Marlowe.

✍️What is the period of Queen Elizabeth's reign? -

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✍️Name the modern poet who quoted Spenser's Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song. -
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T.S.Eliot.
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✍️The author of The Citizen of the World is -

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The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, 1762. written by Oliver Goldsmith

✍️To whom does Spenser dedicated his Shepherd's Calendar? -

Sir Philip Sidney.

✍️Who wrote The Confession of English Opium Eater -

Thomas De Quincey.

✍️The Reformation Movement sought to reform -

Religious practices.

✍️Sidney's Astrophel and Stella contains -

108 sonnets.

✍️hasThea running
Cook(Canterbury Tales)
sore on his shin.
✍️Which poem celebrates the betrothal of Richard II and Anne Bohemia? -
The Parliament of Fowls.

✍️ The Thrissil and the Rois celebrates the marriage of James IV to Margaret Tudor. Who wrote this
allegory? -

Dunbar.

✍️Spenser's Amoretti consists of -

89 sonnets.

✍️The authorship version of the Bible is based on the translation made by

Tyndale.

✍️The Old Wives Tale is a play by

George Peele

✍️Dunbar's The Two Married Women and the Window is - n

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Ben Jonson.
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✍️The exponent of the combined spirit of Renaissance and Reformation is

Milton.

✍️Maggi Tulliver is the central character in -

Mill on the Floss.

✍️Spenser's Faerie Queene was inspired by

Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.

✍️How many Essays were published in Bacon's First Edition of Essays in 1597?
10.

✍️How many essays of Bacon were published in his third and last edition of Essays in 1625? -
58.
✍️The Minute on Education (1835) was a bill introduced in the British Parliament by
Macaulay.

✍️Thomas More's Utopia is -

a political essay romance describing an imaginary commonwealth.

✍️What is the meaning of Utopia?

Imaginary kingdom in Latin language , No Place in Greek language.

Utopiaan works
✓Utopia (1516) by Thomas More

✓New Atlantis (1627) by Sir Francis Bacon

✓Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler

✓News from Nowhere (1892) by William Morris

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✓Island (1962) by Aldous Huxley
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✍️"Frailty thy name is woman" Who says this? -
Hamlet.

✍️No Bishop No King policy is associated with -

James I.

✍️The Authorized Version of the Bible appeared during the reign of -

James I in 1611.

✍️The protagonist of D.H.Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is -

Paul Morel.

✍️Who was the leader of the University Wits? -

John Lyly.

✍️In this line taken from Dryden's Mac Flecknoe this aged Prince refers to -
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Richard Flecknoe.
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Eclogues.

✍️Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is an answer to Gosson's The School of Abuse.

✍️The Ways of Perfect Religion was written by -
John Fisher.

✍️ The first English tragedy Gorboduc subtitled Ferrex and Porrex was written by Thomas Sackville
and Thomas Norton.

✍️Ralph Roister Doister the first regular English Comedy is modelled after
Plautus.

✍️Who is called the father of English Criticism? -

John Dryden.

✍️Who is the leader of the Metaphysicschool of poets? -

John Donne.

✍️What is the subtitle of Hardy's Tess Of the d' Urbervilles? -

A Pure Woman.

✍️ Robert Henryson's work Orpheus and Eurydice is an adaptation of Boethius Consolation of

Philosophy.

✍️Life is a tale, told by an idiot, Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.These lines occur in -
Macbeth.
Note:- The Sound and the Fury a novel by William Faulkner
"was tentatively titled ‘Twilight,’ narrated by a fourth Compson child," but as the story progressed into
a larger work, he renamed it, drawing its title from Macbeth's famous soliloquy from act 5, scene 5 of
William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

✍️The great British statesman who got the Nobel Prize for literature was
Winston Churchill.

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✍️In which poet Dr. Johnson applied the term Metaphysical School of Poets?
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Abraham Cowley

✍️Which is the first important English Treatise on Education? -

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The Schoolmaster 1570.

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✍️According to I. A. Richard the two uses of language are Scientific and Emotive.
✍️The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. These lines occur from -
Midsummer Nights Dream.

✍️Who called whom the incomparable light and glory of English letters?
Erasmus called John Skelton.

✍️In Vox Clamantis the author divides people into three classes -
Clerk, Soldier, Plowman.

✍️Fern Hill is a poem of childhood memories by -

Dylan Thomas.

✍️Who was the most important poet of the Graveyard School of Poetry? -
Thomas Gray.
He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. 1751
On the death of the poet Richard West
The poem lacks many standard features of the elegy: an invocation, mourners, flowers, and
shepherds. The theme does not emphasise loss as do other elegies.

✍️Compared to Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained is less significant and more Puritan.
✍️In the later part of the 17th century England witnessed the rise of two political parties. -
The Whigs and The Tories.

✍️Which character slept no more than doth a nightingale? -

Squire.

✍️Who wrote in prose The Historie of Richard III? -

Thomas More.

✍️Who wrote The Shepherds Calender? -

n
Edmund Spenser. io
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✍️University Wits
Pa

- Marlowe, Lyly, ( leader) Greene, Peele, Kyd, Lodge, and Nashe.

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✍️Earl of Surrey was executed in -

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lit

1547.

✍️Who was a fifteenth century educationist and reformer? -

Roger Ascham.

✍️ Calvin whose followers in England have been called the spiritual ancestors of the great puritan
movement of the 17th century was a -

French Reformer.

✍️The University Wits influenced by the Latin playwright-

Seneca.

✍️ Spenser's satirical poem is - Mother Hubberd's Tale.

Pub:- 1591
The poem is an allegorical poem, with overarching themes in search of political reform.

✍️Who wrote Nineteen Eighty Four a dystopian novel? -

George Orwell.
Big Brother is a fictional character and symbol in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
(1949)

✍️A civil war broke out in England between the kind and the parliament in -
1640.

✍️Who wrote the poem entitled The Grave? -

Robert Blair.

✍️Wycliffe and the Lollards began Reformation in England in -

1377.

✍️Who praised John Skelton for his classical learning and for his polished and ornate terms? -
Caxton.

✍️"Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend"
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Polonius.( Hamlet)

✍️Mrs. Malaprop is a character in the play -

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The Rivals.
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✍️Which is the second earliest English tragedy in Blank verse? -

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Jocasta by George Gascoigne.

✍️The chief characteristics of the Renaissance was -

its emphasis on Humanism.

✍️Richard Steel wrote sentimental comedies.

"Others abide by our question. Thou art free, We ask and ask thou smilest and art still, Out-topping
knowledge"

- Matthew Arnold.

✍️ Shakespeare is called The Bard of Avon because - Shakespeare was born at Stratford on the banks
of the river Avon.

✍️Lydgate's Story of Thebes can be considered an addition to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,

✍️One of the first Englishmen to challenge the authority of the Catholic Church was -
John Wycliffe.

✍️Who is known as the father of English prose? -

John Wycliffe.

✍️In which novel does a character die saying the words, The horror, the horror
Heart of Darkness.

✍️Edward Young's Night Thoughts belongs to -

The Graveyard School.

✍️Marlowe's The Jew of Malta is a dramatic presentation of -

Machiavillian man.

✍️ Who wrote Polyolbion a huge poem in Alexandrines, containing a descriptive geography of

England? -

n
Michael Drayton. io
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✍️Senecan tragedy of blood is about the theme of revenge.
Pa

✍️Who completed the translation of the Bible begun by William Tyndale?

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Miles Coverdale.
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✍️The English Prayer Book adopted as the official prayer book in 1549 was largely the work of -
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Thomas Cranmer.

✍️Who completed Marlowe's Hero and Leander? -

Chapman.
✍️In Absalom and Achitophel the character of Absalom refers to
Monmouth.
Absalom and Achitophel(1681)
Political Allegory
satirical poem by John Dryden. written in heroic couplets.
poem tells the Biblical tale of the rebellion of Absalom against King David.
Poem includes
Exclusion Crisis (1679–1681)
poem also references the Popish Plot (1678) & Monmouth Rebellion

✍️The Romantic Movement in English poetry started with the publication of

Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads.

✍️Under what name does Dryden speak in the essay Of Dramatic Poesie?
Neander.

✍️The first theologian to distribute leaflets and pamphlets to the people was -
n
John Wycliffe. io
✍️Which work is considered the Prologue to Spenser's Faerie Queene? -
ss
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Shepherd's Calendar.

✍️Ben Jonson's comedies are called Comedies of Humour because -

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Each of them deals with a particular Humour in human nature.

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✍️Who is the author of The Playboy of the Western World? -

J.M.Synge.

✍️Who had printed John Lyly's Euphues? -

Gabrie Cawood.

✍️Who wrote The Battle of Alcazar

George Peele.

✍️Samson Agonistes is - a poetic play written by

Milton.

✍️Name the philosophical romance written by Bacon based on More's Utopia

The New Atlantis.
✍️The origin of English drama is attributed to -
The Liturgical ceremonies.

✍️Who was the first person to use blank verse in English drama? -
Sackville in Gorboduc.

✍️More's Utopia was inspired by -

Plato's Republic.

✍️Who has been called the first of the modern pacifists? -

Thomas More.

✍️Who wrote Regiment of Prince is a work of -

Thomas Occleve.

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✍️God made the country and man-made the town who wrote this line? -
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William Cowper.
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✍️The Romantic Movement is also called the Romantic Revolt because It revolved against -
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The Neo-classical School of Poetry.

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✍️Poetry in the Restoration period was predominantly -

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Satirical.

✍️John Donne was imprisoned for his - Clandestine marriage.

✍️ Whom does Chaucer describe as head was wholly bald and shone like glass, As did his face, as
though with ointment greased? -

Monk.

✍️Marlowe's mighty line first came into Elizabethan drama with

Tamburlaine.

✍️ The blood and thunder elements ment were introduced into English Drama
Thomas Kyd

✍️W.H.Shakespeare addressed his sonnets to a handsome young man called -

as well as to a Dark Lady.
✍️ Tamburlaine the Great was first produced in -
1587-88.

The White Devil is based on the life of the celebrated Italian courtesan -
Vittoria.

✍️Who wrote Lyrical Ballads? - Wordsworth and Coleridge.

✍️ The paths of glory lead but to the grave, in which poem do you find this line?
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

✍️ Who wrote a poem on the death of Chaucer? -

Occleve in The Governail of Princes.

✍️to Milton wrote Areopagittica -

defend people's Freedom of Speech.

✍️ Murder in the Cathedral deals with the martyrdom of -

Archbishop Thomas Becket.

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✍️Who used the phrase still-vexed Bermoothes for the immortal pages of Hakluyt?
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William Shakespeare.
Pa

✍️Between 1590 and 1593 the theatres were closed owing to - disturbances caused by the actors.
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✍️Strife.
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The Play by Galsworthy that dramatizes Labour-Capital problem is -

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✍️ Name the famous anthology published in 1557? -

Song and Sonnets or Tottel's Miscellany.

✍️Who was the first English poet to choose a German subject? - Alexander Barclay.
✍️ Who called Milton the poetical son of Spenser? -
John Dryden.

✍️Religious
The Oxford Movement was basically a -
Movement.

✍️ The Revenge Tragedy and The Atheists Tragedy both the masterpieces of Cyril Tourneur are set in -
Italy.

✍️ Which play by Shakespeare is considered autobiographieal? -

✍️
The Tempest.
Who wrote A Woman Killed with Kindness? -
Thomas Heywood.

✍️What are the two colours symbolically employed throughout the novel Tess of D'Urbervilles? -
White and Red.

✍️ Example of Virtue has been written by -

William Caxton.

✍️ In which book of Paradise Lost Adam and Eve meet for the first time? -
Book IV.

✍️ The author of The Lady's Not for Burning is -

Christopher Fry.

✍️ The most anti dramatic book of Elizabethan period was -

Gosson's School of Abuse.

✍️ The Rape of Lucrece is a long poem by -

William Shakespeare.

✍️ The rhetoric exuberance associated with John Lyly and his contemporaries owed its inspiration
from -

n
Cicero.
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✍️ Titania the queen of fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream quarrels with her husband Oberon the
Pa

king of the fairies.

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Cuddie, Colin Clout and Perigot are the pastoral characters in -

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The Shepherds Calender.

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✍️
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A Professor of phonetics is a character in the play -

Pygmalion.

✍️ Who wrote Hudibras? -

Samuel Butler.

✍️Who wrote The Wolf and the Lamb?

- Robert Henryson.

✍️Which English Chaucerian has written The Pastime of Pleasure? -

Stephen Hawes.

✍️132How many lyrics are there in Tennyson's In Memoriam? -

Tennyson wrote 'In Memoriam A.H.H. as a tribute to his beloved friend Arthur Henry Hallam.

✍️ Pre-Raphaelite School poets - 1.D.G.Rossetti.

2.Christina Rossetti.
3. Morris
4. Swinburne.

✍️ Which character knew inn-keepers and barmaids better than lepers or beggars? -
Friar.

✍️ The stars above us, govern our conditions said by -

King Lear.

✍️ In which play of Shakespeare are all guilty? -

Measure for Measure.

✍️-Aristotle.
Which philosopher's books id said to be on the Clerks bed?

✍️
-
Who was the first great realist who graphically depicts contemporary London life and its manners?

Thomas Nash.

✍️ Oxford Movement poets -

It was a religious movement
1. Cardinal Newman

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2. John Keble
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4. Stanley.

✍️
Pa

Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley are characters in -

Vanity Fair.
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✍️Who made frequent use of tag phrases softly to tell in his work? - John Lydgate.
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✍️
lit

In Gawain Douglas King Hart, Hart is -

The Heart of Life.

✍️
24.
How many works have been translated by Caxton? -

✍️ The term Metaphysical School of Poets was first applied to Donne and his companion poets by -
Dr. Johnson.

✍️ Who wrote Religio Medici? -

Sir Thomas Browne.

✍️ "Fame is the last infirmity of the noble mind" this line has been taken from
Lycidas.

✍️ What is the profession of Helen in Look Back in Anger? -

Actress.

✍️
-
Who lived in Ireland for eighteen years serving the English Government in more than one capacity?

Edmund Spenser.
✍️ Shakespeare's early comedies - The Comedy of Error
Love's Labour's Lost
The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

✍️ Which Renaissance poet killed at the battle of Zutphen? -

Sidney.

✍️ One of the dominant characteristics of Sidney's Arcadia is -

Pathetic fallacy.

✍️ The Elizabethan love for picaresque description was inherited from -

Italy.

✍️Shakespeare's mature comedies -

Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
The Merchant of Venice
As You Like It.

✍️For whose death Ben Jonson stated the phrase for lack of bread - Edmund Spenser.
n
io
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Who began the tradition of Revenge play? -
Thomas Kyd.
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✍️ The Birthday Party is often described as a comedy of -

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Menace.
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Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party is a comedy of menace. The play is actually the mingling of comedy
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with a perception of danger that pervade the whole play. Stanley, the central protagonist always finds
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his life beset with danger.

✍️ Name the woman whom Samson Agonistes loved and who betrayed him
Delilah.

✍️ Which work is considered The true prologue to Renaissance? -

Utopia.

✍️ Who wrote The Bowge of court has been written by -

John Skelton.

✍️ "Nothing to be done is a line" that is repeatedly found in -

Waiting for Godot.
Opening lines
"Nothing to be done"
Closing lines
"Well, shall we go. / Yes, let's go. / (They do not move)." Lets go!.

✍️D. Who was the leader of the Pre- Raphaelite group -

G. Rossetti.
The most celebrated and the most successful of Marlowe's character speech was by -
Dr. Faustus.

✍️Which was Marlowe's first play? - Tamburlaine.

✍️ Who is the Jew of Malta? -
Barabas.

✍️ The phrase Stormy Sisters is applied to -

Charlotte Brote, Emily Brontr, Anne Bronte.

Whose autobiography is World Within the World? -

Stephen Spender.

✍️ Caxton printed Morte d' Arthur in -

1485.

✍️44.Milton became blind at the age of -

✍️
n
Who says to Milton, Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart? -
William Wordsworth. io
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✍️ Shaw's play based on the Don Juan legend is -
Pa

Man and Superman.

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y

Almost the only representative of the writers of real comedies of Romantic Comedy written by -
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John Lyly.
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✍️
lit

Who wrote The Woman in the Moone? -

John Lyly.

✍️Antony
Enobarbus is a character in Shakespeare's -
and Cleopatra.

✍️Who wrote The Defence of Ryme?

Samuel Daniel.

✍️ In Bacon's New Atlantis the place where scientists devote themselves to the advancement of
knowledge is

Solomon's House.

✍️ The line One may smile and smile and be a villain occurs in -
Hamlet.

✍️ Thomas Kyd's Cornelia is a translation from -

The French Senecan, Garnier.
✍️ Ithamore the second villain appears in -
The Jew of Malta.

✍️ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a modern variation of Shakespears play -

Hamlet.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard.

✍️Who remembered Milton in a sonnet so passionately? Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour -
William Wordsworth.

✍️271.Tottel's Miscellany is a collection of

songs, sonnets and Lyrics.

✍️ Which character represents Karl Marx in Orwell's Animal Farm? -

Old Major.

✍️D. The phrase religion of the blood is associated with -

H. Lawrence.

✍️The phrase stream of consciousness is associated with -

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James Joyce.

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Pa

He found the drama crude and chaotic. He left it a great force in English literature for whom has
this remark been made? -
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Christopher Marlowe.
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✍️
lit

Which metre has Marlowe employed in his plays? -

Blank verse.
Ben Jonson called his verse as "mighty line."
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium"?--
"Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss".-- (Dr. Faustus)

✍️ Who was the founder of a literary club known as Bloomsbury Group? - Virginia Woolf.
Other members
Note -
Clive Bell, art critic
Vanessa Bell, post-impressionist painter
E. M. Forster, fiction writer
Roger Fry, art critic and post-impressionist painter
Duncan Grant, post-impressionist painter
John Maynard Keynes, economist
Desmond MacCarthy, literary journalist
Lytton Strachey, biographer
Leonard Woolf, essayist .

✍️W.B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize in the year -

1923.

✍️ Which work of Dunbar deals with the union of two countries - England and Scotland? -
The Thistle and the Rose.

✍️ The work by Hoccleve, which is partly autobiographieal and partly a satire on poverty is -
La Male Regle.

✍️HeroWhich work was left unfinished by Christopher Marlowe? -

and Leander

✍️"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale, Her infinite variety ..."
are spoken by Enobarbus about Cleopatra in - Antony and Cleopatra.

✍️ "Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed"
this line is taken from -
Francis Bacon.

✍️
n
Iago the villain in Othello, destroys Othello by making him believe that Othello's wife Desdemona is
having an affair with Othello's Lieutenant, - io
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Cassio.

✍️
Pa

"That I have sent from sundry foughten fields To spread my fame through hell and up to heaven" we
find this line in -
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Tamburlaine the Great.

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✍️1595.
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The Defence of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney was published in -

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✍️ The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare is modelled upon Marlowe's play -

The Jew of Malta.

✍️ The Old Testament was originally written in -

Hebrew.

✍️ Who has called Bacon "the wisest, the brightest and the meanest of mankind"?
Alexander Pope.

✍️ Who was the first Chaucerian to translate the whole of Virgil into English verse? -
Gavin Douglas.

✍️Who wrote Gravity's Rainbow and V ? - Thomas Pynchon.

✍️Tractarian Movement is also called The Oxford Movement.
✍️ In which play of Shakespeare does Hippolyta appear? -
The Midsummer Night's Dream.
✍️ Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was modelled after -
Thomas North's Translation of Plutarch..

✍️SirWho wrote Hydrotaphia? -

Thomas Browne.

✍️ Who was the founder of the Oxford Movement? -

John Keble.

✍️ Who wrote The Morphology of the Folk Tale?

Vladimir Propp.

✍️Anonymous.
Who wrote the poem The Cuckoo and the Nightingale? -

✍️The New Testament was originally written in - Greek.

✍️Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy is
a critical treatise on dramatic art and developed through dialogues.

✍️ n
Hieronimo is a character in the play - io
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The Spanish Tragedy.
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd
Pa

✍️ Which is the first long prose verse pastoral romance in English? -

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The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia.

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✍️
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Shakespeare's Roman plays Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are based on
lit

North's translation of Plutarch's Lives.

✍️ The greatest demerit of Bacon as an essayist when compared to Montaigne or Lamb, is -

His lake of personal touch.

✍️ "Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as in body". This statement is an example of Bacons -

Prudence.

✍️The play Julius Caesar begins with Caesar's victorious parade after having defeated Pompey.
✍️ Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella brought out in 1591 is -
a sequence of 108 sonnets.

✍️ The play within the play in Hamlet is called -

The Mouse trap or The Murder of Gonzago.

✍️ In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy Neander speaks for -

Modern English Dramatists.

✍️ The 15th century prose writer who directed his attack at the Lollards in his works is -
Reginal Pecock.
✍️ An Ode for Ben Jonson was written by -
Robert Herrick.

✍️ Which literary School is denounced as the Fleshly School? -

The Pre-Raphaelite School.

✍️In Absalom & Achitophel the Biblical character Saul refers to - Oliver Cromwell.
✍️ Which character in Oliver Twist is called the Arthur Dodger? -
Jack Dawkins.

✍️ Which play of Shakespeare's is a conversation play? -

Love's Labour's Lost.

✍️ In which play Beatrice and Benedick appear? -

Much Ado About Nothing.

✍️ Who wrote the line, "sweetest Shakespeare, fancy child"? -

John Milton.

n
✍️In Absalom & Achitophel David in the Old Testament allegorical refers to Charles II.
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✍️ The English painters of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood took inspiration from The Italian painters
Pa

before Raphael.

✍️
y

Who denounced the Pre-Raphaelite School of poetry as the Fleshly School of Poetry? -
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Robert Buchanan.
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✍️
lit

"Culture and Society" and "The Long Revolution" are works by -

Raymond Williams.

✍️The word Ballad is derived from the word ballare which means to dance.
✍️ The first complete Bible to be printed was that of -
Coverdale in 1535.

✍️ Dryden's All For Love is based on -

Antony and Cleopatra.

✍️ Bully Bottom is a character in -

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

✍️In Astrophil and Stella , Astrophel has a name - Star-Love.

✍️ The line "Beware the Ides of March" appears in -
Julius Caesar.

✍️ Who wrote The Civil Wars? -

Samuel Daniel.
✍️ Dryon is regarded first to poetic geography in his -
Polyolbion.

✍️Nahum Tate reproduced King Lear with a comic ending.

✍️ Stella means according to Astrophel and Stella. -
Star.

✍️Pericles.
The only play by Shakespeare to have Chorus is -

✍️ Who wrote The Essay on Human Understanding? -

John Locke.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.1690
He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa, although he did not use those actual
words)

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io
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Pa
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lit
✍️Cymbeline, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest are Shakespeare's romances.
✍️ To whom did the Pope give the title the defender of faith in 1521? -
Henry VIII.

✍️The Nut Brown Maid is a well-known - Ballad.

✍️Roland Barthes essay Death of the Author was published in the year - 1968.
✍️ The Pre-Raphaelite poets generally drew their themes from -
Medieval Ages.

✍️ "Friendship without freedom is as dull as love without enjoyment", who speaks this line in The Way
of the World? -
Witwoud.

✍️ Passage to India is a poem by -

Walt Whitman.

✍️Mephistopheles is a character in - Dr.Faustus.

✍️
n
Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis is based on Marlowe's -
io
Hero and Leander.
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✍️
Pa

Tennyson's In Memoriam was published in the year -

1850.

✍️
y
ar

In Drayden's Mac Flecknoe

Mac means -
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son of.
lit

✍️ The Pre-Raphaelite poets believed in the concept of -

Arts for Art's Sake.

✍️Who wrote The Second Sex(1949) - Simone Beauvoir.

✍️ The second English comedy to be published is -
Gammer Gurton's Needle.

✍️ Who wrote Mr. Badman? -

John Bunyan.

✍️ The Passage The Seven Ages of Man is in Shakespeare's play -

As You Like It.

✍️ Who is considered as the early progenitor of the novel? -

Thomas Nash.

✍️ Who is the hero in Spenser's Faerie Queene? -

Prince Arthur.
✍️ The Knights undertake a dangerous adventure in each book of The Faerie Queen in order to -
Win the favour of their lady love.

✍️ 1.All's Well That Ends Well

2. Measure for Measure
3. Troilus and Cressida are Shakespeare's -
Dark comedies of Problem Plays.

✍️ Poemata, an admirable Latin verse which reveals autobiographieal details is written by -

Thomas Campion.

✍️ Shakespeare's Roman play on democracy is -

Julius Caesar.

✍️ The central theme of Drayden's The Hind and The Panther is -

Defence of Roman Catholicism.

✍️ The poem of Dunbar which was considered by Walter Scott as the most repellent poem he knows
in any language is -
The Flying of Dunbar and Kennedie.

✍️William Caxton who invented the printing press was basically a - Merchant.
n
io
✍️
ss
Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things are works by
- Michael Foucault.
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✍️ "Poetry is a criticism of life under the condition fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth
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and poetic beauty." Who said this line? - Matthew Arnold.

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✍️
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Vathek in William Beckford's novel is a -

lit

Caliph.

✍️ Who is called the Dickens of Elizabethan age? -

Thomas Dekker.

✍️ Who wrote The Shoemaker's Holiday? -

Thomas Dekker.

✍️Philip
Who called poetry 'A speaking picture with the end to teach and delight"?
Sidney

✍️Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a cherub? - Uriel.

✍️ Drayden's Absalom and Achitophel alludes to the Biblical story of -
The Historical quarrel between David King of Israel and his son Absalom.

✍️ Cato is a tragedy written by -

Joseph Addison.

✍️ Which book published by Caxton had the largest circulation of all his publications? -
Translation of the Golden Legend.
✍️ 15th century poets who received the title Orator Regius from Henry VIII is
Jon Skelton.

✍️ The alternative title of Twelfth Night is -

What Will You.

✍️ In 1609 a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets was printed by -

Thomas Thorpe.

✍️ The famous book called Shakespearean Tragedy was written by -

A.C.Bradley.

✍️ "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline", this line has been taken
from -
The Faerie Queen.

✍️ In The Faerie Queene, Elizabeth and Red-Cross Knight stands for -

The Protestant Church.

✍️ Antonio, Bassanio, Portia, and Shylock appear in -

n
The Merchant of Venice.
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✍️
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Shakespeare played the roles of Adam and Ghost in his plays -
As You Like It and Hamlet.
Pa

✍️Butler's Hudibras is a satire on - Puritanism.

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✍️
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Reynard, the fox, The Golden Legend and The Game and Play of Chess were translated by -
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William Caxton.

✍️Malory.
Who has written most of his stories in prison? -

✍️ Who wrote an Ode on the birth of Christ? -

John Milton.

✍️ "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotions
recollected in tranquility", who defines poetry in this manner? -
William Wordsworth.

✍️ "What a piece of work is the man" who said this? -

Hamlet in Hamlet.

✍️In which book of the Bible does the story of Adam and Eve occur? - Genesis.
✍️ Who regards Shakespeare's early comedies as joyous, refined, romantics? -
Dowden.

✍️The love-affair of Silvius and Phebe takes place in the play -

As You Like It.

✍️Which angel tells Adam about the future of mankind in Books XI and XII? -
Michael.

✍️"Poetry is of all human learning the most ancient and of most fatherly antiquity"
Philip Sidney

✍️ The comic character Tony Lumpkin appears in -

She Stoops to Conquer.

Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith.

Initially the play was titled Mistakes of a Night

✍️ Who wrote Praise of Folly? - Desiderius Erasmus.

Essay written in Latin in 1509

✍️Stephen Howe's work which foreshadows The Faerie Queene is - The Pastime of Pleasure.
✍️
n
Who wrote Grace Abounding which is autobiographieal works -
John Bunyan. io
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✍️ Plays in which characters are personification of abstract qualities are called
Pa

Morality Plays.
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English morality plays from the medieval period:

ar

The Pride of Life (late 14th century) The Castle of Perseverance (1425) Wisdom(1460–63)
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Mankind (1470)
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Everyman (1510)

✍️ The First Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays was printed in - 1623.

1st Folio -containing 36 plays.
it was prepared by Shakespeare's colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell.

2nd Folio- in 1632

✍️ The identical twins Sebastian and Viola are characters in -

Twelfth Nights.

✍️ Sans Foy and Sans Loy in The Faerie Queene are -

Wicked Knights.

✍️ Errors and Orgoglio in The Faerie Queene are -

Monsters.

✍️There are 19 poems in Holy Sonnets by John Donne.

✍️The missing son of Maurya in J.M.Synge's Rider to the Sea - Michael.
one-act tragedy.
Pub 1904
Set at Inishmaan in the Aran Islands it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue of rural Ireland. The
plot is based on the hopeless struggle of a people against the impersonal

✍️Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" is - An Allegory.

✍️Robyne.
Henryson's work which is remembered as the first pastoral in English -

✍️ English Prayer Book which was adopted as the official prayer book in 1549 was written by -
Thomas Cranner.

✍️ Who said that "Shakespeare is above all modern writers the poet of nature"? -
Dr. Johnson.

✍️ Who denounced poets as fathers of lies? -

Gosson.

✍️ Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster is a fine study in -

n
Jealousy.
io
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✍️One of Shakespeare's most assured artistic successes by T.S.Eliot - Coriolanus.
Pa

✍️What is the subtitle of Pericles? - Prince of Tyre.

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✍️
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In the epigraph to Lycidas Milton labels it -

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A Monody.
lit

Hooker's book is an object lesson in - Religion controversy.

✍️ Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world -

Shelley.

"A Defence of Poetry" is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first
published posthumously in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments by
Edward Moxon in London. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged
legislators of the world".

✍️ Shaw's Apple Cart exposes the unrealities of -

Democracy.

✍️ In Lyndsay's morality play The Satire of the Three Estates, three estates are -
The Nobility, The Clergy and The Merchant.

✍️Who wrote Venice Preserved? - Thomas Otway.

✍️ Actresses were introduced on the English stage for the first time during the
Elizabethan period.

✍️ Egeus is a famous character in Shakespeare's -

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

✍️ Dr. Johnson condemned the metaphysical conceit as heterogeneous ideas yoked by violence
together.

✍️Which character of Spenser's represents Queen Mary of Scott? - Duessa.

✍️ Who praised Spenser in the words "no man was ever born with a greater genius or more knowledge
to support it" ? -
Dryden.

✍️ Name the book which contained 89 sonnets of Spenser -

Amoretti.

✍️ The Metaphysical poets used the carpe diem philosophy which derives from the classical -
Greco-Roman period.

n
io
"And my poor fool is hanged, No, no, no life; why should a dog, horse, a rat, have life, And thou no
ss
breath at all" ? -
King Lear in King Lear.
Pa

✍️ Who is the famous writer of Comedy of Humours? -

y

Ben Jonson.
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✍️
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"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may" this line from -

lit

Counsel to Girls.

✍️All the six books of the Faerie Queene were published together In - 1596.
✍️ Reflection on the French Revolution resulted in -
War with France.

✍️TheIn Clerk's
which Tale of The Canterbury Tales does Chaucer present the mob as the stormy people? -
Tale.

✍️ Who said Poets, pipers, players and jesters in one group and called the caterpillars of a
Commonwealth?
- Stephen Gosson.

✍️Who wrote The Woman Hater? - Beaumont.

✍️ The name Lycidas is derived from -
Theocritus.

Lycidas"
poem by John Milton (1637) as a pastoral elegy.
Dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a friend of Milton at Cambridge who drowned when his ship
sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales

✍️ Who is the uncouth swain in Lycidas? -

The Speaker.

✍️Nash's The Unfortunate Traveller is the first Elizabethan - Novel.

✍️ "The greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life to - the
question - How to live"? -
This is an observation of
- Matthew Arnold,

✍️ Which is the shortest tragedy by William Shakespeare? -

Macbeth.

✍️ The Royalist's spirit towards the Puritan was expressed in -

Hudibras.

✍️ How many books are there in the Faerie Queen instead of 12 as originally planned? -

n
06.
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✍️Who wrote The Country Wife? - William Wycherley.
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✍️Aurangzebe is a tragedy written by - John Dryden.

Pa

✍️
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"He was the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most
ar

comprehensive soul" - This remark was made about Shakespeare by:

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John Dryden.
lit

✍️ Henry Vaughan's poem dealing with the exiled souls longing to return to its heavenly home is The
Retreat and it inspired Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality.

✍️ The best known play of Georg Peele is --

The Old Wive's Tale.

✍️Greene.
Which University Wits is primarily known for his Friar Bacon and Friar Bungey? -

✍️ The Collar is a metaphor in Herbert's poem The Collar that stands for
discipline.

✍️Shakespeare borrowed the formula of Romantic Comedy from - Robert Greene.

✍️Who wrote The Rival Queens? - Nathaniel Lee.
✍️Edmund
Who was the Elizabethan poet who influenced Keats? -
Spenser.
✍️ Which is the first periodical, manuscript, newspaper that was published in Europe? -
Gazetta.

✍️ Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Music is an ode written by John Dryden in celebration of -
St. Cecilia's Day.

✍️It was
What is the meaning of the term Vates?
used by Greeks - Creators.

✍️ Which play of Shakespeare ends without a climax? -

Troilus and Cressida.

✍️Sonnet volumes and their poets.

Daniel - Delia.
Drayton - Idea.
Lodge - Phyllis.
Constable - Diana.

"Full Fathom five thy fathers lie" where we find these lines? -
The Tempest (Ariel's Song.)

n
Note :- "Full Fathom Five" poem by Sylvia Plath. io
ss
James Joyce's Ulysses contains the clause "Full fathom five thy father lies"
Pa
y
ar
er
lit
✍️"Verse is only ornament and no cause to poetry'' who said this line? - Philip Sidney.
✍️ Which poem by Browning is on the life of a musician? -
Abt Vogler.

✍️ Spenser's autobiographieal poem is -

Colin Clouts Come Home Again.

Note - Colin Clout, a folk character originated by John Skelton.

'The Rightest English poet that ever read" who said this about whom? - William Webbe about Spenser.

✍️ "Here lies my life, here let her rest; Now she is at rest, and so am I', Who was the poet of this line? -
John Dryden.

✍️ Vladimir and Estragon are the characters of -

Waiting for Godot.

✍️ Who has been called England's National Homer? -

Richard Hakluyt.
Note - He is known for promoting the English colonisation of North America through his works

✍️ n
Coopers Hill is a 17th century topographical poem by -
io
ss
John Denham.
Pa

Note -
"Fern Hill" (1945) is a poem by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

✍️
y
ar

The Spanish Tragedy shows conspicuous influence of -

Seneca.
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lit

Note - The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan revenge tragedy written by
Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592.

✍️ Which one of University wits was killed in a tavern brawl at the age of 29?
Christopher Marlowe.

✍️ Holy Living and Holy Dying are written by 17th century religious prose writer
Jeremy Taylor.

✍️ Ideas Mirror is a sonnet sequence in Shakespearean and Petrarchan form written by -

Michael Drayton.

✍️ Who is Romanian playwright classed as an absurd playwright? -

Eugene Ionesco.

His The Bald Soprano (1950) is modern classic and an important seminal work in the Theatre of the
Absurd

✍️ Dryden's The Medal is a personal satire on -

Shaftesbury.
✍️ Who wrote Shepherd's Calendar (1827)? -
John Clare.

✍️ When the Shepherd's Calendar (1827) was published. It was said to be written by -
Immerito.

✍️Sonetto.
The word sonnet is derived from Italian word -

Note 13th-century poet Giacomo da Lentini is credited with the sonnet's invention for expressing
courtly love.

The first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.

both poets' sonnets were first published in Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonnetts, better known as
Tottel's Miscellany (1557).

✍️ All the Year Round (1895) the periodical was founded by -

Charles Dickens.
Note - Household Words
English weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens in the 1850s

n
It took its name from the line in Shakespeare's Henry V: "Familiar in his mouth as household words."
io
✍️
ss
"Poetry is not a formula which a thousand flappers and hobbledehoys ought to be able to master in
a week without any training"
Pa

Whose opinion is this? -

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Edmund Gosson.
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✍️In which year was Ben Jonson made poet to King James I? -
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lit

1624.

✓Ben Jonson was first unofficial poet laureate.

✓John Dryden was first official poet laureate.

✍️The title of the play A Woman Killed with Kindness is taken from -
The Taming of the Shrew.

✍️Who was referred to as the pilot of the Galilean Lake in Lycidas? -

St. Peter.
✍️Heroines and their plays.
Portia - The Merchant of Venice.

Viola - Twelfth Night.

Rosalind - As YOU Like It.

Miranda - The Tempest.

✍️"Ripeness is all" occurring in -

King Lear

n
io
✍️Protagonist and their beloveds.
ss
Pa

Hamlet - Ophelia.
y

Othello - Desdemona.
ar
er

Bassanio - Portia.
lit

Titania - Oberon.

✍️ Who is the author of Absalom Absalom? -

William Faulkner.

Thomas Sutpen is a focal character in novel Absalom, Absalom! Sutpen arrives in Faulkner's
imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

✍️Who described Thomas Heywood as a sort of prose Shakespeare? -

Charles Lamb.
✍️Eastward
A play jointly written by Jonson, Marston and Chapman is -
Hoe.

✍️ "As to the poetical character itself, it has no character; the poethas none,no identity; he is certainly
the most unpoetical of all God's creatures."
Whose observation is this? -

Keats.

✍️ D.H.Lawrence's Women in Love is the sequel of -

The Rainbow.

✍️ n
io
Of the five acts of Gorboduc, Thomas Sackville wrote the -
ss
Fourth and Fifth.
Pa
y
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✍️Pepys Diary was written in coded language. When was it deciphered? -

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lit

1825.

Diary has details - coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague, the Great Fire of London and the Anglo–
Dutch Wars.

✍️ A novel in the form of letters is called an - Epistolary novel.

Examples-

The Color Purple

Alice Walker
Alice Walker used the epistolary format to paint a grim picture of the protagonist Celie’slife using her
own voice.

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga
Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize, is about social mobility. Presented as an epistolary novel, the
story unfolds through letters written by the protagonist Halwai to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

✍️One of the elements that Marlowe introduced into English tragedy is - Internal struggle.
✍️The Jew of Malta is the story of insatiable passion for -
Wealth.

✍️In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake said -

"Milton was at the Devils party without knowing it"

✍️ "I love the man and do honour to his memory, on the idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed
honest and of an open and free nature".
Who said of Shakespeare?

n
Ben Jonson. io
ss
Pa

✍️Who wrote Aspects of the Novel? -

y
ar

E. M. Forster.
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Note
lit

He highlights the seven universal aspects of the novel:

story
characters
plot
fantasy
prophecy
pattern
rhythm.

✍️Zimri, Duke of Buckingham are characters in Absalom and Achitophel.

✍️September Eclogue in the Shepherd's Calendar is a story of -
Roffy.
✍️Whitman's Leaves of the Grass was inspired by -
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

✍️ "A great poem is a fountain forever flowing with the waters of wisdom and delight, a source of
unforeseen and an unconceived delight"
who said this -

Shelley.

✍️ A Trick to Catch the Old One and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Renaissance playwright Thomas
Middleton. - are

Satirical comedies.

✍️Faulkner's novels are set in the -

n
io
ss
Yoknapatawpha.

✍️Protagonists and their tragic flaws.

Pa
y

King Lear - Arroganc

ar
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Hamlet - Indecision.
lit

Othello - Jealousy.

Macbeth - Ambition.

✍️"There is providence in the fall of a sparrow" occurs in -

Hamlet.

✍️Mississippi.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in the -

✍️ "Life is a tale told by an idiot" this line from -

Macbeth

"Poetry in a general sense, may be defined to be the expression of imagination and poetry is
connotative with the origin of the man"
who said this -
Shelley.

✍️EugeneO'Neill is known for having introduced the techniques of realism to American drama.
Note - Playwrights associated with realism are
Russian Anton Chekhov.
Norwegian Henrik Ibsen.
Swedish August Strindberg.
Realism Plays-
The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night by EugeneO'Neill Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named
Desire
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

✍️Who was the scholarly translation of Iliad, Odyssey and Hymns? -

Chapman.

✍️Tears of the Muses is a poem by

Spenser.

n
io
A poem by Spenser, included in the Complaints, published 1591. In this the poet deplores, through the
ss
mouth of several Muses, the decay of literature and learning.
Pa
y

✍️The epithet Augustan was first applied to Dryden by -

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lit

Dr. Johnson.

✍️In Hebrew mythology who is called Lord of the Flies? -

Beelzebub.

✍️ ''Good friend for Jesus sake forbear to dig the dust enclosed here; Blest be the man that spares
these stones And crust be that moves my bones" These lines are found on

Shakespeare's tomb.

✍️ The major theme of Milton's Paradise Lost is the -

Fall of Man.

✍️The Dutch scholar who is known for his works like Wolloquis and In Praise of Folly is -
Erasmus.
✍️ Dr. Johnson criticized Metaphysical poetry in his -
Life of Cowley.

✍️ The private theaters in Elizabethan period were designed on the model of -

The Guild Halls.

✍️What does Bildungsroman mean? -

A novel dealing with one individual's early life and developments.

✍️The 18th century in English literature is also called -

n
The Age of Reason. io
ss
Pa

✍️Mother Hubbard's Tale, a satire on the court is otherwise known

y
ar
er

Prosopopoeia.
lit

✍️The Miracles were established by

the 15th century.

✍️ Who wrote Life of Charles Dickens in the 19th century? -

John Forster.

✍️The resounding use of exotic places in Paradise Lost has its origin in
Tamburlaine the Great.
✍️ In "Huckleberry" Finn , Jim is the slave with whom he travels down to the river.
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain

✍️A distinguishing feature of the Shakespearean sonnet is that it has

a couplet at the end.

✍️Who is the alchemist in Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist? -

Subtle.

✍️Milton's Camus is an example of that type of drama which is called the -

n
Masque. io
ss
a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe
Pa

✍️
y

The concept of Affective fallacy was clearly articulated in -

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The Verbal Icon.

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lit

Note- misconception that arises from judging a poem by the emotional effect that it produces in the
reader.
Affective and Intentional fallacy terms were coined by W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley

✍️Mother Hubbard's Tale poem by English poet Edmund Spenser is dedicated to -

Anne, daughter of Spenser.

✍️The term Augustan was first applied to a School of poetry by -

Dr. Johnson.

✍️Tom Jones is called a -

Picaresque novel.

The picaresque novel ( pícaro, for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the
adventures of a roguish, but "appealing hero", usually of low social class.
Examples
Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722)

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

✍️ In Elizabethan theatre there was a jester to dance between the acts - to keep up the spirits of the
audience.

✍️ Steps to the Temple is a poetical work by Richard Crashaw, which shows his admiration and
indebtedness to the poet Herbert who wrote The Temple.

n
✍️"I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist" Who said this line? -
io
ss
Joseph Hall.
Pa
y

✍️The Italian novella became common in English translation after the middle of the -
ar
er
lit

16th century.

The Duchess of Malfi a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in
1612–1613. Based on Italian subject.

✍️ In Absalom and Achitophel , Absalom represents the Duke of Monmouth and Achitophel represents
the Earl of Shaftesbury.

✍️Who wrote "The Influence of the Audience on Shakespeare's Dramas" ? -

Robert Bridges.
✍️ Christian is the protagonist in the novel -
The Pilgrim's Progress.

✍️Who called the eighteenth century "our admirable and indispensable Eighteenth Century"?
Matthew Arnold.

✍️Colin Clouts Come Home Again is dedicated to -

Walter Raleigh.

✍️The earliest morality play was -

The Castle of Perseverance.

✍️Who wrote The Colossus poem? n

io
ss
Pa

Sylvia Plath.
y
ar

✍️
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Who tried to give a glimpse of the underworld of London in his

lit

The Honest Whore? -

Thomas Dekker.

✍️ The wealthy lustful nobleman Sir Epicure Mammon appears in -

The Alchemist.

✍️"But the Lear of Shakespeare cannot be acted" who said it? -

Charles Lamb.

✍️Who wrote Alice's Adventure in Wonderland (1865)? -

Charles Dodgson.
✍️ Sir John and Lady Brute reveal their mutual antipathy in the work -
The Provoked Wife.

✍️ Who wrote the Epic Jerusalem Delivered? -

Tasso.

✍️In Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye relates tragedy to

Autumn.

✍️ The well- known historical poem of Drayton is -

Ballad of Agincourt.

✍️ n
io
In his allegory Faerie Queene Spenser presents Queen Elizabeth through the character -
ss
Gloriana who also appears as Mercilla, Lady Una, Britomart, Belphoebe, etc
Pa

✍️Dorothy Richardson introduced the "Stream of consciousness" novel in English.

y
ar

✍️"If the Pope is not a poet, where is poetry to be found" ? Who said this? -
er
lit

Dr. Johnson.

✍️Who wrote "A Note book on William Shakespeare" ? -

Miss Edith Sitwell.

✍️MacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel are allegorical satires by

- John Dryden.

✍️ In which work Napls has been described as a place of more pleasure than profit and yet of more
profil than pity? -

Euphues by Jhon Lyly.

✍️The two gentlemen in the Two Gentlemen of Verona are -

Valentine and Proteus.

✍️Astrea Redux by Dryden celebrates the restoration of -

Charles II in 1660.

✍️"The Crown of Life" brought out in 1947 is a famous book on Shakespeare. Who wrote it? -
Wilson Knight.

✍️Who is the narrator of Heart of Darkness (1899) novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad.
Marlowe.

n
✍️The Neoclassical age in English Literature follows the models of -
io
ss
Roman Literature.
Pa
y

✍️Spenser's The Shepherds Calender published in 1597 is a collection of -

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er
lit

12 Eclogues.

✍️Faerie Queene is aimed to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtues and gentle discipline
.

✍️ Of all morality plays, the only one which was so good that I was revived on the modern stage in
both England and America is -

Everyman.

✍️ The novel As I Lay Dying, centered on the death of the overworked woman Addie Bundren was
written by -

William Faulkner.

✍️"Loved not wisely but too wise" in which a Shakespearean character asks to be remembered as one
who

Othello.

✍️ The subtitle of Shakespeare's Othello is -

The Moor of Venice.

The Barsetshire series of novels was written by -

Anthony Trollope.

✍️Massinger collaborated with Dekker in -

n
The Virgin Martyr. io
ss
Pa

✍️ The title of "The Waste Land" was derived from -

y

From Ritual to Romance.

ar
er
lit

✍️The most prolific writer of interludes, John Heywood was a musician in the court of Henry VIII.

✍️ Duessa in the first book of the Faerie Queene represents - Queen Mary of Scots and also False
Church.

✍️Who started the Journal The Tatler?

Steele.
✍️ The only novel written by Goldsmith is -
The Vicar of Wakefield.

✍️ "Thus conscious does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied oer
with the place cast of thought"
Who said -

Hamlet in Hamlet.

✍️ In John Dryden's religious allegory The Hind and the Panther, the Hind stands for the Catholic

n
Church while the Panther stands for the Anglican Church.
io
ss
Pa

✍️Who wrote only tragedies? -

y
ar

Christopher Marlowe.
er
lit

✍️Who is Shakespeare's Fair Vestal, Spenser's Gloriana and Raleigh's Cynthia?

Queen Elizabeth.

✍️ Who wrote a heroic play The Conquest of Granada? -

John Dryden.
Plot deals with Spanish conquest of Granada in 1492 & fall of Muhammad XII of Granada, last Islamic
ruler on the Iberian Peninsula.

✍️Daniel Quilp is a character in -

The Old Curiosity Shop.

"I shall endeavor to enlighten morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. Who made this
endeavor? -

Addison.
best known for his founding of the daily The Spectator with Richard Steele.
Addison’s Cato, a play
tracing the Roman statesman and stoic Cato’s opposition to Cæsar.

Addison on "Pleasures Of Imagination" ( In Spectator)

He defines the imagination as a sort of effortless contemplation, an immediate "assent to the beauty
of an object". Such pleasures do not require wealth or education to access.

✍️ Name Spenser's elegy on the death of Lady Howard written in imitation of Chaucer's Book of
Duchess. -

n
Daphnaida 1591.
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Pa

✍️In Gulliver's Travels Lilliput stands for -

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England.
lit

✍️In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses philosophers of blind dogmatism
✍️In which play Shakespeare appears as an Indian boy? -
A Midsummer Night's Dream.

✍️The subtitle of the White Devil is - Vittoria Corombona.

✍️The Watchman was a liberal political periodical started by -
S.T. Coleridge.
"Others abide by our question, thou art free",
Who said this about Shakespeare?

Matthew Arnold.

✍️Who is the Hero of Homer's Iliad? -

Achilles.

✍️ The Spanish Tragedy was translated into German and Dutch and one of the Elizabethan dramatists
is supposed to have collaborated with him. Who was he?

Ben Jonson.

n
io
✍️Who considered Spenser the first salaried moralist? -
ss
Pa

WB Yeats.
y
ar

✍️In which novel was Swift said "Good God What a gentleman I had when I wrote that book". -
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lit

A Tale of the Tub.

✍️Which novel begins with the description of Coketown? -

Hard Times.

✍️ "Though the trade of war I have slain men, Yet do I hold it very stuff o' th' conscience To do no
contrivd murder " Who speaks this line? -

Iago.

✍️"To Daffodils " a poem is written by

Robert Herrick.

✍️The one that traces the genealogy of a Shoemaker is -

The Gentle Craft.

✍️Who wrote A sonnet on Milton?

William Wordsworth.

✍️Leantio is a famous character who appears in -

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

n
io
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✍️The region which Thomas Hardy portrays in all novels -
Pa

Wessex
y
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✍️"I heartily hate and detest that animal called man". In which work we find this line -
lit

Gulliver's Travels.

✍️Heroic
Mother Hubbard's Tale by Spenser is written in -
Couplets.

✍️Which work of Thomas Nash is a study of the superstition of the age?

Terrors of Night.

✍️Which work is the theme of Dryden's All for Love based on? -
Antony and Cleopatra.👇

Tragedy by William Shakespeare.

The plot is based on Thomas North's English translation of Plutarch's Lives.

✍️Which character in David Copperfield always waits for something to turn up?
Mr. MIcawber.

✍️ "My soul like to a black storm, Is driven, I know not whither". -

Vittoria Corombona.
(John Webster-
The White Devil (1612)

✍️Webster wrote two comedies Westward Ho, Northward Ho in collaboration with -

Thomas Dekker.

n
io
✍️Sale House - is the school that David Copperfield attends.
ss
Pa
y

✍️TheTheChangeling.
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famous tragic-comedy of Middleton is -

er
lit

(By Middleton and Rowley)

✍️ What is the central theme of Homer's Iliad? -

The Trojan War.

✍️Who wrote The Vanity of Dogmatizing? -

Joseph Glanville.

Note-
The Vanity of Dogmatizing attacked scholasticism & religious persecution. It also contained a tale that
became the material for Matthew Arnold's poem The Scholar Gipsy.

✍️Which Lyly's comedy stands from his other plays being in the tradition of Plautus and Terence? -
Mother Bombie.
✍️The Shepherds Calender was inspired by -
Virgil's Eclogue and Theocritus Idylls.

✍️English
Faerie queene has been considered an -
Christian Humanist Epic.

✍️ "A young healthy child well nursed is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome
food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled"-

A Modest Proposal.

Juvenalian satirical essay written & published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

n
io
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Pa

✍️ Galsworthy's trilogy of novels is called -

y

End of the Chapter.

ar
er

In this final volume of The Forsyte Chronicles, Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the
lit

Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes.

✍️Name the longest tale The Canterbury Tales. -

The Knight's Tale.

✍️ Who is considered the founder of English Prose? -

King Alfred.

✍️On His Blindness is a sonnet that laments the loss of Milton's eyesight.
✍️Vindice is the villain in the play The Revenger's Tragedy written by -
Thomas Middleton.

✍️In whose novel does the motif of blood consciousness appear? -

D.H. Lawrence.

✍️Who said "The proper study of mankind is man"? -

Alexander Pope.

✍️Who wrote the biography of Donne named Life? -

n
io
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Izaak Walton.
Pa

✍️The first work of Robert Greene was - Mamillia.

y
ar
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lit

✍️''True wits is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed'? -
Essay on Criticism.1711
Poems by Alexander Pope
Famous quotations
"To err is human; to forgive, divine".
"A little learning is a dang'rous thing"
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".

Not confused with 👇

Essay in criticism by Matthew Arnold

✍️Virgil's Aeneid is written in -

Latin.
✍️ Which is the first English novel in verse? -
Troilus and Cryseyde.

✍️ Which character is willing in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens? -

Barkis.

Note- David Copperfield is Künstlerroman novel

✍️The plot of the tragedy is derived from William Painter's Palace of Pleasure
The Duchess of Malfi.

✍️"Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants"said by

Francis Bacon.

✍️Who is the model for David Copperfield known as the better angel?
n
Agnes Wickfield. io
ss
Pa

✍️
y

In the subject the miracle plays were essentially-

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Theological.
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lit

✍️Dr. Primrose is a character in -

The Vicar of Wakefield.

✍️ The first prose comedy in English is - Supposes by

George Gascoigne.

✍️Iliad and Odyssey were translated into English by - Alexander Pope.

✍️Caliban appears as a brutish savage in Shakespeare's -
The Tempest.
✍️Milton's style is popularly called the
Grand Style.

✍️Name the castle where Spenser lived and finished the first three books of Faerie Queen. -
Kilcolman.

✍️The first English comedy written by a headmaster of Eton.

Ralph Roister Doister.

✍️Wordsworth said that the "sonnet in Milton's hand became a trumpet"

n
io
✍️
ss
"Doubt that the stars are fire Doubt that the sun doth move Doubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I
love".
Pa

Claudius in Hamlet.
y
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✍️Who wrote Tristram Shandy?

lit

Laurence Sterne.
Full title- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

Precursor of stream of consciousness.

Novel is full of degression.

✍️Which work deals with the Popish Plot? -

Absalom and Achitophel.

✍️Spenser's elegy on Sidney's

Astrophel.
✍The preface to Sidney's Astrophel and Stella was written by
Thomas Nashe.

✍ The Fox is the sub-title of - Volpone (1605–1606)

Comedy by Ben Jonson.
Has elements of city comedy & beast fable.

Characters👇
merciless satire of greed and lust.

Volpone (the Sly Fox)

Mosca (the Fly)
Voltore (Vulture)
Corbaccio (the Raven)
Bonario – Corbaccio's son
Corvino (Carrion Crow)

n
Celia – Corvino's wife
Sir Politic Would-Be – ridiculous Englishman io
ss
Lady Would-Be (parrot)
Peregrine ("Pilgrim")
Pa

Nano – a dwarf, companion of Volpone

Androgyno – companion of Volpone
y

Castrone – a eunuch.
ar

The Avocatori – the judges of Venice.

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lit
✍️In which book of Paradise lost reference of Agra and Lahor of great Mogul is
Book 11

✍️ Jonson's Poetaster was directed against -

Marston.

✍️Neo- classical satire was influenced by the Roman satirists -

Horace and Juvenal.

✍️ Which book of Paradise Lost begins with an invocation to Light? -

Book III.

✍️Who wrote Holy and Profane State? n

io
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Pa

- Thomas Fuller.
y
ar

✍️Who wrote the epic satire Don Juan? - Lord Byron.

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lit

✍️ "A friend is another himself", who said this line? -

Francis Bacon.

✍️Donne is often considered an intellectual predecessor of -

Robert Browning.

✍️LoveIn which work we find this line "only shows its teeth, as if it smiled" -
for Love by William Congreve.
✍️ Who is the next command after Satan in Paradise Lost? -
Beelzebub.

✍️Who wrote Moral Essays, a series of four poems on ethical subjects? -

Pope.

✍️Jonson's drama which is an unfinished pastoral drama is -

The Sad Shepherd.

✍️Thomas Wyatt wrote 96 Love poems which were published in Tottlel's Miscellany in 1557.
n
io
✍️"True wit is what oft was thought but never so well expressed "
ss
Pa

Alexander Pope.
y
ar

✍️Which character in a novel by Dickens always says umble? -

er
lit

David Copperfield.

✍️"When we are born, we cry that we are come, To this great stage of fools. This a good block"? -
King Lear in King Lear.

✍️There are 12 books in Paradise Lost and 04 books in Paradise Regained.

✍️Who wrote the introductory Sonnet to Spenser's Faerie Queene?
Walter Raleigh.
✍️Name the Play in which Shakespeare and Fletcher collaborated. -
Henry VIII.

✍️Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate extended from -

1653-1660.

✍️ Regan is a famous character who appears in -

King Lear.

✍️England
In Gulliver's Travels first voyage, which are the two countries satirized? -
and Ireland.

n
io
✍️
ss
In Joseph Andrews Fielding parodies -
Richardson's Pamela.
Pa

✍️The Italian Terza rima and Ottava rima were introduced into England by -
y
ar

Wyatt.
er
lit

✍️William
The Battle of Books by Swift was written in support of its patron -
Temple.

✍️Who wrote Mirrour for Magistrates (1563) -

Thomas Sackville.

✍️ Who wrote The Great Chain of Being (1933)? -

Arthur Lovejoy.

✍️We are the fortunate of the human race, who said? -

Francis Bacon.

✍️ Who is known as the father of inductive philosophy? -

Francis Bacon.

✍️In Heart of Darkness, Marlowe sails on the ship -

The Nelly.

✍️As a writer of prose romance, Greene is remembered for - Pandosto.

Note---
Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale" inspired by Pandosto

n
io
✍️The Rape of The Lock is written in - Heroic Couplet.
ss
Pa

✍️Dictionaries by Dr. Johnson was published in the year -

y
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1755.
lit

✍️"Apology for poetry" by Sidney was published posthumously in -

1595.

✍️Who said this Pope can fix in one couplet more sense than I can fix -
Jonatan Swift.

✍️Maugham's novel on the life of a famous painter is called -

The Moon and SixPence.
✍️The Swan Theater was built in - 1594.
✍️James
The biographer of Dr. Johnson is -
Boswell.

✍️ The public place was made famous and immortal by Shakespeare, Seldon, Donne, Beaumont,
Fletcher and Ben Jonson -

Mermaid Tavern.

John Keats composed a poem on the legend initiated by Beaumont, Lines on the Mermaid Tavern.

✍️Mr. Spectator in the Spectator essays represents Joseph Addison the essayist himself.
n
io
ss
Pa

✍️ How many deaths occur in Shakespeare's Hamlet? -

y

Eight.
ar
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lit

✍️ Savage is a character In Huxley's novel -

Brave New World.
dystopian social science fiction novel.
Title - from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world"....

✍️The Coffee House flourished in -

The Age of Dr. Jonson.

✍️ Dante addressed his love sonnets to -

Beatrice.
✍️Webster followed the trade of a tailor as a means of livelihood.

✍️Sonnets from Portuguese (44 love sonnets)was written by -

E.B. Browning.
most famous poems from this collection.
1. Yes, call me by my pet-name!
2. How do I love thee?

✍️The Rape of The Lock was divided into -

Five Cantos.

n
The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem by Alexander Pope
io
ss

✍️
Pa

Which work of Greene is best known for its early reference to Shakespeare -
Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a million of Repentance.
y
ar
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lit

✍️In Heart of Darkness, Marlowe returns from the Congo to -

Belgium.

✍️ Which book of Bacon is unfinished? -

The New Atlantis.

Other famous unfinished text

1. Don Juan (poem) by Lord Byron.

2.The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Novel) by Charles Dickens.
3. Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft.
4. "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor C
­ oleridge.
5. Sanditon by Jane Austen.
6. The Trial by Franz Kafka.
✍️The Interpretation of Dream by Sigmund Freud was published in German in -
1900.
Other book in 1900
1. Lord Jim ( novel ) by Joseph Conrad.
2. Sister Carrie (novel) by Theodore Dreiser
3. Love and Mr Lewisham ( "The Story of a Very Young Couple") novel by H. G. Wells.
4. Captain Brassbound's Conversion ( play) by G. Bernard Shaw.

✍️Which Elizabethan anthologies of poetry contains poems on the death of Sidney? -

The Phoenix Nest.

✍️Where did Satan hold a solemn council with the fallen angels? -
n
io
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Pandemonium.
Pa

✍️In The Malcontent, Webster collaborated with -

y
ar
er

Marston.
lit

✍️Petrarch addressed his love sonnets to -

Laura.

✍️A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring, -
Alexander Pope.

✍️D. H. Lawrence father was a coal miner by profession.

✍️In which tragedies did Shakespeare act a part? -
Sejanus His Fall.
✍️The Spider-bee episode occurs in Swift's -
The Battle of Books.

✍️ In The Shepherds Calender, England represented as a big sheep farm ruled by Shephered Queen
Elisa.

✍️Which poem of Spenser was praised by Coleridge for its Swan like Movement?
Prothalamion.

✍️ Swift's Gulliver's Travels is a novel in Four-parts, describing a ship's doctor Gulliver's visit to four
strange lands.

n
io
✍️Strozza and Bassiolo, the famous character appear in -
ss
Pa

Chapman's The Gentleman Usher.

y
ar

✍️The first writer of scientific novels is

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lit

H.G. Wells.

✍️Who said, the pope's essay on Criticism is all stolen. -

Lady M.W. Montagu.

✍️Which poem of Spenser ends with a tribute to Colin's mistress Rosalind? -

Colin Clouts Come Again.

✍️In which play Middleton collaborated with Thomas Dekker? -

The Roaring Girl.
✍️Which is the last tale in the Canterbury Tales? -
The Pardoner's Tale.

✍️Who is the heroine of the Rape of The Lock? -

Belinda.

✍️How many writers are the members of University Wits? -

07

✍️Homeric scenes of battles are parodied in the Rape of Lock by -

n
A Game of cards.
io
ss

✍️Francis Bacon wrote -

Pa
y

58 essays in all.
ar
er
lit

✍️Bacon's philosophy of life was influenced by -

Machiavelli.

✍️The Town and Country Mouse is a parody of Dryden's -

The Hind and The Panther.

✍️Paul Scott is famous for his set of four novels called -

Raj Quartet.

✍️Who wrote The Duke of Milan? -

Philip Massinger.

✍️Atticus, the character in Pope's An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, is a caricature of

Addison.

✍️Ford's Tis Pity She's a Whore has the same theme as Beaumont and Fletcher's
A King and No King.

✍️Pope's Dunciad a mock-heroic poem celebrating dullness is dedicated to

Swift.

✍️The Lives of how many poets were written by Dr. Johnson in his Lives of the Poets? -
n
io
ss
52.
Pa

✍️Virginia Woolf was a member of the -

y
ar
er

Bloomsbury Group.
lit

✍️A book of wise sayings written by Bacon -

Apophthegms.

✍️Name the theater in which Shakespeare had shares. -

The Blackfriars.

✍️Which is a Christian humanistic epic? -

The Faerie Queene.
✍️Martin Luther published his Wittenberg Theses in the year -
1517.

✍️ Who said England emerged as a noble and puissant nation, arousing herself like a strong man after
sleep?

John Milton.

✍️ Thomas More was executed in the year -

1535.

✍️The first Poet Laureate in England was - n

io
ss
Ben Jonson. (Unofficial)
Pa
y
ar
er

✍️
lit

Francis Bacon's essays can be described as infinite riches in a little room. From where is this
phrase borrowed? -

Marlowe's Jew of Malta.

✍️Roger Ascham was appointed tutor to Queen Elizabeth and Latin secretary to Queen Mary
✍️ The break or pause between words within a metrical foot is called - Caesura.
It's symbol -//
Example
It is for you we speak, // not for ourselves: You are abused // and by some putter-on....
Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
✍️Dr. Johnson left out one important poet in his Lives of the Poets - Goldsmith.
✍️ Pope's Dunciad first satirized Lewis Theobald, but in it's revised from attacking Colley Cibber.

n
io
ss
Pa
y
ar
er
lit
✍️Elizabethan
James Shirley forms a link between the -
and Restoration drama.

✍️Moll Flanders is a picaresque novel by -

Daniel Dafoe.

✍️ Who wrote The School for Scandal? - Sheridan.

Lady Sneerwell, a wealthy young widow, and her hireling Snake discuss her various scandal-spreading
plots.(NTA UGC NET)

✍️The purgation of emotions in the play according to Aristotle is -

Catharsis.

✍️The Great Bible is also called - Cranmer's Bible. n

io
ss
Pa

✍️The word essay was first used by - Montaigne.

y
ar
er

✍️
lit

He it is who in his own time and ever afterwards provided a typical antithesis to Shakespeare
Whom does this statement refer to? -

Ben Jonson.

✍️Who said that Dryden and Pope are classics of our prose, not poetry? -
Matthew Arnold.

✍️Who directs Satan to his earth in Paradise Lost? -

Uriel.

✍️How many sonnets in all were written by Milton in English? -

18.
✍️Who was principally involved in producing the Book of Common Prayer?
Note- 🔥
Thomas Cranmer.

The Common Reader, collection of essays by Virginia Woolf.

A Book of Answers by A.D. Hope.

He addressed through his poetic responses in A Book of Answers to Tolstoy & Mallarme
(NTA NET 2021)

✍️Theseventeenth century Political Arithmetic is today known as -

Statistics.

✍️The first English colony in America was established by Walter Ralegh in 1584 at -
n
Virginia.
io
ss

✍️How many sonnets in all were written by John Milton in Latin? -

Pa
y

05.
ar
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lit

✍️Who called Bacon's style an index of the emergence of the modern world? -
L. C. Knights.

✍️The name assumed by Arnold in Thyrsis is -

Corydon.

✍️Whom does the Duchess marry in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi? - Antonio.
Aa

✍️ Bacon's essays Of Great Place and Of Plantation are classified as -

Political essays.
OF AMBITION(NTA UGC NET 2021)
Bacon opens the essay by associating ambition with this fluid choler that has the quality of making
people restless and irritable to do some actions
Four fluids as par Ben Jonson
Blood, Phlegm, Choler, & Melancholy

✍️
(BP is CM😄)
Human body consists of four humours: Blood, Phlegm, Choler, and Melancholy Who said -

Ben Jonson.

✍️L'Allegro
The companion poem of
ed - IL Penseroso by Milton.

✍️Who wrote The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire?

💥
Edward Gibbon.

n
Not confused with
Decline and Fall io
ss
1928 book by Evelyn Waugh
Protagonist- Paul Pennyfeather
Pa

(NTA UGC NET 2021)

y
ar
er
lit

✍️ Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison are epistolary novels by -

Samuel Richardson.

✍️Which work of Dekker is a graphic picture of London smitten by plague? -

The Wonderful Year.

✍️Joseph Andrews is a picaresque comic romance by -

Henry Fielding.

✍️Who wrote Castle of Otranto?

Horace Walpole.

✍️Phonotactics deals with the way phonemes are combined to form syllables.
Note
(NTA UGC NET 2021)
Phonestheme-

Pattern of sounds paired with a certain meaning in a language. The concept was proposed in 1930 by
British linguist J. R. Firth

Example-
frictionless motion, like "slide", "slick" and "sled"
glitter", "glisten", "glow.

✍️Mosca is a famous character in

n
io
ss
- Ben Jonson's Volpone or The Fox.
Pa
y

✍️
ar

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested
er

this is taken from -

lit

Of Studies.

✍️The Elegie in praise of John Donne was written by -

Thomas Carew.

✍️Bathsheba Everdene is a character in -

Far From the Madding Crowd.

✍️Who wrote A Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's subjection of Ireland? -

Andrew Marvell.
✍️Whom did Jonson attack in The Poetaster? -
Thomas Dekker.

✍️Who translated Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier in 1561? - Thomas Hoby.
✍️Who wrote River Duddon Sonnets? - Wordsworth.
✍️ Which work of Donne was highly approved by James I as a contribution to antiCatholic
controversy? -

Pseudo Martyr.

✍️The Life and Death of a Man of Character is the subtitle of -

The Mayor of Casterbridge.

✍️ n
io
Regarding Andrew Marvell metaphysical poet T. S. Eliot says that the quality of civilization is a
ss
traditional habit of life.
Pa

✍️
y

"A mixture of falsehood is like an alloy in a coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work
ar

the better, but it embaseth it"

er
lit

. - Of Truth. By Bacon

✍️Who wrote Basilikon Daron? -

King James I.
Basilikon Doron means "royal gift" in Ancient Greek and was written in the form of a private letter to
James's eldest son, Henry, Duke of Rothesay

✍️Phonology is the study of how speech sounds function and are organized in a particular language.
✍️The Mystery of Udolpho is a -
Gothic Novel by Ann Radcliffe (1794)
✍️ Tom Jones by Fielding is described as a Comic Epic in prose, Squire Allworthy is a country
gentleman who appears in Tom Jones.

✍️Who wrote The Admiralof France a French tragedy was -

Chapman.

✍️ Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne is considered the progenitor of the stream of consciousness
technique.

✍️Picaresque novel -
A novel whose hero is a wandering rogue.

✍️Who wroteThe Confession of an English Opium Eater? -

n
io
ss
Thomas de Quincey.
Pa

✍️
y

'That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of
ar

God to men"
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lit

Paradise Lost by John Milton.

✍️ Who called Shakespeare an upstart crow? -

Robert Greene.

✍️Who is known for his epical romance Gondibert?-

D'Avenant.

✍️The character Lillith appears in Shaw's play -

Back to Methuselah.

✍️Who is the leviathan of Hobbes' (1651) work Leviathan? -

The State.

✍️Who wrote the sonnet If Thou Must Love Me? -

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

✍️ Which virtue in Faerie Queene is described by Spenser as the perfection of all the rest, and
contained in it all? -

Magnificence.

✍️ What is the subtitle of The Silent Woman? -

Epicone.

✍️Whom does Polonius send to France to spy on Laertes? - n

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Reynaldo.
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✍️What is the title of the collection of sonnets written by George Meredith?

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Modern Love. (1862)

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Note- His most enduring novel is

The Egoist.(1879)

Meredith's use of dialogue & multiple voices make him "a Bakhtinian novelist par excellence".

✍️In which poem we find this line to purify the dialect of the tribe? -
Little Gidding.
is the fourth & final poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, a series of poems that discuss time,
perspective, humanity, and salvatio

✍️Who called Milton the mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies? -

Lord Tennyson.

✍️Who translated Plutarch's Moralia?

Philemon Holland.

✍️The term Metaphysical was coined by -

Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1675.

✍️ Henry Vaughan is known as The Silurist because he was born in Breconshire, a country included in
the Roman district of Silures.

✍️The Mistress is a long poem by -

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Abraham Cowley.
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✍️James Thomason's Seasons is a nature poem divided into -

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Four Parts.
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✍️ The Castle of Otranto by Horace Wolpole,

The Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe,
Vathek by William Beckford,
The Monk by Lewis are all

- Gothic Romance.

✍️The first part of Thomas Dekker's The Honest Whore is thought to be influenced by -
Middelton.

✍️The periodicals like The Tatler, The Spectator, The Guardian and The Englishman were started by -
Sir Richard Steele.

✍️Who wrote the poem Grongar Hill? -

John Dyer.

✍️Gray, Collins and Cowper are called the -

Transitional poets.

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✍️Samuel Butler wrote a satire directed against Sir Paul Neale, of the Royal Society entitled -
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The Elephant in the Moon.

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✍️Virgil was translated in the Elizabethan period by -

Thomas Phaer and Richard Stanyhurst.

✍️ How many characters does George Herbert's The Country Parson deal with in its thirty seven
essays? -

One.

✍️ Savage John is a character in -

Brave New World.
✍️ The Spanish Tragedy came out in -
1589.

✍️"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments" ... Who wrote this
"True Love". Sonnet of Shakespeare begins with these lines.

✍️ Herbert's collection of religious poems

The Temple
Sacred poems
Private Ejaculations was published in -

1633.

✍️The Moon and Sixpence a novel based on the life of the artist Paul Gauguin is written by -
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Somerset Maugham.
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✍️Thomas Browne the greatest prose writer of the puritan age, was by profession -
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A Doctor.
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✍️Euphues in Lyly's work is a -

Young Athenian.

✍️ "He was almost the only writer who ever gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete"
Macaulay says this to -

John Bunyan.

✍️Thomas Chatterton died at the age of - 18.

✍️Delia and Manoa are the characters in Milton's -
Samson Agonistes.

✍️Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning is embodied in his -

De Augmentis Scientiarum.

✍️ How did Claudius murder King Hamlet? -

By pouring poison into his ear.

✍️Ben Jonson's Timber or Discoveries is a -

Collection of notes and reflections.

✍️Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the churchyard? -

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The former court jester's.(Yorick)
(NTA UGC NET 2021)
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Who called Bacon the first essayist as he remained for sheer mass and weight of genius? -
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Huge Walker.

✍️Who wrote The Good Natured Man?

- Goldsmith.

✍️Bishop Percy became famous as an antiquarian by the publication of -

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.
(1765)

✍️ A rhythm counted not by syllables and regular feet , but by stresses is called
Sprung Rhythm.

Curtal sonnet(Ten and half line),

Sprung Rhythm.
By Gerard Manley Hopkin
✍️Who wrote The Life and Death of Mr.Badman? -
John Bunyan.

✍️The Preface to Greene's Menaphon was written by -

Thomas Nashe.

✍️What is the most significant contribution of Izaak Walton to the literary world? -
The Complete Angler.

✍️ What is the meaning of L'Allegro? -

A cheerful man.

✍️"O my love's like a red, red rose who has written this lyric? -
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Robert Burn.
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was a Scottish poet.
His poem "Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of Scotland.
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✍️Which 1945 novel is a satire in fable from Revolutionary and Post- Revolutionary Russia? -
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Animal Farm.
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"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield? -

👉
Ulysses.
Novel by Irish writer James Joyce
Leopold Bloom & Molly Bloom are major Characters.(UGC NET 2021)

✍️wrote Christmas Carol song ? -

👉
Robert Herrick.
A Christmas Carol
1843 novella by Charles Dickens
Full title- "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas" (NTA UGC NET 2021).

✍️In Cambridge the teaching of Greek was given impetus by -

👉His famous essay -In Praise of Folly (1549 in English).
Desiderius Erasmus.
✍️ Who of the following wrote a famous study of Thomas Hardy, which became a statement of his
own philosophy of art? -

D.H. Lawrence.

✍️Who wrote Hydrotaphia or Urn Burial? -

Thomas Browne.

✍️Gabriel Harvey gave a bitter account of the last days of Greene in -

Four Letters, 1592.

👉 A Play of Four "P"s by Jhon Heywood.

n
1. Pardoner & 2. Palmer (churchmen) 3. Pothecaryand (pharmacist)
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"most prevail."
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✍️
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Who declared that "Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream was the most inspired ridiculous
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play that I ever saw"

- Samuel Pepys.

✍️Lady Bellaston is a character in -

👉
Tom Jones.
Coleridgeadmired plots of Oedipus Rex, The Alchemist, and Tom Jones (‘the most perfect plots
ever planned’).

✍️ Which poem begins with the line,

"the curfew tolls the knell of parting day"? -

Elegy WrittenIN a Country Churchyard by Gray.

✍️The Bard, and The Progress of Poesy a Pindaric odes by -
Thomas Gray.

✍️Who said "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and write an exact man "-
FrancisBacon.

✍️Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight during Ophelia's funeral? -

Inside the grave itself.

✍️In Which country do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die? -

👉
England.

👉Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead n

minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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1966 play by Tom Stoppard
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Who said that "the moving of laughter was not essential to comedy whereas equity, truth,
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perspicuity, and candour were"? -

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Ben Jonson.

✍️In whose history of Denmark does Shakespeare find background material for his play? -
👉
Saxo Grammaticus.

👉Saxo's the legend of Amleth inspired story of Hamlet .

was a Danish historian.

✍️ Which work of Bacon is another Utopia? -

👉Salomon's House is a fictional institution in New Atlantis,

New Atlantis.

✍️ The Tyger is a poem by William Blake that is included in the collection -

Songs of Experience.
✍️"Nor second He, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy"
These lines quoted from Gray's The Progress of Poesy allude to -

Milton.

✍️The fallacy of using meaning in the definition of grammatical categories is

Semantic fallacy.

✍️ In 1662. he went to see one of Beaumont and Fletchers comedies and he notes that it was the first
time that ever I saw women come upon the stage. About who we are talking -

👉 n
Samuel Pepys.
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Pepys Diary (1660 -1669 )

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first published in the 19th century
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👉 sources for the English Restoration period.

Great Plague of London.
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Second Dutch War

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& Great Fire of London.(1666)

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✍️Nashe's burlesque of the story of Hero and Leander is -

Lenten Stuff, 1599.

✍️Who wrote Series of Characters in 1614? -

👉also known for being the victim of a murder which led to a scandalous trial.
Thomas Overbury.

👉Nathaniel Hawthorne mentions this murder in his book The Scarlet Letter.
👉His famous poem A Wife .
✍️ Who translated Montaigne's essays into English?
John Florio.
He was language tutor at the Court of James I.
Florio contributed to the English-language
👉
👉 third after Chaucer & Shakespeare

👉 Florio first translator of Montaigne into English,

👉the first translator of Boccaccio into English.

he wrote the first comprehensive Italian–English dictionary.

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✍ "Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; to me that cup has been dealt in another measure" these
lines from the poem -

Stanzas Written in Dejection.

(By PB Shelley)

✍J. Skelton's The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng is known for its -

👉Realism.
John Skelton invented Fictional character Colin Clout.

✍Who wrote The Bridge of Sighs? -

Thomas Hood.
English poet best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt"

✍Winchester College the first great public school was established in -

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✍Who first translated Montaigne's essays into English?

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-John Hall.
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✍Ode of Wit is a small masterpiece of -

Abraham Cowley.

✍Milton is regarded as the Last Elizabethan because -

He shared the spirit of Renaissance which includes humanistic studies and the Reformation.

✍ Who was the patron of Jonathan Swift? -

Sir William Temple.

✍The year 1798 taken to be the year of the beginning of the Romantic Movement?
Because it was the year in which Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads was published.

✍The Lamb by William Blake is from the collection Songs of Innocence

✍Richard Hooker's book is an object lesson in -
Religious controversy.

👉Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie(1594) his famous work.

✍What special human trait is hit upon by Jonson in the Alchemist? -

Gullibility.

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✍In The Tempest who is called an honest old counsellor? -
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👉
Gonzalo.
Caribbean writer Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête, adapted the tempest play based on its colonial and
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postcolonial interpretations, in which Caliban is a black rebel and Ariel is mixed-race.
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The Diviners
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👉Margaret Atwood's 2016 novel Hag-Seed is based on The Tempest.

1974 novel by Margaret Laurence inspired by The Tempest.
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✍ In his general attitude to literature, Sidney is a - Classicist.

✍Parson Adams is Joseph Andrew's travelling companion.
👉 Joseph Andrew Picaresque novel (1742) by Henry Fielding .
He defined it as a "comic epic poem in prose",

✍Who wrote The Cotter's Saturday Night? -

Robert Burns.

✍ Milton was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where his dedicated features earned him the
name of -
The Lady of Christ.

✍The chronicle play written by Peele is -

The Famous Chronicle of King Edward.

✍Who wrote The Definition of Love? -

👉
Andrew Marvell.
poem's first line- My Love is of a birth as rare
As ’tis for object strange and high...

✍The concluding line of Spenserian stanza is called -

👉 n
Alexandrine.
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Invented by Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in
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total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter.
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✍The vogue of the lyric was inaugurated by -

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Thomas Wyatt.
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✍"The music in my heart bore, long after it was heard no more." These lines from
👉
The Solitary Reaper.
William Wordsworth) tells us about a girl, a Highland lass, who is in a field alone: "single in the
field". As she is harvesting her crops, she is singing a sad tune which echoes in the deep valley.

✍Who wrote the poem Desert Village? -

Oliver Goldsmith.

👉Describes
written in heroic couplets.
decline of a village & emigration of many of its residents to America.
✍Dr. Faustus makes a deal of surrendering his soul in return for 24. years of life with -
👉
Mephistopheles.
Homo fuge" (Fly, man) words appear on Faustus's arm after he makes his diabolical pact with the
Devil.

✍The play in which Marlowe and Nashe collaborated is -

Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage.

✍The Roman playwright who inspired the Elizabethan Revenge tragedy was
Seneca.

✍Wordsworth's Prelude is an n
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Autobiographieal poem.
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👉 Full Title- The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind. (14 books.)
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👉 In Blank verse.
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👉Published in 1850 after Wordsworth's death.

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Aurora Leigh by novel 1856)by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is feminist version The Prelude.

The author of The Female Quixote; The Adventures of Arabella (1752) is

👉
Charlotte Lennox.

👉 Imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.

Female Quixote become model for Jane Austen for Northanger Abbey.

✍Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victory and Triumph shows a remarkable influence of

Spenser.

✍How many years have Prospero and Miranda been stranded on their island?
12.(play-The Tempest by William Shakespeare)
✍Corvino is a character in the play
Volpone.(1605) by Ben Jonson

✍
-
Which mythical figures appear in the wedding masque Prospero stages for Miranda and Ferdinand?

Ceres, Iris, and Juno.

(In Play The Tempest)

✍Roderick Random is the first of the picaresque novels by the Scottish novelist Tobias Smollett.
✍ "God made the country and man-made the town"
who wrote this line -

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Cowper. io
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Pa

✍Who wrote Heroes and Hero worship? -

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👉
Thomas Carlyle.
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In “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic” he stress importance of individual & compares
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different kind of heroes such as– Odin, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, Shakespeare, Dante, Johnson,
Rousseau,
Burns, John Knox, Martin Luther, & Prophet Muhammad.

✍Nashe's only surviving play, which is a satirical masque is -

Summer's Last Will and Testament.

✍In Every Man in His Humour, who is the jealous husband? -

Kitley Merchant.
Every Man in His Humour (1598)play by Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of the
"humours comedy,"
Chief comic character is Knowell.
✍The Restoration Tragedy is also known as -
Heroic tragedy or the love and Honour Drama.

✍ "When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain whose"
lines these are? -

John Keats.

✍Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned because it was considered -

Obscene.
In India bookseller Ranjit Udeshi in Bombay was prosecuted for selling an unexpurgated copy of Lady
Chatterley's Lover.

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✍Who wrote The Masque of Blackness? -
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Ben Jonson.
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✍Which period marks the real moment of birth of our modern English prose, According to Arnold? -
lit

The Restoration.

✍What is the subtitle of Lyly's play Endymion? -

The Man in Moon

✍ "But at my back I always hear Time's winged Chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast Eternity." These lines occur in -

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell.

✍The model of grammar that Chomsky outlined is called -
Transformational grammar

✍"We are laid asleep in body and become a living soul" this line is from
Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

✍ "We look before and after, And pine for what is not. Our sincerest laughter with some pain is
fraught"
lines from

Shelley's poem To a Skylark

✍Who wrote The Traveller? -

Oliver Goldsmith.

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✍Where did Sycorax imprison Ariel? -

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(In Play Tempest)

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✍Who invented antimasque? -

Ben Jonson.

✍ Which Shakespearean character is regarded as a superb caricature of Shakespeare's friend and

rival Jonson? -

Malvolio.

✍The Mistake of a Night is the sub title of -

She Stoops to Conquer
Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith( 1773)
✍In Yonder Grave a Druid Lies by Collin's is an elegy on the death of -
James Thomson.

✍John Caryll suggested Pope the idea of writing The Rape of the Lock.

✍The name of Sophia's father in Tom Jones is -

Squire Weston.

✍In Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock satires -

Coleridge and Shelley.

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✍Charles Surface and Lady Sneerwell are characters in Sheridan's -
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Pa

The School for Scandal.

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✍ Which Shakespearean character speaks this line: "Men have died from time to time and worms
have eaten them, but not for love"? -

Rosalind.

✍Who was the lord of the tavern-wits? -

Ben Jonson.

✍Flamineo is a character in - John Webster's

The White Devil.
✍The first to introduce the element of high comedy in English drama is -
John Lyly.

✍An important element in Dryden's satire is his dexterity in handling the -

Heroic Couplet.

✍The name of Belinda's pet dog in Pope's The Rape of The Lock is -
Shock.

✍ n
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Milton wrote one of his treatises against an order of parliament which passed a censorship on
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books -
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Areopagitica.
Full title- Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the
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Parlament of England .(1644)

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✍Which play of Shakespeare remained unfinished? -

Timon of Athens

👉Vladimir Nabokov borrowed the title from Timon of Athens for his novel Pale Fire (1962)
✍️In which poem does we find the line we can die by it, if not live by love appear?
Canonization by Jhon Donne.
Note- The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947) collection of essays by Cleanth
Brooks

👉
Title of this essay taken from "Canonization's line
We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms;
As well a well-wrought urn
(UGC NET)
✍️ A satire by Dryden chiefly personal in content and not very great as a work of art, but still
immensely popular -

The Medal.

✍️Which lay by Shakespeare is attributed to Kyd? -

Titus Andronicus.

✍️In Every Man Out of His Humour, Jonson attacked on -

John Marston.

✍️Whom does Jonson ridicule in his play The Poetaster? -

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✍️Bully Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream is by profession -

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A Weaver.
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✍️Richard Crashaw was a - Catholic Convert.

✍️The first daily newspaper in English which was started in1702 is -
👉Produced by Elizabeth Mallet
The Daily Courant.

✍️ Who wrote The Four Ages of Poetry? -

👉
Thomas Love Peacock.

👉Four Ages’ (1820)is an attack on Romantic poets.

This essy become stimulus for the Defence of Poetry (1821) by Shelley.

✍️Dorothy Richardson was one of the earliest exponents of the Stream of Consciousness
techniques.

👉
👉 The term was first used by William James in The Principles of Psychology (1890).
famous example
James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922).
William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931).

✍️ She lived unknown and few could know when Lucy ceased to be: But she is in her grave and ah.
They are different to me. These lines from -

Lucy poem by Wordsworth.

✍️The original, of Miriam in Son and Lovers is -

👉
Jesse Chambers.

👉 n
Sons and Lovers (1913) novel by D. H. Initially titled Paul Morel.
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👉Harold Bloom listed Sons and Lovers in his book The Western Canon (1994).
Novel contains a frequently quoted use of word "nesh"
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Pa

"It is truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in
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want of a wife''. These lines from -

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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✍️The 18th century critic who criticized Paradise Lost for its lack of human interest is -
Dr. Johnson.

✍️Richard Crashaw was an eloquent - Puritan divine.

✍️In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love-in-idleness is a -
Flower 🌺.

✍️It is he who in his own time and ever afterwards provided a typical antithesis to Shakespeare -
Ben Jonson.

✍️Who wrote the Witch of Edmonton?

Thomas Dekker.

✍️ Doctor Faustus in Marlowe's play is a -

Headstrong Physician.
based on German stories about the title character Faust.

✍️ Who is credited for creating the modern prose style through his essays like Essay on Satire and
Essay on Epic Poetry? -

Dryden.

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✍Asra poems were written by Coleridge as a tribute to his sweetheart.
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Pa

✍Maggie is a character in -
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The Mill on the Floss

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novel by George Eliot(1860)

✍️The Peasant Bread is a story by -

Leo Tolstoy.

✍️What is the meaning of agonists in Milton's poem Samson Agonistes?

- The Wrestler.

✍️Who set a new trend in literary criticism through his Examine of the Silent Woman?
Dryden.
Silent Woman play by Ben Jonson examined in An Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1668) by Dryden.
✍Who wrote A New Way To Pay Old Debts? -.(RPSC ASSIT PRO 2021)
Philip Massinger

✍️Comparison of a pair of lovers to a pair of compass is an example of -

Metaphysical conceits.
As in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by Jhon Donn.)

✍Which Greek mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue?

👉
Icarus.

👉Poems, "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden & "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William
The myth gave rise to the idiom "don't fly too close to the sun".

Carlos Williams are inspired by this mythological figure.

✍ n
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The imaginary old man who edited the first issue of The Tatler is Issac Bickerstaf a pseudonym
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Steele borrowed from Swift.
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✍Who wrote the popular lyric poem The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk? -
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W. Cowper.
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✍Swansea is a place associated with the poet -

👉Fern Hill" (1945) his famous poem.
Dylan Thomson.

✍"Hell is a city much like London" whose views are this? -

P.B. Shelley.

✍ The life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A sentimental Journ through France and
Italy are novels by -

Sterne.
Tristram Shandy is called novel with out Predecessor.
✍ Henry Vaughan regarded himself as a disciple of -
George Herbert.

✍When he first summons Mephastophilis how does Faustus ask him to appear?
As a Franciscan friar.

✍Songs and Sonnets by Donne came out -

Posthumously.

✍Luke Frugal is a famous character in -

n
The City Madam.
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The City Madam is a Caroline era comedy written by Philip Massinger.
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Pa

✍Marlowe's Dr. Faustus is consumed by a burning passion for -

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Knowledge.
lit

✍ Who wrote The Citizen of the World, a collection of letters claimed to be writte by an imaginary
chinaman? -

Oliver Goldsmith.

✍The first book printed in England was -

The Dictes and Sayings of Philosopher

✍Keats, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt were ridiculed in Blackwood's Magazine as Cockney School.
✍Congreve achieved immediate success with his first play -
Old Bachelor.

✍Marlowe's hero Tamburlaine is characterised by his burning passion for -

Power

✍What is the Jews dying Farewell in Marlowe's Jew of Malta? -

"Let me be envie but not pitied"

✍Devotions was the famous prose work written by -

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Donne. io
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Pa

✍How long does Faustus demand that Mephastophilis serve him? -

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Twenty four years.

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✍Vaughan's The Retreat has been compared to Wordsworth's - Immortality Ode

✍ The four wheels of the novel according to Saintsbury are
1. Richardson
2. Fielding
3. Smollett
4. Sterne.

👉 The Mariner in The Ancient Mariner (by ST Coleridge) kills -

An Albatross.
Famous line in poem
"Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink"
✍The original of Belinda in The Rape of the Lock was -
👉The Rape of the lock by Alexander Pope. Lock of hair become ⭐ Star in the end of poem.
Miss. Arabella Fermor.

✍What is the most distinctive feature of an Ode? -

👉
It is in the form of an addres
Keats prime ode Year 1819
His five great odes-
1. "Ode on a Grecian Urn,"
2. "Ode on Indolence, "
3."Ode on Melancholy,"
4. "Ode to a Nightingale,"
5.."Ode to Psyche."
(Most of the questions are asked in NET from these 5 odes)

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👉 Full title- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge- said "three most perfect plots ever planned", alongside Oedipus Tyrannus
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✍ "O lady we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live" who is the Lady
Wordsworth addresses in these lines? -

Dorothy Wordsworth his sister.

✍ To whom did Carew pay the tribute as the poet who ruled as he thought fit/The universal monarchy
of wit? -

John Donne.

✍"No man is an island ... Therefore send not to know/For whom the bell tolls". It tolls for thee. -
👉
Donne's Devotions by Donne
For Whom the Bell Tolls(1940 ) novel's title taken from this poem.
by Ernest Hemingway

✍Whom does Grierson Smith call the morning star of Elizabethan drama?
Christopher Marlowe.

✍Mrs. Millamant and Mirabell are the characters of -

The Way of the World.

✍ In Wordsworth's pastoral poem Michael, what is the name of the old farmer's son who has left for

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✍Who wrote the poem Kim? - Kipling.

✍Somerset Maugham's autobiographieal novel Of Human Bondage takes its title from -
Spinoza.

✍ The contemporary of Dryden whose reputation lies chiefly on heroic plays such as
The Orphan and Venice Preserved is -

Thomas Otway.
✍Bell-Imperia is a character in the play-
The Spanish Tragedy by Kyd.

✍A Cypress Grove (1623) a prose work is in the fashionable funeral vein written by -
William Drummond of Howthornden.

✍"She is all states, and all princes, Nothing else" is -

The Sun Rising (byJohn Donne)

✍ Pamela is an epistolary novel which has -

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Considered one of the first true English novel.
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George III.
The Vision of Judgment (1822) satirical poem by Lord Byron, which depicts a dispute in Heaven
over fate of George III's soul.
It was written in response to the Poet Laureate Robert Southey's A Vision of Judgement (1821)

👉A Vision of Judgment (short story) by H. G. Wells

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✍Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses represents the mythical character

Telemachus.
✍Who has written an Ode on the Nativity of Christ? -
John Milton.

✍What does Mephastophilis refuse to tell Faustus? -

Who made the World.

✍Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University for the publication of the -
On the Necessity of Atheism.

✍The full title name of Tom Jones is -The History of Tom Jones, A Founding.
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✍The happiest expression of Herrick's powers may be found in his -

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✍Which famous poet managed to preach his last sermon dressed in his shroud?
John Donne.

✍Whose poems were not published during his life-time? -

George Herbert.

✍Greene Jibed at Shakespeare as an upstart crow for his play -

Henry VI.

✍Newton's Principia was published in - 1687.

✍Thomas Carlyle describes Dante and Shakespeare as -
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Hero as Poet.

✍Chaucer has been criticized for presenting an incomplete picture of his times because -
He writes for the court and cultivates.

✍Who wrote The Provoked Wife?

-John Vanbrugh.

Who wrote the poem " I remember, I remember"? -

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✍Who wrote The Indian Emperor? -

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John Dryden.
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✍The sonnets of Shakespeare were published in1609 with an enigmatic dedication to -

Mr. W.H.

✍England's Oxford Clarendon Press was founded in -

1672.

✍ Which work of Donne was highly approved by James I as a contribution to antiCatholic

controversy? -

Pseudo Martyr.
✍Christian struggle for salvation is the theme of -
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Pilgrim's progress.
"The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come" is a 1678 Christian allegory
written by John Bunyan.

✍Mr. Snap is a character in Jonathan Wild, an ironic narrative of a notorious criminal's life
👉The Life and Death of the Late Jonathan Wild, the Great is a satiric novel by Henry Fielding.
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Who was woken one morning and found himself famous -

Lord Byron.

✍Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer is a reaction against -

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Sentimental comedy.
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✍Which city does Faustus visit extensively in Scene 7 of Dr. Faustus? -

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Rome.
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✍Who wrote the Alexander's Feast? -

John Dryden.

✍Who celebrated Cromwell's return from Ireland through an Ode? -

Andrew Marvell.

✍What trick does Faustus, while invisible, play on the Pope? -

He disrupts the Pope's banquet.

✍Measure for Measure is a tragicomedy by Shakespeare set in -

Vienna.

✍Name the novelists whose novels are called Waverly Novels? -

Walter Scott.

✍ In Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding imitated the style of Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote.
✍Which Milton's poem is based on patience? -
On His Blindness.

✍Who is known as the saint of the Metaphysical poets? -

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✍1653.
England's Chetham's Library in Manchester was founded in -
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✍Who wrote Tales from Shakespeare -

Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb.

✍Who wrote She Would If She Could? -

Etheredge.

✍What was the relationship between Flecknoe and Shadwell? -

Flecknoe was the intellectual father of Shadwell.
✍Which work of Nash is a study of the superstition of the age? -
Terrors of Night.

✍The book The Elizabethan World Picture was written by -

E.M.W. Tillyard.

✍Who said this about Donne: for not keeping an accent Donne deserved hanging?
- Ben Johnson.

✍Who wrote The Family Shakespeare? -

Thomas Bowdler.

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Moliere.
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✍Shelley's Defence of Poetry is a rejoinder to -

Love Peacock's The Four Age of Poetry.

✍The refrain of Spenser's Prothalamion is -

Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song.

✍Which historical figure does Faustus conjure up for the emperor to see?
Alexander the Great.

✍'Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird". -

The Nightingale.

✍"Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting". In which mode does this famous line occur? -
Wordsworth's Immortality Ode.

✍Which character is publicly skeptical of Faustus's power? -

The Knight Benvolio.

✍Herrick, Lovelace, and Suckling are known as -

Cavalier poets.

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✍Adonais is a Pastoral Elegy written on the death of -

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John Keats.
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✍Umbriel is a melancholy sprite in -

The Rape of the Lock.

✍Lycidas of Milton is -
An Elegy.by Milton
on death of Edward King

✍The first periodical Gazette first appeared in the city -

Venice.

✍During the Age of Milton, Drama was - Declined.

✍ King James I who came on the throne of England after the death of Qeen Elizabeth who belonged
to -

Tudor Dynasty.

✍Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell are known as -

Sons of Ben

✍Praeterita is the unfinished autobiography of -

Thomas Ruskin.

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Cowley.
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J.M. Coetzee.

✍Dr. Johnson begins his Lives of the Poets with -

Abraham Cowley.

✍Dr. Johnson's phrase fatal Cleopatra refers to Shakespeare's - fondness for puns
✍King Charles I dissolved the Parliament in 1640. is known as
Short Parliament.
✍The origin of the Comedy of Manner is in -
France.

✍Metaphysical School of Poetry was against -

Emotional Poetry.

✍ 'I was born in London to an honest family. I hardly ever left my studies or we bed before midnight''.
Milton said in -

Second Defence of the English People

✍ The editor of the periodical The Examiner is -

Leigh Hunt.

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Eve of St. Agnes.

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✍Philip Larkin was a Librarian by profession.

✍Who tries to persuade Faustus to repent just before he reveals his pact Lucifer? -
An Old Man.

✍Who has written an Ode to Virgil? - Tennyson.

✍How many of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to a dark lady? -
26.
✍Dylan Thomas is called -
New Apocalyptic.
(A group of poetry)

✍ Their reaction against the political realism of much of the Thirties poetry drew for support upon D.
H. Lawrence (Apocalypse, 1931), surrealism, myth, and expressionism.

✍ About Keats a critic said He is with Shakespeare. Who said? -

Matthew Arnold

✍The Lyrical Ballads was published in - 1798.

✍John Bunyan's style was influenced by -
Bible.

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✍The Royalists in the Age of Milton are also called -

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✍"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage"? -

Sir Richard Lovelace

👉 Richard Lovelace is perhaps best remembered for these lines from his poem To Althea, from
Prison.

✍James Dixon is the central figure in the campus novel -

👉(1954).
Lucky Jim.
Lucky Jim novel by Kingsley Amis.

Jim Dixon is a lecturer in medieval history at a red brick university in the English Midlands. He has
made an unsure start and, towards the end of the academic year, is concerned about losing his
probationary position in the department.
👉Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad

✍The Spenserian stanza consists of -

Nine lines.

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✍Who is the first great textual critic of Shakespeare? -

Lewis Theobald.

✍Who has written an Ode to Thomas Moore? -

Lord Byron.

✍The second folio edition of Shakespeare's plays was published in -

1632.

✍Who said I have smack of Hamlet myself? -

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✍The subtitle of Wordsworth's The Prelude (1850)is -

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The Growth of a Poet's Mind.

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✍The bulkiest Thomas Browne's work is -

Vulgar Errors. (1646)

✍Giles Fletcher and Phinease Fletcher were from the school of -

Edmund Spenser.

✍ The Passionate Pilgrim, an anthology of 20 poems attributed to W. Shakespeare was published in

1599 by -

Wiliam Jaggard.
✍A poem The Locusts or Apollyonists ( byFletcher, Phineas) is written on -
The fall of Lucifer.

✍How many books are there in Paradise Regained? -

04.

✍My Name is Red and Snow are works by the Turkish writer -
Orhan Pamuk.
He won 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
His other important novels are

Cevdet Bey and His Sons Silent House

The White Castle
The Black Book
The New Life

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✍Who wrote the poem Brahma? -

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Emerson.

✍Who wrote the Cries of Children? -

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

✍Walter de la Mare belonged to the - Georgian School of Poets.

✍What is the theme of Paradise Regained? -
The temptation of Jesus Christ.

✍Which elegy is written by Giles Fletcher on the death of Sir Antony Toby?
Elissa.

✍Shakespeare's first two poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were dedicated to -
Earl of Southampton.

✍ Thomas Browne wrote Religio Medici to defend doctors against the charge of -
Atheism.

✍The opening line of Rousseau's "The Social Contract" 1762 is -

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✍Shelley's death was caused by - Drowning.

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✍Who mourns the death of the Duke of Wellington in the form of an Ode?
Tennyson.

✍Theobald criticized Pope's mistakes in the edition of Shakespeare in Shakespeare Restored.

✍Who has paid a tribute to Napoleon in the form of Ode? -
👉Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte by Lord Byron
Lord Byron.

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✍The name of the school master in Hard Times is -

Choakumchild

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Full title:- "Hard Times: For These Times" (published in 1854)

✍One of Keats's odes ends with the lines: Forever wilt thou love and she be fair.
Ode on a Grecian Urn.

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Shelley's Ode to the West Wind.

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✍ Assert Eternal Providence, And Justify the way of God to men. Where do we find these lines? -
Paradise Lost.

✍Which character is Ferdinand's spy in The Duchess of Malfi? -

Deniel de Bosola.

✍The plot of Samson Agonists of Milton is taken from -

👉The Book of Judges is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
The Book of Judge.

✍Which novel begins when I was born in the city of Bombay? -

Midnight's Children.

👉 Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British

👉
colonial rule to independence and the partition of India

👉ItTheis considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature.

story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai.

✍The two Gentlemen in the Two Gentlemen of Veron are -

Valentine and Proteus.

✍ Who wrote the novel Catch-22? - Joseph Heller.

The novel is set during World War II. It mainly follows the life of antihero Captain John Yossarian, a
U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th
US Army Air Squadron.

✍Who is the hero of Paradise Lost?

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✍William Browne's The Inner Temple of Mosque is a dramatic tale of -

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Ulysses and Circe.

✍How does the Cardinal kill his mistress Julia in The Duchessof Malfi?-
By getting her to kiss a poisoned Bible.

✍Who wrote Life of Milton? -

David Masson.
He was a Scottish literary critic and historian.

✍Coleridge and Lamb were influenced by Thomas Fuller's -

Antithetical humour.
✍"Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour" is the beginning line of the sonnet -
London, 1802.
( by Wordsworth.)

✍A thing of beauty is a joy forever. -

Endymion
(Poem by Keats).

✍The name of Hamlet's mother is -

Gertrude.

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✍''Fled is that music -do I wake or sleep''? Which ode of Keats ends with this line?
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To a Nightingale.
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✍The Character of Shakespeare's plays was given by -

William Hazlitt.

✍ The Dark Lady in the sonnets of Shakespeare is assumed to be - Mary Fitton or Amelia Lanier or
Lucy Morgan.

✍ On whose death did Milton Write the elegy Lycidas? -

Edward King.
✍"We look before and after, and pine for what is not", these lines from -
To a Skylark.
(PB Shelley)

✍The Tintern Abbey is situated along the banks of the -

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River Wye
Poem was written by Wordsworth after a walking tour with his sister in this section of the Welsh
Borders. The description of his encounters with the countryside on the banks of the River Wye grows
into an outline of his general philosophy.

✍Izaak Walton's most famous work The Complete Angler was published in -
1653.

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✍How does Bosalo and the executioners kill the Duchess of Malfi? -
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By strangling her.
(Play Duchess of Malfi by John Webster)

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✍Samson Agonistes (1671) by Milton is a -

👉
A tragic closet drama

👉 On the title page, Milton wrote that the piece was a "Dramatic Poem"

👉 Story Based on Samson from the Old Testament.

Drama starts in medias res.

👉 Samson as being "Eyeless in Gaza", a phrase that has become the most quoted line of Agonistes.
Novelist Aldous Huxley used it as the title for his 1936 novel Eyeless in Gaza.

✍Who wrote the play Remorse -

👉
S.T. Coleridge.
Osorio is a tragedy in blank verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
New title of Remorse.

Settings- 16th century Granada.

play is notable for its use of Gothic elements such as a castle, dungeon, cave and the supernatural.
Coleridge's use of these may represent an attempt to elevate what he saw as the vulgar and
sensational trappings of popular Gothic plays by situating them within a more refined form of poetic
drama

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✍Who wrote Life of Scott? -
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John Lockhart.
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✍In Memoriam is an elegy on the death of -

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👉In Memoriam A. H. H" by Alfred Tennyson published 1850.

Arthur Hallam.

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Gray wrote the famous Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. On whose death is this Elegy written?

On the death of the poor country rustics.

✍Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is based on a poem by -

Arthur Brooke’s 1562 poem “The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet.”

✍In the Churchyard of which village is the scene of Gray's Elegy laid? -
The Churchyard of Stoke Poges.

✍Who is considered to be the most remarkable Historical Novelists of the Romantic Period? -
Walter Scott.
He is best known for
novels Ivanhoe
Rob Roy
Waverley
Old Mortality
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
The Bride of Lammermoor

and the narrative poems

The Lady of the Lake
Marmion.

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✍The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge is spoken by an old sailor to
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a young wedding Guest.

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✍ "A mind not to be changed by place or time/ the mind in its own place and in itself/ can make a
heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven" -

Satan in Paradise Lost

✍Which Dryden's poem gives a spirited account of The Great Fire and the War with Dutch? -
Annus Mirabilis.

✍A critic, Taine says Next to the Bible the book most widely read in England is ...
Pilgrim's Progress by Jhon Bunyan
✍In which year was Things Fall Apart published? -
👉
1958.

👉 Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

👉
👉
Title taken from - Second Coming poem by WB Yeats.
The novel follows the life of Okonkwo, an Igbo.
Trilogy- Things Fall Apart 1958
No Longer at Ease 1960
Arrow of God 1964.

✍The play Hamlet can also be regarded as a battle of -

Wits or of intellects.

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✍Anna Wulf, the writer who records her life in four books, appears in -
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👉The Golden Notebook.

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The Golden Notebook is a 1962(NTA UGC NET 2021)

novel by the British writer Doris Lessing.

👉The journey in Pilgrim's progress is undertaken in -

Ten Stages.

✍Dryden's Religio Laici is -

A thesis in support of the English Church.

👉 Note - Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) by Sir Thomas Browne is a spiritual testament and
early psychological self-portrait. Published in 1643

✍Just are the ways of God / And Justifiable to man/ unless there be who think not God at all.
These lines are from -
Samson Agonistes. By Milton

✍ The old sailor in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is cursed for having an Albatross that
helped the sailors.

✍
👉Edinburgh Review was founded in - 1802.
The Edinburgh Review was founded by Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, and Henry Brougham

✍The term dissociation of sensibility is associated with the critic -

✍Phrase used by T.S. Eliot in the essay “The Metaphysical Poets” (1921)
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Eliot uses John Donne’s poetry as the most prominent example of united sensibility and thought.
He writes, “thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.”
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means he disapproved to both of them.

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✍ "All the world's a stage/ And all the men and women merely players" These lines occur in which
play? -

JAQUES in As You Like It.

✍ThatWhatmanis must
the true importance of the Clerk's tale in the Canterbury Tales? -
learn to endure adversity with courage and understanding.

✍ Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy(published in 1621) is a Jacobean inspiration.

✍What is the rhyme scheme of the Shakespeareanbsonnet? -
abab cdcdefefgg.

✍The heroin of Pride and Prejudice is -

Elizabeth Bennet.

👉
Novel by Jane Austen
It's opening lines-
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in
want of a wife'.

✍The severe criticism of Endymion which is believed to have hastened Keats s death appeared in -
Quarterly Review.

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👉 In an 1817 article, John Wilson Croker attacked John Keats in a review of Endymion for his
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association with Leigh Hunt and the so-called Cockney School of poetry. Shelley blamed Croker's
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✍In the poem Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome built in Xanadu is described.
✍In the Bible a beast with seven heads and ten horns appears in Chapter 13 of Revelation.
✍Milton was nicknamed as The Lady of Christ's because - he had an exceedingly fair complexion.
✍Which is Dryden's First play? -
The Wild Gallant.

👉Dryden
The Wild Gallant is a derivative work.
borrowed from several previous authors and plays, as far back as Ben Jonson's Every Man Out
of His Humour (1599). Dryden admired the versification of Sir John Suckling, and quoted and
paraphrased Suckling in his play.

✍Where was Gray himself buried on his death? -

In the Churchyard of Stoke Poges.

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✍ Raymond Williams is an influential figure within the New Left whose work laid the foundations of
Cultural Studies.

✍Whose death does Matthew Arnold mourn in Rugby Chapel? -

Death of his father.

✍ In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning the speaker says that their farewell should be as mild as the
uncomplaining deaths of virtuous men.

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A.H. Clough.
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✍In which year did the first issue of The Tatler come out? -
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1709.

✍One of the works of puritan period influenced Dr. Johnson, Sterne, Charles, Lamb. -
Anatomy of Melancholy.

✍The Dryden's School of Poetry is also called -

The Correct school.

✍The main plank of Aeropagitica's ( by Milton) argument was for the freedom of -
Press.
✍Which puritan king ruled over England before Charles II? -
Oliver Cromwell.

✍The damsel with a dulcimer wailing for demon lover appears in Coleridge's poem -
Kubla Khan.

✍The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed in the ear-

1848.

✍Thomas Overbury's Characters is based on the ancient Greek works of

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✍Shakespeare's historical plays present the history of England from -

1200-1550.

✍Sue Bridehead is the character in -

Jude the Obscure.

✍Who wrote the play John Woodvil - Charles Lamb.

✍Lectures on Shakespeare and Other Poets is a work by -
Coleridge.
✍The period in English history after 1660. is called -
Restoration period.

✍Evelyn and Pepys are known as -

Diarists.

✍Which of the last rhyming tragedies was written by Dryden? -

Aureng-zebe.

✍Spot the book written in the form of dialogue between Piscator and Venator
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Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton.
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The Age of Pope.

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✍"Death is the end of life; ah, why / Should life all labour be"? These lines are from
The Lotus-Eaters.

✍What kind of elegy is Arnold's Thyrsis? -

A Pastoral Elegy.

✍Dylan Thomas's Altarwise by Owl-light is a -

Sonnet sequence.

✍Urania is referred to as the mother of Keats. Who was Urania? -

The patron goddess of poets.

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✍️The Ascent of F6. is a play by - W.H. Auden.

👉The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Actsby W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood
👉👉 The play tells the story of Michael Ransom, a climber, who, against his better judgement, accepts
the offer of the British press and government to sponsor an expedition to the peak of F6, a mountain
on the border of a British colony

✍️In the 18th century the status of women was - low.

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Heroic play.
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✍️Love's last Shift and Provoked Husband are played by -

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Colley Cibber.

✍️The age of Dryden is called - Restoration Age.

✍️Keats called Wordsworth -
The Egotistical Sublime.

✍️Samuel Butler's Hudibras satirizes

- Puritanism as well as scholastic language.
✍️Who said Pray, you now, forget and forgive? - King Lear.
✍️Who popularized the inductive method for arriving at through in his Novum Organum? -
Francis Bacon.

✍️The line Best men are moulded out of faults occur in the play -
Measure for Measure.

✍️To which age did Anthony Trollope belong? - Victorian.

✍️Who is the author of The Blessed Damozel? -
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D.G. Rossetti. io
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✍️Isles of Greece is a poem by -

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Lord Byron.
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✍️Neo-Classical Age is also called - The Augustan Age.

✍️Butler's Hudibras has been modelled on -
Don Quixote.

✍️Who wrote the work Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage? -
Jeremy Collier.

✍️Who was the first to call the age of Pope and Johnson as the Augustan Age?
Oliver Goldsmith.
✍️The postmodern work If on a Winter's Night a Traveller is written by -
Italo Calvino.

✍️ Shelley in his Adonais says When like Apollo from his golden bow the Pythian of the age one arrow
sped. Who is referred to as the Pythian of the age? -

Lord Byron.

✍️Dante's Divine Comedy draws heavily on -

St. Thomas Aquinas.

✍️Who wrote an elegy entitled In Memory of W.B. Yeats? - n

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W.H. Auden.
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✍️Who ridiculed the Auden group of poets as Macspaunday? -

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Roy Campbell.

✍️Who called the Augustan Age as the age of prose and reason? -
Matthew Arnold.

✍️Who collaborated with Dryden in the production of two plays? - Nathaniel Settle.
✍️Who is the author of The Mother? -
👉
Pearl S. Buck.

👉The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck

✍️During Augustan age Classicism came to be regarded as an essential quality of English Literature.
✍️Who wrote the poems The Prisoners of Chillon and Mazeppa? -
Lord Byron.

✍️The basic theme of Arnold's Literature and Dogma is -

Theology.

✍The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is written by -

Muriel Spark.

✍️
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The line O brave new world occurs in the play -
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The Tempest.
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Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by Aldous Huxley
(Bernard Marx is the protagonis)
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✍Shakespeare was regarded as myriad-minded by -

S.T. Coleridge.

✍The Portrait of a lady was written by -

Henry James.

✍Arnold's Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of -

Education.
✍Byron's Don Juan a picaresque novel in verse is called an Epic Satire by -
Byron himself.

✍The slogan following nature can be applied to -

The Augustans.

✍In general, Hudibras is modelled upon the adventure of -

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

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✍In the Age of the Pope , which kind of poetry dominated the other kinds?
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Satiric poetry.
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✍Who is this line about remedies of love she knew perchance? -

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Wife of Bath.

✍Who wrote a non-serious elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog? -

Oliver Goldsmith.

✍Which country is depicted in Robert Browning's poetry as the dialectical opposite of England? -
Italy.

✍Who wrote an elegy On the Death of a Favourite Cat? -

Thomas Gray.
✍Who in the Canterbury Tales was hot and lecherous as a sparrow? -
Summoner.

✍The important work of the Pope which appeared in 1711 is -

An Essay on Criticism.

✍In the domain of Restoration Prose who alone contested the supremacy of John Dryden? -
John Bunyan.

😲 Which poet expressed surprise at his having loved one woman for three whole days together? -

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Suckling.
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✍James, The Duke of York was the - Brother of Charles II.

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✍Who wrote a blank verse tragedy Manfred? -

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Lord Byron.

✍Which novel is called a Novel without a hero? -

Vanity Fair.

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25 February 2022

✍The theatre The Curtain was built in - 1577.

✍Who wrote the introductory Sonnet to Spenser's Faerie Queene? -
Sir Walter Raleigh.

✍Windsor Forest was a pastoral letter written by -

Pope.

✍George Eliot's novel Romola is a -

Historical Novel.

✍Wordsworth is called -
The High Priest of Romanticism.

✍The story of which Dryden based his allegory Absalom and Achitophel is found in -
Samuel Second of the Old Testament.

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✍John Suckling is famous for his short lyrics which are composed in - AntiPetrarchan Style.
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✍In 1660. who was arrested as an unlicensed preacher? -

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John Bunyan.
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✍Which classicalscholar had helped Pope in the translation of The Odyssey into English? -
Fenton and Broome.

✍Who in The Canterbury Tales was fond of playing a bagpipe? -

Miller.

✍Whose death does Collins mourn in his elegy In Yonder Grace a Druid Lies?
James Thomson.

✍The action of Jane Austen's Emma is set in the village of -

Highbury.

✍How many years did Tennyson take in writing In Memoriam? - Seventeen Years.
✍Which character in The Vicar of Wakefield is supposed to be a portrayal of Goldsmith's father? -
Dr. Primrose.

✍ "True wit is nature to advantage dressed what oft was thought but never so well expressed". This is
a famous quote from -

Alexander Pope.

✍ In his second period of imprisonment Bunyan wrote the first part of -

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The Pilgrim's Progress.
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✍Which of the following is a revenge tragedy by Middleton. -

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The Changeling.

✍Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel alludes to the Biblical story of -

The historic quarrel between David, King of Israel and his son Absalom.

✍ Beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know are famous lines
taken from Keat's -

👉
Ode on a Grecian Urn.
"She dwells with Beauty—Beauty that must die;" lines are of poem
Ode on Melancholy by Keats.

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✍ George Eliot was the pen name of - Marian Evans.

Famous Pen name
👉 Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens

👉 Currer, Ellis, & Acton Bell

👉
Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Brontë
Boz

👉
Charles Dickens
Silence Dogood

👉
Benjamin Franklin
Lewis Caroll

👉
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
George Orwell

👉Marguerite
Eric Blair
Maya Angelou

👉 bell hooks
Annie Johnson

👉
Gloria Jean Watkins

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✍The year of the French Revolution - 1798.
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French Revolution influenced to - The Duel by Joseph Conrad

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Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess

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A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

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French Revolution poem by Wordsworth.

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👉 Who is best known as the creator of a new genre, the picaresque novel? -

👉He is known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller, his pamphlets including Pierce Penniless
Thomas Nash.

✍The theatre The Rose was built in -

👉1586.
Rose Theatre, London playhouse built by Philip Henslowe
✍A Game of Chess a political satire by Middleton is set in - England.
Note- A Game of Chess’ is the second section of T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land. Section
modelled on Middleton’s play Women Beware Women.

✍John Bunyan's first work was -

Sighs from Hell.

✍Which classical writer did Pope model his satire on? -

Horace.

✍Charles Dickens left once novel unfinished -

Edwin Drood.

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✍Frankenstein a work of proto science fiction was written by -
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Mary Shelley.
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Mary Shelley's 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein is famously subtitled The Modern Prometheus, after
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the Greek myth of the god Prometheus

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✍The plays of William Congreve are known as -

Comedy of Manners.

✍Charles Lamb called Heywood a prose Shakespeare for his -

A Woman Killed With Kindness.

✍Jonathan Swift published whose Letters in 1700 and 1703? -

Sir William Temple.

✍The character of Atticus is a caricature of -

Addison.

👉 The Character, Atticus that figures in 'Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot by

Alexander Pope

Note- Atticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1960, To Kill
a Mockingbird.

✍Who was first crowned the hero of the Dunceland in Dunciad? -

Theobald.

✍John Hall the Metaphysical poet is known for his translation of -

On the Sublime.

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👉On the Sublime Roman-era Greek work of literary criticism (1st century) by Longinus
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1. Grandeur of Thought( Best source)

2. Capacity for Strong Emotion
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5. Dignity of Composition
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✍Occleve wrote an elegy entitled The Regiment of Prince. On whose death was this written? -
Chaucer.

✍The Over-Soul was an essay written by -

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

👉
American poet who led the transcendentalist movement.

👉 his transcendentalism essay "Nature". (1836)(speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837)
His well-known essays "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", and "Experience."
Together with "Nature",

✍What is Ossian? -
A body of ballads collected by Macpherson.

✍Purchase, His Pilgrimage, which influenced Coleridge in writing Kubla Khan, was written by -
Hakluyt.

✍Who wrote a parody on Dryden's The Hind and the Panther entitled Story of the Country Mouse? -
Matthew Prior.

✍Whose Diary opens on January 1, 1660 and continues until May 31, 1669?
Samuel Pepys.
His Diary provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events,

n
such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.
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✍Sir Fapling Flutter is the subtitle of the play -
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The Man of Mode. By Sir George Etherege

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"She Would If She Could " in 1668,

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✍ Who speaks this line in The Way of the World, " A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman
constant'? -

Witwoud.

✍ Coleridge's Biographia Literaria or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions was
published in -

1817.

✍Who wrote '' If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him' ? -
Voltaire.
In which year was Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four written? -

1949.

👉
👉 is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale.

👉 modelled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany.
centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of

👉Big Brother, the dictatorial leader of Oceania in Novel.

people and behaviours within society.

👉The protagonist- Winston Smith.

✍Which play of Marlowe is unfinished? -

The Massacre at Paris.

👉Note- The Massacre at Paris.a Restoration drama by Nathaniel Lee (1689)

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✍Shakespeare wrote 04 plays based on -
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Roman History.
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Roman plays are:

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Antony and Cleopatra

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Coriolanus
Julius Caesar
Titus Andronicus

✍The Globe Theater consumed by fire in 1613, was rebuilt in -

1614.
On 29 June 1613, the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII.

👉'The Theatre" built by Richard Burbage's father, James Burbage.

✍Who translated Higden's Polychronicon? -

John of Trevisa.
👉 Ranulf Higden was English chronicler.

👉John Trevisa was translator.

Polychronicon, a long chronicle ( universal history and theology.)

👉He was contributors to the Early Version of Wycliffe's Bible.

✍ The most famous writer of James Bond novels was -
Ian Fleming

👉 British writer & naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy
novels.

👉Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952

✍Matthew Arnold's Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of -
Hugh Clough.

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Published (1865)

👉 The character, Thyrsis, was a shepherd in Virgil's Seventh Eclogue.

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Famous line -
"And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
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She needs not June for beauty's heightening"

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27 February 2022
Queen Mab is an early poem by

👉
P.B. Shelley.

👉The poem is written in t form of fairy tale that presents a future vision of a utopia on earth
Ahasuerus ,a "Wandering Jew" appears in Queen Mab as a phantom.

✍In Congreve's The Way of the World Millamant is loved by - Mirabel.

✍Manly is a character in the play -
👉The Plain Dealer is a Restoration comedy by William Wycherley.
The Plain Dealer.

✍Who held the post in Government Administration during The Commonwealth? -

n
John Milton.
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Pa

✍London and The Vanity of Human Wishes are the two verse-satires by -
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Dr. Johnson.
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✍In which poem does Keat's say "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"? -
Ode on a Grecian Urn.

✍Who wrote The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (collection of ballads)

By Bishop Thomas Percy ,published in 1765.

✍Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre spent her childhood in -

👉
Jamaica.

👉 Jane Eyre: An Autobiography novel by Charlotte Brontë,

👉 Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman

👉Jean Rhys's1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea is rewriting of Jane Eyre.

Jane Eyre as the first major feminist novel.
👉 The novel "acted as a catalyst" to feminist criticism with the publication by S. Gilbert and S. Gubar's
The Madwoman in the Attic (1979), the title of which alludes to Rochester's wife.

✍Name the poet who has written John Gilpin ( ballad)?

Cowper.

✍The character Redcrosse Knight in The Faerie Queene has been considered a personification of -
Sir Philip Sidney.

✍ Which poetic work of Thomas Gray has been hailed as a mark of transition between the classical
school and the romantic school? -

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The Elegy.
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✍Who inspired John Milton to portray the rebel in his epic Paradise Lost?
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- Oliver Cromwell.
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✍The biographies of Donne, Hooker and Herbert were written by -

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Izaak Walton.

✍In The Way of the World Mirabel is making pretensions of love towards -
Lady Wishfort.

✍ Alastor or The Spirit of Solitude is a kind of spiritual autobiography

written by

P.B. Shelley.

✍ "Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws of poetic truth
and poetic beauty"? -
Matthew Arnold.

✍
👉 The word Prothalamion was coined by - Edmund Spenser.
Prothalamion (poem) is written in conventional form of a marriage song. The poem begins with a
description of the River Thames

✍The line of "the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance" occurring in -

The Tempest.

✍The Professor was Charlotte Bronte's first completed novel.

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✍The Dynasts is an epic drama written by Hardy. It deals with -
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The Napoleonic Wars.

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👉Who wrote The Cenci a tragedy? - P.B. Shelley.

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The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1819) is a verse drama

✍In The Way of the World Lady Wishfort is the aunt of -

Millamant.

✍Who prefixed verses to Jonson's Volpone in honour of his dear friend The Author? -
Francis Beaumont.

✍Whose prose is regarded as the earliest example of Modern prose? - John Dryden.
✍Which poem by Cowper, written in blank verse contains the famous line "God made the country and
man-made town"? -

👉
The Task.
The poem is extensively quoted in the novels of Jane Austen, and has been seen as deeply
influential on her.

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✍"Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night" and "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" are poems by -
👉
Dylan Thomas.

👉His poem Fern Hill prescribed in Indian universities.

His collection of short prose stories Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog .

✍Who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Waggoner? -

n
William Maginn.
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✍Which character speaks the words" I am Heathcliff"? -

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Catherine.
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✍The Lay of the Last Minstrel was written by -

Walter Scott.

✍Who accompanied Wordsworth on his visit to Tintern Abbey? -

Dorothy.

✍ In the first number of The Tatler, Steele announced that the activities of the new journal will be
based upon the -
Clubs.

✍Restoration Comedy deals with the theme of the relation of the sexes described as the -
Precieuse.

✍The collaboration of Beaumont and Fletcher lasted for - Seven years.

✍Who wrote The Old Bachelor? -
👉The 'Old Bachelor' is Heartwell, 'a surly old bachelor, pretending to slight women'.
William Congreve.

✍Ode to the West Wind by Shelley is written in the season of -

Autumn.
Famous line of Ode to the West Wind

"The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind"?

✍In which Hardy's novels the scene of a wife's auction takes place? -
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The Mayor of Casterbridge.
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✍Chris Wallace Crabbe is a poet from

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Australia.
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✍ "Since the Plain Dealers scenes of manly rage/ No one has dared to flash his crying age. These
lines from

- Love for Love.

👉 Love for Love

1695 play by William Congreve

✍Name the plays which show the conflict between Rome and Egypt -
👉
Antony and Cleopatra.
John Dryden's play All for Love (1677) was deeply influenced by Shakespeare's Antony and

👉
Cleopatra.
John Fletcher & Philip Massinger's The False One was influenced by Shakespeare's Antony and
Cleopatra.
✍The hero of Shakespeare's great classical trilogy is Rome. These lines are said by
Wilson Knight.

✍Give the name of the king of Scotland murdered by Macbeth - Duncan.

✍The Colour Purple by Alice Walker is an -
👉
Epistolary novel.

👉 published in 1982(ntaugcnet2021)

👉 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

👉She writes letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her.
protagonist-Celie

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✍Wilkie Collins as a novelist is best known for -
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The Creation of Sensational plot.

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✍Shelley compares the Skylark to a poet, a lonely maiden and a rose in the poem To a Skylark.
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✍ ''Plot in a comedy became a hotchpotchof stuff,consisting of a seriesof entertaining scenes,

loosely strung together, without any regard for unity of action"

These statements may be applied to -

Restoration Comedy.
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✍Elizabethan
Edward Allen was a great actor of the -

👉 Age.
Edward Alleyn, Henry Condell, William Shakespeare, Richard Burbage and John Hemmings were the
most famous of all Elizabethan actors

✍ In Langland's Piers the Plowman, Piers appears finally as -

Jesus.

✍Which play by Eugene O'Neill is a full exposition of Expressionistic techniques?

👉
- The Hairy Ape.

👉Protagonist of the play- Yank

The Hairy Ape displays oppression of the industrial working class

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Pa

Shelley's Adonais laments the death of -

Keats.
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✍Who described Restoration comedy as artificial? -

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Charles Lamb.

✍Thomas Dekker attacked which literary personality in his play Satiromastix?

Ben Jonson.

✍My life closed twice before it closed. Who wrote this line? -
Emily Dickinson.

✍About hundred papers of Dr. Johnson were contributed between 1758 and 1760. to -
👉The Idler was a series of 103 essays
The Idler.

✍Which is Vikram Seth's verse novel -

👉
The Golden Gate.
Composed of 590 Onegin stanzas.

✍Where do you find the line "Thou waitest for the spark from heaven"?
The Scholar Gipsy.
poem by Matthew Arnold.

✍What is the meaning of the title La Belle Dame Sans Merci? -

👉
A beautiful maiden without mercy.

👉 La Belle Dame sans Merci" is a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819.

👉This
The title was derived from Alain Chartier poem La Belle Dame sans Mercy.
poem inspired Philip Larkin's 1956 poem "An Arundel Tomb".

✍ Which novel has the opening line, "The Nellie a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter
of sail, and was at rest"? -

👉 n
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
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story of Charles Marlow, a sailor who takes on an assignment from a Belgian trading company as a
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ferry-boat captain in the African interior. The novel is widely regarded as a critique of European

👉
colonial rule in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality.
Pa

Heart of Darkness implicitly comments on imperialism and racism.

✍Edward Cave's monthly Magazine which made a modest beginning in 1731. was named -
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The Gentleman's Magazine.

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✍ Who wrote the massive work

An American Tragedy? -

👉
Theodore Dreiser.

👉 American novelist & journalist of the naturalist school

Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).

✍Holy and Profane State is one of greatest works of character-sketch. Who wrote it? -
Thomas Fuller.
The Holy State describes t holy state as existing in the family & in public life, gives rules of conduct,
model "characters" for the various professions and profane biographies
Fuller , English churchman remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England,

✍Who said "A Satire is a medley or a hotch-potch"? -

John Dryden.

✍Who wrote Prometheus Unbound a four act lyrical drama? -

👉
Shelley

👉 lyrical drama- is not intended to be produced on the stage.

👉
The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1819) is also lyrical drama in 5 acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Triumph of Life was the last major work by Percy Bysshe Shelley before his death in 1822. The
work was left unfinished

✍Who was instrumental in exposing the intrigue which Mirabel was playing upon Lady Wishfort? -
Mrs. Marwood and Mr. Fainall.
(Play - The way of the world by William Congreve)

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✍Who is the native chief who leads the revolt against Brutus Jones in Emperor Jones? -
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Lem.
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✍Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain. These lines are from -
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The Mayor of Casterbridge.

✍It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in all - Four Stories.
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is supposed to have been written in -

1388.

✍The Swan Theater has 12 sides and was built in the year -
1594.

✍The origin of English drama is attributed to-

👉
The Liturgy.
Liturgy is the customary public worship performed by a religious group, especially by a Christian
group
✍ In one of his novels Hardy quotes Shakespeare's remark - ''As flies to the wanton boys are we to the
gods, they kill us for their sport".-

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

✍How does Brutus Jones die at the end of the play? -

He is killed by a silver bullet by the natives.

👉 The Emperor Jones

EUGENE O’NEILL 1920

✍Which character in The Way of the World was sent to prison at the end of the play? -
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Waitwell. io
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Pa

✍Who wrote poems like Marmion, The Lady of the Lake and Rokeby?-
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Walter Scott.
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✍Alexander's Feast, a magnificent ode written for St. Cecilia's Day was writtenby -
John Dryden.

✍ How many characters does George Herbert's The Country Parson deal with within its thirty-seven
essays? -

One.

✍Which Shakespearean character says I am a man / More sinned against than sinning? -
King Lear.
✍
-
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry which contained 108 ballads in three volumes was compiled by

Thomas Percy.

✍Goldsmith's own periodical which ran to only eight weekly numbers was named -
The Bee.

✍The Seasons by James Thomson is a poem in -

Blank verse.

✍Proud Maisie is a ballad written by -

n
Walter Scott.
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✍Which movement was Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane proponents of?
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Naturalism.
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✍Dryden's The Medal is a personal satire on -

Shaftesbury.

✍Goblin Market is a mid-nineteenth century proto-feminist poem by -

Narrative poem by Christina Rossetti

👉The poem tells the story of Laura and Lizzie who are tempted with fruit by goblin merchants.
✍The Citizen of the World by Goldsmith originally appeared in -
The Public Ledger.

✍Who said a woman writer should kill the Angel in the House? -
Virginia Woolf.
👉 “Professions for Women” is an abbreviated version of speech Virginia
Woolf delivered before a branch of the National Society for Women’s
Service on January 21, 1931

✍Who is the Squire of Sir Hudibras in Hudibras? -

👉
Ralph

✍Hudibras English mock-heroic narrative poem written by Samuel Butler.

Which book John Dryden wrote in the honour of the birth of James II?

Britannia Rediviva.

✍Keats's Ode to a Nightingale begins with the line ...

"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains.…...."

✍ Fondles wife is a character in the work -

👉
The Old Bachelor.

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👉Fondlewife, a banker and an ancient, doting husband. He catches his young wife with Bellmour.
The Old Bachelor is the first play by William Congreve, produced in 1693.
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✍Yank does the job of a coal stoker aboard the Transatlantic ocean liner in -
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👉
The Hairy Ape.
lit

The Hairy Ape is a 1922 expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill. It is about a beastly, unthinking
laborer known as Yank, the protagonist of the play.

✍Hardy believes in the philosophy of -

Immanent Will.

👉 Hardy's pessimistic view-

"God's NOT in his heaven: All's WRONG with the world"! In novel
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES.

👉 Robert Browning's optimistic views in Pippa Passes (verse drama)

" GOD’S IN HIS HEAVEN – ALL’S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD!”

✍Which poem did Milton write in octosyllabic couplets? -

II Penseroso.
✍Boccaccio's Decameron is echoed in Shakespeare's -
All's Well That Ends Well.

✍Theaters were closed down due to the plague in the year -

1592.

✍Which statue by Auguste Rodin does Yank occasionally resemble? -

The Thinker.

✍Valentine is a character in the play of Congreve? -

Love for Love.

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By William Congreve.
Who wrote a poem Hyperion? - io
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👉poem The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream is also by Keats

John Keats.
Pa

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''A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow
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draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again". This quote from -
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👉
Essay on Criticism.
An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by Alexander Pope published in 1711.
It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human; to forgive, divine", "A little learning is a
dang'rous thing" (frequently misquoted as "A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing"), and "Fools rush in
where angels fear to tread".

✍Which movement is considered as the second and greater Renaissance?

Puritan Movement.

✍Bosla is a character who spice on the protagonist and is involved in her murder, in the play -
The Duchess of Malfi by Webster.

✍The Vision of Mirza and Public Credit are popular allegories by -

Addison.
✍D.G. Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel was first published in the Pre-Raphaelite periodical -
👉
The Germ.
Famous line of this poem
"She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven."

✍Whom does Dryden satirise under the name of zimri in Absalom and Achitophel? -
Duke of Buckingham.

✍V.S. Naipul's A House for Mr. Biswas centers on the protagonist's struggle to
👉
Own a House.
It is the story of Mohun Biswas, a Hindu Indo-Trinidadian who continually strives for success and
mostly fails, who marries into the influential Tulsi family only to find himself dominated by it, and who
finally sets the goal of owning his own house
It's views on colonial world with postcolonial perspectives.

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✍Who is Saleem Sinai's faithful listener in Midnight's Children? -
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Padma.
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✍Chaucer's most pungent satire is directed on -

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The Clergy.

✍ Who famously employed the conceit that Shakespeare had a talented sister Judith who was driven
to suicide by artistic frustration? -

Virginia Woolf.

✍Sir Roger De Coverley was -

The imaginary old man of Addison's essays.

✍ In The Word, the Text and the Critic Edward Said says
Texts are in the world and hence worldly.
✍The Act of Settlement was passed in 1701 during the reign of -
Queen Anne.

✍In the ode To Autumn, Keats personifies autumn's a female goddess, sitting on the granary foor.
✍Which animal does Mildred In The Hairy Ape compare herself to? -
Leopard.

✍Othello is a tragedy of -
Jealousy.

✍Macbeth is a tragedy of - Ambition.

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✍Hamlet is a tragedy of -
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Indecisiveness.
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✍In Absalom and Achitophel Dryden attacked on -

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Duke of Monmouth.

✍Dryden's All for Love is an adaptation of -

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

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✍When Leviathan published ? -

1651

Full title - Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil.
written by Thomas Hobbes

👉 Book deals with structure of society & legitimate government, & is regarded as one of the earliest
and most influential examples of social contract theory(legitimacy of authority of state over the
individual)
👉 Hobbes says that civil war & brute situation of a state of nature ("the war of all against all") could
be avoided only by strong, undivided government.

✍Who gave the name Sporting Kyd to Thomas Kyd? -

Ben Johnson.

✍What is IWW in The Hairy Ape, about which Yank hears in prison? -
Industrial Workers of the World.

✍Who wrote The Plain Dealer? -

William Wycherley.

✍Keats describes the Grecian Urn as the-

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THE SYLVAN HISTORIAN REFERS TO THE WAY IN WHICH THE URN TELLS THE TALE. “SYLVAN”
MEANS- INHABITANT OF FOREST
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✍The Age of the Pope is known as

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- The age of tolerance, moderation, and common sense.

✍In which poem of Dryden is there a reference to the great fire of London?
Annus Mirabilis.

✍ The novel Rich Like Us, set in New Delhi in the turbulent time between the 1930s and 70s, which
follows the lives of Rose and Sonali was written by -

Nayantara Sahgal.

👉Who called Addison's prose as Attic and Asiatic? -

Matthew Arnold.
✍ Who explores the relevance of leadership in the contemporary world through the medieval hero
Abbot Samson? -

Carlyle in Past and Present.

✍Pope's Dunciad is a powerful and violent satire on -

some minor poets of his day.

✍In Things Fall Apart which crop is king for the Igbo people. -
Yam.

✍Contemporary
Pope's Rape of the Lock is a satire on -

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aristocratic society.
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✍The Famished Road is a Booker Prize winning novel by the Nigerian novelist.
Pa
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✍
Ben Okri.
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👉 story of The Famished Road follows Azaro, an abiku or spirit child, living in an unnamed African.
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His Trilogy
lit

The Famished Road (1991)

Songs of Enchantment (1993)
Infinite Riches(1998)

✍"Preface to Shakespeare" and Lives of the Poets are critical works of -

👉Johnson opposed the poetic language of his contemporary Thomas Gray. & John Milton.
Dr. Johnson.

✍ Who said "Image is an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time"?

👉
Ezra Pound.
Ezra Pound is noted as founder of imagism, movement was rooted in ideas first developed by

👉
English philosopher and poet T. E. Hulme.
Pound's famous poem-
In a Station of the Metro

"The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough"

✍Monmouth
The Medal of Jon Bayes is a reply to The Medal. Who wrote it? -

✍Who wrote the poem The Campaign? -

Joseph Addison

✍Who wrote the prologue of tregedy Cato

👉
👉 Addison wrote his most famous work, Cato, a Tragedy.

👉Alexander Pope in his Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot made Addison an object of derision, naming him
It has a prologue written by Alexander Pope and an epilogue by Samuel Garth.

"Atticus", and comparing him to an adder, "willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike"

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✍On First Looking into Chapman's Homer is a sonnet by -
Pa

👉
Keats.
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the sonnet was inspired by Keats’s having pored over a 1616 folio edition of George Chapman’s
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English translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is Keats’s response to heroism.
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✍In which play of Wycherley the character Blackacre appears? -

The Plain Dealer.

✍What is Yanks real name in The Hairy Ape? -

Robert Smith.

✍ Which are the great tragedies of Shakespeare according to Bradley? - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,

👉HOKM
Macbeth.

✍Which is a visionary work by William Blake? -

The Vision of the Daughters of Albion.
✍Who speaks Nature as Red in Tooth and Claw .-
Tennyson.

✍Pope's An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of -

Lord Bolingbroke.

✍The translation of the Cura Pastoralis was done by -

King Alfred.

✍The Battle of Philippi occurs in -

Julius Caesar.

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✍Whom does Yank call brother in The Hairy Ape? -
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The Gorilla.
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✍Fidellia in Wycherley's The Plain Dealer is in love with -

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Manly.

✍Who wrote An Essay on the Principles of Human Action? -

Hazlitt.

✍Which club was organized by Jonatan Swift in 1714? -

Scriblerus club.

✍Dryden makes a comparison between Shakespeare and Ben Jonson in -

The Essay of Dramatic Poetry.
Dr. says “I admire him (Ben Jonson) but I love Shakespeare”

✍ Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat is set in Kenya during the country's struggle for
👉
independence
His important essay

👉
Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature.
His important short story
"A Meeting in the Dark"
His famous Novels
"Weep not child"
"The River Between"
"A Grain of Wheat "
"Petals of Blood "

Note-

The title Petals of Blood is derived from a line of Derek Walcott's poem 'The Swamp'.
.

✍ In which of his works Swift imitates and ridicules the solemn style and manner of a princely pious
moral essayist? -

Meditation on a Broomstick.

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The novel Native Son which tells the story of the crimes of the 20year old AfricanAmerican
protagonist Bigger Thomas was written by -
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Richard Wright.
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✍In The Mayor of Casterbridge, Donald Farfrae takes over Casterbridge' -

lit

👉
Grain Trade.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.( 1886)

👉
Full Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character

👉 Settings- Wessex

👉 Antagonist: Michael Henchard

Michael Henchard sells his wife( Susan) and daughter (Elizabeth Zane) for five guineas at a country

👉buyer is Richard Newson, a sailor

fair.

✍Byron's "Vision of Judgement" is a satire on -

Southey's "A Vision of Judgement".

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✍The Leatherstocking Tales a series of novels featuring Natty Bumppo was written by -
James Fenimore Cooper.

✍The five letters by Swift published in 1724 -

The Drapier's Letters.

✍Who wrote The Female Quixote? - Charlotte Lennox.

✍"The line Much malice mingled with a little wit" is from -
The Hind and the Panther.

✍ The Confession of an English Opium Eater published in the London Magazine in 1821 was written

n
by
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DeQuincey.
Pa
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✍Where does Willy Loman in Death of Salesman live? -

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Brooklyn.

✍The love affair of Silvius and Phoebe takes place in the play -
As You Like It.

✍ Story of Thebes which is considered the supposed addition of the Canterbury Tales is written by -
John Lydgate.

✍Which of the following works by Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal? -
The Vanity of Human Wishes.

✍Who is the author of the novel No Name? -

Wilkie Collins.
✍The final version of Wordsworth's The Prelude appeared in -
1850.

✍Chaucerian seven line stanza is also known -

Rima Royale.

✍ Which play of Shakespeare has been regarded as one of Shakespeare's most assured artistic
successes by T.S. Eliot? -

Coriolanus.

✍🏿Who tells Willy Loman, The jungle is dark, but full of diamonds? -
👉
His wealthy neighbor, Charley.

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William "Willy" Loman is a fictional character and the protagonist of Arthur Miller's classic play
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✍🏿Olivia is a character in the play - The Plain Dealer.

Pa
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✍🏿
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Coleridge makes a distinction between imagination and fancy in Character 13 of Biographia

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Literaria.
lit

✍🏿Steele announced that in his The Tatler the poetry would be published under that of -
Wills Coffee-House.

✍🏿The first life in Johnson's Lives of the Poets was that of -

Abraham Cowley.

✍🏿In the land of Houyhnhnms, Gulliver tries to identify himself with the -
Horses.
✍🏿The Biographia Literaria by ST Coleridge was published in the year -
1817.

✍🏽 Galsworthy's Silver Box is a satire on -

The system of legal trial.

✍🏽In which of these places does most of the action of Hard Times take place?
Coketown.

✍🏽GB Shaw's The Apple Cart is a powerful satire on -

The Working of Democracy.

n
✍🏽Ariosto's Orlando Furioso was Spenser's classical model for
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The Faerie Queene.
Pa

✍🏽Sir Roger de Coverley the imaginary old man of Coverley Papers is a -

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👉TorySircountry squire.
lit

Roger de Coverley, fictional character, devised by Joseph Addison.

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✍As a contributor to The Spector Steele was mostly a censorious critic of -

Drama.

✍Shaw's Arms and the Man is a satire on -

The false glorification of war.

✍Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote the screenplays of the Merchant Ivory films of Forster's -
A Room with a View and Howard's End.
✍Which work is discussed at length in Dryden's Essay? -
The Silent Woman of Ben Jonson

✍In Rape of the Lock where is the party held? -

Hampton Court Palace.

'Take care that the bad poets do not outwit you, This is Swift's warning to the Pope on his writing of -

The Dunciad.

✍Ivanhoe and Kenilworth are historical novels by -

Walter Scott.

n
✍Wycherley's The Country Wife who proclaims himself to be an eunuch? -
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Mr.Horner.
Pa

✍Who is the Woman in Death of a Salesman? -

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Willy's Mistress.
lit

✍Which character of Shakespeare has the courtiers, soldier's, scholar's, eye tongue, and sword?
Hamlet.

✍ The writer of Walden is -

👉
Thoreau.
Full title - Walden Pond or, Life in the Woods by American transcendentalist writer Henry David
Thoreau.

👉His "Civil Disobedience" influenced to Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.
👉
Who is the author of Unto This Last? - John Ruskin.

👉 Unto This Last is an essay critical of economics

👉 influenced to Mahatma Gandhi.

Gandhi translated Unto This Last into Gujarati in 1908 under the title of Sarvodaya (Well Being of
All)
✍Dickens said I like this the best which novel was he referring to -
David Copperfield.

✍Who distinguished between the literature of knowledge and the literature of power?
De Quincy.

✍Who wrote The Gentleman Dancing Masters? -

William Wycherley.

✍In Henry IV part I the name of the son of the King is -

Prince Hal.

✍well-likeness.
n
Willy Loman likened his son to Adonis and Hercules due to their -
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William "Willy" Loman is a fictional character and the protagonist of Arthur Miller's classic play
Death of a Salesman,
Pa

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In Wycherley's The Country Wife which character has married the country girl and brought her to
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London? -
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Mr. Pinchwife.

✍
👉 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen parodies the Gothic Romance.
Catherine Morland is "in training for a heroine" and is excessively fond of reading Gothic novels,
among which Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho is a favourite.

✍ Nature and Nature's Law lay hid in night: God said Let Newton be And all was light. Who wrote
these lines -

Alexander Pope.

✍In Rape of the Lock what beverage is served after the card game ends? -
Coffee.

✍Dryden's prose is remarkable for his use of - Short sentences and concise expression.
✍The Diverting History of John Gilpin is a comic ballad by -
William Cowper.

✍ Swift wrote in one of his works A young healthy child, well-nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious
nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled. -

A Modest Proposal.

✍ Which novel by Dickens is the story of an orphan writing about his life finally becoming a gentleman
in London? -

👉👉
Great Expectations.
Protagonist- Pip

👉 Genre - bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story.

Magwitch is the protagonist of Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (1997)

👉 n
(Rewriting of Great Expectations)
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Mister Pip (2006) is a novel by Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author. )
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Pa

✍Which is Addison's once highly esteemed and financially successful venture into tragedy? -
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Catos.
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Addison's play themes-

lit

individual liberty versus government tyranny, republicanism versus monarchism, logic versus
emotion, and Cato's personal struggle to hold to his beliefs in the face of death. The play has a
prologue written by Alexander Pope and an epilogue by Samuel Garth.

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✍Who wrote a tragedy by the name Tamerlane; a tragedy? -

Nicholas Rowe.

✍Who wrote the Romantic poem The Grave? -

Robert Blair.

✍The Miracle Plays principally deal with the miracles performed by -

Saints and Sages.
✍Imagism was influenced by the aesthetic theories of -
T. E. Hulme.

✍Which age is considered to be the Golden Age of political pamphleteering?

Augustan Age.

✍Who wrote the essay On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth? -

Thomas De Quincey.

👉
best known for his

👉 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

👉 The English Mail-Coach

On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts"

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Pa
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✍The name of the comic character in A Midsummer Night's Dream is -

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Bottom.

✍What is subtitle of Under the Greenwood Tree is written by Thomas Hardy.

👉 title of Under the Greenwood Tree, taken from a song in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
A Rural Painting of the Dutch School

✍Who is the author of Dr. Jakyll and Mr. Hyde? -

R.L. Stevenson.

👉
👉 Scottish writer.
He is best known for works such as Treasure Island,
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
Mr Hyde
Kidnapped
A Child's Garden of Verses.
✍The Office of Circumlocution occurs in -
Little Dorrit novel by Charles Dickens.

👉Little Dorrit forms the backdrop to Peter Ackroyd's debut novel, The Great Fire of London (1982).
✍Vaughan's The Retreat has been compared to Wordsworth's - Daffodils.
✍The hero of Coriolanus is -
Caius Martius.

👉 T. S. Eliot said- Coriolanus superior to Hamlet in The Sacred Wood, in which he calls the former play,
along with Antony and Cleopatra, the Bard's greatest tragic achievement.

✍What does Willy Loman decide to do one night? -

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Plant vegetables. io
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✍Which is the last play written by Farquhar? -

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The Beaux Stratagem.

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👉 George Farquhar (Irish dramatist) Noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy.
lit

His plays- The Constant Couple (1699), The Recruiting Officer (1706) and The Beaux' Stratagem
(1707)

✍The pioneer of the historical novel is -

Walter Scott.

✍The Tatler came to an end on -

👉
02 January, 1711.
The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709 and published
for two years

✍What is Lord Robert Peter referred to as in The Rape of the Lock? -

The Baron.

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✍ Who is the author of the following? Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem/ To copy Nature is
to copy them. -

Alexander Pope.

✍Samuel Butler's Hudibras derived its name from -

The Faerie Queene.

✍Why were the Interludes introduced?

They provided comic relief

✍ Who famously critiqued Jane Austen for rejecting even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy
sisterhood of the Bronte sisters? -

n
Charlotte Bronte.
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✍Calista and Lothaio are characters in The Fair Penitent written by -

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Nicholas Rowe.
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✍Who calls poetry a speaking picture with the end to teach and delight? -
Philip Sidney.

✍The Resurrection of Lazarus was a very popular play -

Miracle play.

✍Virtues and Vices are personified in -

The Moralities.

✍The History of Henry Esmond is a novel by -

Thackeray.

✍This casket India's glowing gems unlocks/ And all Arabia breathes from a yonder box. These lines
appear in -

The Rape of the Lock.

✍Which sylph is assigned to guard Belinda's favorite lock? -

Crispissa.

✍ Pride and Prejudice is the story of the -

Bennet Family.

✍Silvia is a character in the play -

👉The Recruiting Officer.
play by Irish writer George Farquhar, which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers,

n
the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen.
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✍Where does The Glass Menagerie take place? -

Pa
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👉The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams.

St. Louis.
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✍The war between Rome and the Volscians takes place in the play -
Coriolanus.

✍Who is the first protestant of England? -

👉
John Wycliff.
Lollard movement, was a Proto-Protestant Christian religious movement. It was initially led by John
Wycliffe.

✍ Negative Capability is a term associated with -

Keats.

👉 Negative capability- a writer’s ability, “which Shakespeare possessed so enormously,” to accept

“uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason,”

✍The novel Mary Barton is written by -

Mrs. Gaskell.
✍
👉 Dickens characters are generally - Flat.
a flat character is one that “does not change in course of the plot.” Flat characters are two-

👉
dimensional, meaning they “lack substance or depth.”
E. M. Foster has discussed some features of flat characters in his book, Aspects of the Novel
(1927)

"Poetry is a criticism of life" line occurring in -

The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold

Published in 1888

✍For whom The Bell Tolls novel was written by -

👉
Earnest Hemingway ( American novelist)
The book's title is taken from metaphysical poet John Donne's Meditation XVII ( Part of Devotions

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✍Jacques is the melancholy character in the play -
Pa

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As You Like It.
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line spoken by Jaques-

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the world’s a stage,

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And all the men and women merely players;

lit

They have their exits and their entrances"

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✍Which is the most unique stylistic feature of The Glass Menagerie? -

On-stage screen.

👉
👉 The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams.

👉 The play was reworked from one of Williams' short stories "Portrait of a Girl in Glass"
Main character
Tom
Laura
Jim O'Connor

✍Which is the first play written by George Etherage? -

The Comical Revenge.

✍Who is the aunt of Darcy in Pride and Prejudice? -

Lady Catherine de Borough.

✍Who wrote The History of John Bull that ridicules the war policy of the Whigs?
John Arbuthnot.

✍In Tom Jones from whom does Allworthy receive a letter that clears Tom from blame? -
Square.

"Here thou, great Anna whom three realms obey/ Dost sometimes counsel, take and sometimes tea"

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Where do we find these lines? - io
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The Rape of the Lock.
Pa

✍Hazlitt makes a spiteful attack on Shelly in his -

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Table Talk.
lit

✍What is meant by Denouement? -

The ending of a comedy.

✍What is meant by Catastrophe? -

The ending of a tragedy.

✍ Who defines the Essay as "A loose sally of the mind an irregular undigested piece not a regular and
orderly composition"? -

Dr. Johnson.

✍Three Hours After Marriage is a collaborative satire jointly written by -

John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Arbuthnot.

✍ Where does Bacon say a mixture of falsehood is like alloy I gold and silver, which may make the
metal work the better, but it embaseth it? -

Of Truth.

✍What is the function of the Chorus in a play? -

The Chorus explains the past and the future events in the play.

✍Under the Volcano is a semi-autobiographieal novel by -

Malcolm Lowry.

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✍"To err is human, to forgive divine" where do we find these lines? -
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Essay on Criticism.
Pa

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Which character in Tom Jones is a caricature, is violent in his actions and speaks in West Country
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dialect?
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lit

- Squire Weston.

✍The Gentle Shepherd a pastoral drama is authored by -

✍The Gentle Shepherd is a pastoral comedy.
Allan Ramsay.

✍ Castle Rackrent (Genre

Historical novel) The Absentee, and Ormond are Irish tales by

Maria Edgeworth.

✍In which play of Etherage the character Dorimant appears? -

The Man of Mode.

✍The title of Catcher in the Rey comes from Holden Caulfield's misinterpretation of the poem "Comin'
Thro the Rye'' by -

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Robert Burns.
Catcher in the Rey novel by J. D. Salinger,

✍The sea battle of Actium takes place in the play -

👉
Antony and Cleopatra
All for Love; or, the World Well Lost, is a 1677 heroic drama by John Dryden.
imitation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.

✍Bede the famous Christian writer of the Anglo-Saxon period, wrote mostly in which language? -
Latin.
Bede is famous for Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in about 731.

✍Martha Quest was written by -

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Children of Violence series.
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✍The theme of Tennyson's Idylls of the King is -

The story of king Arthur and His Round Table.

✍️"And may there be no moaning of the bar, when I put out to sea". These lines occur in Tennyson's -
Crossing the Bar.

✍The term stream of consciousness was taken from the book -

The Principles of Psychology.
1890 book about psychology by William James
✍Which poem of Browning begins with the lines" Grow old along with me the best is yet to be -
Rabbi Ben Ezra.

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✍J.G. Fraser's The Golden Bough focuses on -

Archetypes.

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Full title-The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion.
T. S. Eliot acknowledged indebtedness to Frazer in his first note to his poem The Waste Land.

👉
William.
The Golden Bough influenced Sigmund Freud's work Totem and Taboo (1913)

✍Which of Chaucer's work has been termed by S.D. Neil as a novel in verse?
The Canterbury Tales.

✍At the beginning of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden finds himself - Expelled from school.
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✍In which play of Etherage the character Harriet appears? -
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The Man of Mode.

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✍Who is known as The Irish Patriot? -

Jonathan Swift.

✍Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy loses his hobby horse of fortification during Treaty of Utrecht.

✍The symbol Sick Rose was famously used for -

William Blake.

✍A Soliloquy is defined as the loud thinking of a character. Who can hear this loud thinking? -
The whole audience.
✍How many acts does the Irish play Rider to the Sea have? -
👉Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge.
One.

✍Which lady Character is the narrator in Defoe's The Fortunate Mistress? -

Roxana.

✍The History of a Young Lady is the subtitle of -

Clarissa.
An epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson

✍ Which fifteenth century English writer was imprisoned for fighting in the wars of the Roses in
support of the Yorkists? -

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Thomas Malory. io
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✍Surfacing is a novel by the Canadian writer -

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Margaret Atwood.
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😁Which eighteenth century figure was no more than 4 ft 6 in tall? -

Alexander Pope.

✍Whose beard in The Canterbury Tales was as white as a daisy? -

The Franklin.

✍Liliput, Brobdingnag and Yahoo are the special terms appearing in -

Jonatan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

✍Laon and Cythna are characters in Shelley's -

The Mask of Anarchy.
✍Who is the author of the play The Provoked Wife? -
John Vanbrugh.

✍What nickname did Hemingway assume to convey a sense of strength, wisdom, and mastery -
Papa.

✍Which work by Shakespeare was regarded by Coleridge as a hateful work?

Measure for Measure.

✍Who used the expression unaging monuments of intellect? -

W.B. Yeats.

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Willy Loman.
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Browning's Prospice.

✍The character Leopld Bloom makes an appearance in the novel -

Ulysses.
(novel by Irish writer James Joyce.)

✍The keynotes of The Tempest are -

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Forgiveness and Freedom

👉 In Act IV, a wedding masque serves as a play-within-a-play

👉 Genre of The Tempest- Romance

The French writer Aimé Césaire, in his play Une Tempête sets The Tempest in Haiti, portraying Ariel

👉
as a mulatto.

👉 Brave New World's title ( by Aldous Huxley) taken from the Tempest.

👉 Caliban upon Setebos" poem by "Robert Browning.

👉Margaret Atwood's 2016 novel Hag-Seed is based on The Tempest.

character Miranda inspired to The Diviners by Margaret Laurence.
✍Which Shakespearean character is referred to as "too full of the milk of human kindness"? -
👉
Lady Macbeth
In "Macbeth" ( Act I, Scene V), the line "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human
kindness." is said by Lady Macbeth.

This line in modern English means "I’m worried about your nature: It’s too gentle and kind".

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✍Who said "Yes I am proud I must be proud to see men not afraid of God afraid of me🤣? -
Alexander Pope.

✍Approximately how many days do the events of the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls span? -
Three.

✍Who is known as a ploughman poet? - n

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Robert Burns.
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"To a Louse"
"To a Mouse"
"The Battle of Sherramuir"
"Tam o' Shanter"
"Ae Fond Kiss".

✍Asia, Hercules, and Jupiter are characters in -

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Prometheus Unbound.

👉William Butler Yeats called it "among the sacred books of the world.
four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley( 1820.)

Note- Mary Shelley's 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein is famously subtitled The Modern Prometheus.

✍Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders( 1722) is -

👉Moll's mother is a convict in Newgate Prison in London .
The story of female rough.

✍Which character's tale in The Canterbury Tales echoes anti-courtly ideas as in Jean de Meun's
continuation of Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la Rose? -

The Wife of Bath.

✍In which poem Pope wanted to vindicate the ways of God to man? -
👉
An Essay on Man.

👉 It was dedicated to Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke.

An Essay on Man (1733–1734) is a poem

✍The Morphology of the Folktale was written by the Russian Formalist

- Vladimir Propp.

✍Who wrote What Happens in Hamlet? -

Dover Wilson.

✍The protagonist of Pamela is - n

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Mr. B.
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✍Into haw many parts is Divine Comedy divided? -

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Three.
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✍"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? Whose face is referred to in this line? -
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Helen's in the Play Doctor Faustus, ( by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title
character Faust)

✍William Painter is the author of the 16th century work -

Palace of Pleasure.

✍To what genre does the Wife of Bath's Prologue belong? -

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Allegorical confession.

👉 Tale of celibacy and a lusty account of her five marriages.

👉Wife of Bath has a gap in her teeth.

A woman wants to control over husband
✍"He taught the passion to move at the command of virtue "Dr. Johnson expressed this in praise of -
👉
Samuel Richardson.
Samuel Richardson English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels:
1. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740)
2. Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748)
3. The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753)
(Note -Remember the title)

✍The poem The Princess dealing with the theme of the new woman was written by -
👉The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem
Tennyson.

✍What is meant by the churchyard school of poets? -

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The poetry that suffered from melancholy strain.

👉The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets

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4. Edward Young's Night-Thoughts.

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✍During which war does the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls take place? -
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Spanish Civil War.
Novel by Ernest Miller Hemingway

👉 The title from Meditation 17 of John Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.
Story of Robert Jordan, a young American in International Brigades attached to an antifascist
guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic

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death of an ideal.
Hemingway coined The iceberg theory or theory of omission
(focusing on surface elements without explicitly discussing underlying themes)

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✍Act II Scene in Romeo and Juliet is known as -

Balcony Scene.

✍Blank verse first appeared in English poetry in Surrey's translation of -

Aeneid.

✍ The Black Death that swept over England when Chaucer was about nine years old is another name
for -

The Great Plague.

✍ Michael Ondaatje represents the Sri Lankan diaspora

Michael Ondaatje famous for

1.. The English Patient

2. Running in the Family
3. Divisadero
4. In the Skin of a Lion
5. Coming Through Slaughter
6. Warligh

✍Gods in his heaven, All's right with the world. In which poem do these lines occur? -
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Pippa Passes.
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✍ When the novella The Old Man and the Sea opens how long has it been since Santiago last caught
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84 days
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✍Who wrote an Essayon Boswell's Life? -

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Macaulay.

✍ Ulysses in the famous poem of the same name by Tennyson declares I am a part of all that I have
met.

✍Who is regarded as the virtual founder of British Novel? -

Daniel Defoe.

✍Which characters told tales that belong to the marriage group of tales in The Canterbury Tales? -
Clerk, Merchant, Franklin.

✍Who has been regarded by Voltaire as the best poet of England and at present of all the world? -
Alexander Pope.

✍Thomas Overbury is a 17th century writer well-known for his - Characters.

✍ We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Who speaks these lines? -

Prospero.

✍Who rapes Clarissa in Richardson's novel? -

Lovelace.

✍The third epistolary novel of Richardson which was praised by Jane Austen and George Eliot was -
The History of Sir Charles Grandison.

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✍For what is the phrase The Mousetrap used by Shakespeare in Hamlet? -
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✍Who said that the Pope's was a prose style twisted into verse? -
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Rossetti.
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✍Prothalamion like Epithalamion ( poems by Edmund Spenser) is modelled on the Italian stanza -
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Canzone.
Prothalamion

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Twin marriage song - Elizabeth Somerset & Katherine Somerset

👉 poem begins with a description of the River Thames.

T. S. Eliot quotes the line "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song" in his 1922 poem The Waste

👉Epithalamion - is an ode by Edmund Spenser to his bride, Elizabeth Boyle.

Land.

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✍Which is traditionally regarded as the first epistolary novel in English? -

Samuel Richardson's Pamela or Virtue Rewarded.

✍The poem Ulysses ends with the determination -

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

✍ In which sonnet does Wordsworth castigate the English people as stagnant and selfish and
eulogize John Milton? -

London 1802.

✍Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. In which poem of Arnold's does this line occur? -
Sohrab and Rustum.

✍Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic treatment in -

👉
Judith Wright.
Wright's poem Bora Ring is concerned with the impact of European settlement on Aboriginal

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✍Chaucer begins his works by composing - Love Lyrics.

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In which language did Dante write Divine Comedy? -

Latin.

✍The Ways of Perfect Religion was written by -

John Fisher.

✍Margaret Atwood's survival makes a case for -

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The Future of Canadian literature.
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✍Who was the editor of ananthology of verse entitled Georgian Poetry? -
Edward Marsh.

✍About whom does Wordsworth say England hath need thee? -

John Milton.

✍The companion poem of Ulysses is -

The Lotos-eaters

BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

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Other companion poems-

👉 L'Allegro and Il Penseroso by Milton (1632)

Sailing to Byzantium and Byzantium by WB Yeats.

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✍Which novel is the biography of the famous thief and thief-taker who was hanged at Newgate? -
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Henry Fielding's Jonathan Wild.

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Prothalamion.

✍Who said All our Knowledge is ourselves to know? -

Alexander Pope.

✍Who found Pope's An Essay on Man arbitrary and unmethodical -

Dr. Johnson.

✍Pope satirizes Addison as Atticus in the work -

An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.

✍ In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo belongs to the family of Montague. To which family does Juliet
belong?
Capulet.

✍ Who was so enraged by Richardson's Pamela that he wrote an antipathetic satire on it the
subsequent year called Shamela? -

Henry Fielding.

✍ Who was Titus Andronicus? -

A Roman Noble.

✍The Duke of Vienna in Measure for Measure is -

Vincentio.

✍Who has been called a Founding by its author? -

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Tom Jones.
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👉 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones.
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👉 It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel.
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Sarah.

✍The return of the sailor of a ship that had disappeared inspired Shakespeare to write -
The Tempest.

👉What is the name of the Villain in Othello? -

👉
Iago.
His famous statement-
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy:

It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock

The meat it feeds on.

✍Peregrine Pickle and Humphrey Clinker are works by -

Tobias Smollett.

✍Whom did Swift Praise for sweetness and light? -

👉
Ancients.
The term sweetness and light appeard in The Battle of the Books" short satire written by Jonathan

👉
Swift.
Matthew Arnold picked it up as title of first section of his 1869 book Culture and Anarchy: An Essay
in Political and Social Criticism, where "sweetness and light" stands for beauty and intelligence, the
two key components of an excellent culture.

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✍Master Henry Gilford and Master William Peter are the bridegrooms
Prothalamion by Spencer

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✍The speaker in Browning's My Last Duchess is the -

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A French novel.

✍Which of Wordsworth's sonnets is written in second person?

- London 1802.

✍Which of the poets supported British Imperialism in India?

Rudyard Kipling.

✍Which book by Salman Rushdie refers to 15th century Spain as a starting point?
- Grimus.

✍In Sons and Lovers Lawrence has depicted the life of -

Miner.
Sons and Lovers tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist.

✍What genre does Shelley's Prometheus Unbound belong to? -

Poetic drama.

✍Sue Bridehead is a character in -

👉
Jude the Obscure.

👉 Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy.

The protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man; he is a stonemason who dreams of

👉The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion, morality and marriage.
becoming a scholar.

✍Strife describes the strike by -

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Factory workers.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is written by - .

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About middle class frustration.

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✍Rudyard Kipling was born in -

Bombay.

✍ In which sonnet does Wordsworth describe the calmness she feels that a vision of London and the
River Thames gives him? -

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge.

✍What is a picaresque novel? -

A novel whose hero is a wandering rough.

✍ I gave commands, And all smiles stopped together is a line fromBrowning's-

My Last duchess.
✍Dr. Johnson wrote his first poem London in -
the heroic couplet.

✍Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song is a refrain from -

Prothalamion by Spencer

✍Which of Swift's satire was designed to vex the world rather than divert it?
Gulliver's Travels.

✍The Book of Snobs was written by the Victorian prose writer -

Thackeray.

✍Who is the leader of the conspirators in Julius Caesar?- n

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Brutus.
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as part of Caesar's death scene has become synonymous with betrayal in modern times.
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✍Shakespeare's last history play is -

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Henry VIII.

✍Who is the author of The Female Quixote or the Adventures of Arabella?

Charlotte Lennox.

Note - the 1922 novel Ulysses by James Joyce is called female Ulysses.

✍Who named Shakespeare's history plays a mirror of kings and the manual of young princes? -
Schlegel.
Friedrich Schlegel
German poet, literary critic, philosopher.
✍
-
Here lies she whom her husband's kindness killed. What is the name of the husband who killed her

👉
Master Frankford.
A Woman Killed with Kindness is 17th-century play, a tragedy written by Thomas Heywood.

✍The character Og represents Shadwell in the second part of -

Absalom and Achitophel by Dryden

✍In the growing polish and decency of society he saw only a mask for hypocrisy. Here who is he? -
Jonathan Swift.

✍ Who praised Gray's elegy thus The Churchyard abounds with images that finda mirror in every
mind? -

Dr. Johnson.

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✍Who wrote the critical edition of Goldsmith's Letters? -
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K.C. Balderston.
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✍Andrews wife in Browning's Andrea del Sarto is -

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Lucrezia.

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✍'What oft was thought but never so well expressed' is an epigram which can be associated with -
👉Lines in Alexander Pope's An Essay On Criticism
Alexander Pope.

✍In Pope's An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot the character Sporus refers to -

Lord Hervey.

✍
a-
In Wordsworth's sonnet London 1802. the line they soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart represents
Volta.

👉 volta, or turn, is a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought or emotion in poetry.

✍"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain can meet" Whose lines are these? -
Rudyard Kipling.

👉This saying is part of the refrain of “The Ballad of East and West,” a poem by Rudyard Kipling.
✍Amiri Baraka is -
An American writer.
His best-known works are-
"The Dead Lecturer" and "Transbluesency (poetry collections)

"Dutchman"; and "Blues People(plays)

Negro Music in White America," (historical survey.)

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✍All Fool's Day is an essay written by -

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👉Charles Lamb.
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✍ George Eliot's Romola is a historical novel set in the -

👉
15th century.
Romola (1862–63) is a historical novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans )under the pen name of
set in the fifteenth century.

✍
👉 New Criticism considers text as a - Autotelic.

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👉
Autotelic text as self-contained & independent of the author, genre or historical context.
The term associated with Arnold’s insistence on objectivity and Eliot’s on impersonality.
Autotelic text contains meaning within itself is humanist and renders itself to close reading, based
on formal devices such as irony, ambiguity, paradox, rhythm or syntax, as explained by William
Empson (The Seven Types of Ambiguity, 1930),
FR Leavis (articles in Scrutiny), Cleanth Brooks (“Language of Paradox”)

✍Who is the author of The Testament of Beauty? -

👉
Robert Bridges.

👉 English poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930.

It was through Bridges's efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame.

✍What does william Wordsworth say the city of London wears like a garment? -
The beauty of the morning.

👉In a sonnet " Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” by William Wordsworth,
.

✍Strafford is a play by -
👉Play portrays the downfall and execution of Lord Strafford, the advisor to Charles I
Robert Browning.

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The Citizen of the World.
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collection of letters written through perspective of the fictional Lien Chi Altangi, a Chinese
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✍ Gray's major poems Ode on Spring and Elegy were responses to -

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The death of his mother.

✍Who wrote An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity? -

Jonathan Swift.

✍The play Promos and Cassandra was written by -

George Whetstone.

✍ My trade is to flatter the dead, not the living. I am a tomb-maker. Who says this in The Duchess of
Malfi? -
Bosola.

✍What so ever a man so weth, that shall he also reap is the motto of
which Shakespearean play? -

Richard II.

✍ "A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy" is a peculiar parody of a conventional travel-book
written by -

Lawrence Sterne.

👉
He best known for

👉 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

👉 precursor of narrative technique of stream of consciousness

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Tristram's Uncle Toby.
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✍The philosophical tale The Vicar of Wakefield is written by -

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Oliver Goldsmith.
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The Vicar of Wakefield

👉 Subtitle-A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself

👉 Narrator - by Dr. Primrose

The story, a portrait of village life, is narrated by Dr. Primrose,whose family endures many trials—
including the loss of most of their money, the seduction of one daughter, the destruction of their home
by fire, and the vicar’s incarceration

His famous works

👉 The Citizen of the World or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher

👉
(Essay)

👉The Deserted Village (poem)

She Stoops to Conquer (play)

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(Literary Passion)

✍Samuel Butler's mock heroic narrative poem Hudibras derives its name from
Faerie Queene.
✍What is the subtitle of Goldsmith's Semi-autobiographieal poem The Traveller?
A Prospect of Society.

✍ Shakespeare's play which has been called Mozartian, the immediate influence upon which was
Lyly's Euphues is -

Love's Labour's Lost.

✍ Name the woman whom Samson Agonistes loved and who betrayed him in Milton's play Samson
Agonistes. -

Delilah.

✍Who wrote Life like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity? -
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Shelley in Adonais.
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A Tale of a Tub.
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✍Gray's Pindaric Odes, The Progress of Poesy and The Bard were responses to
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The Death of his mother.

✍In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels the phrase Honyhnhnms refers to -

The horses endowed with reason.

✍The dramatic monologue was perfected by -

Robert Browning.

✍T.S. Eliot dedicated his The Waste Land to -

👉il miglior fabbro(The better craftsman)
Ezra Pound.
✍Mythologies were written by -
👉
Roland Barthes.

👉Published in 1957
Paris Match magazine that Barthes analyzes in this essay

✍Who speaks this line A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant? -
Witwoud a character in
The Way Of The World

✍The word Catharsis signifies -

👉
Purgation.
Catharsis ( katharsis) - "purification" or "cleansing" or "clarification") purgation of emotions through

👉
dramatic art
Originally used by Aristotle in the Poetics.

👉 n
Aristotle's others terms...
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👉
Mimesis -imitation of an action
Nemesis- retribution
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👉 Hubris or Hybris- "pride"

👉Peripeteia - reversal
Anagnorisis - identification
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👉Partsof tragedy as par Aristotle

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Plot (mythos)
Character (ethos)
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diction (lexis)
melody (melos)
spectacle (opsis)

✍In how many parts is The Waste Land divided? -

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Five parts.

👉 published - 1922. First published- London in The Criterion, reprinted in New York in The Dial.
Original title -'He do the Policemen in Different Voices" a reference to Our Mutual Friend by Charles

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Dickens.
The title probably originates with Malory's Morte d'Arthur. A poem strikingly similar in theme &
language called Waste Land
👉 Title suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston's book on the Grail legend: From Ritual to Romance
👉 Narrator - Tiresias
Five parts.
1. The Burial of the Dead
2. A Game of Chess
3. The Fire Sermon
4. Death by Water
5. What the Thunder Said. .

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( Dead Game of Fire, Water &, Thunder)😁
The Burial of the Dead' title taken from- Anglican burial service

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{Opening line- April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land}

👉 A Game of Chess' title from- Game of chess in Middleton's play "Women beware Women''

👉 The Fire Sermon' title -Henry Clarke Warren's Buddhism in Translation .

DEATH BY WATER- section is a version of the last seven lines of Eliot's earlier poem, Dans le

👉
Restaurant.

👉 The poem is dedicated to Ezra Pound(The better craftsman)

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👉
poem Composed of 433 lines.
Story is based on the Christian legend of the search for the Holy Grail.

👉 The poem ends with the Sanskrit words Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. / Shantih shantih shantih.

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(Famous line -" MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour")

✍Epistle in Pope's An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot means -

👉The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot is notable as the source of the phrase "damn with faint praise,"
A letter.

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👉The poem includes character sketches of "Atticus" (Joseph Addison) and "Sporus" (John Hervey)
"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?"

✍ Prometheus Bound was translated by famous female writer of Victorian era...

👉Prometheus Bound Ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

👉 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a play, Prometheus Unbound

✍Matthew Arnold calls the Eighteenth century as -
👉Matthew Arnold said 18th century was the age of 'prose & reason' because no good poetry was
The Age of Prose.
written at that age and poetry itself became 'prosaic'. 18yh century is also called as the Augustan Age

👉
or Neo- classical Age.
Major prose writers of the age- Jonathan Swift (1667 -1745)
Joseph Addison (1672 -1719), Richard Steele (1672 -1729)
Samuel Johnson (1704 – 1784). Other prose writers
James Bowell (1740 – 1795),
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) Edward Gibbon (1737 – 1794)

✍A Valediction Forbidding Mourning first appeared in a collection of Donne's verse titled -

Songs and Sonnets.
Important lines of this poem

👉 Though I must go, endure not yet

A breach, but an expansion,

👉 Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so

As stiff twin compasses are two;

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✍"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife". Where do you find this famous line? -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

👉Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's novel.

✍A Palmer, Pedlar, Pardoner and Pothecary are characters in -
John Heywood's Four Ps.

✍Dryden's plays in general are called -

👉The term "heroic drama" was invented by Dryden for his play, The Conquest of Granada (1670).
Heroic Plays.
Heroic play in which Love & valour are found

✍The characters Valentine, Silvia, Thurio, Proteus, and Julia appear in the play
Two Gentlemen of Verona.

✍ London: A Poem of 1738 and The Vanity of Human Wishes are poems by Johnson written in
imitation of -

Juvenal satire

✍The dystopian science fiction novel Oryx and Crake was written by the Canadian novelist -
Margaret Atwood.
Oryx and Crake is the first of the MaddAddam trilogy.
1. Oryx and Crake(2003)
2. The Year of the Flood (2009)
3. MaddAddam (2013).

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Feste.
Famous line in Twelfth Night
'If music be the food of love, play on"

✍Dryden has written a play on a Mughal Emperor. What is the name of the Emperor? -
Aurangzeb.

✍Zenocrate is a character in the 16th century play -

Tamburlaine the Great.

Who wrote "verses on the Death of Dr. Swift"? -

Jonathan Swift.
✍Happy those early days when I shined in my Angel-infancy these lines are the opening lines of -
The Retreat.(BY HENRY VAUGHAN)

✍Sir Fretful Plagiary, a caricature of Richard Cumberland is a famous character appearing in -

Sheridan's The Critic.

👉The Critic: or, a Tragedy Rehearsed is a satire by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

✍Empedocles on Etna and Merope are poetic plays by -
Arnold.

✍Composed Upon Westminster Bridge and London 1802 are -

Italian sonnets.
Poems by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster

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✍The Nun's Priest's Tale had its origin in -

The French Roman de Renart.

✍ James Joyce's Ulysses is based on the pattern of -

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Odyssey.

👉 finest example of stream-of-consciousness in modern fiction

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Leopold Bloom- protagonist.
One day story.
Homer's epic, Odysseus, hero Trojan War took ten years to find his way from Troy to his home on

👉Biology of Luck (novel by Jacob M. Appel) he is a retelling of Ulysses.

the island of Ithaca.

✍Whose poem inspired Coleridge to write Dejection: An Ode? -

👉The poem was a reply to William Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence".
William Wordsworth.
👉The poem in its original form was written to Sara Hutchinson.

✍"Shut, shut the door, good John fatigued I' said the speaker wants the door to be shut against -
Poetasters.

👉Alexander Pope's poem Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot begin from above line
✍Arnold's poem Dover Beach is addressed to the -
👉
poet's wife.

👉 Poem shows Arnold's pessimism

👉 Poem inspired by his his honeymoon in 1851.

Important line -
Listen! you hear the grating roar

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Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling.
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Fahrenheit 451 novel by Ray Bradbury has his protagonist Guy Montag read part of "Dover Beach"
to his wife.
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✍Who published a journal of Plague Year? -

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Daniel Defoe.
Great Plague of Landon-

👉The Plague, novel byinAlbert

Samuel Pepys'Dairy)
Camus.(the plague was intended as an allegory for fascism)

✍In the Pardoner's Tale three drunk men set out from a bar to find and kill Death.
✍ In which work would we find the fable of the coat? -

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A Tale of a Tub.

👉 By Swift

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published in 1704
Allegory of the Reformation in the story of brothers Peter, Martin, and Jack.
Peter stands for Roman Catholic Church.

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Jack stands for Protestant

👉Jonathan Swift was working as Sir William Temple's secretary at the time he composed A Tale of a
Martin Stands for Church of England
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Tub.
Swift said himself - "Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book!'"

✍The Claudio-Hero and the love affair of Benedict and Beatrice are in the Shakespearean play -
Much Ado About Nothing.

✍Which Journal was established by Johnson himself? -

👉
The Rambler.

👉 The Rambler was published on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

👉totals 208 articles.

from 1750 to 1752

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✍The book The Order of Things by Michel Foucault is an anti-humanist excavation of human science.
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Meaning- deployment.
indicate the various institutional, physical and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures,
which enhance and maintain the exercise of power within the social body.

2. Archaeology-
about looking at history as a way of understanding the processes that have led to what we are today.
3. Discourse
Acertain “way of speaking”
term to refer to the material verbal traces left by history.
4. Episteme-
forms the conditions of possibility for knowledge in a given time and place
5. Heterotopia-
A space which is outside everyday social and institutional space, for example trains, motels and
cemeteries.
6. Panopticon-(design for a prison)
A metaphor for the operation of power and surveillance in contemporary society.

✍️ Addison's tragedy Cato has been called -

The grave of English tragedy.

✍Touchstone the clown, is a character in -

As You Like It by William Shakespeare.

👉 The" Touchstone Method" -

Introduced by Matthew Arnold in Study of poetry(1880)
It is scientific objectivity to critical evaluation by providing comparison and analysis to literary text of a
writer
Who lacks -
Chaucer, Dryden, Pope, and Shelley fall short of the best, because they lack "high seriousness".
Who has -
Homer and Sophocles,Dante and Milton, Shakespeare,
Goethe and Wordsworth( for Criticism of life)

✍️Whose wit turns the tragic tale of Merchant of Venice into a comedy? -
Portia.

✍Charles Dodgson wrote under the pen name -

👉
Lewis Caroll.
His poems Jabberwocky,

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The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense.
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✍Who called Dr. Johnson as the Hero as Man of Letters? -
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Thomas Carlyle
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Jacques Rousseau, Robert Burns, John Knox, and Martin Luther.

✍ Dogberry, the comic character in Much Ado About Nothing, as created for the actor -
Will Kemp.

✍Pope can fix it in a couplet more sense than I can do in six, who said this?
Jonatan Swift.

✍In Sheridan's tragedy Pizarro the hero Francisco Pizarro is -

The Spanish conqueror of Peru.

✍ In Scholar Gyps, Arnold describes the strange disease of modern life with its sick hurry and divided
aims.

✍ Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hit a fault, and hesitate to dislike, these lines from the
poem -

An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.

✍In which month of the year did Wordsworth write the Immortality Ode? -
May.

✍James Joyce initiated -

👉The term was first used by the psychologist William James in The Principles of Psychology (1890).
Stream of consciousness technique.

✍George
Restoration comedy begins with -
Etherege

👉The Man of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter.

Famous for.

✍ Swinburne calls Marlowe the first great poet the father of English tragedy and the creator of blank

👉phrase, “Marlowe's Mighty Line" coined by Ben Jonson.

verse.

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John Donne. io
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Wordsworth.

✍Which James Joyce's novel resembles a Vast Musical Composition? -

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Finnegans Wake.
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✍What does Wordsworth call a sleep and a forgetting? -

Human Life.

✍The Scholar Gypsy and Thyrsis are pastoral poems by Arnold that offer description of the -
place Oxford.
Note - Thyrsis poem written on death of poet Arthur Hugh Clough

✍Whose character is said to have been caricatured by Tobias Smollett in Peregrine Pickle? -
Mark Akenside.

✍ Who marries Emelye in the Knight's Tale? -

Palamon.

✍Which of Swift's work is in support of the Irish cause of freedom? -

The Drapier's Letters.
✍ The casket episode is depicted in the play -
Merchant of Venice.

✍ The last of Johnson's great works was -

Lives of the Poets.
Lives of the Poets, comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets.

✍Which is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy? - Macbeth

✍ Whose wit gives to The Winter's Tale a happy ending? -
Paulina.

✍Imogen is the heroine of the play -

Cymbeline.

✍Lady Bracknell is a character in the play -

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The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.
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Algernon Moncrieff, a young gentleman from London, the nephew of Lady Bracknell, in love with Cecily
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Miss Prism, Cecily's governess.
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✍Shakespeare's play influenced by Marlowe's Jew of Malta is - Merchant of Venice.

✍Swift's A Tale of Tub is a -
Religious Allegory.

✍Whose tale involves a talking falcon who has been abandoned by her false lover? -
Squire.

✍Who is regarded as the first exponent to the sentimental comedy? -

Sir Richard Steele.

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✍Lamb reveals in the essay Oxford in the Vacation that the name Elia is his own pseudonym.
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The Essay on Man.

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✍In Immortality Ode Wordsworth says that heaven lies about us in our infancy.
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✍Which novel of D.H.Lawrence has autobiographieal overtones? -

Sons and Lovers.

✍The picaresque novel with a female picaroon is -

Moll Flanders.(1722)

✍Who wrote The Lady's Not for Burning -

Christopher Fry.

✍The expression ancestral voices prophesying war occurs in -

Kubla Khan.
✍D.H. Lawrence called one of his novels Thought Adventure -
Kangaroo.

✍Whom does Wordsworth call Mighty Prophet? -

A six year old boy.

✍Who is known as the highpriest of a rationalistic and social age? -

Pope.

✍The names of Lamb's dream children are

Alice and John.

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✍What does the Prioress's name Eglentyne mean? -

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Sweet briar.
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✍Who said I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality? -
Joseph Addison.

✍What is the name of Vicar Wakefield's second daughter -

Sophia.

✍The epic novel The Name of the Rose is written by -

Umberto Eco.

✍Bottom is an important rustic character in -

A Midsummer Night's Dream.
✍The picaresque novel Roderick Random was written by -
Tobias Smollett.

✍Florizel and Perdita appear as a pair in the play -

The Winter's Tale.

✍In which work does Spenser describe Chaucer as the well of English undefiled?
The Faerie Queene

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✍Who gave satirical caricature of Dr. Johnson in the character of Pemposo in Ghost? -
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Colly Cibber in 1699

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✍️ "Sound sleep by night: study and ease, together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most
do please with meditation"
The Pope wrote these lines in his -

Ode on Solitude.

✍An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is written by -

👉He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa)
John Locke.

✍ Culture and Anarchy is a prose work by -

👉Culture and Anarchy contains most of the terms

Matthew Arnold.
1. sweetness and light
(Jonathan Swift first used phrase in in "The Battle of the Books" (1704)

2. Barbarian +aristocracy)
3. Philistine - middle class
4. Hebraism speaks of becoming conscious of sin, of wakening to a sense of sin, as a feat of this
kind.
5. Hellenism speaks of thinking clearly, seeing things in their essence and beauty, as a grand and
precious feat for man to achieve.

✍ The concept of Pre-existence, which inspired the Immortality Ode, means that the soul exists
before the body.

✍D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterly's Lover is generally called an obscene novel because -
Its theme is sexual experience.
Chronology of his novels
The White Peacock (1911)

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Women in Love (1920)
Kangaroo (1923)
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The Plumed Serpent (1926)

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
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Northanger Abbey.

👉 Northanger Abbey & Persuasion published together posthumously (1817)

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Satire of Gothic novels.
Settings- City of Bath

👉 Protagonist-Catherine Morland
She is "in training for a heroine"

👉
She prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, & running about the country.

👉The Monk: A Romance (1776) Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis also mentioned in this novel
She read Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho( Gothic Novel)

✍ Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus means -

👉First appearance in English of the proverb "Speech is silver, silence is golden"
The tailor retailored.
✍Which voyage was undertaken by Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels? -
Voyage to Brobdingnag

👉
By Jonathan Swift (1726)
Satirising to human nature.
In 4 parts
1. A Voyage to Lilliput
2.Voyage to Brobdingnag
3. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan

👉
4.A Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms.

👉 Houyhnhnms- a race of talking horses.

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Yahoos- Deformed creatures
Gulliver praises to Houyhnhnms.
At the he avoids his family, wife, and spending several hours a day speaking with the horses in his
stables

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1848.
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👉They promote their Ideas in Germ magazine.(1850)

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✍ Pope's translation (1715)of an episode from Homer's Iliad was published by whom in his
Miscellanies -

👉
Jacob Tonson.

👉 Iliad translated by George Chapman(1598).

👉
👉
John Keats praised Chapman in his sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (1816)
On Translating Homer (lecture, 1861) by Matthew Arnold.
The Iliad of Homer by Samuel Butler.

👉
Works based on Iliad-

👉 Omeros (Epic Poem) by Derek Walcott.

👉 William Shakespeare used plot of the Iliad as in Troilus and Cressida.

Troilus And Cressida; Or, Truth Found Too Late tragedy by John Dryden( reworking of Shakespeare's

👉
Troilus and Cressida.

👉 Robert Browning's poem Development

👉
👉
Christa Wolf 's novel Kassandra(1983)
Temporary Like Achilles song by Bob Dylan.
Ransom novel by Australian author David Malouf.
👉
👉poem
The Silence of the Girls novel by Pat Baker (2018)
The Shield of Achilles
by W. H. Auden.

✍What is the source of the Wife of Bath's tale? -

👉
The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell.

👉 Her stockings' color - scarlet.

👉 Has gap between teeth.

Did 5 marriages.
Woman wants sovereignty over man.

✍ How many essays were published in The Spectator? -

👉 The Spectator -daily publication 👉Founded by Joseph Addison & Richard Steele
555

Aim -to make morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

👉Influenced to - ''Silence Dogood" letters of Benjamin Franklin

Duration - 1711 to 1712.

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Who wrote Ode on Mrs. Killigrew, Song on St. Cecilia's Day and Alexander's Feast? -
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John Dryden.
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✍In which year was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, assassinated?
👉
1170.

👉Conflict with Henry II, King of England.

he was canonised by Pope Alexander III.
Thomas Becket based works

👉 Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales features a company of pilgrims walking from Southwark

👉👉Becket
to Becket's shrine in Canterbury Cathedral.
a play by Tennyson.
T. S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral.

✍Who is the author of Wily Beguiled? -

George Peel.
✍Holden Caulfield is the 16 year old protagonist of American novels. -
👉Holden Caulfield has become an icon for teenage rebellion.
J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

✍Who narrates the first tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales? -

The Knight.

✍John Capgrave wrote the first memorable collection of Lives of English Saints entitled -
Nova Legenda Angliae.

✍ What was the name of the Roman General who conquered England in 43 B.C.?
Claudius.

✍Who said "Poetry is thoughts that breathe and words that burn"?
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✍Who wrote the play named Humorous Day's Mirth? -

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✍Orhan Pamuk is a novelist from -

Turkey.

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Orhan Pamuk( Turkish novelist)
won 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Major Novels
Silent House
The White Castle
The Black Book
The New Life
My Name Is Red Snow
The Museum of Innocence
A Strangeness in My Mind
The Red-Haired Woman.

✍ How long did The Tatler last -

01. year & 07 Months.

👉three times in a week

12 April 1709 to 2 January 1711.
👉by begun by Richard Steele in 1709.
naming the fictitious Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. as editor

✍ The volume of poetry published in 1599. entirely attributed to Shakespeare is -

The Passionate Pilgrim.

✍Out of 555 essays, how many were written by Addison in Spectator ? -

274.

✍Who is described as an outrider, who loved his venery( sexual indulgence) -

Monk.(Canterbury tales)

✍ Classical Poetry viewed as a whole is -

rational in his inspiration.

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✍In Swift's Gulliver's Travels Lilliput was threatened with an invasion from -
The island of Blefuscu.

✍A character in Virginia Woolf's novel changes his sex. -

👉
Orlando.
Full title Orlando: A Biography
Orlando born as male nobleman in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. He undergoes a mysterious
change of sex at the age of about 30 and lives on for more than 300 years into modern times without

👉
ageing perceptibly.
Orlando wrote The Oak Tree, a long poem started and abandoned in his youth.

✍The poet who described poetry as inspired mathematics is -

Ezra Pound.

👉
Major figure in the early modernist poetry.
Association- Imagism, movement

✍What is the central theme of Shaw's Man and Superman? -

👉
A woman's search for a fitting mate.

👉 Title comes from Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical ideas about the "Superman".

👉 Plot about John Tanner (main character) & Ann.

Ann is referred to as "The Life Force" and represents Shaw's view that in every culture, it is the
women who force the men to marry them rather than the men that take the initiative.

✍Which was the last poem in the 1798 edition of Lyrical Ballads -
👉
Tintern Abbey.

👉 First Poem- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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Preface to lyrical Ballads-1800.
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✍ In Gulliver's Travels for the Man Mountain the Lilliputian equivalence is

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Quinbus Flestrin.
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his huge size in comparison to the natives of this land.

✍The character Pip is the protagonist of Dickens's -

👉
Great Expectations (1861)
Bildungsroman
(development of a character from childhood to adulthood) &

👉Jack Maggs is a reworking of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.

a coming-of-age novel.

✍Who is characteristically known as a Realistic Romanticist? -

👉
Walter Scott.

👉Known as Scottish historical novelist.

Famous for The Waverley Novels(series of novels).
His major Novels
👉
👉 Ivanhoe

👉👉Waverley
Rob Roy

👉
👉
Old Mortality
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
The Bride of Lammermoor

👉
His narrative poems

👉The Lady of the Lake

Marmion.

✍ Which pilgrim was clad in red and blue lined with taffeta and with thin silk?
Doctor of Physics
( canterbury tales)

✍ Who aimed at pointing out those vices which are too trivial for the chastisement of the ... and to
assault the vice without hurting the person? -

👉In To see Ourselves as Others see , Spectator, NO. 34.

Joseph Addison. (1672–1719)

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✍Shakespeare's love elegy that came out in 1601 is -

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👉Published by by Robert Chester.

The Phoenix and The Turtle
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👉 The Perishable Empire and Twice-born Fiction are works by — Meenakshi Mukherjee.

✍ The Perishable Empire (Essay) won Sahitya Akademi Award ( 2003.)

What is register in linguistics

The way a speaker uses language differently in different circumstances.

Example- different Chatting with a friend , talks on formal dinner party, and during a job interview

✍Who is the author of Humour Out of Breath? (1608)—

John Day.

✍Who said man is one of God's blunders or God one of Man's? —

Nietzsche.
👉 His famous statement -God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we
comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

✍Which is described as the prologue to the Renaissance? -

👉
Utopia. By Thomas More(1516)
English translation 1551 by Ralph Robinson.

👉
Utopian works

👉 Republic by Plato.
New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

👉
(Note - Salomon's House is a fictional institution in this work)

👉 Erewhon by Samuel Butler

👉A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells

News from Nowhere by William Morris.

✍A Political Extravaganza is the sub-title of-

👉 The Apple Cart play by George Bernard Shaw.

n
About King Magnus.
io
Prime Minister Proteus seek to strip the monarchy of its remaining political influence.
ss
Magnus opposes the corporation "Breakages, Limited" (corporation) which controls politicians &
prevent technical progress.
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✍The Adding Machine, the first American Expressionist play was written by
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Elmer Rice.

👉He got Pulitzer Prize for Street Scenes(play).

✍Friday.
Who is Robinson Crusoe's companion on the island? —

👉Pub-By 1719
Daniel Defoe

👉
Story based on Alexander Selkirk.
Robinson Kreutznaer spends 28 yrs on island

👉
At the end Crusoe departs for Lisbon to reclaim the profits of his estate in Brazil.
J. M. Coetzee's 1986 novel Foe recounts the tale of Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of a

👉J. G. Ballard's 1974 novel Concrete Island is a modern rewriting of Robinson Crusoe.
woman named Susan Barton.
✍Who was the first critic to elucidate the structural unity of Shakespeare's plays?
— Friedrich Schlegel
(German poet, literary critic)

✍ Satanic School was the term applied by --

👉
Robert Southey.

👉Lord Byron attacked on Robert Southey in The Vision of Judgment.

Southey attacked Lord Byron &said Satanic School in A Vision of Judgement.

✍ In Great Expectations, Estella is the ward o fthe wealthy eccentric

Miss Havisham.

✍ Who is the friend referred to in Tintern Abbey? —

Dorothy Wordsworth.

✍ n
io
In which Shaw's play the Chocolate cream hero appears? —
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Arms and the Man.
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✍The poet who said My poems are not about violence, but vitality is —
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👉
Ted Hughes.
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👉 Poet Laureate ( 1984)

lit

Husband of Sylvia Plath

👉
His famous poems

👉 The thought-fox.

👉
👉
Snowdrop
Pike

👉Hawk Roosting
Crow

✍The phrase "Don Juan in Hell" occurs in Shaw's —

Man and Superman.

✍About what Wordsworth says in Tintern Abbey How often has my spirit returned to thee? —
The River Wye.
👉OliverTwist was first serialy published in -
👉
Bentley's Miscellany
Full title - Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy's Progress (1838)

👉
Main Characters

👉 Fagin – boss of a criminal gang.

👉 Bull's Eye – Bill Sikes's vicious dog.

👉Famous
Artful Dodger – Fagin's adept pickpocket.
Nancy.
line of Oliver, ''I want some more.''

✍Thackeray satirized the Silver Fork School delightfully in his parody entitled —
👉
Novels by Eminent Hands
silver-fork novels/ Fashionable novels( 19th-century genre of literature )

👉 n
Depicted lives of upper class & aristocracy.
io
👉 Theodore Hook was a major writer of fashionable novels
ss
👉
👉
William Hazlitt coined the term "silver fork" an article on "The Dandy School" (1827).
Makepeace Thackeray satirized them in Vanity Fair & Pendennis
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👉Thomas Carlyle in Sartor Resartus.

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✍
lit

The nineteenth century English critic who considered each Shakespearean character to be unique
is -

👉
William Hazlitt.
Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1817).

✍ Buck is the protagonist of a novel written by the American novelist-

👉
Jack London.
Jack London used a literary device called anthropomorphismen his creation of Buck as a
protagonist. London gives Buck human qualities, such as pride, imagination, the ability to laugh, and
reason.

Jack London famous for novels -

1. The Call of the Wild
2. White Fang
(both set in Klondike Gold Rush).

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✍The Kitchen sink image popularized by Wesker derives from the expressionistic paintings of -
👉
John Barthy.
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne being considered one of the first examples of kitchen sink

👉
drama in theatre.

👉 These plays depicts the working class.

kitchen-sink dramatists and plays
Shelagh Delaney - A Taste of Honey Arnold Wesker - his trilogy-
Chicken Soup with Barley (1958) Roots (1959)
I’m Talking About Jerusalem (1960).
John Arden- Workhouse Donkey .

✍ What is amphibrach
An amphibrach is a form of meter. It occurs when the poet places on accented syllable, or stressed
syllable, between two unstressed or unaccented syllables.
Example- RECLINING.

✍What is lingua franca ?

n
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a language or mixture of languages used as a medium of communication by people whose native

👉
languages are different.
Pa

👉 also known as a trade language, contact language, international language, and global language.
The term means "Frankish tongue" in Italian.In 11th-century lingua franca, a mixture of Italian,
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French, Turkish, and other Mediterranean languages.

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✍The Yeoman used to wear a coat of which colour - Green.( Canterbury tales)
✍ Heat and Dust a novel that views India through the lives of two English women living fifty years
apart is by -

👉
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

👉 German-born British and American Booker Prize-winning novelist.

👉
👉
Man Booker Prize for Heat and Dust(1975).
Protagonist-Olivia

👉 at end she lived in "Town X".

Harry is portrayed as weak due to his homosexuality.

✍ Nahun Tate gave a happy ending to Shakespeare's King Lear. How does the play end in Tate's
version? - Cordelia marries Edgar.

✍The Wheel of Fire by Wilson Knight is subtitled -

✍ Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy.
Wilson known for his interpretation of mythic content in literature,& The Wheel of Fire, a collection of
essays on Shakespeare's plays.

✍Who can be called the first poet of the Romantic Revival? -

James Thomson.

✍ Shakespeare's first tragedy which is a Senecan melodrama is - Titus Andronicus.

✍The Tatler appeared - Thrice a week.
✍Who started a journal The Morning Chronicle in 1769? -
William Woodfall.

✍What is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession? -

n
io
👉
Prostitution.
ss
It is a problem play, gives social commentary to illustrate Shaw's belief that the act of prostitution
was not caused by moral failure but by economic necessity.
Pa

✍Harold Pinter's The Caretaker can be called a -

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Comedy of Menace.
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Comedy = Humor.
lit

👉
Menace = Threatening fear in mind.

👉 The term was coined by drama critic Irving Wardle

👉 borrowed from the subtitle of Campton's play The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace.
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter is also example of Comedy of Menance.

✍The central theme of Galsworthy's Strife is -

Labour and Capital conflict.

✍ Tintern Abbey is considered a miniature of the philosophical and autobiographieal epic poem
Wordsworth never completed namely -

The Recluse.

✍ Fagin's School in Oliver Twist is where boys are trained to -

Steal.
👉 Fagin character is in Oliver Twist. In the preface to novel, he is described as a "receiver of stolen
goods".
He is the leader of a group of children & Artful Dodger ,Charley Bates whom he teaches to make their
livings by pickpocketing & other criminal.

✍ "How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love
behold who in the sunny beams did glide"
Who wrote these famous lines? -

👉William Blake.
Thise lines appear in Poetical Sketches (collection of Blake's immature poetry).

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✍ Grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that
do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn

n
from several languages is called-
io
ss
👉
Pidgin
Pidgin differs from a creole.
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Creole is the first language of a speech community of native speakers that at one point arose from a
pidgin.
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In every cry of every Man,

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In every infant's cry of fear,

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In every voice, in every ban”

- "London," William Blake
Which literary device is used in above lines

👉
Anaphora.
Repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby giving them
emphasis.
Note - Epistrophe is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases,
clauses or sentences.

✍Goldsmith's first successful poem -

The Desert Village.

✍ Who coined the term Objective correlative? -

Term was coined by the American painter and poet Washington Allston (1779-1843), and was
introduced by T.S. Eliot, rather casually, into his essay "Hamlet and His Problems" (1919);

He used this phrase to describe "a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the
formula of that particular emotion" that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader.
The term appeared in Essay Hamlet and his problem (1919).
👉Play Hamlet is artistic failure
✍ Who Stoops to conquer in Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer? -
Miss Hardcastle.

✍ Four legs good, two legs bad is quotation from -

Animal Farm.
Animal Farm ( satirical allegorical novella) by George Orwell.
Reflects events leading up to Russian Revolution of 1917 and Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.
(Joseph Stalin)

✍The Elizabethan love for picaresque description was inherited from - Italy.
✍Under Milk Wood a verse play that dramatizes the dream of Welsh village was written by -
👉
Dylan Thomas.
Milkman (historical psychological novel) by Irish author Anna Burns

n
Who won Man Booker Prize 2018.
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✍Malapropism has become a popular term on account of Mrs. Malaprop's -
Pa

Her outrage on language.

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👉
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Mistaken use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a
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👉
nonsensical.
lit

👉 Mrs. Malaprop" is in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals.

synonymous term "Dogberryism" comes from the 1598 Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing
in which the character Dogberry utters many malapropisms to humorous effect.

✍Who introduced the phrase The Empire writes back to the center? -
👉Salman Rushdie.
Note - The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures is a 1989 non-
fiction book by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin

✍ Whom does Roderick, Smollett's hero in The Adventure of Roderick Random, marry after a series of
adventures and misadventures? -

Narissa.
✍Dr. Johnson justified Shakespeare's violation of unities in his -
Preface to Shakespeare.
Shakespeare maintained the unity of action.

✍ Who was born for the universe, narrowed his mind/ And to the party gave up what was meant for
mankind. -

Oliver Goldsmith.

✍What is the name of the rooster, who is the protagonist in the Nun's Priest's Tale? -
Chanticleer.

✍ Which poem by Coleridge was included in the first edition of The Lyrical Ballad, published
anonymously in Bristol in 1798?

👉
Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

👉Mariner stops a man who is on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story.

n
An albatross appears and leads the ship out of the ice jam where it is stuck.
Famous line- io
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Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
Pa

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Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as the poet Laureate in - 1850

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Major works in 1850

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👉
1850s
lit

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne ( Novel) Letter "A" stand for adultery.
Protagonist-Hester Prynne.

👉
👉The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem by Wordsworth.
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens. bildungsroman novel.

(In Blank verse).

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"She broke his car and his heart"
Which literary device is used in the above sentence

👉
zeugma
zeugma is a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways

✍what is rhotic
👉rhotic speakers pronounce the /r/ in words like large and park, while non-rhotic speakers generally
In phonology and sociolinguistics, the term rhoticity refers broadly to the sounds of the "r" family.
don't pronounce the /r/ in these words.

✍Who said about Wordsworth He laid us as we lay at birth// in the cool flower lap of earth? -
Matthew Arnold.

✍Toni Morrison used a male narrator for the first time in -

Songs for Solomon.

👉
Her major Novels
The Bluest Eye( 1970)

👉
Protagonist-Pecola Breedlove
Song of Solomon (1977)

👉
Protagonist- Milkman Dead
Beloved (1987 the Pulitzerwinner)

👉
(Sethe, aenslaved woman)
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

✍In which year did Bernard Shaw award the Nobel Prize? -
n
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1925.

👉Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley are characters in Thackeray's -

Pa
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👉
Vanity Fair.
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👉 The book's title comes from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

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👉 Initially Subtitle" Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society"

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👉 Later subtitle - A Novel without a Hero.

👉Mentioned war -The Battle of Waterloo.

Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a servant home from the East India Company.

✍The term Lake School was first used derisively in the -

Edinburgh Review.
Lakes School poets-
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

👉
Robert Southey
The term was coined by literary critic Thomas Rymer in the 17th century.

✍Who is the Vicar of Wakefield in Goldsmith's novel of the same name?

Primrose.

✍ Which play of Shakespeare can be termed pastoral? -

As You Like It.

✍Which is the longest novel of Smollett? -

Peregrine Pickle.

✍The Victorian comic opera Patience that satirized the aesthetic movement was written by -
Gilbert and Sullivan.

👉 Lydia and Julia make a pair of two heroines n -

👉
The Rivals.

👉 The Rivals is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

👉 Set in 18th-century Bath.

👉Jack Absolute disguised as Ensign Beverley. n

Term malapropism was coined in reference to one of the characters in the play.
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👉
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Who was called the wasp of Twickenham? -

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👉
Alexander Pope.
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👉Sage of high gate- ST Coleridge.

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The nun of Amherst- Emily Dickinson.

✍The Golden Notebook an example of inner space fiction is by -

👉
Doris Lessing.

👉 Won 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.

👉 Important Novels
The Grass Is Singing

👉
(Children of Violence series)

👉 The Golden Notebook(1962)

👉 Briefing for a Descent into Hell

The Good Terrorist

✍She Would If She Could by George Etherege was a very popular comedy. It was written in -
Prose.
✍ Which play by T.S. Eliot dealing with an individual's opposition to authority, was written in response
to the rising Fascism in Central Europe?

👉
Murder in the Cathedral.

👉 Verse Drama

👉 Set in1170.
It is a modern miracle play on the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket(during King Henry II.)

👉
archbishop of Canterbury.

👉 use of a chorus in the Classical Greek manner.

✍Which of Smollett's novels relate the adventures of a Welsh family through England and Scotland? -
Humphrey Clinker.

✍Shakespeare quotes Marlowe's Hero and Leander in his play -

n
As You Like It.
io
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Pa

✍Who defines Romanticism as "the addition of curiosity to the desire of beauty"?

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👉
Walter Pater.
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Defined In "The Classic and the Romantic in Literature"

lit

👉
His important works

👉Marius the Epicurean (1885)

The Renaissance (1873)

✍The subtitle of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is -

👉
An Autobiography.

👉 Published under pen name "Currer Bell"

Bildungsroman novel.

👉
Jane Eyre loves to Mr. Rochester.
Rewriting of this novel
Wide Sargasso Sea novel

👉
Jean Rhys.
Novel "acted as a catalyst" to feminist criticism with the publication by S. Gilbert and S. Gubar's The
Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
title of which alludes to Rochester's wife. Bertha Mason.

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"It is for you we speak, || not for ourselves;
You are abused || and by some putter-on
That will be damn’d for’t; || would I knew the villain",
Lines are from Shakespeare's Winter'Tale , Which literary device is used?

👉
Caesura
is a natural end in a poetic phrase or break in the rhyme.

✍ What is Idiolect
idio=own
Lect- Dialect

It is individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage includes- vocabulary,
grammar, & pronunciation.

✍Which concepts have been applied in Tintern Abbey? -

Rite of Passage.

n
io
✍Plot.The soul of tragedy, according to Aristotle is -
ss
Pa

✍The Professor is the first novel by - Charlotte Bronte.

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✍A Robin Red breast in a Cage puts all Heaven in a Rage. Who sang these words? -
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lit

👉In Poem Auguries of Innocence

William Blake.

✍ What is the full form of Tristram Shandy? -

👉
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

👉 Called -Novel without Predecessor.

It's style is marked by digression(temporary shift of subject) , double entendre (double meaning)

👉This novel has been the subject of post-mortem critics.

and graphic devices.

✍Which is the sequel of Things Fall Apart? -

👉Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.
No Longer at Ease.
👉 Trilogy-
Things Fall Apart (Protagonist -Okonkwo)
Title from -Second coming poem by WB Yeats
No Longer at ease(Protagonist- Obi Okonkwo)
Arrow of God (Protagonist-Ezeulu, the chief priest).

✍Who said For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence?
👉
- Bernard Shaw.

👉 The term appeared in French painter and art critic Benjamin-Constant.

👉 Brought in England by Walter Pater.

👉"Poem for poem sake" by Edgar Allan Poe.(In essay- 'The poetic Principal'.)
"Art for life sake " term by Jhon Ruskin.

✍ A Modest Proposal by Swift was made for -

👉
For selling poor children as food.

👉 n
It is a Juvenalian( satirical essay.
io
The Handmaid's Tale (dystopian novel)by Margaret Atwood there is a quote from A Modest
ss
Proposal before the introduction.
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✍Illyria.
Where does the action of Twelfth Night take place? -
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✍
lit

Who wrote Charley's Aunt a farcical play? -

Branden Thomas
(English actor, playwright)

✍The concept of Ubermensch or Superman is related to -

👉
Nietzsche.

👉It's title comes from Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical ideas about the "Übermensch"
Man and Superman, drama by George Bernard Shaw

✍ Sterne's A Sentimental Journey is an autobiography. In order to illustrate his sentiments he refers to

the story of -
Aeneas and Dido.

✍What is the epitaph of Ben Jonson? - O'rare Ben Jonson.

✍Oliver
Who says about Johnson He has nothing of the bear but his skin? -
Goldsmith.
👉 In 1789 the year of the French Revolution, William Blake issued his-

👉
Songs of Innocence.
His The Tyger" is a poem by William Blake in Songs of Experience collection.
It's important line

👉Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake is a 1947 book by Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye
"Dare frame thy fearful symmetry"?

✍MillMaggie Tulliver appears as the central character in George Eliot's -

👉
👉George
on the Floss
Eliot's real name- Mary Ann Evans.
Tom Tulliver – Maggie's brother.

✍In Robinson Crusoe, Man Friday is a -

👉
Cannibal

👉 Defoe used Friday to criticize the Spanish colonization of the Americas

👉 Novel by Daniel Defoe (1719)

👉 n
Based on life of Alexander Selkirk.
Reworking of this novel io
ss
👉
J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile, or on Education,it's protagonist allowed to read before the age of
Pa

👉
twelve is Robinson Crusoe.
The Moonstone's( Novel by Wilkie Collins) main character Gabriel Betteredge, has faith in all that
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Robinson Crusoe says and uses the book for a sort of divination (insight)
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✍
lit

Wordsworth's The Prelude uses the motif of -

👉Prelude is also a short story by Katherine Mansfield.

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✍ An extinct and unrecorded language reconstructed by comparison of its recorded or living

descendants is called-
Protolanguage
Example- Latin is Protolanguage of romance language family.

What is scheme in linguistics?

👉 Schemes are figures of speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds, rather than
the meaning of words.

✍Who has written the poem If? -

n
Rudyard Kipling.
io
ss
Poem "If" contains a thoughtful message about how to live successful, principled, and happy life
Pa

despite the challenges that one will inevitably face.

Word "if"repeated 13 times in poem.
y
ar
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✍The discussion of Fabula/ Syuzhet occurs in -

lit

👉
Formalism.

👉 Fabula is the chronological order of the events contained in the story

👉 Syuzhet is an employment of narrative.

Vladimir Propp and Viktor Shklovsky originated the terminology as part of the Russian formalism
movement in the early 20th century.

✍Poetic license means -

Liberty with diction alone.

✍Who is the author of Two Cheers of Democracy? -

E.M. Forster.

✍ Which is Coleridge's very personal poem written when he sat up one night with a cradled infant
sleeping by his side? -
Frost at Midnight.

✍Who has been hailed as the master of illusionism? - Defoe.

✍Dorothea is a character in George Eliot's novel
- Middle-aged.

✍An archangel-a little damaged. Who used this phrase for S.T. Coleridge?
Charles Lamb.

✍How many editions of The Canterbury Tales did William Caxton print? - Two.
✍ The essay on An Inquiry into the Present State of Police Learning in Europe against sentimental

n
comedy was written by -
io
ss
Oliver Goldsmith.
Pa

✍BenJonson was imprisoned after the performance of the play - The Isle of Dogs.
y

✍Who wrote The Man of Feelings?

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lit

Henry Mackenzie(Scottish)

✍The passage beginning All the world's a stage is spoken by jaques in -

As You Like It.

✍- G.B.
Who wrote Androcles and the Lion?
Shaw.

✍
👉InPub-1820.
which book Thomas Love Peacock attacks poetry and poets? - Four Ages of Poetry.

Peacock offered a mocking account of how poets originally developed a claim to be historians or
moralists

👉 A Defence of Poetryby Percy Bysshe Shelley, in response to Thomas Love Peacock's article "The
Four Ages of Poetry".

✍Who has been called the first Romantic critic? -

👉
Longinus.
James Scott called him 1st romantic critic.
His famous work

👉
On the Sublime.

👉 Dedicated to- Terentianus,

Best sourse of sublime - Lofty cast of mind.

✍To which country does the absurd playwright Eugene Ionesco belong?
👉
👉
Romania.
His famous play-The Bald Soprano.
The Theatre of the Absurd-

👉
(Shows the futility of life)
Term coined by -Martin Esslin.
Major figure-
Samuel Beckett

n
Eugène Ionesco
Jean Genet io
ss
Albert Camus
Pa
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✍
ar

Who wrote Caleb Williams? -

er

👉
William Godwin.
lit

👉Written against- tyrannical government.

Full title-Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams.

✍Who wrote the critical work Discoveries?

👉
Ben Jonson.

👉Pub- 1641
His critical work-Timber: or, Discoveries

in which he developed a tested theory of comic characterization (the “humours”)

✍Whose essays were originally published as Chinese Letters? -

👉
Oliver Goldsmith
The Citizen of the World is a collection of letters written from perspective of the fictional Lien Chi
Altangi, a Chinese philosopher living in London.

✍Beppo, published in 1818 was a great satire written by -

👉
Lord Byron.
Beppo Poem tells story of Venetian lady, Laura, whose husband, Beppo" has been lost at sea for the
past three years.

✍Clym Yeobright and Eustacia Wye are characters in Hardy's -

👉
The Return of the Native

👉 Clym Yeobright- Protagonist.

👉 Set- Egdon Heath is a fictitious area of Thomas Hardy's Wessex.

In J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye(1951) this novel is mentioned by Protagonist-
Holden Caulfield.

✍ The shortest way with the Dissenters is a remarkable pamphlet written by -

👉Published-
Daniel Defoe.
Sub title - "Proposals for the Establishment of the Church"
1702
(Dissenters- Protestant Christians who separated from the Church of England in 17th - 18th centuries.

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“I’m not bad.

"It wasn’t a terrible trip'
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Litotes
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In litotes there is a double negation

✍Roland Barthes is the author of -

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Writing Degree Zero
Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These
are the questions Roland Barthes addresses in Writing Degree Zero.

✍ The term Stream of consciousness was first used by -

👉In principle of psychology, 1890

William James.

✍In Kubla Khan Alph is a -

River.
✍ Apologia Pro Vita Sua is the autobiography of Cardinal Newman, who was associated with the

👉
Oxford Movement.
Oxford Movement was a religious movement.(of high church members of the Church of England)
Members-.
Newman
John Keble
Edward Pusey.
Marriott
Froude
Wilberforce
Isaac Williams
William Palmer.

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Who wrote Epipsychidion in which he celebrates his Platonic love for a beautiful young Italian girl?

P.B. Shelley.

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Which novel begins with the sentence, It is trite but true observation that examples work more
forcibly on the mind than precepts? -
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Joseph Andrews.
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Ben Jones Oberon, the Fairy Prince is a -

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Masque.

✍ The work Spectres of Marx was written by -

Jacques Derrida.

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His terms

👉 Deconstruction(multiple meanings of text)

👉
👉
Binary Oppositions(Man/Woman, Inside/Outside, Presence/Absence, Speech/Writing)
Differance (quality of being different)

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👉
Metaphysics of presence/ Logocentricism( view that speech, not writing, is central to language.)
Trace(absent part of the sign’s presence)
Arche-writing( original form of language which is not derived from speech)
Note- all terms are important

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The writer of A pair of Blue Eyes is - Thomas Hardy.
Novel describes love triangle of Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors-Stephen Smit & Henry
Knight.
Note- The Bluest Eye
Novel by Toni Morrison(Protagonist- Pecola)
The Whiskey Priest appears I the novel -

👉
Green's The Power and the Glory.
The Power and the Glory is a 1940 novel by Graham Greene.
He coined this term.

✍ Who is Hymen? -
The God of Marriage( Greek Mythology)

✍BenWhoJonson.
is the greatest writer of Masques in English -

👉 Masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment.

Ben' famous Masques-
Hymenaei
Hue and Cry After Cupid
The Masque of Beauty
The Masque of Queens

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✍Who is the heroine of Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho? -

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Emily de St. Aubert.
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Austen's novel Northanger Abbey with Radcliffe's work The Mysteries of Udolpho. Northanger
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Abbey's parody(imitation) of Gothic genre.

✍ What is the subtitle of Ben Jonson's work Timber? -

👉
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter.

👉 Published-1641
Ben talked about comic Humours-(4)
1. Choleric
2. sanguine
3. phlegmatic
4. melancholy
In Every Man in His Humour 1698

✍ To whom Henry Fielding's Tom Jones is dedicated? -

George Lytton.

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✍S.T. Coleridge while residing in the Lake District in 1809 started the magazine -
The Friend.

✍The term Novels of Character and Environment is associated with -

Thomas Hardy.

✍The Vision of Mirza is a political allegory by -

Addison.

✍What does Coleridge in Kubla Khan call a miracle of a rare device? -

The stately pleasure dome.

✍Aldous Huxley borrowed the title Brave New World from - Shakespeare's Tempest.
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✍ Who wrote The Earthly Paradise? -

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William Morris
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Scandinavia

✍ Which of Coleridge's poems contains a discussion on One Life Coleridge's idea that humanity and
nature are united? -

The Eolian Harp.

✍ Account of the Greatest English Poets was written by -

Addison.

✍ In Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Tess's son is named -

Sorrow.

✍The Revolt of Islam by Shelley was initially written in the year 1817. under the title of -
Loan and Cythna.
✍ Whose sister Mary killed her mother in a fit of madness? -
Charles Lamb.

✍ Whom did Dr. Johnson call his little character monger? -

Fanny Burney.

✍ The Famished Road is a Booker Prize winning novel by Nigerian novelist -

Ben Okri.

✍Who wrote Masque of Gypsies? - Ben Jonson.

✍Who has been robbed of his dukedom in the Tempest? - Prospero.
✍Life and Time of Michael K is a novel by -
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J.M. Coetzee.
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👉Nobel Prize in Literature (2003)
Booker Prize (twice) for
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2. Life & Times of Michael K (1983).
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✍In Milton's famous Masque of Comus an important character is Circe. Who is Circe? -
The Mother of Comus.

✍Who is the author of poem The Palace of Pleasure ?

👉
James Henry Leigh Hunt.
The Palace of Pleasure is an allegory based on Book II of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Note- The Palace of Pleasure by 16th century writer William Painter

✍ There is no 'way to peace'. Peace is the way." — Mahatma Gandhi

Which figure of speech in above line?

👉
Antimetabole.
phrase is repeated, but with the order of words reversed.like-
"I mean what I say and I say what I mean"
Note- Antimetabole is the repetition of words or phrases.
Chiasmus is the repetition of similar concepts within a repeated grammatical structure , but doesn't
necessarily involve the repetition of the same words.
What is aphaeresis ?

The process by which a word loses its initial sound or sounds, for example 'cause (because) or 'twas
(it was).

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🌸 Welcome April. 🌸
🌸 April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.
~ T.S. Eliot , The Waste Land

🌸 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
~ George Orwell, 1984

🌸 April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)

~ William Shakespeare , Shakespeare's Sonnets

🌸 April. Month of dust and lies.

~ Naguib Mahfouz , Adrift on the Nile

🌸 Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.
~ Rebecca McNutt

🌸 Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

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Fanny Burney.
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Her Novel' s sub title -

Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

✍ Who is known as the Corn Law Rhymer? -

Ebenezer Elliott

👉 known as the Corn Law rhymer for his leading the fight to repeal the Corn Laws, which were
causing hardship and starvation among the poor.

✍The West Indian and The Fashionable Lover are played by -

Richard Cumberland.

👉Addison's The Drummer is - A Prose comedy.

✍Who was believed to be a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglocatholic in religion?
- T.S. Eliot.(in preface to his prose collection for Lancelot Andrewes )
Nobel prize 1948

✍ Andrew Marvell paid his homage to the Protector and a tribute to the royal dignity of Charles I in -
Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland.

His poems-
"To His Coy Mistress"
"Upon Appleton House"

👉"The Garden"
His personal & political satires "Flecknoe"
"The Character of Holland".

✍George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four is -

👉
A Prophetic novel.

👉The main character is Winston Smith. n

Dystopian novel
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changing this. He falls in love with Julia, who agrees with him, and is led into rebellion against the
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Many of its ideas are also famous. Among these are Big Brother, Newspeak, Room 101 and
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unperson
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Famous line- It was a bright cold day in Aprail, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

"Big brother is watching you''😁

✍ Which work of Addison offers an excellent example of the rhetoric and fine sentiment, which are
essentials of good writing? -

👉
Cato
Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison.
Play has a prologue written by Alexander Pope and an epilogue by Samuel Garth

✍Unto this Last is a book on political economy by -

👉
John Ruskin.

👉Gandhi translated Unto This Last into Gujarati in 1908 under the title of Sarvodaya (Well Being of
The book greatly influenced the Mahatma Gandhi

All).
✍ Who criticized John Keats as Cockney Poet and told him to go back to plasters, pills, and ointment
boxes? -

John Gibson Lockhart.

👉 John Gibson Lockhart, from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine

(1818)

✍Which character had a forked bead and wore a multicolored gown? - The Merchant.
✍ Hawser Trunnion is a character from -
Peregrine Pickle.

👉The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by Scottish novelist Tobias Smollett.
✍Ben Jonson's contemporary whom he satirizes in The Poetaster - Marston.
✍The novel Magic Seeds, a sequel of Half a Life is by the Nobel Laureate (2001)
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V.S. Naipaul.
Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State.
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Notable works
A House for Mr Biswas
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In a Free State
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A Bend in the River

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The Enigma of Arrival.

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Mimic man (Protagonist -Ralph Singh)

Note- Naipaul’s India and Mine," essay by Nissim Ezekiel.

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👉 Milton borrowed the theme for Comus from - Homer's Odyssey.
Dr. Samuel Johnson disapproved to Comus, Lycidas ( elegy on Kings Edward), but he praised to
Paradise lost.Dr. also criticised to Swift, John Gay, and John Donne.

✍The most impressive treatment of imagination has been given by -

👉
S.T. Coleridge.
In The Biographia Literaria (1817.
According to Coleridge, imagination has two types: Primary & Secondary.
Primary-
"the living power and prime agent of all human perception”
Secondary
imagination is the poetic vision, the faculty that a poet has “to idealize and unify”.
Fancy
Coleridge regards fancy to be the inferior to imagination.
Fancy a creative power. It only combines different things into different shapes, not like imagination to
fuse them into one. According to him, it is the process of “bringing together images dissimilar in the
main, by source”. It has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites. Fancy, in Coleridge’s
eyes was employed for tasks that were “passive” and “mechanical”.

✍ What does the Hind in Dryden's The Hind and the Panther stand for? -
Roman Catholic Church.

👉the Roman Catholic church appears as "A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged"
👉 The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts (1687) is an allegory in heroic couplets by John
Dryden.

👉Dryden converted to Catholicism with the accession of the Roman Catholic king James II in 1685.
👉 He Church of England as a panther, the Independents as a bear, the Presbyterians as a wolf, the
Quakers as a hare, the Socinians as a fox, the Freethinkers as an ape, and the Anabaptists as a boar.

✍Who are the dancers in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale? -

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Fauns and Satyrs.
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Dildos-
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This play and Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist (1610) are typically cited as the first usage of the word
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in publication

👉 The Winter's Tale includes a dance of twelve men costumed as satyrs, and the servant announcing
their entry says "one three of them, by their own report, sir, hath danc'd before the King.

👉The play contains the most famous of Shakespearean stage directions: Exit, pursued by a bear.
✍Microcosmography was written by the character writer -
John Earle.
(17th century English bishop
Chaplain to Charles II.)

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✍In which novel do we meet Mr. Snap? -

Jonathan Wild.

👉The Life and Death of the Late Jonathan Wild, the Great is a satiric novel by Henry Fielding
✍A New Way to Pay Old Debts is an English Renaissance play by -
Massinger.

✍Who is the author of the Poetic play Borderers? -

Wordsworth.

✍Which is the play in which blank verse was used for the first time? - Gorboduc.
✍Which of Swift's work is support of the Irish cause of freedom? -
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The Drapier's Letters.
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Lord Byron.
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✍The anti-hero Manfred is a character in -

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The Castle of Otranto.

✍Which of his novels is called a comic epic in prose by Henry Fielding? -

Joseph Andrews.

✍The purpose of Jonson's Comedy of Humours is -

Satirical.

✍Smollett's novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is a - epistolary novel

✍Catherin Morland is the heroine of - Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.
✍The poetic play The Dynasts was written by -
Thomas Hardy.

✍Sir Patric Spens, recalled by Coleridge in Dejection an Ode is -

a Scottish ballad.

✍The Life and Death of Mr. Badman was written by -

John Bunyan.

✍ Which author was awarded the position of official gazetteer on account of his talent in writing
political pamphlets? -

Richard Steele.

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Rudyard Kipling.
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✍The life of Scott a biography of Walter Scott is written by-

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John Gibson Lockhart.

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Study of spelling is called-
Orthography.

✍ The smallest functional unit of a writing system is called?

grapheme

Note-if 'eme" is added as suffix it becomes the smallest unit in linguistics

Like- 'eme' in Phoneme (smallest unit of speech sound)

Morpheme ( smallest meaningful unit of language)

✍Who wrote the dramatic monologue Tithonus? -

Tennyson.

✍Which Nobel Laureate was praised by the Swedish Academy for his affinity with Joseph Conrad? -
V.S. Naipaul.

✍Essay on Criticism by Pope shows influence of -

Boleau and Horace.

✍Middleton's play praised by Lamb and others is -

The Changeling.

✍Which novel is considered to be the first great flowering to the English novel
Pamela by Samuel Richardson.
Epistolary novel.

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✍I have not written a line that licks the dust. Who boasted boldly on his writing?
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William Hazlitt.
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✍Where Angel Fears to Tread and A Room with a View are novels by -
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E.M. Forster.
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👉 "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"lines from' Essay on Criticism' (it's in verse form)
By Alexander Pope

✍Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism. Who stated this? -
Dr. Johnson.

✍The opening lines from Sir Patrick Spens in Dejection: An Ode are about -
An Impending storm.

👉Dejection: An Ode" is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

✍What was Mark Twain's real name? -
Samuel Clemens.

✍Table Talk is a collection of essays by -

William Hazlitt.

✍Who is the author of Rip Van Winkle? -

👉Rip Van Winkle is Short story
Washington Irving.

✍ "What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English
poetry embellished by Dryden" This is a praise of Dryden from -

Dr.Johnson.

✍Aspects of the Novel is a critical work by - n

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E.M. Forster.
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Pub 1927.
seven aspects
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4. fantasy
5. prophecy
6. pattern
7.rhythm.
As for subject, he expects the work “to reveal the hidden life at its source.” Human nature.

✍Charles Lamb began his literary career with the publication of the melodramatic prose entitled -
Tale of Rosamund Gray.

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✍What is Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

👉 languages can differ so greatly in the way they encode semantic(meaning) information (in LEXIS

👉Lexis- refers to words

and GRAMMAR) that they can determine the way that speakers of a language think.

✍What is Act III of Shaw's Man and Superman famously called? -

Don Juan in Hell.

✍Who is the author of The Fall of Robespierre? -

👉The Fall of Robespierre is a three-act play written by Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge.
✍Who said Brevity is the soul of wit? -
Polonius.
(Character in Hamlet)

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✍Coleridge's A Christmas Tale is written in imitation of Shakespeare's Romances -
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The Winter's Tale.

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Which poem uses the refrain Nevermore? -

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The Raven( by edagr Allen Poe)
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👉 Refrain is a repeated word, line, or group of lines that appears at the end of a stanza.
Refrains appear at regular intervals throughout a poem to create a unique rhyme scheme and give
the poem its particular rhythm.

✍Absalom and Achitiphel is written in -

Heroic Couplets.
By Dryden

✍Who wrote the tragedy The Faithful Shepherdess? -

(Faithful=Fletcher = F🤣)
Fletcher.
✍William Blake wrote a poem in the form of a Miltonic Epic entitled -
The French Revolution.

✍ The War of the Worlds is a science fiction work by -

H.G. Wells.

✍The Town and Country Mouse has been written by -

Matthew Prior.

👉The Town and the City is a novel by Jack Kerouac

✍Who called Coleridge a damaged archangel? -
Lamb.

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✍The character of the leech gathered appears in -
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Resolution and Independence.

By William Wordsworth
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Who is he? -

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Walt Whitman.

👉 Father of American free verse

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Free verse- No meter ,no rhyme
One Metre is consisted of two foot.

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👉
One foot is consisted two syllable.
One syllable is consisted of one vowel.

👉 Part of syllables- onset+nucleus+coda (rhyme=nucleus+coda)

Nucleus made by vowel.
Example- CAT
C=ONSET
A=NUCLEUS
T=CODA
A+T=RHYME

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✍Dejection: An Ode is written on the theme of -
loss of poetic imagination.

✍Nostromo is a political novel by - Joseph Conrad.

✍Wordsworth wrote Ode to Duty under the influence of whose theory? -
Immanuel Kant.
(German philosopher)

✍Ferdinand, Count Fathom is a novel by -

Tobias Smollett.

✍ Name the post-Shakespearean dramatist who is known as the Dickens of the Elizabethan age. -

👉Mulk Raj Anand -India'Charls Dickens n

Thomas Dekker.
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Name Dryden's literary venture which brought failure -

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Wild Gallant.
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Out of His Humour (1599). Dryden admired the versification of Sir John Suckling, and quoted and
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✍ Who is the author of Song of Myself -

Walt Whitman.

✍ Shelley took the theme for his Prometheus Unbound from a play on the same theme written by a
Greek dramatist. -

👉Prometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus.

Aeschylus.

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👉Praise of Virginity has been written by - Aldhelm.
Aldhelm (c.639-709)

✍With whom are the words Poesis, Poema, Poeta associated? -

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Horace.
Poesis- subject matter
Poema- poem
Poeta-poet

✍Morality
The Betraying of Christ is a -
play.

✍Who is the author of the play The Promise of May? -

Tennyson.
His only prose work,shows Tennyson’s growing despondency and resentment at the religious, moral,
and political tendencies of the age.

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✍ The usage of a mild word in substitution of something that is more explicit or harsh when referring
to something unfavourable or unpleasant is called?

Euphemism

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Examples- Pass away instead of Died.
Make love instead of sex. io
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✍Melville's Moby-Dick gives us glimpses into the -

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World of whales.
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✍Plato's most systematic comments on poetry appear in the texts -

Ion and Republic.

✍In The Dunciad Pope has put which great personalities at the head of the dunces -
Theobald.

✍Wessex is the fictional setting of the novels of -

Thomas Hardy.

✍Who has been often called the Prose Shakespeare? -

Sir Walter Scott.
✍A. D. Hope the poet and essayist with a satirical slant, belonged to - Australia.
✍Vittoria Corombona and Duchess, two fine women characters, are protagonists in the tragedies of -
Webster( The White Devil)

✍ Who is the author of On Heroes and Hero Worship -

Thomas Carlyle.

✍Who was Andrea Del Sarto on whom Browning has written a dramatic monologue? -
A Renowned painter.

✍James Dixon is the central figure in the 1954. comic novel -

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Lucky Jim.
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✍️The Old Wive's Tale was written by - George Peel.
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✍In which language did Ibsen originally write? -

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Norwegian.
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✍Who was Rabbi Ben Ezra? -

He was a real Jewish scholar.
In Rabbi ben Ezra" poem by Robert Browning about Abraham ibn Ezra

✍ In which of the novels of Dickens the protagonist remembers how he had been a child's Tom Jones,
a harmless creature in his boyhood? -

David Copperfield.

✍What is the subtitle of Webster's The White Devil? -

The Tragedy of Paolo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Bracciano.

✍Richardson's Pamela marries - Mr. B.

✍Who Do You Think You Are? Is a collection of short stories by -
Alice Munro.

✍Cuddie Headrigg is a famous character in -

Sir Walter Scott's Waverley.

✍Modern Fiction and Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown are essays written by -
Virginia Woolf.

✍The Scribbler's Club was formed by -

Pope, Swift and Dr. Arbuthnot.

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✍Which of Plato's dialogues is premised on the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry? -
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Republic.
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✍The hero of Melville's Moby- Dick is - Ishmael.

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✍The image of Neptune taming the seahorse appears in -

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My Last Duchess
Poem by Robert Browning

✍Who has written Tom Sawyer? -

Mark Twain

✍Which is a basic concern of Plato's Republic? -

Justice.

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✍ Beauty is truth, truth beauty” lines in John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Which figure of speech is used in above line?

Chiasmus

👉 A chiasmus is a rhetorical device used to create a stylized writing effect, in which the second part
of a sentence is a mirror image of the first

✍Pope is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller. This quotation is from -
Dr. Johnson.

✍Eliot's The Waste Land appeared for the first time in the journal -
The Criterion.

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Charles Lamb devoted his life to the welfare of his afflicted sister who frequently appears in his
essays under the name of -
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Cousin Bridget.
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✍The White Devil in Webster's play The White Devil is -

Vittoria Corombona.

✍In which novel of Dickens Sir Leicester Dedlock appears? -

Bleak House.

✍From where did Browning get the idea for the title of his monologue Caliban upon Setebos? -
Shakespeare's Tempest.

✍Who wrote the first Gothic Novel? - Horace Walpole. (The Castle of Otranto)
✍Estella is a character in - Great Expectations.
✍The central character in Ben Jonson's play Epicene or The Silent Woman disguises as a woman.
✍What is the central theme of Bishop Blougram's Apology? -
Satire on Roman Catholic Faith.

✍Mr. Brooke fails to get himself elected to the new parliament in - Middlemarch.
✍Philip Massinger was influenced by the post-Shakespearean dramatist -
John Fletcher.

✍A Fine Balance is a novel by Rohinton Mistry set in Mumbai during the Emergency.
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South Sea House.
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✍The editor of the anthology Georgian Poetry is -

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Edward Marsh.
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✍Music is inarticulate poetry who has said this? -

John Dryden.

✍ Which philosopher proposed the Analogy of the Divided Line that formed the cornerstone of his
metaphysical framework? -

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Plato.
It is not enough for the philosopher to understand the Ideas (Forms), he must also understand the
relation of Ideas to all four levels of the structure to be able to know anything at all.

✍What is the central theme of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

The effect of sin and guilt upon human beings.
✍T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is dedicated to the better craftsman which refers to -
Ezra Pound.

✍Who wrote Walden? -

Henry David Thoreau.

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✍What is coda in linguistics?

An optional element of a syllable, consisting of one or more consonants following the nucleus
Example- CAT
C=Onset
A=nucleus
T= coda

✍For Plato, poetry is like -

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

✍Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant is a drama written by -

P.B. Shelley.

✍The Sahitya Akademi award winning poem Relationship was written by

Jayanta Mahapatra.

✍In Sheridan's play The School for Scandal, Charles Surface is in love with - Maria.
✍Sir Giles Overreach is a character in - Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts.
✍The Comedy of Errors is the re-working of a play by -
Plautus.

✍Who knows the world may end tonight? This highly striking line is quoted from -
👉The Last Ride Together is a dramatic monologue by Robert browning,
The Last Ride Together.

✍Marwood and Millamant are characters in -

The Way of the World.

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👉 Dryden wrote Astrea Redux in praise of the Restoration of monarchy.

👉 Dryden welcomes the new regime of King Charles II.

👉The poem's title is a reference to Greek goddess Astraea, a personification of justice.

Astrea Redux = Justice restoration

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✍Whoever loved that loved not at first sight? This is a quotation from -
Hero and Leander poem by Christopher Marlow
Marlowe's untimely death it was completed by George Chapman

✍Luke Frugal is a character in - Philip Massinger's

The City Madam.

✍The Sleepwalkers is a one act farce played by-

Nissim Ezekiel.

✍Who preached in his poetry the human perceptibility and emancipation of the spirit it? -
P.B.Shelley.

✍Sweeney Among the Nightingales is a poem by -

T.S. Eliot.

✍ Dr. Johnson left out one important poet in his Lives of the Poets.(52 poets) Who was the poet? -
Goldsmith.

✍ Which English critic followed the Aristotelian concept of mimesis and argued that the poet creates
another nature making things better than they are in nature? -

Philip Sidney.

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👉by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau.
Walden has subtitles. What is it? - Life in the Woods.

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Riders to the Sea, one-act play by John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist.
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The play centres on Maurya, an old woman who has lost to the sea all the male members of her
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✍ "A word to the Wise is enough God helps them that help themselves, Time-enough always proves
little enough" These lines are from

Benjamin Franklin.

✍ Against Plato who accused poets of lying, which critics said, the poet nothing affirms and therefore
never lieth? -

Philip Sidney.

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👉 T.S. Eliot's The Love song of Alfred Prufrock is a Dramatic Monologue.
Eliot called the poem a "love song" in reference to Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Love Song of Har
Dyal"
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Dramatic Monologue.-
A type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character
Other works in dramatic monologue
1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Ulysses
2. Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach.
3. My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning
4. Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven.

✍ Who remarked "Charles Lamb as a scorner of the field because of his disinterested attitude
towards politics"? -

William Wordsworth.

✍Hillis Miller's The Critic as Host has been viewed as a reply to -

The Deconstructive Angel.(By MH ABRAHAM)

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👉His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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✍Who wrote Mary Barton? -

Elizabeth Gaskell.

✍ Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive to seek, to find and not to yield.
These lines are from -

Ulysses.

✍Who wrote The Seventeenth Century Background? -

Basil Willey.

👉He was British scholar of English literature and intellectual history.

✍Who succeeded Wyclif as a leader of the Lollard Movement? -
John Purvey.

✍Speculum Hominis a work in French has been written by -

John Gower.

✍Which 20th century novelist made extensive use of Epiphany? -

James Joyce.

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Epiphany- an experience of a sudden and striking realization.

👉 Joyce used epiphany as a literary device within each entry of his short story collection Dubliners

👉 Joyce had first expounded on epiphany's meaning in the fragment Stephen Hero.
In Hinduism, epiphany might refer to Arjuna's realization that Krishna is indeed representing the
Universe.

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grown full straight/ And burnt is Apollo's laurel bough ... ? -

The Chorus
Chorus- Group of singers who comment, participate in a Play.

✍Margaret Hale is the central character in Gaskell's -

North and South.

✍Tis Pity She's a Whore is a play by -

John Ford.

✍Which is Sterne's quasi-autobiographieal work? - Journal to Stella.

✍ The Geneva School of critics pioneered Structural Linguistics.
Prominent figures
1. Ferdinand de Saussure
2.Charles Bally

✍Who was deeply interested in German Philosophy of Transcendentalism?

Thomas De Quincy.
His important works
1. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
2. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.
3. On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts.
4. The English Mail-Coach
(Note- all above asked in UGC NET)

✍ Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world are lines from
Yeats -

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The Second Coming
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figure of speech?

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zeugma
is a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways.

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✍ A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
Figure of speech?

Enjambmet- meaning “a striding over,”.

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is a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next.
Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd, John Woolman are all diarists from

American Literature.
✍The Bog poems are associated with -
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Seamus Heaney.
bog poems represent his human protest against violence, embedded in the cruel images of ritual
killing, and they establish his name as a laureate of peace.

✍Who are known as the Knickerbockers? -

The early nineteenth century writers of New York City.

✍ Which philosopher talked of ten Categories the first of which is substance which forms the core of
his Metaphysics? -

Aristotle.

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It describes the relationships(only connect) between two very different middle-class families in
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✍The Idiot boy by William Wordsworth is - A Ballad.

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✍ The feminist work Sexual Politics critiques male writers like D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and

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Norman Mailer
by Kate Millett

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Pub- 1970 (remeber the year)
"It is interesting that many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better
proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning."

✍ The full title of Robinson Crusoe is - The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson

👉
Crusoe.
Foe novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee.
reworking of Robinson Crusoe.

✍ A Grammarian's Funeral is a poem by -

Robert Browning.
It is dramatic monologue
(poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character; it compresses into a single vivid
scene a narrative sense of the speaker’s history and psychological insight into his character.)
His other poem as Dramatic monologue
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👉My Last Duchess
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at

👉👉FraAndrea
St. Praxed’s Church
Lippo Lippi
del Sarto

✍ There mark what kills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
These lines appear in -

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The Vanity of Human Wishes.

👉 By Thackeray( born in Calcutta, British India)

secretary to the Board of Revenue in the East India Company.

👉 Full title-

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The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated

👉 The History of Henry Esmond his historical novel.

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family( novel)
(About Indian Army officer

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2005 for

👉 He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 15 times

Notable works
1. The General of the Dead Army
2. Chronicle in Stone
3. The Palace of Dreams
4. The File on H.
5. The Pyramid Spiritus
6. The Fall of the Stone City

✍Poetic
T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral is a -

👉based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170.

play( Closet Drama/verse Play)

✍ Shakespeare began writing in the year -

1589.
✍In which of Thackeray's novels the protagonist is an Indian Army Officer? - 👮‍♀
The Newcomers.

✍Who wrote the tragedy Caesar and Pompey. -

George Chapman.

✍In Orientalism and After, Aijaz Ahmed critiques Edward Said's concept of Orientalism for being self-
👉Examples used in book include critical analyses of the colonial literature of Joseph Conrad
contradictory.

👉 Published in
1978

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Who said Nothing odd will do long; Tristram Shandy did not last? -Dr. Johnson.
Novel considered "odd", Within text itself, it's digressional and fragmentary form and its
unconventional plot and chronology
Full title-The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

👉
By Laurence Sterne.

👉 Shandy means "crack-brained"

👉
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This novel has been the major subject of post-modernism criticis.
Its style is marked by digression, double entendre, and graphic devices.
Novel is use precursor of stream of consciousness (Narrative method

👉
"to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator.

👉 Tristram's own birth is not even reached until Volume III.

Novel includes

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passages from Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, Francis Bacon's Of Death, Rabelais.
The frequent references to Rocinante, the character of Uncle Toby (who resembles Don Quixote ).
Characters
Tristram Shandy : English gentleman; amused by his own bad luck Hires
Elizabeth Shandy: Practical, longsuffering mistress of Shandy Hall
Walter Shandy: Retired merchant; country squire
Toby Shandy: Former army captain; loves building forts
Yorick :Well-meaning but incurably witty parson
Dr. Slop: Bumbling physician; "man-midwife".
✍ Which philosopher rejected Plato's Theory of Forms and argued that universals depend upon
particular things for their existence? - Aristotle.

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Who is the author of The Sound and the Fury? -

👉title from Macbeth's famous soliloquy from act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth
William Faulkner.

it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

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✍Arthur Miller's The Death of Salesman is mainly about - American Dream.

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✍ Who has written The Portrait of a Lady? -

Henry James.

✍Aristotle insisted that the source of knowledge is the - Senses.

✍The Coffee House Culture flourished in -
The age of Dr. Johnson.

✍The protagonist of Eliot's The Waste Land is -

Tiresias
.

✍Shelley's death came in 1822 by drowning in a sudden storm while sailing in the -
Gulf of Spezia.
✍In which play does Capulet's Orchard figure? -
Romeo and Juliet.

✍For how many years Crusoe stayed on the island. -

26.

✍Who is the avenger in Tourneur's play The Revenger's Tragedy? - Vindice.

✍In which of his novel Anthony Trollops caricatured his mother as a gentle scriber, Lady Carbury? -
The Way We Live Now.

✍Which Shakespearean character famously says I am determined to prove villain?

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✍GB Shaw's Man of Destiny is a satire on -

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✍Who said nations are imagined communities? -

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Benedict Anderson.

✍Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike describes -

Addison.

✍The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by -

Oscar Wilde.

✍What is the problem taken up by Galsworthy in his play The Silver Box? -
Flaw in the system of law and justice.
✍Which Shakespearean character was Queen Elizabeth's favourite? - Falstaff.
Who is the narrator in Charlotte's Villette? - Lucy Snowe.

👉 Lucy Snowe, fictional character, a shy, plain British teacher in Belgium who is the protagonist of
Charlotte Brontë’s semiautobiographical novel Villette (1853).

✍ The old Order changeth, yielding to new God and fulfills himself in many ways ... These lines are
from -

Morte d' Arthur.

✍Which Romantic poet wrote a sonnet on Chapman's translation of Homer?

Keats.

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✍Ralph Bigod the arch-borrower is a character who appears in -

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Charles Lamb's essay The Two Races of Man.

✍T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in the year - 1948.
✍For Aristotle imitation is associated with - pleasure and instruction.
✍Who wrote The Vacation of the Kelwyns? -
William Dean Howells ( American writer)

✍An important element of tragedy according to Aristotle, is praxis translated as Action.

👉
👉Aristotle held view that there were three basic activities of humans: theoria (thinking), poiesis
Praxis means activity engaged in by free people.
(making), and praxis (doing)

✍Persian Eclogue is the first work of -

William Collins.

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John Bull's Other Island deals with the problem of -

👉John Bull's Other Island is a comedy about Ireland, by George Bernard Shaw
Racial Prejudices.

✍Whose poem begins thus: Busy old fool, unruly sun? -

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge in "Monody on the Death of Chatterton"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti in "Five English Poets"

👉John Keats in "To Chatterton".

Keats also inscribed Endymion "to the memory of Thomas Chatterton".

✍The title of Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd is derived from -
👉Protagonist- Bathsheba Everdene
Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

✍The Doctor's Dilemma deals with the problem of -

👉
Callousness of the medical profession.

👉👉The Doctor's Dilemma is a problem play by George Bernard Shaw.

Doctor is Sir Colenso Ridgeon
About the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the
demands of private medicine as a business and a vocation.

✍The epic novel The Name of the Rose is written by -

Umberto Eco.

✍Aurora Leigh: A Poem in Nine Books, written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a -

👉Aurora Leigh is a feminist version of William Wordsworth's autobiographical poemThe Prelude
Blank Verse Novel.

✍Marston's The Malcontent is dedicated to his former adversary - Ben Jonson.

✍ Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and leveled by the roller. -
Dr. Johnson.

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Cockney Poetasters. -
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✍Poetic/verse drama/Closet Drama/ Plays by T.S. Eliot -

The Murder in the Cathedral
The Family Reunion
The Cocktail Party.

✍Who wrote Ode to Evening? - Collins.

✍What did Aristotle highlight as the two natural causes from which action springs? -
Plot and Character.

✍ In Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the old man hooks a huge fish. What is the fish called? -
Marlin.

👉 Story of Santiago, Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off
the coast of Cuba.
👉Santiago is in the end physically destroyed, but mentally he is not defeated.
👉"A man can be destroyed but not defeated” (whatsapp status😄)
✍ The patient in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient is -

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Almasy.

👉 The novel won the 1992 Booker Prize.

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2018 Golden Man Booker award.
This novel is sequel to the In the Skin of a Lion
Novel about four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of
the Second World War.
Hana(nurse)
Caravaggio A Canadian thief

Kip
(Sikh man from India who works as a "sapper," defusing bombs for the British forces in World War II. )

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Derrida.
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👉 What is described in Poetics as the end of a tragedy? - Plot

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Plot is the soul of tregedy as Aristotle said.
Plot must have "unity of action" and beginning, middle & end.
Aristotle preferred complex plot

👉anagnorisis means shifts from ignorance to awareness.

Complex plot has anagnorisis & Peripeteia.

👉Peripeteia means reversal of fortune.

✍Which poet was lamented by William Collins in his poem In Yonder Grave a Druid Lies? -
James Thomson.

👉In ODE ON THE DEATH OF MR. THOMSON.

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✍ General study of the relationship between words and meanings is called

✍What is Ephemeral-
Semantics

MEANS- 'lasting for a short time'

In the study of language change, it refers to fashionable words that drift in and out of fashion.
Speech is often considered to be an ephemeral thing in contrast to the more permanent nature of
writing.

✍There are three sections of Virginia Woolf's novel

To the Lighthouse. - The Window, Time Passes and To the Lighthouse.

✍The Victorian Age is called - An Era of Peace.

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✍Widowers Houses deals with the problem of -

👉Widowers' Houses (1892) was the first play by George Bernard Shaw.
The plight of old men.

✍The verse paragraph is the metrical unit of Milton's Paradise Lost.

✍Who is the author of the Persian Eclogues.
- Williams Collins.

✍Which work by Milton is in honour of chastity, an allegory of virtue attacked by sensuality? -

Comus.
✍Who wrote The Dear Departed? -
Stanley Houghton.

👉His best known play is Hindle Wakes

✍Who wrote Darkness at Noon? -
Arthur Koestler.

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(Hungarian British Jewish author)
Novel is anti-totalitarian.

✍ Which work by Robert Browning is a children poem? -

👉
The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

👉 Also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin

👉Pied Piper was from Germony.

Town of Hamelin was suffering from a rat infestation

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Jhon Webster.
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Tory Wits.
Members as
1. Jonathan Swift
2. Alexander Pope
3. John Gay, John Arbuthnot
4. Henry St. John
5. Thomas Parnell.

✍ Who is the author of the novel Jill set in Oxford during World War II? - Philip Larkin.
Protagonist John Kemp

✍Oxford Movement was headed by -

👉
Cardinal Newman.
This was a religious movement.
Other members-
Edward Bouverie Pusey
John Keble.
✍ The poet's f the 1930's are called - Pink Poets.

👉
Also called The Auden Group or the Auden Generation.
Group of British and Irish writers W. H. Auden
Louis MacNeice
Cecil Day-Lewis
Stephen Spender

👉
Christopher Isherwood
MacSpaunday (in Short)
name invented by Roy Campbell.

✍Which poem begins with the line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day?
👉Far from the madding crowd(Thomas Hardy) novel has title from this poem
Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

✍Aristotle describes three parts of a plot: reversal, recognition and suffering.

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Protagonist- Willy Loman,

✍ Which novel has a nameless narrator? -

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison,

The Invisible Man ( science fiction novel) by H. G. Wells.

✍ Who was the first American playwright who received the Nobel Prize for Literature? -

👉
Eugene O'Neill.
His famous Plays
1. Long Day's Journey into Night.
2. The Emperor Jones.
3.The Hairy Ape
4. Desire Under the Elms.
5.Mourning Becomes Electra.
6 Ah, Wilderness! (his comedy)
✍ The theme of Thomas Gray's The Bard is the curse inflicted upon King Edward I and his
progeny(children) by -

Some poets killed by him.

✍Whiskey Priest is a character that appears in Graham Greene's -

👉
The Power and the Glory.
The title is an allusion (reference) to doxology( short hymn of praises to God) often recited at the
end of the Lord's Prayer:

✍The most popular form of literature in the Victorian Age was - The Novel.
✍ Roman a Clef is a French term that means -

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A novel with a key.
The fictitious names in novel represent real people.

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Which is figure of speech?

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Anadiplosis
is repetition of last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at end of a sentence & then used
again at beginning of next sentence.

✍ My Days is the memoir of -

👉
R.K. Narayan.

👉 My Dateless Diary is a collection of his autobiographical essays.

Narayan's mentor- Graham Greene
His. semi-autobiographical trilogy
1. Swami and Friends
2. The Bachelor of Arts

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3. The English Teacher
His fictional town - Malgudi

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first introduced in Swami and Friends.
Sahitya Academy Award for The Guide.
✍Who is the author of the popular One Act play A Night at an Inn? - Lord Dunsany.
✍Who called Milton a surly and acrimonious republican? -
Samuel Johnson.

✍''Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil" This is a line from - Lycidas.
✍What is the central thought of G.B. Shaw's play Augustus Does His Bit? - AntiWar ideology.
✍Lockhart was the biographer of - Walter Scott and Burns.
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Douglas Jerrold.
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✍Who wrote an induction to Marston's The Malcontent? - Webster

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✍H. W. Longfellow and J. R. Lowell is called the -

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Brahmin Poets.

✍Madeline a pictorial poem was written by -

Lord Tennyson.

✍Fielding, Smollett, Sterne and Richardson formed the four wheels of the van of the English Novel.
✍Aristotle asserted that organic unity of the plot can be achieved if events are connected by -
Probability and Necessity.

✍Who is the author of the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -

Edward Albee.

✍Whom did Aristotle regard to be the most tragic of the poets? -

Euripides.

✍Fern Hill is a poem of nostalgic childhood reminiscences by -

👉The poem starts as a straightforward evocation of his childhood visits to his Aunt Annie's farm
Dylan Thomas.

✍Tennyson's The Princess is a serio-comic attempt to handle the theme that was then known as -
👉
the new woman.
princess who forswears world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to

👉It was also a response to founding of Queen's College, London.

enter.

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Who wrote The Great Gatsby? -

👉 Fitzgerald
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John Heywood's defence of theatre Puritan attacks is -

An Apology for Actors.
Basically he is famous for
Four PP ( interlude)
4 Ps
palmer
pardoner
potycary

👉
pedler
The Pedlar suggests a competition to decide: each is to tell an elaborate lie; the best liar shall
"most prevail."

✍
👉 Who wrote The Moonstone? - William Wilkie Collins.

👉 The Moonstone, the first modern English detective novel.

Moonstone gained its name from its association with the Hindu god of the Moon, Chandra.
Colonel Herncastle, brings the Moonstone back with him from India where he acquired it by theft and

👉He also famous for The Woman in White (Novel).

murder during the Siege of Seringapatam.
✍ My Name is Red and Snow are works by -

👉
Orhan Pamuk.
Turkish novelist
Nobel prize 2006.
His famous works

1. Cevdet Bey and His Sons

2. Silent House.
3. The White Castle
4. The Black Book
5. The New Life
6. My Name is Red Snow
7. Istanbul: Memories and the City
8. The Museum of Innocence
9. A Strangeness in My Mind
10. The Red-Haired Woman

✍ Which kind of play is Mr. Sampson (one act play) by Charles Lee? -

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A Delightful comedy
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River.
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👉 Lycidas is on death of Edward King.

👉Main Narrator- Uncouth Swain

It's a monody(lament in one voice).
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✍ What term used by Derrida to

"indicate a point of undecidability, which locates the site at which the text most obviously undermines
its own rhetorical structure, dismantles'

Aporia

👉In Aristotle's Metaphysics, aporia plays a role in his method of inquiry.

👉 For George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589), aporia is "the Doubtful.
✍ The treatment of inanimate natural objects as if they had human capabilities, sensations and
emotions is called -
✍
Pathetic Fallacy.
The term was coined by John Ruskin in Modern Painters (1843–60).

👉
Diffrence
Pathetic Fallacy is the attribution of human qualities and characteristics to inanimate objects of

👉
nature.
Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to something nonhuman or the

👉
representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Pathetic Fallacy is used to reflect the actions and emotions of the story in nature.

👉Personification is used to create vivid imagery and beautifies the text.

✍Who or what was Areopagus? -

A Greek hill where a tribunal for liberty of speech was held.

👉 The Areopagus was 16th-century club dedicated to the reformation of English poetry.
Major figures
Edmund Spenser

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✍Elizabeth Braddon achieved immediate popular acclaim with her gripping, almost breathless novel -
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Lady Audley's Secret.

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✍Name Heywood's chivalric romance satirized by Beaumont in The Knight of the Burning Pestle? -
The Four Prentices of London.

✍ "To Chloe Jealous"

poem was written by -

Matthew Prior.

✍Chief Nanga is a minister of culture, representing the old style of politics, in the novel -
A Man of the People
Novel
By Chinua Achebe

✍Lord Tennyson's drama is

Harold:
A Drama

✍The Hawk in the Rain is a poetry collection by -

Ted Hughes.

✍What according to Aristotle cannot be the proper subject of tragedy? - Enemy kills enemy.
✍ Who was the Originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature? - Plato.
Note- Advocate of theory of Imitation- Aristotle

✍ Aristotle points out four aspects of tragic hero to be maintained in a tragedy.

First, the hero must be good.

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Which novelists has been compared to a little bronze satyr of antiquity in whose hollow exquisite
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odors were stored? -

Sterne.

✍Waiting for Godot and Endgame are absurd plays by -

👉
Samuel Beckett.

👉 Martin Esslin coined the term The Theatre of the Absurd

👉
👉
Waiting for Godot is 2 act play.
French name - En attendant Godot
Subtitle- "a tragicomedy in two acts"
Opening lines
"Nothing to be done"(by Estragon

Closing lines-
"Well,shel we go/Yes, let's go''( they do not move)

👉 Characters
1. Vladimir (Didi)
2. Estragon (Gogo)
3 Pozzo

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4. Lucky
Vladimir & Estragon, meeting by a leafless tree, whose species is later speculated to be a
willow(Type of tree)

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👉 Vladimir spent various night in ditch

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👉
Lucky (Slave) is bound by a rope held by Pozzo(Owner)
Pozzo has become blind and Lucky is now fully mute in 2nd act.

👉The hat-passing game in play.

Lucky carries a bag, Vladimir asks him what is in bag then poozo replies, " Sand"
NOTE-
(Many questions asked from above explanation in UGC NET)

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✍The concept of global village was propounded by -

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Marshall Mcluha
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McLuhan coined the expression "the medium is the message" and the term global village, and

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predicted the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented.
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His major book

1. The Mechanical Bride.
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2. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.

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3.Understanding Media
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(Hot" and "cool" media).

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✍ "I am no prophet—and here's no great matter"

T.S. Eliot's "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Which figure of speech is in above lines

litotes

👉Litotes must contain a negative statement (as in, "not the best weather")
✍ TheVictorian have become masked words droning and skulking about us? -
John Ruskin.

✍
-
Whose first published work of fiction the three Scenes of Clerical Life were acclaimed by reviewers?

👉
George Eliot.
Real name Mary Ann Evans.
She wrote seven novels
Adam Bede (1859)
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Silas Marner (1861)
Romola (1862–63)
Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) Middlemarch (1871–72)
Daniel Deronda (1876).

✍Who wrote the essay On Liberty is -

👉author of feminist work The Subjection of Women(1869)
John Stuart Mill.

✍ Women Beware Women was written by -

Thomas Middleton.

✍What is the central theme of Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia? -

👉
Different methods how the dead bodies were disposed of.
Full title-
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk.

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👉Edgar Allan Poe quotes the Urn Burial at the beginning of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
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✍In Lycidas,( by Milton) Arethuse is a fountain in Sicily associated with poetic inspiration.
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👉 Who is the author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? - Edward Gibbon.
It traces Western civilization, Islamic and Mongolian conquests from the height of the Roman
Empire to the fall of Byzantium in the 15th century.

👉Richard III is Shakespeare's cruelest king.

✍
👉 Amours de Voyage, a sequence of verse letters is the best known poetry of Arthur Hugh Clough.

👉About a group of English travellers in Italy:

Amours de Voyage is a novel in verse

✍The Gentle Craft is the sub-title of Dekker's comedy -

The Shoemaker's Holiday.

✍ Thomas of Reading is a novel about clothier's trade.

👉Thomas of Reading or the Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West in honour of clothiers (1612).
By Thomas Deloney( 17th century)

.
✍ "Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul
according well, May make one music as before"

Lord Tennyson.
Above lines from the Prologue to In 👉Memoriam was written on death of Arthur Henry Hallam.
✍ Jimmy Porter and Alison are characters in John Osborne's -

👉
Look Back in Anger.

👉 Published in 1956(PhD entrance exam)

A realist play.
focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated of working-class (NTA UGC

👉"angry
NET)
This play is extended Genre of

👉 young men"( a group of mostly working- and middle-class British playwrights and novelists)

👉InplayKitchen sink drama protagonists usually could be described as "angry young men
"Look Back in Anger is thought of as the first of Kitchen sink drama.

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Who coined the term "looking-glass self"? (Cultural studies)
Charles Horton Cooley
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Term introduced into his work Human Nature and the Social Order.
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Meaning- our reflection of how we think we appear to others.

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Cooley' 3 steps.

👉 Step one is how one imagines one looks to other people.

👉 Step two is how one imagines the judgment of others based on how one thinks they view them.
Step three is how one thinks of how the person views them based on their previous judgments.

✍ The Comedy of Menace is associated with the absurd playwright -

Harold Pinter.

✍ Aristotle asserts that those who rely on spectacle create sense, not of the terrible but only of the
monstrous.

✍Jack of Newbury is a novel about -

The Weaver's craft.

👉Jack of Newbury by Thomas Deloney

✍Who wrote Modern Painters and Stores of Venice? -
Jhon Ruskin.

✍The play A Dance of the Forests is a half-satirical celebration of Nigerian Independence written by -
👉
Wole Soyinka.
Nobel Prize- 1986.
His popular plays
1..The Lion and the Jewel
2. The Strong Breed
3. Kongi's Harvest
4. Madmen and Specialists( NTA NET 2021)
5. Death and the King's Horseman
(Remember the title only)

✍Who wrote The Spectators under the pen name Issac Bickerstaff?
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Jonathan Swift. io
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✍Shelley's The Mask of Anarchy was a reaction to the historical incident -
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Peterloo Massacre.
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Wealth of wisdom contained in the books.

👉Sesame talks about treasures to be found in books.

Lilies talks about women as preservers and beautifiers of the world and how their education should
prepare them for this.

✍ Banjo is the pseudonym of the Australian poet -

A.B. Paterson.

✍ One of the most articulate and influential disciples of the Oxford Movement ( religious movement)
who authored some 150. works and most notably
The Hair of Redclyffe and The Trial is -
C.M. Yonge.
✍The Ossianic poems are associated with -
👉
James Macpherson.

👉Ossianic- traditional Gaelic poetry

Scottish Poet

✍The expression Broad Church was proposed by -

A. H. Clough.
Anglican Church emphasizing a liberal interpretation of ritual.

✍ Who introduced the term ELABORATED AND RESTRICTED CODE?

British sociologist Basil Bernstein

✍ Oh, you stupid car, you never work when I need you to,"
Which figure of speech

Apostrophe

👉Directly addressing a nonexistent person or an inanimate object as though it were a living being.
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✍ "Enoch Arden", the narrative poem by Lord Tennyson, presents the story of a fisherman turned
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merchant sailor who, after a shipwreck, is marooned on a desert island.

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✍ "In "Memorial Verses", Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. They are Goethe,
Wordsworth and Byron.

✍ Harold Pinter is an English playwright who wrote screenplays on novels such as Marcel Proust's In
Search of Lost Time, John Fowles's French Lieutenant's Woman and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's
Tale.

✍The Commonwealth period in England is from 1649 to 1660.

✍ In R. K. Narayan's Swami and Friends, the game of Cricket offers Swami the best kind of emotional
release from the strains and the pressures of disagreeable circumstances.

✍ William Blake points out the importance of the particular when he said that "To Generalize is to be
an idiot. To particularize is the alone Distinction of Merit".
✍Northumbrian, Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon are the four dialects of Old English.
✍ Anthony Burgess's last novel, A Dead Man in Deptford, was published in1993. The "dead man" of
the title refers to Christopher Marlowe who is also the central character in the novel.

✍ The correct chronological order: William Caxton prints the first English book (1473) - Tottel's
Miscellany (Songs and Sonnets)
(1557) - William Shakespeare's First Folio (1623) - John Milton's Areopagitica (1644)

✍The Latin phrase ut pictura poesis from Horace's Ars Poetica means "as is painting, so is poetry".

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✍Oliver Goldsmith is the author of Account of the Augustan Age in England (1759).
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✍Cervantes published his novel, Don Quixote in two parts.

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Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians is a collection of short biographies of Victorian writers and
public figures. The Eminent

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👉 The eponymous saint of Dryden's "Song for St. Cecilia's Day" is an Armenian devotee of Christian
faith. St. Cecilia was a Roman lady and an early Christian martyr. St. Cecilia's festival is celebrated on
22 November in England. St. Cecilia is the patroness of music and is fabled to have invented the
organ.

👉 Michael Roberts's anthology Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) canonized modern poetry and
poets for quite some decades.
The collection begins with the poems of Conrad Aiken
Roberts omitted the Georgian poets in his anthology. Yet Yeats, Eliot and Pound find a place in the
Faber Book of 1936.
👉 Jean Baudrillard proposed that the First Gulf War had never taken place and it was simply a
hyperreal, media-generated spectacle.

👉 Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial was prompted by the discovery of ancient burial-urns near
Norwich.

👉A Modern Instance, Catch-22, and The Naked and the Dead are WAR Fictions.
👉 Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin and Donald Davie are the poets of The Movement of the 1950's
England.

👉Maps, Gifts and Secrets belong to Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun Trilogy.
👉Nissim Ezekiel - "Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher"
👉A. K. Ramanujan - "Small-scale Reflections on a Great House"
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👉Jayanta Mahapatra - "Dawn at Puri"
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👉 Ferdinand de Saussure made the seminal distinction between langue and parole in his lectures
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A language consists in the interrelationship between langue and parole. Langue is the particular
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language-system, the elements of which we learn as children, and which is codified in our grammars
and dictionaries, whereas parole is the language occasion -How a person utterances ...
(what A says to B).

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✍ Romanticism which gave rise to The Movement. Departure and New Poems are the little
magazines which came to be associated with The Movement
.

✍ The error of interpreting a literary work by referring to an evidence outside itself, such as the design
and the purpose of the author, is called Intentional fallacy.
✍ In the mechanical drill method of second language acquisition,the learner's response is totally
controlled. Comprehension of the item by the learner is not required in this method.

✍These are some of the lines from Henry King's poem "Exequy on his Wife":
Thou wilt not wake
Till I thy fate shall overtake;
Till age, or grief, or sickness must
Marry my body to that dust
It so much loves; and fill the room
My heart keeps empty in thy Tomb.
Stay for me there; I will not fail
To meet thee in that hollow Vale.
And think not much of my delay; I amalready on the way, ...
These lines depict the inevitability of aging and dying and the helplessness of man in controlling them.
The love for the wife makes the husband weak. Consequently, he is eager to join his dead wife.
Through simple intimate tones of their shared earthly life - stay for me, wait for me, I will not fail - he
not only imagines her but also imagines that she is thinking of him.

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Beckwith - The Swimming Pool Library

✍ The following lines are from the final passage of James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man.

"Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the
smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me
now and ever ingoodstead."

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Semiotics originated mainly in the works of the two theorists, CharlesSandersPeirce and Ferdinand de
Saussure.

👉 Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy was originally published in 1621. It was later expanded and
altered in five subsequent editions. The magazine, Blast self-consciously created an identity for
Vorticists, a group of painters, sculptors and writers.

👉 The figure of speech used in the following lines is anaphora. Anaphora is characterized by
repetition of words or group of words at the beginning of consecutive sentences.

"In every cry of every Man,

In every Infant's cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban ... "

👉The Redcrosse Knight in Spenser's The Faerie Queene undertakes his quest at Gloriana's behest.
👉John Ruskin saw a paradigm for Victorian Britain in the city of Venice.
👉 Kazuo Ishiguro's novel A Pale View of Hills is narrated by a Japanese widow living in England and

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draws on the destruction and the rehabilitation of Nagasaki.
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Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus shows traces of Morality plays such
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as its soliloquizing protagonist, the Good and the Bad Angel and its final moral.
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👉 The branch of philosophy that asks the question, 'How do we know what we know?' is
epistemology

👉 The eighteenth-century practice of bookselling in England was partially dependent upon direct
patronage and partially upon impersonal sales. A patron paid half the cost of a book before
publication and half on delivery. The author of the book received these payments directly. The patron's
name appeared in the preface for the book published in this manner. This practice was known as
Subscription.

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👉 Oxford India has published a volume of Premchand translations in English, The Oxford India
Premchand. The translators are David Rubin, Alok Rai, and Christopher King.
👉 Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen have the spa town of Bath as the primary
location.

👉 In the communicative approach to ELT, the development of language learning or teaching involves a
shift from form-based to a meaning-based approach and from broad-based competence to specific
needs.

👉 The Moral Essays of Alexander Pope are addressed to Martha Blount, Lord Cobham, Bathurst and
Burlington.

👉 Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children presents the wartorn Europe. The Mother
Courage follows troops with her canteen wagon. Anna Fierling is the real name of Mother Courage.

👉-TESOL Quarterly is a journal that publishes articles on English language teaching and learning.
👉The elegies in English:
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"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751) by Thomas Gray
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"Adonais" (1821) by P. B. Shelley
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"In Memoriam A. H. H." (1850) by Tennyson
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👉Galileo is the only one of Milton's contemporaries to be mentioned by name in Paradise Lost.
K. S. Maniam is a major writer of Indian origin, writing in English, born and living in Malaysia. He wrote
two novels The Return and Between Lives.

👉 Thomas Percy collected old songs, ballads and romances in English and Scots in his Reliques of
Ancient English Poetry.

👉 Nirad C. Chaudhuri's The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian concludes with an essay on the
course of Indian history. But in the penultimate chapter, Chaudhuri concludes the account of the
events in his life. This narrative end when Chaudhuri obtains a job in the military accounts department
and gives it up because he finds it soul-destroying.

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👉 In John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Amans, the lover makes his confession to the priest named
Genius.

👉 In Eugene Ionesco's Chairs, the absurdity is not so much in the banal words that are uttered but, in
the fact, that they are spoken to a never-growing number of empty chairs.

👉 Coleridge's reading of Purchas his Pilgrimage before an opium induced sleep triggered off "Kubla
Khan". Samuel Purchas, the London Parson, wrote Purchas his Pilgrimage.

👉 Sordello, based on the life of a thirteenth-century troubadour, earned him the reputation for
composing poems of impenetrable difficulty which marked a catastrophic failure in Robert Browning's
poetic career.

👉In Tristram Shandy, the Author's preface is hawked to the highest bidder.
👉 Evelyn Waugh once complained that T.S. Eliot's Poems, 1909-1925 was "marvellously good, but
very hard to understand." The most pessimistic novelbWaugh wrote is A Handful of Dust and he owed
the title to The Waste Land.

👉 The illusion of peace in Victorian England during the years 1830- 1850, was broken by incidents

n
such as the disaster of the Indian Mutiny and the incompetent bungling of the Crimean War.
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Gulliver receives the following response from The King of Brobdingnag when he boasts about his
countrymen: " ... the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl
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upon the face of the earth."

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Dante travels through the various circles of the hell In the Inferno and finds Judas who is unable to
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speak because Lucifer is chewing on his head.

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In his book, In Theory, Aijaz Ahmad works out the relations between the three entities: Classes,
Nations and Literatures.

👉 In 1660, agroup of12 people including Robert Boyle andChristopher Wren formed the Royal Society.
In 1663, it became The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. The Society's motto
was "In the words of no one".

👉"We were the last Romantics" appears in a poem by W.B. Yeats.

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Jew's Soliloquy".

👉 According to T.S. Eliot, in those parts where the dead poets assert their immortality, we are likely to
find "not only the best, but the most individual parts of a poet's work".

👉In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer the pilgrim, narrates both Sir Thopas' Tale and The Tale of Melibee.
👉 During the reign of Norman Kings, it was fashionable to speak French in upper-class circles in
England.

👉 -W. B. Yeats collaborated with Purohit Swami in translating the Ten Principal Upanishads into
English.

👉 Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst" is one of the first English poems celebrating a specific place, a
forerunner to "Cooper's Hill" and "Windsor-Forest".

👉 Tom Stoppard has consciously drawn upon earlier, often reputed works in many of his well- known
plays. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Inspector Hound
is a retelling of The Mousetrap, and Travesties is a retelling of Importance of Being Earnest.

👉 After discovering the truth about his heinous crimes committed in the past, Oedipus requests exile
as his punishment.

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👉Samuel Johnson has the following to say about the English poet Thomas Gray:
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"These images are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments: they strike, rather
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than please. The images are magnified by affectation: the language is laboured into harshness. The
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mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence - 'Double, double, toil and trouble'. He has a
kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and
there is too little appearance of ease and nature."

👉 "Take the smoking disclaimer issue" begins Vishal Bharadwaj. "Putting a disclaimer every time
somebody smokes on screen is not ananswer. If M.F. Hussain had painted a man with a cigar,
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👉 According to Speech Act theorists such as Austin and Searle, certain verbs actually 'perform'anact
when they are uttered.

👉 Haunted castles, strange noises, and an acceptance of the supernatural with all its trappings mark
the gothic fiction.

👉 The following lines are spoken by Ferdinand in The Tempest. They describe Ariel's music. The
passage reappears in an altered and ironic version in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land.

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👉The correct chronological order of Shakespearean plays is as follows:

Love's Labour's Lost (1598)

Midsummer Night's Dream (1600)

As You Like It (1600)

Antony and Cleopatra (1607)

The Tempest (1611)

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Hans-Robert Jauss, Stanley Fish, and Wolfgang Iser are reader response critics.
Bodkin is associated with archetypal criticism.

👉 The closing lines of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina present Levin's affirmation that whatever happens
to him, life is not meaningless but unquestionably meaningful.
👉 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins begins with a Prologue titled "The Storming of Seringapatam",
saying "I address these lines written in India - to my relatives in England".

👉 In "Gerontion", T.S. Eliot says that "History has many cunning

passages, contrived corridors/ And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, / Guides us by
vanities."

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👉 In Frances Burney's novel Evelina, the eponymous heroine comes out into the society at two
locations. They are Bristol and London

👉 . "Fear no more the heat of the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages" are lines by Shakespeare which
is repeated several times in Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway.

👉The important theatres of the Elizabethan period were Globe and Swan.
👉 In the poem "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse", Matthew Arnold expresses the dilemma of

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👉Byron work Don Juan begins thus:

"I want a hero: an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one"

👉The title of Sir Thomas Browne's famous treatise, Religio Medici means Religion of a Doctor.
Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire is a retelling of Sophocles's Antigone.

👉Paul de Man wrote Blindness and Insight and Allegories of Reading.

👉 Samuel Johnson denounced the metaphysical poets saying, "About the beginning of the
seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets". He made
this remark in the biography of Abraham Cowley's Lives of Poets.

👉"The terms of the contract are not disagreeable to me", is an example of litotes.
👉The following lines are from William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence".
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour ...

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👉New critic cleanth brooks put forward the idea of the 'heresy of paraphrase.
👉D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, Winifred's Pekinese dog is called Looloo.

👉Edmund Spenser's "Colin Clout's Come Home Again" is a fine example of pastoral eclogue.
👉 In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, John Dryden refers to Ben Jonson as "the most learned and
judicious Writer which any Theatre ever had".

👉 Judith Wright is an Australian poet who was raised in New South Wales and grew up in the rural

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👉 Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the characters in Philip Sidney's
Arcadia.

👉 Harold Pinter once admitted that he first became aware of the dramatic power of the pause from
seeing a popular American comedian Jack Benny.

👉Charles Dickens's Bleak House severely criticises England's Court of Chancery.

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The following are some of the characteristics of the ideal state described in Thomas More's Utopia.
property, money and vice are effectively abolished.
The root causes of crime, ambition & political conflict are eliminated.
Its priesthood, which includes some women, is limited in number.

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of her harrowing experiences. Five warriors seized me yestermorn, Me,evenme, a maid
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👉 Northrop Frye's influential work, Anatomy of Criticism includes, as the subtitle indicates, four
Essays. The four essays are titled

"Historical Criticism: A Theory of Modes", "Ethical Criticism: A Theory of Symbols", "Archetypal

Criticism: A Theory of Myths", and "Rhetorical Criticism: A Theory of Genres".

👉 In Robert Browning's "Andrea del Sarto", the speaker compares himself with Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael.

In Jonathan Swift's Gullivers Travels, Gulliver refers to William Dampier, the famous writer of two
voyages, as his cousin.

👉Miss Bates is a supporting character in Jane Austen's novel Emma.

👉Mr. Darcy, Miss Bingley and Mr. Collins are characters from Pride and Prejudice.
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👉Richard Crashaw is the author of Steps to the Temple.

👉The following books are matched with their respective authors. Jim Dixon - Lucky Jim
Jimmy Porter - Look Back in Anger

Joe Lampton - Room at the Top

Charles Lumley - Hurry on Down

👉 "In the opening book of "The Prelude", Wordsworth mentions famously that he was "fostered alike
by beauty and fear".

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The title of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood is derived from "The Swamp", a poem by Derek
Walcott.

👉 Byron's work, Beppo revolves around a wife whose husband is presumed to be lost at sea and she
takes a lover in his absence. Everybody behaves agreeably on the husband's return. Byron's technical
skills in verse is in display here as the work counterpoints the colloquial and the formal.

👉Toru Dutt is the author of the poem, "Our Casuarina Tree".

👉 In the Jacobean play A Game at Chess, the Black King and his men, representing Spain and the
Jesuits, are checkmated by the White Knight, Prince Charles. This political satire drew crowds to the
Globe Theatre until the Spanish ambassador protested and James I suppressed the play.

👉Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with multinational capitalism.

👉 Early in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, while Tony and his young son, John Andrew, walk to the
church, John tells his father a story he has heard from the stable manager, Ben about a mule named
Peppermint "who had drunk his company's rum ration" in the First World War and subsequently died.

👉 The Oxford English Dictionary was published in twelve volumes with its current title in the year

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is notorious for its many digressions across
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Benengeli.

👉 In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature; art is an imitationof life. In
order to argue his case, he gives the example of a chair.

👉 The translation of Geeta into English in 1784 called Bhagvit -Geeta marked, in William Jones's
opinion, an "event that made it possible for the first time to have a reliable impression of Indian
Literature". The translator is Charles Wilkins.

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👉The following characters are matched with the respective work in which they appear.
O Lady Dedlock - Dickens' Bleak House

O Lady Bertram - Austen's Mansfield Park

O Lady Harriet - Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters

Lady Jane - Thackeray's Vanity Fair

👉 "The Books You Needn't Read, the Books Made For Purposes
Other Than Reading, Books Read Before You Open Them Since
They Belong To The Category of Books Read Before Being Written

The above extract is taken from Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.

👉Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is based on Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.

👉J.M. Coetzee's Foe is based on Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
👉 The correct chronological order: Volpone by Jonson - The Duchess of Malfi by Webster - A Game of
Chess Middleton - The City Madam Philip Massinger.

👉'Nasal tone' in speech is a distinguishing feature of American English.

👉Chinua Achebe did not receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
👉The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is a significant work in six volumes.
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(1929). The other novels are Stamboul Train (1932), England Made Me (1935), Brighton Rock (1938),
Power and the Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948), and End of the Affair (1951).
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however, meant a trickster, a cheat. Raphael sets himself up as the 'Knight' with a pestle rather than a
sword in the play The Knight of the Burning Pestle.

👉 Works like The Earthly Paradise, Dante and His Circle, Goblin Market and Other Poems and the
journal, The Germ are associated with the Pre-Raphaelites.

The structure of a Greek tragedy is generally built on five parts:

1)The Prologos, or prologue, introduces the play's background, characters, settings, and themes.

2)The Parodos, or opening choral ode,(Entrance Ode) The entry chant or song of the chorus

3)The Episodes - feature action and dialogue that moves the plot forward.There are several episodes
in which actors interact with the chorus. Episodes are typically sung or chanted. Each episode ends
with a stasimon.

4)The Stasimons(Stationary Song)

A choral ode in which the chorus may react to the preceding episode.

5)The Exodos (Exit Ode),The exit song of the chorus after the last episode(deus ex machina )
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• Strophe( Movement is right to left)
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• Epode (the chorus comes together in the center of the stage and delivers a final stanza

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👉Call me Ishmael Tonight is written by Agha Shahid Ali

👉 "All fiction for me is a kind of magic or trickery - a confidence trick." The statement has been made
by Angus Wilson. H.L. Mencken invented the term Bible Belt.

Babbitt was invented by Sinclair Lewis.

Philip Wylie invented Monism.

Yes Man was created by Jack Conway.

👉 We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. ..... Michel Eyquem de
Montaigne. These lines are from Jacques Derrida's epigraph to his "Structure, Sign and Play in the

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Two poets Olivier Goldsmith and George Crabbe wrote the "Village" poems that address the
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👉Flowers is a short play written by Girish Karnad.

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👉Mystery and Miracle plays in English were based on Biblical stories.

👉When we rewrite a piece of discourse from one script into another, it is called transliteration.
👉 "No wonder then" from Adrienne Rich's "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" means "No wonder that
you now find the words menacing".

👉The term "womanism" was first used by Alice Walker in Color Purple.
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Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, being metatheatrical, lays bare the
constructed nature of theatrical performance. In referring to Hamlet's end and the Elizabethan stage
conditions lacking curtains, Guildenstern who is one of the characters of Stoppard's play says: "No
one gets up after death there is no applause - there is only silence and some second-hand clothes,
and that's death".

👉Anita Nair has translated the classic Malayalam novel, Chemmeen.

👉The following lines are written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
"God himself is the best Poet,

And the Real is His song."

👉These are lines from a poem "Auden's Funeral" by Stephen Spender:

You are your words. Your listeners see

Written on your face the poems they hear

Like letters carved in a tree's bark

The sight and sound of solitudes endured ...

👉Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", a key work of the Beat Movement, was dedicated to Carl Solomon.
👉The following are the views of Samuel Johnson on the death of Cordelia in King Lear.
It is contrary to the natural ideas of justice.

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👉 Father Dolan punishes Stephen with the pandybat in Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
because Stephen is not doing his work as his glasses are broken.

1) Aeschylus (525-456 BC)

• Father of tragedy
• According to legend, Aeschylus died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.
• Aschylus added The Second Actor Making Possible The Staging Of A Dramatic Story
• Aeschylus always won the first prize at the festival of Dionysia
• Only seven of his estimated 70-90 plays survived
The Persians,
Seven Against Thebes,
The Suppliants,
Prometheus Bound
the trilogy known as
The Oresteia (the three tragedies) Agamemnon,
• " count no man happy untill he dies, free of pain at last" is the last line of the play (PYQ)
• In T.S eliots Tradition and individual talent he mentioned Agamemnon and Othello play ( pyq)
The Libation Bearers or Choephoroi
The Eumenides or The furies
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"The Medium is the Message' is a concept given by Marshal McLuhan.

👉 Seamus Heaney's famous poem "Digging" forms a part of his celebrated collection called Death of
a Naturalist.

👉 The first major report on The Teaching of English in England was published in 1921. It is known as
the "Newbolt Report", named after the Chair, Board of Education, Sir Henry Newbolt.

👉 In 1722, the Crown awarded a certain English merchant William

Wood a patent to manufacture copper coins for Ireland. Jonathan Swift intervened by way of
composing a series of letters in response, better known as The Drapier's Letters.

👉While the world moves

In appentency on its metalled way Of time past and time future ...

These lines are from Eliot's "Burnt Norton" in Four Quarters (1936).

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👉 In his "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" Derrida is all praise for the
bricoleur whom Levi-Strauss sees as a supreme methodologist, "someone who uses'the means at
hand" Here Levi-Strauss contrasts bricoleur with engineer in terms of method and approach.

2) Sophocles (496-456 BC)

• For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright during the religious festivals of
the Lenaea and the Dionysia.
• He competed in thirty competitions, won twenty-four, Aeschylus won thirteen competitions,
Euripides won four.
• Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: (Ajax, Antigone,
Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.)
• According to Aristotle, Sophocles is responsible for introducing the “Third Actor to Greek Stage”
(Tritagonist).
• He increased the number of speaking actors, increased the number of chorus members, and used
painted scenery.

THEBAN TRILOGY
(1) Oedipus Rex (also called Oedipus the King and Oedipus Tyrannus)
(2) Oedipus at Colonus.
(3) Antigone.

Oedipus Rex
• Though inherently noble, Oedipus is the victim of a prophecy in which he kills his own father and
weds his mother despite his attempts to avoid this fate.
• In first scene Oedipus is in conversation with priest (pyq)
• priest entreaty Oedipus to rid thebes of the plague that afflicts its people ( pyq)
• coleridge categorised three best best plot in literature ( the Alchemist , tom jones and Oedipus rex )
( pyq)

Oedipus at Colonus.
• Tiresias not appear in this play otherwise he appears in other two plays Oedipus the king and
antigone ( pyq)

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have something to say - how rare this is!

These lines are from D. J. Enright's "Three New Germans".

👉 Michel Foucault's earlier "archaeological" study is found in The Birth of the Clinic (1963 in French
and 1973 in English).

👉 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is widely recognized as a masterpiece. It is also one of the finest
examples of coming-of-age novel.

👉Mulk Raj Anand wrote Coolie.

👉Premashram was written by Premchandra.
👉Raja Rao wrote The Cat and Shakespeare.
👉The following extract is taken from Sheridan's play The School for Scandal.
Lady Sneerwell: Why truly Mrs. Clackitt has a very pretty talent and a great deal of industry.
Snake: True, Madam, and has been tolerably successful in her day. To my knowledge she has been the
cause of six matches being

broken off and three sons disinherited, of four forced elopements

Lady Sneerwell: She certainly has talents but her manner is gross.

👉 Franz Kafka has not been discussed by Simone de Beavoir in "The Myth of Woman in Five Authors"
in The Second Sex. Some of them discussed are Montherlant, Lawrence and Stendhal.

👉 In a collection of essays Other Colors (2007), Orhan Pamuk shares how he writes his novels, tells
about his friendship with his daughter, talks about his loneliness and happiness.

👉 Two plays Larin Sahib by Gurcharan Das and Doongaji House by Cyrus Mistry won the Sultan
Padamsee Prize for Indian plays in English.

👉 Morris West, Patrick White and Thomas Keneally are Australian authors but Bill Pearson is an
American writer.

3) Euripides (480-406BC)

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• Areopagitica is a political prose work by John Milton published in 1644. The epigraph is from
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Medea (431 BC)
• based upon the myth of Jason and Medea
The Bacchae (405 BC)
The Trojan Women (415 BC)
Hippolytus (428 BC)
Helen (412 BC)
Hecuba (424 BC)
Heracles (416 BC)

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Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize
in Literature.

"My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow

With thy green mother in some shady groove"

(William Drummond )
The above quote is an example of a run-on line.

The Vision of Judgment (1822) by Lord Byron is a satire in Ottava rima, attacking George III and
Robert Southey.

👉Here's a famous exchange from Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of Silver Blaze:
👉'Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time'

'The dog did nothing in the night-time'

"That was the curious incident.'

Theshrill, demented choirs of waiting shells,

And bugles calling for them from sad shires."

These lines are from Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth".

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👉The library where the Battle of Books takes place is King's Library.
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👉John Lyly was Shakespeare's contemporary who did not write tragedies.
👉The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, tells the story of Amir.
👉 Thomas Babington Macaulay, the writer of the infamous Minute of 1835, finds a mention in Salman
Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh.

👉The issue of privileging speech over writing was taken up for discussion in Plato's Phaedrus.
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👉 The Magus is a postmodern novel by the British author John Fowles, telling the story of Nicholas
Urfe, a young British graduate who is teaching English on a small Greek island.

👉 Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a book by Ernst Cassirer which argues that man is a symbolic
animal.
👉 Spenser is a kind of English Homer, telling stories of heroic confrontations. He fashioned an
original verse form: The Spenserian Stanza. He did not oppose England's break with the Roman
Catholic Church. He is a Christian poet.

👉William Blake developed the ideas of "Prolifics" and "Devourers" in Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
(Prolifics co-create, Devourers basically use what has been created. We are not one or the other, we
take on different roles with respect to different sorts of creations.)

👉Surrealism is associated with Andre Breton.

👉"And miles to go before I sleep" is a line from a poem by Robert Frost.
👉 "The Disquieting Muses" by Sylvia Plath,
"The Starry Night" by Anne Sexton,

"Mournin Picture" by Adrienne Rich and

"Muse des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden

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👉Tony Harrison is a working-class poet.

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👉New Science is a work associated with Giambattista Vico.

👉Petrarch's sonnet sequence is Rime Sparse.
👉The island setting of Latmos figure in Keats's Endymion.
👉The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by Charles Baudelaire.
👉Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit
are romantic comedies centered around the themes of love and laughter.

👉Abraham Cowley wrote a poem comparing a lover's heart to a hand grenade.

👉The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to Werner Heisenberg.
👉Jabberwocky is a creation in Lewis Carroll's work Through the Looking Glass.
👉Didi and Gogo are nicknames given, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon.
👉 Stephen Greenblatt talks about "the circulation of social energy". Chaucer wrote nine legends of
good women in his The Legend of Good Women.

👉The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt.
👉Dylan Thomas is associated with the group The New Apocalypse.
👉 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour
The paths of glory lead but to the grave ...
Here Hour is the subject of awaits.

These lines are from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray.

👉"Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."
These lines are spoken by Zara in ActIII scene viiinThe Mourning Bride (1697) by William Congreve.

👉The old order changeth, yielding place to new" is from Idylls of the King by Tennyson.
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to Brighton.
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👉In King Lear, Edgar speaks in the voice of Poor Tom.

👉In Wordsworth's Prelude, the Boy of Winander is affected by Muteness.
👉 St.MagnusMartyr, St.Mary Woolnoth, Lower Thames Street, Queen Victoria Street, King William
Street and the London bridge are mentioned by their names in The Waste Land.

👉The Quiet American (1955) is an anti-war novel by Graham Greene.

👉 After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea are novels written by
Jean Rhys.

👉 The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was John Dryden who succeeded
William Davenant in 1670 till 1688.

👉 Alexander Pope refers to his father in the following lines from his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.
Born to no pride; inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
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The good man walked innoxious through his age ...

👉 The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to Charles Darwin. In William Golding's Lord of the
Flies, Piggy maintains, "Life is scientific".

👉Structural Anthropology of Claude Levi Strauss included The Raw and the Cooked (1964).
👉Chaucer's Pardoner makes his living by selling indulgences to those who committed sins.
👉 Coleridge's companion Robert Southey invited the former to engage in a fanciful scheme to
establish a Utopian community of freeloveon the banks of the Susquehanna.

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1. William Shakespeare depends primarily on Holinshed's Chronicles for his legendary and historical
plays.

2. Verse stories dealing with chivalry,knight, errantry, enchantments, and love are knownas the
metrical romances.

3. In FrancisBacon'sNew Atlantis','Solomon's House is the place where scientists devote themselves

to the advancement of knowledge.

4. The Vision of Daughter'sof Albion' is a visionarywork by William Blake.

5. Troilus and Criseyde'by Geoffrey Chaucer shows great infuence of 'Filostrato'by Boccaccio.
Troilusand Criseyde'and Pandorus'reveal maturity of Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative skills and his
dextenty in handling the Rhyme Royal.

6. .Elizabeth Gaskel's novel, Cranford'is a studyof a small circle in a small town based on Knutsford

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11. Rudyard Kipling's'Recessional:A VictorianOde' is a well known poem expressing the sincerityof his
religious devotion and was occasionedby Queen Victoria's1897 Jubilee celebration.

12. Richard Steele was pioneerof sentimental comedy and the comedy, The Conscious Lover'is its
best example.

13. Hintock Wood is presentedas somehow expressive of the 'unfulfilled intention which makes life
what it is' in Thomas Hardy's novel,'The Woodlanders'

14 A philosophical attitude pervading much of modern literature is called surrealism.

15. Robert Gissing's novel,New Grub Street'is a study of literarylife in the 19th century London.

16. Macspaunday' was a name invented by Roy Campbellto designate a composite figure made of the
four poets: Louis MacNeice(Mac),StephenSpender(sp),W. H. Auden(aun)& CecilDay Lewis(day).W. H.
Auden was the leaderof this group.

17. Noel Coward's play,'BlitheSpirit'(1941) was written in five days and its title is takenfrom PB
Shelley's poem, To a Skylark.

18. HenryJameswas the son of Henry James Sr. and the brotherof renownedphilosopher and
psychologist WilliamJames and diarist Alice James. He was greatlyinfiuenced by the British novelist
George Eliot.

19. There is a strong impact of Islam and Persian poetry on Sarojini Naidu's poetry. Her poem, The
Queen's Rival' is based on Persian legend.

20. Kamal Markandeya's novel, Two Virgins' was prescribed by the Madras University for its B A
English course but later withdrawn because of the alleged obscenity in it.

21. The term 'hell of sick civilization'is associated with Edith Sitwell. She is the eldest of the three
literary Sitwells (Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell & Sacheverell Sitwel).

22 William Empson's book,'SevenType of Ambiguity' is an analysisof poetic ambivalence. The frst type
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Shakespeare.

27. Thefutureruinof Troyand themurderof Agamemnon are referredto by W. B. Ycats in the poem,'Leda
and the Swan

28. Fableis a medieval fom, a short comic or satiric tale in verse dealing realistically with middle-class
character and delighting in the vulgarand the obscene.

29. Tropes'in rhetoric is a decided extension or changein the standard meaning of words.
30. Natheniel Lee's play,'Lucius Junius Brutus'bannedbecauseit was considered politically dangerous.

31. In Herman Melville's novel, 'Moby Dick', the characterCaptainAhab fallsfor his pride.He is the
captainof the whaler Pequod.

32. The first complete printed English Bible was producedby MilesCoverdalein 1535

33. John Wycliffe is regardedas the first translator of the bible into Englishfrom Latin.
34. The Tatler, the journal begun by RichardSteelein 1709,appeared thrice a week on Tuesdays,
Thursdays & Saturdays. It lasted for 01 year and 07 months.

35. The character Atticus'is a caricature of JosephAddisonin Alexander Pope'ssatirical poem,'Epistleto

Dr. Arbuthnot'.

36. Juvenal was best known for his book,'Satires' and it consistsof 16 satiric poems. Samuel
Johnson's poems, London' and The Vanityof Human Wishes'are an imitation of the third and tenth
satire of Juvenal(Roman Poets& Satirist) respectively.

37. The restorationcomedy has becn criticized mainly for its indecency and permissiveness.

38. OliverGoldsmith's own periodical, "The Bee' ran only eight weekly numbers.

39. Oliver Goldsmith's series of letters, "The Citizen of the World'originally appearedin "The Public
Ledger

40 Thomas Hobbes'work,'Leviathan' is a book on politics. It is dividedinto four pats:i) Of Man (ii) Of

Commonwealth (iii)Of a Christian Commonwealth & (iv) Of the Kingdomof Darkness.

41. JosephConrad'snovel,'The Secret Agent'deals with political extremism and western Europe.

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RichardSteele.

46. George Orwell's dystopian novella, 'Animal Farm' is an allegory of totalitarian society. In a letter to
Yvonne Davet. Orwelldescribed AnimalFarm as a satirical tale against Stalin.

47.In the JM Barrie'splay,"Mary Rose'the plot movesroundthe mysterious disappearance and

reappearance of its tite character on a Hebridean island.

48. In Aldous Huxley's novel, 'Brave New World'the calendaris datedAF whichstandsfor After Ford.

49. Restoration comedy begins with William Congreve. Comedyof mannersis used as a symonymof
Restoration comedy.

50. In essence René Descartes' book,Principles of Philosophy' is a synthesis of the 'Discourse on

Method'and Meditations on First Philosophy'.
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Wordsworth.

1. Franacois de Bonnivard' is the prisoner of Chillon. His life was the inspiration for Lord Byron's 1816
poem, ThePrisoner of Chillon'

2.The novels of Kamala Markanday's The Nowhere Man', Anita Desai's "Bye-Bye Blackbird' and Raja
Rao's The Serpent and the Rope' describe the condition of Indians settled abroad.

4.Nagesh Vishwanath Pai's book, The Angel of Misfortune' is a poem of about 5000 lines. King
Vikramaditya is narrated in this book.

5.Gynocriticism was introduced by Elaine Showalter in her famous critical essay, Towards a Famine
Poetics' in 1979.

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10. The Merchant's Tale of January and May' in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales'is a shrewd satire on
unequal marriages.

11. The Knight Tale' is the longest one in Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'. The story is written in
iambic pentameter end-rhymed couplets.

12. Henry Fielding was so enraged by Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel, 'Pamela or, Virtue
Rewarded' that the subsequent year he wrote an antipathetic satire, 'Shamela' on it.

13. Edward Bond's play, 'Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death' deals with the life of ageing William
Shakespeare. It is a political play profoundly infuenced by Bertolt Brecht and Epic theatre.

14. William Wordsworth's collection of poems, "The Lyrical Ballads' closes with lines written above
Tintern Abbey.

15. In Charlotte Bronte's novel, 'Jane Eyre', Jane rejects the proposal of Rochester and St. John Rivers.
16. A song of grief, lamentation and mourning is known as dirge. Alfred Tennyson wrote a dirge for the
Duke of Wellington. 17. Harold Pinter's play, 'Care Taker can be called a Comedy of Menace. The term
was coined by drama eritic Irving Wardle, who borrowed it from the subtitle of Campton's play, "The
Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace', in reviewing Pinter's and Campton's plays in Encore in 1958.

18. The England divides into two parties, *The Whigs' and "The Tories' during the restoration era.

19. J. M. Coetzee's novel, 'Foe' is postmoderm retelling of Daniel Defoe's novel, 'Robinson Crusoe'.

20. To get the complete meaning of a poem, Ontological Criticism puts emphasis on the texture and
the structure.

21. Jullian Hawthome's novel, 'Garh' is concemed with an Indian curse on a New England family living
in Jamaica

22. The poems - Endymion, Hyperion, Lamia, Ode to Grecian Um, Ode to Nightingale and Ode to
Psyche of John Keats bear the mark of Hellenism.

23. In novel, "Castle Dangerous' Walter Scott projects Scotland under Robert Bruce, the king and
national hero.

24. The theme of John Ruskin's book, "Unto This Last' containing 04 essays is economy.

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28. J.G. Farell's novel, 'The Siege of Krishnapur' is an account of British common sense, British
eccentricity and British amogance in besieged and crumbling residency during the Sepoy Rebellion.

29. Oscar Wilde was greatly attracted by the theories of Walter Scott and found himself adopted as
the mentor of the Aesthetic Movement.
30. Besides Christopher Marlowe, Nicholas Rowe also wrote a tragedy by the name, Tamberlane'.

31. Eamest is the protagonist in Samuel Butler 's novel, 'The Way of All Flesh'. It is a semi-
autobiographical novel which attacks Victorian hypocrisy.

32.The new Historicists include Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Montrose & Jonathan Goldberg. They
believed that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.

33. Bradley Pearson is the narrator of Irish Murdoch's novel, 'The Black Prince'. The novel's title alludes
mainly to William Shakespeare's revenge tragedy, 'Hamlet'.

34. in Charles Lamb's work, 'Essays of Elia', Elia is an Italian clerk with whom he had worked in the
South Sea House.
35. Willam Hazlitt presented a sharp and witty criticism of his literary contemporaries in 1825 in his
compilation, "Essays on the Principles of Human Action'.

36. Eastward Hoe or Eastward Ho is jointly authored by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John
Marston, printed in 1605. The play deals with a goldsmith and his household. It was written in
response to 'Westward Ho', an earlier satire by Thomas Dekker and John Webster.

37. Eastward Ho offended King James I with its anti-Scottish comedy, which caused Jonson and
Chapman to be arrested for a time, and which made their play one of the famous dramatic scandals of
its era.

38. The famous distinction between primary imagination, secondary imagination and fancy occurs in
Biographia Literaria's XII chapter.

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poem, 'Divine Comedy.

44. Geoffrey Chaucer's poem, 'The Parliament of Fowls' contains passages that have been directly
taken from Dante. The poem is a dream vision written in rhyme royal stanza and has the idea of St.
Valentine's Day.

45. V.S. Naipaul wrote an essay called "Conrad's Darkness' where he praises the earlier writer for
offering him a vision of the world's "half-made societies'

46. Bernard Shaw's play, "Major Barabara' deals with poverty and religious hypocrisy. The main
character Barbara Undershaft is shown as helping the poor.

47. The term, 'Portmanteau' introduced by humpty dumpty in Lewis Carroll's novel, Through the
Looking Glass'

48. W. B. Yeats' poem, 'Easter 1916' is a response to a major political uprising. The poem
commemorates Ireland's Easter Rebellion to gain independence from British rule.

49.The white female author Nadine Gordimer is sympathetic to the cause of the blacks. She is the
recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.

50. René Descartes philosophical and autobiographical treatise, 'Discourse on the Method' is best
knowm as the source of the famous quotation, "I think, therefore I am" which occurs in Part IV of the
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1. New criticism considers text as autotelic (having an end or purpose in itself.

2. church yard school of Poets' means the poets who wrote poetry chiefly of melancholic strain and of
the reformation of the church had been called a 'ploughman poet'.

4. Karl Marx's concept of economic capital, created the concept of cultural capitalist denonstrate how
an individual is defined and shaped by his social assets that promote social mobility in a stratined
society. The three types of cultural capital are institutionalized, objectified, and embodied,

5. AW Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones popularized the problem play in the eighties and nineties
centuries.

6. DHLawrence, Somerset Maugham and H G Wells were disciple of Samuel Butler.

7. Lord Byron's poem, 'The Vision of Judgment' is a satire directed against Robert Southey.

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11. John Berger's novel, 'Pig Earth' gives the story of a Hungarian painter, an emigree and his role in
the consumer society. The novel is set in a small village in the French Alps.

12. Nayantara Sahgal's polemic, 'A Voice for Freedom' contains speeches and witings about India
during the period of emergency.

13. Jindiworobok' is a movement related to Australian Literature. The movement named after a club
sought to promote native ideas, languages and traditions in Australian literature.

14. Robert Frost was invited by the president John F. Kennedy to recite his patriotic poem, "The Gift
Outright' at the inaugural ceremony.

15. The rejection of Universalism is a mark of Deconstruction.

16. Earnest Hemingway's longest novel, For Whom the Bell Toll' describes the incident in the Spanish
Civil War.

17. Twelve Years a Slave' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup. It is
dedicated to Harriet Beecher Stowe.
18. Doris Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: Communist, Psychological
and Sufi

19. Mathew Arnold's poem, 'Sohrab and Rustam' is taken from Shanama, an epic poem by the Persian
poet Ferdowsi.

20. The queen Elizabeth called Francis Bacon jestingly, Little Lord Keeper'. Elizabeth neglected him at
court but King James I knighted him.

21. Francis Bacon defined the essay as receptacle for detached thoughts and disposed meditations.

22. Francis Bacon is known for aphoristic prose style. He has been called the father of empiricism.

23. In an 1817 review of S T Coleridge's 'Biographia Literaria', Francis Jefirey coined the term 'Lake
School of Poets grouping William Wordsworth, S T Coleridge and Robert Southey.

24. Bathos is usually applied where there is sudden fall from the sublime to the trifle or ridiculous. It
was first used by Alexander Pope in his treatise, Peri Bathous; or, The Art of Sinking Poetry'

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28. John Brady, a former ballet dancer received 'Whitebread Book of the Year' for her book, Theory of
War"'.

29. Ezra Pound described poetry as 'Inspired Mathematics. He translated Anglo-Saxon poem, 'The
Seafarer.
30. In the first three plays of Chritopher Marlowe each of the heroes is consumed by a burning passion
which leads to his doom. The Jew of Malta - For riches, Dr. Faustus- For thirst for knowledge &
Tamburlaine - Thirst for power.

31. Norman Mailer's novel, "The Deer Park' presents a bitter view of Hollywood through the stories of
three men: a film director, an air force veteran and a pimp.

32. The Norwegian dramatist, Henrik Ibsen apparently influenced G.B. Shaw's plays. After
Shakespeare, Ibsen is the most frequently performed playwright. His play, 'A Doll's House' is one of the
most staged plays in the world.

33. Dorothea Brooke married Will Ladislaw in the end of George Eliot's novel, 'Middlemarch: A Study of
Provincial Life

34. GBShaw's play, "The Philanderer' abounds in humour and deals with the subject of marriage and
its limitations.
35. In his novel, Cactus Country', Manohar Malgaonkar writes the story from the point of view of a
Pakistani captain placed in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan).

36. Herman Melville's novella, Billy Budd' is set in the time of war.

37. 'Sermons' is the finest prose work of John Donne. Total 160 of his sermons have survived. He
delivered the famous sermon, 'Death's Duel' before King Charles I.

38. Henry Fielding's novel, Joseph Andrews' is a burlesque of Lawrence Sterne's novel The
Sentimental Journey through France and Italy'. It is written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes.

39. Henry Fielding's novel, Jonathan Wild' is the biography of the famous thief and thief taker who was
hanged at Newgate (One of the historic seven gates of the London Wall around the City of London).

40. W. H. White is better known as Mark Rutherford for his Autobiography of Mark Rutherford.

41. John Henry Newman gave the definition of a gentleman as 'one who never infiicts pain'.

42. Julian of Norwich is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular. She is famous for her
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46.John Masefield's poem, The Everlasting Mercy contains a sinner's confession. Masefield devoted
some stanzas to boxing in this book. The Everlasting Merey was declared 'nine-tenths sheer filth' by
Lord Alfred Douglas.

47. Noel Coward's play, "The Rat Trap' is a study of the miserable mariage of a playwright and his
novelist wife. It is a four acts play.

48. Thomas James Farrel's novel, The Judgment Day' deseribes the ill-fated hero's defeat and death
as a result of his contacts with Chicago underworld. His Studs Lonigan Trilogy is named after its
famous character "Studs Lonigan'.

49.Thomas James Farrel's novel, 'Invisible Swords" depicts a child borm with club feet and trials of
man in torment.

50. Michael Madhsudan Dutt 's narrative poem, "The Captive Ladie' is written about the mother of his
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1. The Celts were Pagan and worshipped objects of nature like river, mountain, valley, orchards etc.

2. The ballad was the most popular form of literature in the 18h century England.

3. The theme of William Shakespeare's tragedy, 'King Lear' is redemption of evil by the glory of virtue.

4. Coming of fate and hero into conflict is the conception of Greek Tragedy. The famous Greek
tragedians were Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides:

5. There are three kinds of irony in literature: Verbal Irony, Irony of Situation & Dramatic Irony.

7. The pioneer of horror tragedy was John Webster and his 'Duchess of Malfi' is supposed to be the
best example of this kind of tragedy.

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12. Lesie Stephen was a great critic of Shakespearean plays. The famous writers who gave negative
criticism on Shakespeare are: Leo Tolstoy, Voltaire, Samuel Pepys, Robert Greene, G B Shaw & J RR
Tolkien.

13. John Galsworthy's play, *The Strife' criticizes the tenacity of the employer and the employees to
the extremist extent.

14. John Galsworthy's play, 'Silver Box' attacks the uneven trend of justice. The play is a three-act
comedy. The title, Silver Box' stands for a cigarette box.

15. Pearl Buck's novel, 'Good Earth' won for her Nobel Prize. The novel throws a light on the various
elements that constitute cleavage between Eastern and Westem minds.

16. Epic poetry is said to be the earliest in English literature.

17.Beowulf is an old English poem of some 3200 lines, perhaps the earliest considerable poem in any
modern language.It is an Anglo-Saxon epic.

18. William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale translated the Bible after Wycliffe's translation.
19. The Renaissance enlightened the human mind engulfed in the darkness of the Middle Ages.

20. John Heywood was the most prominent writer of interludes. They were an early 16h century
playlet and precursor of Elizabethan drama.

21. Martin Luther in Germany, John Calvin in France, Geneva Zwing in Switzerland and John Knox in
Scotland were the principal leaders of reformation.

22. Nicholas Udall wrote first English Comedy, Ralph Roister Doister in 1553 which was based on the
model of Plautus and Terence. It is regarded as the first comedy to be written in the English language.

23. The book, 'Tottle's Miscellany' was named so because it was printed by Richard Tottle, a printer.

24. Virgil's poem, 'Aeneid' is in Latin hexameters, recounting the adventures of Aeneas from the fall of
Troy.

25. Decameron' is a collection of tales by Boccaccio. The tales were told and heard by seven ladies
who let Florence when the plague broke out in the city.

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30. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an
autobiogram authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover.

31. Thomas Hardy's one-act drama in verse, 'The Dynasts' is 'an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon,
in three and nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes'
32.Beowulf can properly be called an epic poem in the sense that it celebrates the achievements of a
hero in narrative verse.

33. John Gower's Vox Clamantis ("the voice of one crying out') is a Latin poem of around 10,000 lines
in eleegiac verse that recounts the events and tragedy of the 1381 Peasants' Rising.

33. The cultural theorist Fredric Jameson believes that the proliferation of television images is
producing a cultural condition akin to 'historical amnesia". His best-known books include
'Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism' (1991) and "The Political Unconscious'
(1981).

34. Piers Plowman (written c. 1370-90) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William
Langland. It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections called 'passus' (Latin for
"step ).
35. Chaucer's work, "The Knight's Tale' is an abbreviated version of Boccaccio's Teseida.

36. Geotfrey Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess' is an early dream poem and allegorical lament on
the death of Blanche of Lancaster, the first wife of John of Gaunt.

37. William Shakespeare turned to John Gower for a source for his drama, 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

38. In the character of Dame Margery, the narrator of his poem, Philip Sparrow, John Skelton
complains of the impossibility of writing eloquently in his native tongue.

39. Roger Ascham's book, 'The School Master' is written in 1563 and published posthumously in 1570.
It attempts to establish the bases of a discourse on the nature of education in a society.

40. The influence of Terence is noticeable in the five-act structure of the anonymous comedy,
'Gammer Gurtons Nedle"

41. The Chartist Movement, a working class movement for political reform, took a concrete shape in
England in 1930s.

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46. John Dryden in the work of criticism makes a comparison between French and English Drama.

47. The home coming of Odysseus after the fall of Troy is the theme of Homer's epic, 'Odyssey'. It
takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. Penelope was his wife and
Telemachus his son.

48. Oscar Wilde's philosophical novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray' and his play 'Salome' are
representative literary products of the Decadent Movement.

49. Ralpho is the square of Sir Hudibras in Samuel Butler's poem, 'Hudibras".

50.Neoclassical period is divided into three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the
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1. GB Shaw's play, "The Apple Cart' is a political satire on bourgeois democracy.

2. Henry Arthur Jones and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero were the two anti-Ibsenites, yet successful
playwrights of the period.

3. Opium, dreams and childhood were a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states.

4. Herman Melville was the friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Melville dedicated his novel, 'Moby-Dick to
Nathaniel Hawthome.

5. AKRamanujan worked as a professor of Dravidian Studies and linguistic at the Chicago University.

6. F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon' was edited by the renowned literary critic
Edmund Wilson and it was first published a year after Fitzgerald's death.

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11. Mathew Prior involved in secret negotiations with the French Government over the Treaty of
Utrecht (Peace Treaties) in 1973.

12. Chicago Critics have been called Neo-Aristotellians. The Chicago School of literary criticism was a
form of criticism of English literature begun at the University of Chicago in the 1930s, which lasted
until the 1950s.

13. Evelyn Waugh's novel, 'Black Mischief" is set in the tattering African kingdom of Azania. It
chronicles the efforts of the English-educated Emperor Seth, assisted by a fellow Oxford graduate,
Basil Seal, to modernize his Empire.

14. Lollards, a group of anti-clerical English Christians were followers of Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th
centuries.

15. John Galsworthy's crime play, 'Justice' was part of a campaign to improve conditions in British
prisons. The former British prime minister Winston Churchill attended an early performance of this
play in London.

16. Recluse, a long comprehensive poem by William Wordsworth has two parts: (i) The Prelude and (ii)
The Excursion.
17. Muriel Spark's first novel, 'The Comforters' drew on her experiences as a recent convert to
Catholicism and having suffered hallucinations due to using Dexedrine, an amphetamine then
available over the counter for dieting

18. Point Counter Point is Aldous Huxley's longest novel. Instead of a single central plot, there are a
number of interlinked storylines and recurring themes. Many of the characters are based on real
people, most of whom Huxley knew personally.

19. Samuel Butler satirizes the classical scholarship in his scholarly book, "The Authoress of the
Odyssey'. Butler argues that the epic was not only written more than two centuries later than the Iliad,
but that the author was a woman, a young Sicilian lady of Trapani.

20. Samuel Jonson's 'Preface to William Shakespeare' is considered as a piece of criticism. The essay
is divided into three parts.

21. In D. H. Lawrence's novel, 'Sons and Lovers', Paul Morel's mother's name is Gertrude. Morel is a
young man and budding artist. The book may be designated as a Psychological novel.

22. Kingsley Amis' first novel, Lucky Jim' is dedicated to Philip Larkin, who helped inspire the main
character and who contributed significantly to the structure of the novel. The novel is about a man
who wants little from life.

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24. Joseph Heller's satirical novel, 'Catch-22, is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944 and mainly
follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Catch-22 starts as
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26. Lord Byron uses the Ottava rima in his poems, 'Beppo', 'Don Juan' & "The Vision of Judgment'.

27. Tom Jones has been called 'a foundling' by its author Henry Fielding. In many respects the novel is
compared to Jane Austen's novel, 'Pride and Prejudice'.

28. Keith Douglas poetry is inspired by Dylan Thomas. He wrote his military memoir, 'Alamein to Zem
Zem' before he being killed in action in the war.

29. About Totel's Miscellany, a character, Slender in William Shakespeare's play, 'The Merry Wives of
Windsor' says, T had rather than forty shillings I had my book of songs and sonnets here

30. Sir David Lyndsay's 'A Satire of the Three Estates' is an attack on the Three Estates represented in
the Parliament of Scotland - the clergy, lords and burgh representatives, symbolised by the characters
Spiritualitie, Temporalitie and Merchant. The clergy come in for the strongest criticism. The play
portrays ne socla tensions present at this pivotal moment in Scottish history.

31. Salman Rushdie got The Austrian State Prize for Buropean Literature in 1995. He also received
knighthood for services to literature.
S. John Heywood's work, 'The Four Ps' is a 'mery interlude by John Heywood, written in about 1520.
The four mai characters: a Palmer, a Pardoner, a Potticary (apothecary), and a Pedlar, have a dispute
as to which of them can tell the greatest lie.

33. The concept of human mind as tabula rasa or blank tablet was propounded by John Locke. For
Locke, the mind was tabula rasa at birth, a 'white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas'.

34. Alexander Pope satirizes Lord Harvey in the portrait of 'Sporus and Joseph Addison in the portrait
of Atticus' in 'Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot'.

35. The Hero of Christopher Marlowe's play, "Tamburlaine' was born as a shepherd.

36. In the chapter XIV-XXII of Biographia Literaria, ST Coleridge examines critically William
Wordsworth's theory of
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37. Nicholas Noyes was known for his doggerel verse (which is deemed as very bad poetry).

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41. GBShaw's plays, The Philanderer' and 'Mrs. Warren's Profession' fell victim to Lord Chamberlain's
censorship.

42. Incunabula' refer to books or pamphlets published before 1501.

43. John Betjeman, the poet laureate wrote a poem, Diary of a Church Mouse'. The poem is the
personal life and experience of a mouse that lives in an isolated church.

44. According to Matthew Arnold, John Dryden and Alexander Pope are the two great 'classics of our
prose'

45. Quantock Hills is the place where Lyrical Ballads was written.

46. Pamela Hansford Jonson is also known as Lady Snow. She wrote 27 novels. She was married to C
P Snow.

47. John Galsworthy's 'The Forsyte Saga' is a series of three novels ('The Man of Property', In
Chancery' & To Let) and two interludes (Indian Summer of a Forsyte & Awakening) published between
1906 and 1921.

48. Thomas Hardy has deviated from the Victorian concept of morality. In his works fate dominates
over nature and character

49. Matthew Armold always disapproved the Romantic excess. Henry James wrote that Matthew
Amold's poetry will appeal to those who "like their pleasures rare" and who like to hear the poet "taking
breath."

50. Barabas is the central character of Christopher Marlowe's play, "The Jew of Malta'. Ben Jonson
coined the phrase, 'Marlowe's mighty line'.

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1..The epithet 'A Comic Epie in Prose' is best applied to Henry Fielding's novels, "Tome Jones' and
Joseph Andrews'.

2. John Milton wrote total 25 pamphlets out of which 21 pamphlets were written in English. He is
regarded as the last of the Elizabethan because he shares the spirit of Renaissance which includes
humanistic studies and the Reformation.

3. John Milton wrote a tract on divorce when his wife deserted him. The pamphlets related to Milton's
divorce tracts are: .
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce', The Judgment of Martin Bucer', "Tetrachordon' and
'Colasterion'.

4. Arundhati Roy's booker prize winning novel, The God of Small Things' ends with the word,
'Tomorrow', The novel is the story of a Christian family from Kerala. Abhilash Talkies figures in the
novel.

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8. Walter de la Mare evokes supernatural atmosphere in his poems like 'The Listeners', Peacock Pie'
and The Veil'.
Much of his poetry was written specially for children.

9. Mary Lamb appears in Charles Lamb's essays under the name of Cousin Bridget.

10. Oliver Goldsmith's philosophical poem, "The Traveller' contains criticism of the places and people.

11. Immanuel Kant had a particular influence on S.T. Coleridge. Coleridge read Immanuel Kant's
philosophical work, Critique of Pure Reason' and then wrote his own interpretation of Kant in a book,
'Aides to Reflection.

12. Paul Scott's four novels known collectively as the 'Raj Quartet' deal broadly with India during the
second world war and with its uneasy progress towards independence and partition.

13. Pat Barker's work, "The Regeneration Trilogy' is a series of three novels on the subject of the First
World War.

14. A.C. Bradley said that in William Shakespeare's great tragedies, character is destiny.
15. George Chapman's poem, 'Ovid's Banquet of Sense' has been taken as a response to the erotic
poems of the age, such as Philip Sidney's sonnet sequence, 'Astrophil and Stella' and William
Shakespeare's poem, 'Venus and Adonis'.

16. Regarding Rudyard Kipling it was said, 'Even if he is not a great poet, he is certainly a great
something'.

17. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet occurs in the Russian Formalism.

18. Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, 'Mary Burton: A Tale of Manchester Life' presented the outlook of
the industrial workers with sympathy and justice that was suficient to make some of the employers
angry.

19. Charles Dickens was greatly influenced by the works of Elizabeth Gaskell and published them in
his periodicals, Household Words' & 'All the Year Round'.

20. Dorothy Osborne, heroine of Samuel Richardson's novel 'Clarissa' resembles the wife of Sir William
Temple.

21. Thomas Shadwell made a slanderous attack on John Dryden in his work, The Medal of John
Bayes: A Satire against Folly and Knavery".

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25. The Oney Hymns' are the combined work of curate John Newton and his poet friend William
Cowper.

26. Francis Bacon's philosophical treatise, 'Advancement of Learning' was expended in Latin as De
Augementis Scientiarium'

27. William Shakespeare's romance, 'The Tempest has an epilogue. Other plays of Shakespeare having
epilogue are Henry IV (Part 2)', 'Henry V', 'Pericles' & 'As You Like It'.
28. Naturalism was a literary movement or tendency from the 1880s to 1930s that used detailed
realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping
human character

29, Naturalistic writers were influenced by Charles Darwin's "Theory of Evolution'. Darwin's influence
pervades late Victorian and Edwardian fiction of all kinds, from fantasies to realist novels

30. L. P. Hartley's 'Eustace and Hilda' is a trilogy of novels which explores a brother and sister's lifelong
relationship.

31. Sir John Cheke, Roger Ascham & Thomas Williamson were Cambridge group of critics.
32. Dante's poem, "Divine Comedy' purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife.

33 Dr Samuel Johnson called Fanny Bumey (English novelist, diarist and playwright) his 'little
character monger".

34. PB Shelley called William Wordsworth, a 'Moral Eunuch' and Robert Brwoning called him 'Lost
Leader' for becoming a Tory.

35. William Wordsworth emphasized the use of the 'language really used by men' for poetry in his
work, 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads.

36. About Matthew Anold it can be said that he is the greatest poet among English critics and greatest
critic among English poets.

37. Alfred Tennyson wrote one of the last poems, 'Crossing the Bar' in anticipation of his death.

38. Toni Morrison used male narrator for the first time in Song of Solomon. The main focus of the
novel is Milkman's story.

39. The prize for story-telling contest in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales' is a free meal at the Tabard
Inn at Southwark on their return. Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician and Franklin are most richly

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42. Irish Murdoch's novel, "The Good Apprentice' explores the ideas of a character who has hardly any
religious faith but he sets out to be a good person.

43. Allen Ginsberg's poem, Plutonian Ode' is written against the arms race and nuclear armament of
the superpowers.

44. The Pamphlet on the Irish condition, 'An Address to the Irish People' was composed by PB Shelley.

45. Archetypal literary criticism flourishes during the 1950-60.

46. Charles Ryder is the narrator and protagonist in Evelyn Waugh's novel, 'Brideshead'.

47. The largest of the Tagore's twelve novels, 'Gora' expresses the writer's deep desire to throw away
the foreign rule from India.

48. Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale' opens with 'Call me Ishmael.

49. JFHenry & Henry Treece were the pioneers of the Apocalyptic Movement. They edited The New
Apocalypse (1940) and 'The White Horseman (1941)'.
50. The poem, "Of the Progress of the Soule' shows the dissatisfaction of John Donne with the world
around him.

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1. The term, 'Fancy' was defined by S T Coleridge as a mode of memory emancipated from the order
of time and space.

2. Paul Scott's novel 'Staying On' displays the postwar nostalgia for post imperial glory.

3. The Ranters were one of a number of nonconformist dissenting groups that emerged around the
time of the English Commonwealth (1649-1660). They got their name from their penchant for
rambling prophecy.

4. The dithvramb was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine
and fertility.

5. The expression, "Interior Monologue' is most prominently connected with Stream of Consciousness
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10 Bertolt Brecht's concept of theatre was influenced by Irwin Piscator, German theatre director and
producer.

11. Henry James' novel, "What Maisie Knew" is narrated through the medium of a little girl's mind.

12 Norman Mailer's novel, The Naked and Dead' deseribes the fate of thirteen men in an infantry
platoon who could survive the onslaught of a Japanese held island.

13. William Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt & S T Coleridge were educated at Christ's Hospital School,
London.

14. The drama in verse, "The Dynasts' has the finest expression of 'Thomas Hardy's Philosophy. Its
setting is Napoleanic wars.

15. In the play, "Man and Superman' G B Shaw propounded his philosophy of 'Life Force'

16. The Greeks called the poets Vates which means a maker or creator.

17. Poetic License is the liberty taken by an artist or a writer in deviating from conventional form or
fact to achieve a desired effect.

18. The origin of Idylls may be traced back to the Greek poet "Theocritus

19. Idylls are small lyrical poems generally describing the scenes and pleasures of rural countryside.

20. Hamartia is the tragic flaw in the character of a tragic hero.

21. Peripetia is the reversal of fortune which happens due to Hamartia in the character of the tragic
hero.

22. In a tragedy the hero remains in a state of deception or illusion to a great extent. Gradually he
emerges from this state of illusion but by this time it is too late to rectify his error. This realization of
real facts is called Recognition or Anagnorisis.

23. The conclusion of a comedy is called denouement.

24. The final end of the tragedy is called catastrophe.

25. The Sentimental Comedies developed as a reaction against the immoral comedies of the
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29. According to Longinus, the five sources of sublimity are: (i) Grandeur of Thought (i) Capacity for
Strong Emotion (ii) Appropriate Use of Figures (iv) Nobility of Diction & (v) Dignity of Composition.

30. Horace's observations on poetry, I would advise the well-instructed imitator (poet) to take the
model from life and customs.

31. Horace expresses his views on drama under three heads -plot, characterization and style.

32. Stephen Gosson's 'Schoole of Abuse' evoked two replies- one from Thomas Lodge's 'A Defence for
Poetry' and the other from Philip Sidney's 'Apologie for Poetrie'.

33. Stephen Gosson placed poets, pipers, players and jesters into one group and called them
Caterpillars of a Commonwealth'. He called the poets, 'fathers of lies, pipes of vanities, and schools of
abuse'
34. The classical models are: Homer for epic, Virgil for Pastoral, Seneca for Tragedy, Juvenal for satire
and Plautus & Terence for comedy.

35. William Shakespeare wrote all his plays in blank verse.

36. Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett written in French in 1951. The English translation, published in
1955, is by Beckett and Patrick Bowles.

37. The function of poetry according to Plato instruct, Aristotle delight, Horace - instruct and delight &
Longinus - transport.

38. Classicism is the antithesis of Romanticism.

39. Joseph Addison discusses concept of imagination and how it gives pleasure to the reader in 11
papers of The spectator"

40. Edmund Spenser's work, "The Faerie Queen' has been called a romantic epic. Malbecco is the
protective "husband lascivious Hellenore. Duessa represents the false Catholic Church.

41. Malapropism which means ridiculous misuse of words, is derived from Mrs. Malaprop in
Sheredian's novel Rivals

42. In his novel, 'The Castle of Crossed Destinations', Italo Calyino constructed his narrative through a
tarot pack and re-interpret the Western canon providing new versions of Ocdivus Rex. Faust, Hamlet,
Macbeth and King a om

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47. Chaucer himself had fought in the Hundred Years' War under Edward IlI, who heavily emphasised
chivalry during his reign.

48. Two tales, 'Sir Topas' and The Tale of Melibee' are told by Chaucer himself, who is travelling with
the pilgrims in his own story.

49. The play, "The Two Noble Kinsmen' by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher is a retelling of
Chaucer's The Knight's Tale'.

50.John Lydgate is credited with the first known usage of the" adage Needs must' in its fullest form:
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1. Michel de Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.

2. Edmund Spenser's married Elizabeth Boyle and addressed to her the sonnet sequence, 'Amoretti'.
The marriage itself was celebrated in the poem, 'Epithalamion'.
He wrote 'Prothalamion', a wedding song written for the daughters of a duke, allegedly in hopes to gain
favour in the court.

3. The Age of Johnson is alternatively known as the Age of Sensibility.

4 Maud Bodkin was the first to employ in literary criticism the theory of archetype.

5. The Hudibrastic poem is named after Samuel Butler's poem, 'Hudibras

6. Romantic irony can be found in Laurence Sterne's novel, "Tristam Shandy'.

7 According to the theory of Northrop Frye the four main narrative genres of literature are comedy,
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13. The example of brilliant use of allegorical imagery can be found in Plato's dialogue, 'Phaedrus'
wherein he exhibited the soul as the charioteer and the higher and lower passions as pair of horses.

14. Acquisitive and Productive are the two major categories into which Plato divided Art.

15. The Flashman Papers is a series of novels and short stories written by George MacDonald Fraser,
the first of which was published in 1969. The books centre on the exploits of the fictional protagonist
Harry Flashman.

16. Lytton Strachey's book. 'Eminent Victorians' is a collection of four succinct biographies of Cardinal
Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Amold, and General Gordon.

17. John Milton begins his epic poem, "Paradise Lost' by saying that he will sing, "Of Man's First
Disobedience' (1. 1) so that he can 'assert Eternal Providence, /And justify the ways of God to men' (1,
25-26).

18. Jane Austen was an admirer of Dr Samuel Johnson in prose, George Crabbe in verse, and William
Cowper in both.
19. Jane Austen wrote romantic fiction combined with social realism.

20. Honore de Balzac was a prominent realist writer and created characters of moral ambiguity - often
based on his own real life examples.

21. Mark Twain is considered as the 'father of American Literature'. He is better known for his novel,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn was one of the first novels to be written entirely in dialect.

22. Thomas Hardy was a Victorian realist who was influenced by Romanticism. He wrote about
problems of Victorian society, especially, declining rural life.

23. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Tender is the Night' is cautionary tales about the Jazz decade' (1920s)
and the American Dream based on pleasure and materialism.

24. C.S. Lewis is best known for The Chronicles of Namia', a children's fantasy series. He is also well
known as a Christian apologist.

25. George Orwell was a democratic socialist and he fought in the Spanish Civil War, documenting his
experiences in his personal account, 'Homage to Catalonia'.

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29. William Blake developed the ideas of 'Prolifics' and 'Devourers' in his prophetic prose poem, "The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell'.

30. The poems The Disquieting Muses' by Sylvia Plath, The Starry Night' by Anne Sexton, "Mouming
Picture by Adrienne Rich, and 'Musee des Beaux Arts' by W.H. Auden are inspired by paintings.

31. Jeremy Collier's anti-theatre pamphlet, 'A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the
English Stage' attacks a number of playwrights: William Wycherley, John Dryden, William Congreve,
John Vanbrugh, and Thomas D'Urfey.

30. Charles Dickens's visit to the United States produced the novel, Martin Chuzzlewit'.

31. The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty, everywhere felt
but nowhere seen. Henry James is talking here about the artist's impersonality.

32. Nancy Chodorow's feminist theory, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the
Sociology of Gender is a groundbreaking study that confronts the endless social cycle of women's
mothering set up by a system of unequal parenting.

33 Laurence Sterne's book, 'Tristram Shandy has been described as a 'novel without predecessors', the
product of an original mind and became immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend of pathos and
humour, though the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point of becoming offensively sentimental.
The novel was published in 1760.

34. Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of novels, 'Mary: A Fiction' and the unfinished 'Maria: or, The
Wrongs of Woman'.

35. Henry James' theory of the novel, 'It should be objective, realistic and viewed as an artistic form

36. Carol Gilligan's feminist essay, 'In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's
Development' is called "the little book that started a revolution" by Harvard University Press.

37. In the Graham Greene's novel, 'The Heart of the Matter, the protagonist (Scobie) returns and rejects
with an admonition, the diamond sent to him for smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe.

38. Samuel Beckett 's trilogy published together in London in 1959 under the English titles is 'B.
Molloy', 'Malone Dies &The Unnamable'.

39 D. H. Lawrence popularized the concept of Primitivism in his novels. Lawrence strongly opposed
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entered."

43. George Eliot's attempt to write a historical novel (Romola) of the Italian Renaissance which was
not successful. The novel is set in the 15h century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence
from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view".

44 In the Emily Bronte's novel, 'Wuthering Heights' the hero, Heathcliff driven by passion and revenge,
add a new dimension to the concept of suffering when he begins to communicate with her ghost.

45 Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch and Petrarchanism to English sounds and metres while
Surrey's verse tends to look back beyond Petrarch to the Latin verse.

46. In The Prologue' to Dr. Faustus, the chorus proposes that the theme should be - 'cursed
necromancy' and 'self- conceit.

47. The centre of George Chapman's plays is a proud character on Marlowe's model, with a bold
license in speech and action, full of elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling after phrase, as he asserts
himself in the French Court. Dryden unjustly described his style as 'a dwarfish thought, dressed up in
gigantic words'.
48. In Paradise Lost Book IX, John Milton writes that Adam was overcome with 'female charm' and so
ate the forbidden fruit against his "better knowledge'.

49. In the poem, "The Good Morow' of John Donne the lover's face reflected in the eyes of his beloved.

50. ST Coleridge's work, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is a poem in 7 parts. The entire poem was
first published in his work, 'Lyrical Ballads'. The poem is referenced in the script of the 1939 film, 'The
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1. Walter Scott is known for the creation of mad, irrational witch-like women characters: Madge
Wildfive, Meg Murdockson & Meg Merilees.

2. Joseph Addison called Isaac Newton, "The Miracle of the present age' and Alexander Pope wrote
the epitaph for the
monument erected in his memory.

3. Oliver Goldsmith's play, 'She Stoops to Conquer' was first performed in 1773. The author asked a
friend 'Did it make you laugh?' and getting the answer 'Exceedingly' said then that was all he required.
He used for plota reputed experience of his own as a schoolboy when he lost his way and asked to be
directed to an inn but was shown the gateway to the local squire's house.

4. William Hazlitt describes the quality of greatness in the essay "The Indian Jugglers. This essay is
published in his coleection of essays, Table-Talk' (1821).

5. In William Blake's poem, 'The Human Abstract', the fragmented world of Experience is symbolized in
the image of the Fruit of Deceit.

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9. The play, Clouds' by Aristophanes is an attack on 'modern' education and morals as imparted and
taught by the radical intellectuals known as The Sophists

10. In Virginia Woolf's novel, 'To the Lighthouse, a painter in the act of painting actually figures as a
character (Lily Briscoe).

11. Religious controversies in England particularly during the 15th century led to the promotion of
English prose.

12. In his fiction, lan McEwan more than often suggests the Fragility of love. McEwan has been
nominated for the Man Booker prize six times so far and his novel, 'Amsterdam' won the prize in 1998.

13. Modern English emerged from the East Midland dialect.

14. Most culinary terms in English are derived from French cooking.

15. Blended learning' is a mode of instruction/learning in which a variety of instructional modes are
integrated. It is a combination of offline and online learning.

16. "Risk-taking' is one of the traits of a good language leaner. Other traits are: low inhibitions, high
self-confidence, intrinsic motivation, intuition, personal goals, right-brain processes, high ambiguity
tolerance.

17. A teaching method advocated by Dr. Georgia Lozanav which is based on the principle of joy and
easiness' is called Suggesto Paedia.

18. The final chapter of Albert Camus' essay, "The Myth of Sisyphus' compares the absurdity of man's
life with the Situation of mythical Sisyphus who was condemned to repeat forever the same
meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again.

19. The character Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's play, 'Death of a Salesman' compares Biff and Happy
to the mythical characters/ figures Adonais and Hercules.

20. Ginsh Karnad bases his play, 'Hayavadana' on Thomas Mann's novella, "Transposed Heads: A
Legend of India' because it is a mock-heroic transcription of the original Sanskrit tales.

21. The collected poems of A. K. Ramanujan has been divided into four sections. They, in chronlogeau
striders-The Relations Second Sight- the Black Hen.

22. Margaret Atwood's novel, "The Edible Woman' demonstrated the potentially "Cannibalistic' nature
of human relationships. It is described by Atwood as "protofeminist". It anticipated second wave of

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them are Bhooma, Evam Indrajeet & That Other History.
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26. The Carmen Saeculare (Song of the Ages) is a hymn in Sapphic meter written by the Roman poet
Horace.

27. James Sirley's masque, The Triumph of Beauty' shows a strong influence of Shakespeare's
comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

28. According to Northrop Frye there are four main narrative genres associated with the seasonal
cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter. They are comedy, romance, tragedy and irony (satire).

29. Morality Plays are dramatized allegories of the life of man. They depict man's temptation and
sinning, his quest for salvation and his confrontation with Death.

30. Tom Stoppard's play, 'Travesties' centres on the character Henry Carr who has been depicted in the
play as interacting with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of
Dada, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution. The play is set in Zurich.

31. Tom Stoppard plays, 'Dirty Linen' and 'New-Found-Land' is a pair of plays which are always
performed together.

32. David Malouf's novella, 'An Imaginary Life' is a retelling of the story of Ovid during his exile in
Tomis, the historical name of Constanța, a city in Romania.

33. In Edward Said's 'Orientaism' the Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image
as irrational and primitive. The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image
as rational and modern.

34. Everyman is a medieval morality play written by unknown. Like John Bunyan's novel, "The Pilgrim's
Progress', Everyman uses allegorical characters to examine the question of Christian salvation and
what Man must do to attain it.

35. Doris Lessing's interest in Sufism widely recognised. Idries Shah introduced her to Sufism. Doris
Lessing is born in Persia [now Iran).

36. Toni Morrison's book, 'Playing in the Dark' is a series of reflections on whiteness and the literary
imagination.

37. The immediate source of Christopher Marlowe's tragedy, Doctor Faustus' is a German narrative.
The title character
Faust has German origins.

38. Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats and J.M. Synge were associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement.

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42. Eighteenth century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment', 'The Age of Sensibility', 'The
Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason'.

43. D.H. Lawrence called the novel 'the bright book of life'. The line is quoted in the essay, 'Why the
Novel Matters'

44. U.R. Ananthamurthy's novel, "Samskara was translated by A.K. Ramanujan. Girish Kanad made his
acting as well as sereenwriting debut in a Kannada movie, 'Samskara (1970)', based on a novel by U.R.
Ananthamurthy.

45. Edmund Spenser praised Queen Elizabeth I in the eclogue, April of The Shepheardes Calender"

46. The mind-forged manacles', 'Chimney-sweepers cry' & "blights with plagues are the phrases from
William Blake's poem, 'London'

47 A classical influence on Ben Jonson's comedy, Volpone' is Aristophanes. It 1s a beast fable and is
the best knouum most performed and most studied of all of his plays.
48. The earliest tract on feminism is Mary Wollstonecraft's treatise, 'A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman'. She wrote the book in part as a reaction to Edmund Burke's essay, 'Reflections on the French
Revolution'.

49. Geoffrey Chaucer's poem, "The House of Fame' parodies Dante's poem, "The Divine Comedy'. It is
an unfinished dream-poem in octosyllabic couplets. It is divided into three books.
50. J. M. Coetzee's novel, Waiting for the Barbarians" centers around racial strife and power struggles
in a fictional colonial village. The novel's title is taken from Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy's poem,
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1. William Empson's literary criticism, 'Seven Types of Ambiguity' is an analysis of poetic ambivalence.
His essay, "Milton's God' is an attack on Christianity and a defence of John Milton's attempt to "justify
the ways of God to man" in Paradise Lost.

2. The phrase, Condition of England Question' was used by Thomas Carlyle in his long essay,
'Chartism' (1839). It refers to the literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes.

3 -Paul Sartre's series of novels, 'The Roads to Freedom' is proposed tetralogy but it was left
incomplete and only three of the intended four volumes published.

4 Philip Sidney wrote a work of literary criticism, 'An Apology for Poetry' in immediate response to that
of Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse'. It is one of the earliest works of literary criticism in English
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aesthetes of the years following the First World War.

8. Wallace Stevens' poem, 'The Man with the Blue Guitar' may be linked to the painting, 'The Old
Guitarist by the artist Pablo Picasso. The poem is divided into thirty-three sections.

9. The structural analysis of signs was practised by Roland Barthes. He is known for his essay, 'The
Death of the Author.

10. The madwoman in the attic' is a specific reference to the character Bertha Mason of Charlotte
Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre'

11. The Uncanny is an essentially Freudian concept. It is defined as the class of frightening things that
leads us back to what is known and familiar

12. V.S. Naipaul wrote an essay called Conrad's Darkness' where he praises the earlier writer for
offering hima vision of the world's half-made societies'.

13. Mulk Raj Anand combines anthropology, history and fiction in his novels and short stories.
14, Samuel Butler's novel, 'Erewhon' is an example of Utopian Literature. The novel is a satire on
Victorian society and its title is a fictional country.

15. The verse form of Lord Byron's narrative poem, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' was influenced by
Edmund Spenser

l6. Alfred Tennyson's poem in blank verse, Ulysses' is a dramatic monologue and its theme is
expressing the need for going forward and braving the struggles of life

17. Geofrey Chaucer's poem, 'Parliament of Fowles' is in part a puzzle, debate and beast fable.

18, The Restoration comedy has been criticized mainly for its indecency and permissiveness
Sexual possessiveness is a theme of William Shakespeare's comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream

20. Northrop Frye is a Canadian critic. He gained global fame with his first book, 'Fearful Symmetry',
which led to the reinterpretation of the poetry of William Blake.

21. William Wycherley's play, The Plain Dealer' is in part an adaptation of Moliere's Comedy of
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and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. The author argues that 'no judgement of taste is innocent
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with lterary heroes. In it he describes his meeting with Coleridge and Wordsworth.

2.The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' is represented by the character
Britomart.

26. Incunabula' refers to books published before the year 1501.

27. The most notable achievement in Jacobean prose was King James' translation of the Bible.

28. Alexander Pope's mock-heroic narrative poem, "The Rape of the Lock' was published in 1712 in
two cantos. In this poem, Belinda's lapdog is named Shock.

29. Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character of James Joyce associated with novels, 'A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man'&Ulysses

30. The Jacobean playwright, Thomas Heywood claimed to have written 200 plays.

31. The concept of "Star-equilibrium' in connection with man-woman relationship appears in D. H.

LaWrence's novel, Women in Love.

32. John Livingston Lowes's most famous work, 'The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the
Imagination' examines the sources of S T Coleridge's poems, 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla
Khan'.

33. "Seven Days in New Crete', also known as 'Watch the North Wind Rise', is a seminal future-utopian
speculative fiction novel by Robert Graves, first published in 1949. It shares many themes and ideas
with Robert Graves' book-length essay, 'The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth'
published a year earlier.

34. The movement, New Criticism' derived its name from John Crowe Ransom's 1941 book, 'The New
Criticism'

35. Stanley Fish criticizes W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley in his essay 'Literature in the
Reader: Affective Stylistics'

36. Stanley Fish's work, 'Surprised by Sin' is the first study of a large literary work (Paradise Lost) that
focused on its readers' experience.

37. Interpretive Communities are a theoretical concept stemming from reader-response criticism and
invented by Stanley Fish. They appeared in an article entitled 'Interpreting the Variorum'.

38. Deconstruction is based on Jacques Derrida's philosophical work, 'Of Grammatology. This work
was translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and introduced by Judith Butler.

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40. Arab-American scholar Ihab Hassan critical work, "The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a
Postmodern Literature is an early work of literary criticism from a postmodern perspective. He traces
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41. Foucault died in Paris of neurological problems compounded by HIV/AIDS; he became the first
public figure in France to die from the disease.

42. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian sonnet is 'abab bcbc cdecde' whereas the rhyme scheme of
the Shakespearean sonnet is 'abab cdcd efef gg'.

43 The term, "Nouveau Roman is a type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary
genres.

44. The merchant character Barabas in Christopher Marlowe's tragedy, 'The Jew of Malta' is
consumed by greed.

45. Miles Coverdale, William Tyndale and John Wycliffe are associated with the translation of the
Bible.

46. Shakespearean tragedies are structured in a sequence of Exposition, Conflict, Climax and
Denouement.

47. The plan of Arthurian stories has influenced the composition of Alfred Tennyson's poem, Idylls of
the King.
48. Thomas Kyd's play, 'The Spanish Tragedy' was influenced by Roman philosopher, Seneca. The
main theme and motif of the tragedy the revenge of Hironimo (Marshal of the Spain) for the murder of
his son Horatio.

49.In its final published version, T S Eliot's poem, 'The Waste Land' contains a total of 433 lines.

50. James Thomson's The City of Dreadful Night', a long poem depicting the late Victorian sense of
gloom and despondency.

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1. Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character created by Philip Roth, who uses him as his protagonist
and narrator, a type of alter ego, in many of his novels.

2 Plato censured poetry because he believed it distorts reality.

3. TS Eliot uses the term 'Objective Correlative' in his essay, 'Hamlet'. It is closely related to the Imagist
movement.

4. John Dryden's mock-heroic satire, 'MacFlecknoe' is an attack on his literary rival Thomas Shadwell

5. Eighteenth century writers used satire frequently for attacking human vices and follies

6. ST Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of Ancient Mariner' is about the guilt and expiation of the Ancient
Mariner

7. J. G. Farrell's novel, 'The Siege of Krishnapur' reconstructs the historical events of the Indian Mutiny.

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Italian campaign of World War I.
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10. Panopticism is a social theory originally developed by French philosopher Michel Foucault in his
book, 'Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison'.
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11. Virginia Woolf famously imagined the plight of William Shakespeare's sister in her essay, 'A Room
of One's Own'.

12. Charles Dickens's novels are called 'Newgate Novels'. They are called so, because Dickens praises
excessively in these novels the careers and adventures of criminals.

13. The character Vittoria Corombona of John Webster's play, 'The White Devil' utters the memorable
words: 'Oft gay and honour'd robes those tortures try:/ We think cag' d birds sing, when indeed they
cry.

14. Symbolic capital can be referred to as the resources available to an individual on the basis of
honor, prestige or recognition, and serves as value that one holds within a culture. The explicit concept
of symbolic capital was coined by Pierre Bourdieu, and is expanded upon in his books Distinction' and
'Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action'.

15. Christopher Marlowe's play, 'Tamburlaine' has epic features. It was the only one of Marlowe's
works to be published during his lifetime.

16. The term culture industry was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno and Max
Horkheimer, and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter "The Culture Industry:
Enlightenment as Mass Deception", of the book, 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' (1947).
17. Geoffrey Chaucer focuses on 'defiance' in the depiction of the Wife of Bath in his "The Canterbury
Tales', Wife of Bath's Prologue is about her life with her five different husbands.

18. The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel of judges to the best novel by a citizen of the British
Commonwealth the Republic of Ireland.

19. A 'curtal sonnet' consists of 11 lines. G. M. Hopkins invented this form.

20. Laurence Sterne's humourous novel, 'Tristram Shandy' has a great impact on the formal
experimentation in contemporary fiction.

21. The Enlightenment believed in the universal authority of reason. It is an intellectual movement and
also called the Age of Reason.

22. Popular culture studies is the study of popular culture from a critical theory perspective combining
communication studies and cultural studies. It continues to break down the barriers between so-
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Imagination,' written by Joseph Addison

26. The novel, 'Gulliver's Travels' earned Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a misanthrope. Swift in
the novel was neutral to the image of man.

27. Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Jane Austen and George Eliot belong to the 'Great Tradition',
enunciated by F. R. Leavis.

28. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an American-Jewish writer. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary
movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish.

29. It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen' - is the opening sentence of
George Orwell's novel, 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'

30. The name of Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Boris
Tomashevsky, Grigory Gukovsky and Victor Shklovsky are associated with Russian Formalism.

31. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Jacques Derrida makes use of the term
aporia. Derrida focused on four areas of paradox: gifts, hospitality, forgiving, and mourning. Aporia is a
state of undecidabilty.

32 Tom Stoppard scripted the film, 'William Shakespeare in Love'. The film depicts an imaginary love
affair of William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) while he was writing the tragedy, 'Romeo and Juliet'.

33. Joseph Conrad's novel, 'Heart of Darkness' employs a narrative structure in which the main action
is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story.

34. The poem, 'The Book of Duchess', by Geoffrey Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife
of John of Gaunt.

35. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift's essay, 'A Modest Proposal' are verbal irony.
In this work, Swift shows how greed corrupts the upper class society.

36. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing Standard English Project.

37. Christopher Marlowe's play, 'Edward I' was written in the last year of Marlowe's life. Gaveston is a
major character in the play.

38. Art for Art's Sake' became a rallying cry for the Aesthetes.

39. 'The General Prologue' is appended to "The Canterbury Tales'

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44. In Jonathan Swift's prose satire, "Gulliver's Travels' the last of Gulliver's travels is to 'The Land of
the Houyhnhnms'.

45. In the pub scene of T S Eliot's poem The Waste Land' we have a departure from Standard English.

46. M.L. Rosenthal's 'Poetry as Confession' was an reviewing article on Robert Lowell's poetry
collection, Life Studies".

47. John Dryden satirises Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell in his famous poem, 'MacFlecknoe.

48. Edward Said's Orientalism' makes use of Foucault's concept of discursive fomulation. It is one of
the founding texts of Postcolonial theory. It utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony.

49. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are iron, gold, silver and brass.

50. John Fowles' novel, 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' has more than one ending. Sarah Woodruff
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1. Geoffrey Chaucer used the rhynme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems. He wrote in
English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin.

2. Jonathan Swift, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, G B Shaw, Elizabeth Bowen, Seamus Heaney, Oscar
Wilde, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Brendan Behan, Anne Enright and C. S. Lewis are Irish writers.

3. Entries in "The Diary of Samuel Pepys' begins after The Restoration'. It contains account of some of
the most turbulent events of the nation's history, including the coronation of King Charles II, the Great
Plague and the Great Fire of London.

4. In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or run-on. The poet C.P. Cavafy uses end-stopped lines
in his poem "Ithaka. Classical poetry is characterized by the use of run-on lines.

5. In Ben Jonson's beast fable, 'Volpone', the animal imagery includes the fox, the vulture, the fly, the
crow and the raven.

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9. The following phrases from William Shakespeare have become the titles of famous works: Vladimir
Nabokov's novel, Pale Fire' (Timon of Athens), William Faulkner's novel, 'The Sound and the Fury'
(Macbeth), Tom Stoppard's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' (Hamlet), Thomas Hardy's
novel, 'Under the Greenwood Tree (As You Like It), Somerset Maugham's novel, 'Of Cakes and Ale'
(Twelfth Night).

10. In Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice', the hostess, Mrs. Bennet proudly announces that the
family can afford a servant and her daughters have nothing to do with the kitchen.

11. Bapsi Sidhwa's novels, Ice Candy Man' and 'Water: A Novel' are the bases for Deepa Mehta's films,
"Earth' and Water' respectively.

12. William Wordsworth's The Prelude' was published posthumously. In this poem, Wordsworth
records his development as a poet.
The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural scenery in
developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.

13. Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved by dictation and listening exercises. ELT stands for English
Language Teaching.
14, The basic concept that creation was ordered, that every species exists in a hierarchy of status,
from God to the lowest creature, was prevalent in the Renaissance. In this hierarchical continuum,
man occupies the middle position between the animal kinds and the angels. This world view is known
as "The Great Chain of Being'.

15. In Virginia Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse', the lighthouse symbolizes permanence at the heart of
change, celebration of life in the heart of death and celebration of order in the heart of chaos.

16. The theme of Rudyard Kipling's story, "The Man Who Would Be King' is an allegorical satire of the
British Empire,

17. The major theme of Eugène lonesco's first play, "The Bald Soprano' and his other plays is Language
and Communication,

18. Tam O' Shanter' by John Clare is about the experience of an ordinary human being and became
quite popular during that time.

19. Alexander Pope's poem, 'An Essay on Criticism' purports to define 'wit' and 'nature as they apply to
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23. D. G. Rossetti was a Londoner, the son of an Italian refugee who taught Italian at King's college.
Rossetti formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown and Painter
Millais. Rossetti's "Blessed Damozel displays his remarkable gifts as a poet and painter.

24. Goethe's Faust (Part I, Scene 1) opens in Faust's study. It is a tragic play in two parts.

25. Wilkie Collins's novel, "The Moonstone' tells the story of a fabulous yellow diamond stolen from an
Indian shrine.

26. How the English Lessons Ended' is not a typical "Indian English Poem' by Nissim Ezekiel.

27. In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster Geryon represents fraud. Inferno is the first part of Dante's
epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is an allegory telling of the
journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil.

28. I.A. Richards's famous experiment with poems and his Cambridge students is detailed in Practical
Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement. Richards was astonished by the poor quality of his students
'stock responses'

29. Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' is a play in which no one comes, no one goes, nothing
happens. In its opening scene a man struggles hard to remove his boot. The play was originally
written in French, later translated into English.

30. The Parson's Tale' and "Tale of Melibens' of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is in prose and
rest all tales are in verse.

31. According to S T Coleridge, Imagination dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate. It has
shaping and modifying power. Fancy has aggregative and associative power. It plays with fixities and
definites.

32. Julia Kristeva's Intertextuality' derives from Saussure's signs and Bakhtin's dialogism. The term
was first used by her in the essay, Word, Dialogue and Novel.

33. Ralph Ellison's novel, 'Invisible Man' enjoys subverting myths about white purity through characters
like Norton and Bledsoe.

34. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an eloquent pulpit orator, a member of the Unitarian Church under
William Chawming. In essays like 'Nature', he elaborates on the importance of seeing familiar things in
new ways. His famous "American Scholar" was delivered as an address before the Phi Beta Kappa
Society at Cambridge in 1837.

35. Exorcism' is the title of Act IlI of Edward Albee 's play, 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". Exposing all

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39 Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own' inaugurated Feminist thought in English in a classic
statement, 'A woman writing thinks back through her mothers'

40. In novel, The Power and the Glory' Graham Greene shows how the Whisky Priest transcends his
weakness for drink and his human fears, moving towards martyrdom.

41. John Milton and John Dryden were contemporaries. Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton fiercely
opposed monarchy.

42 The world dominated by cold and hypocritical materialists is represented by William Blake in the
mythological figure of Urizen.

43. Bernard Shaw's play, 'Man and Superman' can be best described as the first statement of idea of
Life Force. The play deals with a woman's pursuit of her mate. Its third act is called 'Don Juan in Hell.
44. The Contact Zone' is a space where disparate cultures meet, clash and grapple with each other. In
Postcolonial societies "contact' suggests the historical moment when settler and indigenous cultures
first met. The idea of the Contact Zone was first proposed and defined by Mary Louise Pratt's book,
'Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
45. Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theatre Movement turns the spectator into an observer, relies on argument
and presents a process.

46. The Lyrical Ballads carried only one ballad proper, which was S T Coleridge's 'The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner'. also carried pastoral and other poems. It carried a 'Preface' which William
Wordsworth added in 1800.

47. W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Cecil Day Lewis during the 1930s had left-leaning tendencies.

48. Ralph Waldo Emerson known as the Sage of Concord. Concord is a town in Massachusetts, USA.
He advocated for the abolition of slavery. He wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and
then revised them for print. He is the father of the philosophical movement known as
transcendentalism.

49 Emily Dickinson was often referred to as the 'Myth of Amherst' and later the Nun of Amherst.

50.Old Possum is assumed name of T S Eliot for the book 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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1. The theorist, Harold Bloom divided poets into 'strong' and 'weak' and popularized the practice of
misreading

3. In the poem, The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to the sun.

3. Gorboduc' is a tragedy, while 'Ralph Roister Doister & "Gammer Gurton's Needle' are comedies

4. W..M. Thackeray's novel, 'Vanity Fair' owes its title to John Bunyan's allegorical book, Pilgrim's
Progress

5. The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in 1642. John Milton is deemed to be the greatest
representative poet of the Puritan Age.

6. In John Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy', Crites opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients.

7. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England. For Yeats who died,
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colonial India.

11. Edmund Spenser 's title, "Amoretti' was the first Sonnet Sequence in English. The sequence
describes his courtship and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.

12. LAllegro" (The Happy Man) and Penseroso (The Melancholy Man) are 'companion poems' where
mirtn and melancholy are compared and contrasted.

13. John Keats regarded William Shakespeare as the prime example of negative capability'. In a letter
to his brothers, George and Thomas Keats, he used the term 'negative capability'

14. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by Robert Bridges.

15. F. Turner's famous hypothesis is that the Frontier has been one of the great determinants of
American civilization.

16. The Spenserian stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a
single 'alexandrine line in iambic hexameter

17. Thomas Hobbes political philosophy, Leviathan' concerns the structure of society and legitıimate
governmenl, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract
theory. Leviathan ranks as a classic western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli's political
treatise, "The Prince

18. The theme of William Congreve's play, The Way of the World' is fashion, courtship and seduction.
When the play opens, Mirabell is in love with Millament. He has previously had an affair with Mrs.
Fainall, and got her married to Mr. Fainall in a bid to save his own reputation.

19. The preliminary version of James Joyce's novel, 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' was called
Stephen Hero. It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche.

20. STColeridge's poem, 'Kubla Khan' takes an epigraph from Samuel Purchas' book, Purchas His
Pilgrimage'.

21. Fluency' in language is the same as the ability to put oneself across comfortably in speech and/or
writing.

22. In the closing paragraph of Franz Kafka's novel, 'The Trial'two men accompany Joseph K to a
Quarry to eventually execute him. The novel opens with Josef K. 's sudden arrest in his room at his
lodging house on the morning of his birthday.

23. Aristophanes's comedy, 'The Clouds gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher

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get her money and achieve his ambition in life and to prove his superiority over other young men of the
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work, "Chinese Encyclopaedia'.

26. Khushwant Singh's partition novel, 'Train to Pakistan' has a theme of 'violence on the woman's
body

27. In his poem, 'A Morning Walk', Nissim Ezekiel talks about a Bombay: Barbaric City sick with slums
/Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains/Its hawkers, beggars, iron- lunged/ Processions led by
frantic drums."

28. In Practical Criticism', I. A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human utterances to four
aspects. These are Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention.

29. Ted Hughes's poem, The Thought- Fox' is about thought as Fox, the process of writing poetry and
thought entering the poet's brain like the fox emerging from darkness.

30. According to Aristotle's " Poetics', tragedy is the imitation of an action that is complete and whole,
and of a certain magnitude...having a beginning, a middle and an end".

31. According to Matthew Amold, 'touchstones' (The lines and expressions of the great masters) help
us test truth and seriousness that constitute the best.

32. The prosodic features of a language tell us the speaker's age, emotional state, social class,
educational background, geographical provenance etc,

33 A. S. Byatt's novel, Possession: A Romance was a 1990 best-seller. The work incorporates many
genres such as letters, diaries and poetry as also third-person narratives. The plot here involves two
time-periods-contemporary and Victorian,

34. The following words and phrases, peace makers', 'help-meet', 'the fat of the land', 'a labour of love',
'the eleventh hour' and 'the shadow of death' were made curent by the sixteen-century translators of
the Bible

35. William Shakespeare's comedy, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is an example of a love rectangle.

36. The Grecian Urm is John Keats' "Sylvan Historian' because it records a pastoral scene from long
ago.

37. The periodical, The Tatler' was started in 1709 with a motive 'to expose the false arts of life, to pull
the disguise of cunning, vanity and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress,
our discourse and our behaviour. The founder of the periodical wrote under the pseudonym of Isaac
Bickerstaft.

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Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her famous essay is called 'Mr. Bennet and Mrs.
Brown'. Mrs. Brown, the name Woolf gives a woman whom she happens to meet in a train and Mr
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Echo. The novel is divided into three parts: Mosque, Caves and Temple.

41. In John Dryden's political satire, 'Absalom and Achitophel', Og is Thomas Shadwel. The poem
exists in two parts.

42. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression 'a bright book of life' to describe novel.

43. In Monica Ali's debut novel, 'Brick Lane' the character, Chanu has 'a face like a frog

44. Edward Said identifies Orientalism as what an Orientalist does. It is a style of thought based on an
ontological and epistemological distinction made between the Orient and the Occident.

45. During the period 1649-1660, the Puritans under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and his
Commonwealth shut down all English theatres on religious and moral grounds.

46. The year 1828 is a landmark in the history of American language and literature as Noah Webster
published "An American Dictionary of the English Language' in that year

47. George Lamming's first novel, In the Castle of My Skin', on one level is a coming-of-age story and it
is an elegiac account of a village's growth into awareness in the late colonial period.
48. We are likely to misunderstand an Emily Dickinson poem if we take her famous dashes to be quite
specific and unambiguous.
49. Tayeb Salih's novel, 'Seasons of Migration to the North parallels with the stories of William
Shakespeare's tragedy, Othello' and Joseph Conrad's novella, Heart of Darkness'.

50. Benedict Anderson's book on nationalism, lmagined Communities: Retlections on the Origin and
Spread of Nationalism', advances the view that nations are not natural entities but narrative
constructs. In Anderson's view, moden nationalism was basically a consequence of the convergence
of capitalism, the new print technology and the fixity that resulted from print extending to Vernacular"
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"By swaggering could I never thrive For the rain it raineth everyday.'' These lines from Shakespeare's
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Twelfth Night' occur in the George Eliot's novel, "Middlemarch'.

2. Laurence Sterne's humourous novel, *Tristram Shandy' opens and ends with the theme of birth. It
contains Marbled Page, which Sterne called "the motley emblem of my work."

3 In drama, an aside is addressed to an audience by an actor; the words so spoken are not meant to
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actors on the stage.

4. In the Thomas Hardy's novels, Fanny Robin of 'Far From the Madding Crowd', Tess D'Urberville and
Marty South from Tess D' Urberville" abandoned by their lovers.

5. In Charles Dickens's novel, 'David Copperfield' characters, Uriah Heep is 'umble' (humble) and Barkis
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8. Henry Louis Gates Jr. 's book, 'The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary
Criticism is to create a theory of African-American literature based on African-American cultural
traditions.

9. Harold Bloom wrote influential commentaries on such poets as PB Shelley, William Blake and W. B.
Yeats. He pubished such titles of critical survey as The Anxiety of Influence', 'A Map of Misreading,
'Poetry and RepressIon westem Canon'. He asserted that most literary criticism is but slightly
disguised religion and is, arguably, the most widely known and contrarian among his American peers
in the English Academy.

10. According to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci, hegemony (leadership or dominance)
involves a degree of consent on the part of subject people.

11. According to Homi Bhabha's essay, 'Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse",
mimicry is not mere copyıng or emulating the colonizer's culture, behaviour and manners but is
informed by both mockery and a certain menace.

12. In Harold Pinter's play, Birthday Party', Stanley is given a birthday present - a drum. Its main theme
is the intrusion of chaos into the convention and routine of everyday life.

13. In the end of Joseph Conrad's novel, Lord Jim', Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin. Conrad
stated that the central theme of the novel is the "acute consciousness of lost honour."

14. According to Lionel Trilling's essay, 'On the Teaching of Moden Literature,' Modernism has been
described as being concemed with 'disenchantment of our culture with culture itself'.

15. In the essay, 'Defence of Poetry', Philip Sydney attributes to poetry a moral power whereby poetry
encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous models.

16. Alexander Pope's satirical poem, 'An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portraits of Joseph Addison
and Lord Hervey.

17. William Shakespeare's plays and their characters using 'cross-dressing' as a device are 'As You
Like It (Rosalind)', Cymbeline (Imogen)', 'Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia)', 'The Merchant of Venice
(Portia) ', 'Twelfth Night (Viola), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff)' and "The Taming of the Shrew
(Bartholomew)'.

18. John Locke's book, 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' is a classic statement of
Empiricist Philosophy. John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume were the chief exponents of
Empiricism. They strongly defended Empiricism against the Rationalism of Descartes, Leibniz and
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23. The phrase 'dark satanic mills' has become the most famous description of the force at the centre
of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used by William Blake's poem, 'Jerusalemn'.

24. Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize winner for literature, rejected the label 'British' though he has
always writen in English rather than his regional language.

25. Sir Thomas Browne's book, 'Religio Medici' is a story of conversion or providential experiences. It
emphasizes Browne's love of mystery and wonder.

26. Melancholy and aestheticism describe the general feeling expressed in literature during the last
decade of the Victorian era.

27. The Nun's Priest's Tale in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales' uses the tradition of the Beast Fable.

28. At the end of D H Lawrence's novel, 'Sons and Lovers', Paul Morel sets off in quest of life away
from his mother. Lawrence uses the Oedipus complex as its base for exploring Paul's relationship with
his mother.

29 According to Francis Bacon, the essay-form is the aphoristic expression of accumulated public
wisdom. Bacon read Michel de Montaigne's essays, then got the idea of creating his own set of
Essays.

30. John Osborne's play, "Look Back in Anger' is an example of kitchen-sink drama. It depicts a love
triangle.

31. The character, Mr. Brocklehurst, in Charlotte Brontë's novel, 'Jane Eyre' uses religion to justify
cruelty. The main motif of the novel is search for family, for a sense of belonging and love.

32. "A slave is a person perverted into a thing,' wrote ST Coleridge as the movement to stop the
African slave trade that was gaining momentum early in the nineteenth century.

33. Sir Thomas More creates the character of a traveler, Raphael Hythlodaeus, into whose mouth the
account of Utopia is put.

34. Bertolt Brecht's play with music, "Three Penny Opera' was intended to lampoon the conventional
sentimental musical but the public lapped up the work's sentiment and missed the humour.

35. Ostensibly Robert Burton's musical treatise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy' is a reflection on human
learning and endeavour published under the pseudonym Democritus Junior.

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39. J M Coetzee's booker prize winning novel, 'Disgrace' is a complex narrative of sin and redemption
which involves both White and Black South Africans.

40. Mahesh Dattani's 'Final Solutions: A Stage Play' centres around a middle class Hindu family during
a communal riot. It challenges communalism. It promotes religious pluralism in South Asia.

41. According to Michael Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque is a liberation from the prevailing truth
and established order. It emphasises on play, parody, pleasure and the body. It is the suspension of all
hierarchical rank, principles, norms and prohibitions.

42. Patrick White is remembered today for his epic and psychological narrative art. He is the only
Australian to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. He pioneered a new fictional landscape and
introduced a new continent in literature.

44. To the character Vasu of R K Narayan 's novel, 'Man Eater of Malgudi' the following statement
applies, "Every demon carries within him unknown to himself, a tiny seed of self-destruction and goes
up in thin air at the most unexpected moment.

45. Post-structuralism seeks to undermine the idea that meaning pre-exists its linguistic expression.
There can be no meaning which is not formulated and no language formulation reaches anywhere
beyond language. There is no a-textual 'origin' of a text.

46. Wole Soyinka's play, The Swamp Dwellers' talks about the family, the extended family in the African
society. It is a confrontation between the traditional and modern society. It is a comment about the
city, urban, modern and the country rural, the swamp, the ancient.

47. The purpose of the Pre-Raphaelites was primarily to promote simplicity and naturalness in art and
literature.

48. In the Absurd plays of Harold Pinter and Samucl Beckett, lack of communication seems to be a
predominant theme.
Eistentialist philosophy had a tremendous influence on the dramatists of the period, nihilism and
meaninglessness of taking a front seat.

49. Beatrice Culleton's novel, 'In Search of April Raintree' is a fictional account of the lives of two metis
sisters growing up in Winnipeg. The two sisters have been removed from their parents' home and
placed with a series of foster families.

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1. literature of the Jacobean Age is dominated by works revealing symptoms of melodrama and
sensationalism. The 1. Jacobean Age is generally ruled by the spirit of decadence.

3. One of Gustave Flaubert's main motivations in writing the novel, "Madam Bovary was his antipathy
for the bourgeoisie (the middle classes). Flaubert strongly believed that bourgeoisie are those who
think, feel and act in terms of utilitarianism and who reject the humanity and uniqueness of the
individual person.

3. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, Remains of the Day' uses a butler as a pivotal character. It refers to England
in the 1930s and it became a very successful film.

4. In the poem, Paradise Lost, John Milton invokes his "Heav'nly Muse', 'Urania' at the beginning of
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5. The basic pinciple of New Criticism is locating the meaning of a literary work in the internal
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9. James Joyce's novel Ulysses' describes a day in the life of two men Leopold Bloom and Stephen
Dedalus, in Dublin in 1904. The novel is a tough read as it contains no quotation marks or
conventional structure.

10. Henry James once notoriously referred to nineteenth-century novels as large, loose, baggy
monsters. He had particularly in mind the lengthy, unwieldy, yet strangely fascinating works of the
Russian witers Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, 'Crime and Punishment' and Leo Tolstoy's novel, 'Anna
Karenina'.

11. High above the north pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English literature approached
each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour. This is the opening of David Lodge's novel,
'Changing Places'.

12. Nihilism and Christian Symbolism is present in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, 'Crime and
Punishment'. Nihilism is the belief that nothing in the world has a real existence and in the established
social order.

13. The characteristics of intellectual complexity and union of thought and passion of 17h century
metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics.

14. The scholars, Edgar Werner Schneider, Tom McArthur, Braj Kachru and Manfred Gorlach have
come up with models which aim to characterise world Englishes within one conceptual set.

15. A close friend of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins objected to the original ending of the novel, 'Great
Expectations one in which Estella remarries and Pip remains single. Dickens accordingly revised to a
more conventional ending which suggests that Pip and Estella will marry.

16. A second language learner uses familiar vocabulary to mentally form sentences before speaking.

17. Andrew Marvell's poem, 'The Coronet' seeks to explore the human condition in terms of the
conflict between nature and grace.

18. D.H. Lawrence himself felt that the final chapter of his novel, 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was the
dirtiest, most indecent, obscene thing ever written'.

19. PB Shelley's poem, 'Alastor has the voyage motit. The poem reflects Shelley's fascination with
water and was inspired by his excursion up the Thames with Thomas Love Peacock, Mary Godwin and
Charles Clairmont.

20. In Philip Sydney's sonnet sequence, 'Astrophil and Stella', the final sonnet (#108) brings no
resolution

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25. Lytton Strachey's biographical book, 'Eminent Victorians and Samuel Butler's novel, 'The Way ofAll
Flesh' exemplify the anti-Victorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century.

26. The abolition of the Lord Chamberlain's office in 1968 allowed mainstream British theatre
companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially and sexually controversial
without fear of censorship.

27. The Wife of Bath's philosophy of marriage in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales shows that she is a
strong person with keen awareness of her own rights. According to the Wife of Bath, women most
desire sovereignty in marriage and over their husbands.

28. The character, Ikemefuna is killed in Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart' in conformity with
an African tribal custom. Okonkwo is the protagonist and tragic hero of the novel.

29 We will do it, I tell you; we will do it. The repetition of a phrase is an example of diacope.

30. The character Caliban in William Shakespeare's play, "Tempest' is associated with the Earth.

31. In the Advancement of Learning', Francis Bacon attempted a preliminary survey of the entire field
of learning, by analyzing the principal obstacles to its advancement. Those obstacles are Rhetoric,
Medieval Scholasticism and Pseudo Sciences.

32. Virginia Woolf dismissed James Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' as 'the book of a self-taught working man,
& we all know how distressing they are'.

33. Charles Dickens in his novel, 'Hard Times' caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in
his potrayal of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, the notorious headmaster.

34. John Stuart Mill defined 'happiness' as pleasure and the absence of pain.

35. John Dryden's dramatization of Paradise Lost' is entitled The State of Innocence'.

36. Robert Frost defined free verse as playing tennis without a net.

37. According to Roland Barthes, a text which draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in which it is
structured, is called writerly text.

38. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet's "Sexual Politics' and Germaine Greer's The Female
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42. Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock is a mock heroic poem and written in heroic couplets. It is
produced in two versions, consisting of 2 and 5 cantos.

43. The Vulgate Bible' was prepared to make the Bible available to the common men.

44, Literary works such as Charles Dickens's novel, David Copperfield' and James Joyce's novel, 'A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' provide examples of Künstlerroman.

45. In the poem Fall of Hyperion', John Keats's Muse figure is Moneta.

46.John Dryden's poem, Absalom and Achitophel' captures a sense of the political turmoil particularly
regarding the issue of religion just after the Restoration.

47. George Eliot has described herself as an agnostic.

48 Paul Sartre & Homi K. Bhabha have written preface to Frantz Fanon's psychological book, "The
Wretched of the Earth'. The book is an analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to
liberation.

49. Horace formulated the concept of the 'utile dulci', which means "profit combined with delight"'.
50. Out of the four humours of the body, the Jacobeans thought of themselves as especially prone to
melancholy.

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1. S.T. Coleridge ended his life, lauded and respected as "The Sage of Highgate'

2. Leo Tolstoy's novel, 'Anna Karenina' is concerned with the jumbled trivia of day-to-day life; the belief
in social progress and scientific advancement; and insistent quest for meaning.

3. In Alexander Pope's mock-heroic poem, 'The Rape of Lock', Belinda's guardian sylph is unable to
prevent the Baron's fatal mischief because he discovers an earthly lover lurking in Belinda's heart.

4. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence, Frantz Fanon's classic text, 'The
Wretched of the Earth' has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since.

5. The concept of the "Metaphysics of Presence' is an important consideration in deconstruction.

Jacques Derrida argues that metaphysics affects the whole of philosophy from Plato onwards.

6. The Restoration comedy, 'The Provoked Husband' was an unfinished fragment by John Vanbrugh
that Colley Cibber reworked and completed to great commercial success.

7. Literary works by post-modern British writers such as Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette
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9. Margaret Laurence's novel, 'The Stone Angel' is set in a fictional small town in Manitoba calied
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10. Many contemporary African writers convey a melancholy tone of longing for traditional religious
rituals. They bemoan the loss of values and indict aspirations of wealth. They assess the social
impact of systems and institutions of colonial rule.

11. The 'Angel in the House' became a common label for the Victorian ideal of respectable middle-
class femininity. The phrase originated with a popular long poem by Coventry Patmore.

12. Flaneur is associated with the poctry of Charles Baudelaire. The term emerged from his essay,
'The Painter of Modern Life. It is defined as a man who saunters around observing society.

13 In Ernest Hemingway's novel, 'A Farewell to Arms', the main image clusters are associated with rain
and river.

14. The book, The Room at the Top' is the first novel by John Braine while the book, 'Room on the Roof
is children's book by Ruskin Bond.

15. The characteristics of Renaissance humanism are: (i) sanctity of the Latin texts of Scriptures (i)
rejection of Christian principles, and (ii) primary causative agent of the Reformation.

16. The queen in Walter Scott's novel, "The Heart of Midlothian' is referring to a strange Scottish law
according to which if a woman secretly gives birth to a child and the child is missing and she has not
confided to anyone about her pregnancy, she is considered guilty of infanticide.

17. In the novel, 'Sense and Sensibility', Jane Austen portrays an excess of sensibility' in the character
Marianne Dashwood.

18. Ben Jonson disliked fantastic comedy, wide-ranging chronicle-history and stupendous tragedy.

19. In the 1950s and 60s James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison returned to universal themes and focused
on innovations in literary forms. In the 1930s and 1940s African and American Literature was mostly
preoccupied with protest.

20. In coining the term Ecriture Feminine', Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual production, not
necessarily written by women. The name of James Joyce is used by her as an example.

21. Resistance to slavery created a literature of the abolitionist movement in the last quarter of the
eighteenth century in Britain. Such literature included books written by former slaves. Two such slave
writers are Olaudah Equiano & Mary Prince.

22. The French critic and historian, Hippolyte Taine published his four-volume book, 'History of English
Literature' in 1864 based on the Race, Historical moment & Milieu.
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26. Edward Said talks about two diflerent types of Orientalism: Latent and Manifest.

27. Eugene O'Neill described in its Preface of the play 'Long Day's Journey into Night' as 'a play of old
sorrow, written in tears and blood'.

28. TSEliot's poem, 'The Waste Land' ends in a furry of random allusions.

29. G.V. Desani's novel, 'All About H. Hatterr' acted as an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new
narrative style in English.

30. Ann Radcliffe's novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho' is about Emily's adventures in the castle of
Udolpho, the outcome of the adventures, her escape and her final union with Valencourt

31. In Marxist criticism the term, "Interpellation' defines the ways in which the subjects of an ideology
are placed in false positions of knowledge regarding themselves.

32. According to Longinus, the sublime is a matter of reader-response and the essence of all great
poetry and oratory. It valorises a special use of language.

33. In a tickster tale, an anthropomorphized animal often serves as the protagonist and the hero can
be a shape shifter, a cheat or a liar
34. The best source for historical evidence of individual words in English is 'The Oxford English
Dictionary

35. In the end of Franz Kafka's novel, 'Metamorphosis", the death of Gregor Samsa is marked by a
slow ebbing away of life hardly perceptible.

36. John Donne's poem, 'Death, be not proud' is the tenth poem in a series of Holy Sonnets. The poem
is about religion, faith and God.

37. In Luigi Pirandello's play, 'Six Characters in Search of an Author', the stage itself is the symbol of
appearance and reality; and it becomes the setting of the play.

38. Many modern British writers infused their works with an extreme sense of uncertainty,
disillusionment and despair. The writers were responding to the devastation of war and feeling
disconnected from the traditions of the past.

39. Badal Sircar's play, 'Pagla Ghora' is about the condition of women in post-Second World War
Bengal, sexual passion and lack of communication between men and women.

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43. The Theme of () Walter Scott's novel, The Heart of Midlothian' and Thomas Hardy's novel, 'Tess of
the D'urbervilles
Infanticide, (i) Graham Greene's novel, 'The End of the Affair' and Henry James' novel, 'The Golden
Bow! Adultery (ii) Graham Greene's novel, 'The Heart of the Matter' and Joseph Conrad's novel, 'Lord
Jim'- Suicide (iv) Joseph Conrad's novels, 'Heart of Darkness' and 'Nostromo' - Greed.

44. In William Shakespeare's comedy, 'As You Like It' when Oliver brings in the bloody napkin dyed in
Orlando's blood, Rosalind faints.

45. In Euripides's tragedy, 'Medea', the chorus consists of fifteen Corinthian women who are Medea's
next door neighbours. The play is based Medea's revenge against Jason for betraying her with another
woman.

46. The act, The Statute of Pleadings' made English the official language of the English Parliament in
1362.
47. In the novel, 'Lord of Flies', William Golding inverts the morality of R. M. Ballantyne's novel, 'The
Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean' involving adventures of three boys marooned on South
Pacific Island.

48. In spite of being constant in his relationship with Sophia, Tom is involved in relationships with
three other ladies (Molly Seagrim, Mrs Western & Lady Bellaston) in the three parts of Henry Fielding's
comic novel, "Tom Jones".

49. DH Lawrence's novel, Women in Love' was greeted with the headlines: 'A book the police should
ban; loathsome study of sex depravity; misleading youth to unspeakable disaster. Its opening chapter
was originally suppressed.

50. In John Keats's poem, 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', the key ideas are best described as movement
versus stasis; disappointing love versus eternal bliss; and beauty versus truth.

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1. The Neoclassical Critics transcend the subjective point of view. They bow to other forms of
objective authority: the authority of the past and the authority of the social consensus. They adopt the
scientific attitude without.

3. In Samuel Beckett's absurdist play, 'Waiting for Godot, Lucky has two pages of unpunctuated
speech.

4. Laura Mulvey's pioneering essay, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' is an instance of the
feminist appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses Jacques Lacan's concept of the gaze.

5. Albert Camus's "The Stranger' is a realistic novel, true to the locale it depicts. Alienation, absurdity,
and French colonialism are the major themes of the novel. Meursault is the narrator of the novel.

6. Edmund Spenser's poem, "Faerie Queene' is an epic celebration of Queen Elizabeth and The
Protestant Faith. It is also a struggle between the Protestant Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
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10. Thomas Chatterton committed suicide after years of living close to starvation as a struggling poet

11. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic and novelist, took sides in the literary squabbles of the
1860s against A C Swinburne and the Rossetti's. He wrote a review which introduced the term, The
Fleshly School of Poetry.
12. The narrator of William Langland poem, 'Piers Plowman' falls asleep on the Malvern Hills.

13. Alfred Tennysons poem, "The Lotos-Eaters' is also referenced in the fifth chapter of the novel,
'Ulysses' by James Joyce, also titled 'Lotus Eaters,' and in the sixth chapter of Edith Wharton's novel,
"The Age of Innocence'. W. Somerset Maugham wrote a short story called "The Lotus Eater', about a
man who gave up a job as a bank manager in London to live a simple life on the island of Capri

14 The Changeling', a Jacobean tragedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley is about the
treachery that comes as a consequence of sinful hurman nature. The play expresses this theme
through the reference of 'original sin' and its consequential fall'.

15. Leviathan' by Thomas Hobbes is about the structure of society and legitimate government, and is
regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Leviathan is
comparable to Machiavelli's political treatise, 'The Prince'
16. The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music
arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.

17. Audre Lorde's autobiography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name' started a new genre that the
author calls bio my thography.

18. Kate Chopin 's novel, The Awakening', originally titled, 'A Solitary Soul', focuses on women's issues
is widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism.

19. Robert Penn Warren founded the journal, The Southern Review' with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He is
the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.

20. Thomas Hobbes book, 'Leviathan'established social contract theory, the foundation for the
Westem political philosophy The Commonwealth is portrayed in it as a Leviathan or a sea monster.

21. Thy Hand, Great Anarch!' is an autobiographical sequel to Indian essayist Nirad c. Chaudhuri's The
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian'. Its title was inspired from the concluding couplet of Alexander
Pope's satirical poem, "The Dunciad'

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25. George Eliot's historical novel, 'Romola' is set in the fifteenth century, and is 'a deep study of life in
the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view'.

26. Oliver Goldsmith's poem, The Deserted Village' is a work of social commentary, and condemns
rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth. The poem resulted from the Enclosure
Movement which brought Industrial Revolution in Britain.

27. Oliver Goldsmith's comedy, "She Stoops to Conquer' was initially titled, "Mistakes of a Night', and
indeed, the events within the play take place in one long night.

28. The Rambler, a periodical is strictly a series of short papers by Samuel Johnson.

29. Daniel Defoe's novel, 'A Journal of the Plague Year' is a fictionalised account of one man's
experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told
roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings.

30. Daniel Defoe's novel, 'Moll Flanders' purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous
Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. Defoe portrays the society of his time where
women of lower classes remain with no option other than theft or prostitution.

31. Jonathan Swift's novel, Gulliver's Travels' is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the
'travellers' tales hterary sub-genre. Cavehill in Belfast is thought to be the inspiration for the novel.
Swift imagined that the mountain resembled the shape of a sleeping giant safeguarding the city.

32. Jonathan Swift's Juvenalian satirical essay, "A Modest Proposal', is published anonymously. Swit
suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as
food for rich gentlemen and ladies 33. Jonathan Swif's book, "A Journal to Stella' consists of series of
65 letters to his friend, Esther Johnson, whom he called Stella and whom he may have secretly
married. Death of Esther Johnson caused Jonathan Swit to write a text, 'On the Death of Mrs.
Johnson'.

34. Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books' depicts a literal battle between books in the King's
Library as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy. Because of the satire, the book has become a
term for the quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderms.

35. In poems like "The Altar' and Easter Wings' George Herbert exploits typographic space.

36. The roman a clef (French for novel with a key') uses contemporary historical figures as its chief
characters. They are of course given fictional names. One example is Aldous Huxley's Point Counter
Point. The character Mark Rampion in the novel is modelled on D. H. Lawrence.

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41. PBShelley's poem 'Alastor', Lord Byron's poem, 'Manfred' and John Keats's poem, 'Endymion' are
quest narratives.

42 Ralph Ellison's novel, 'Invisible Man' has a scene where African American students are made to
compete and fight with each other as they rush for the gold coins tossed on an electric blanket.

43. G.M. Hopkins's sonnet, 'Windhover is dedicated to Christ our lord. The windhover is a kind of
falcon and the speaker watches it riding the wind as if it were a horse, and then wheel around in an arc
like a skater, then hover some more.

44. Confessional poetry is associated with poets such as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman,
Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, and W. D. Snodgrass.

45. Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's novel, 'Ulysses is a Jewish advertising agent.

46. Late capitalism' is accelerated technological development and the massive extension of
intellectually qualified labour. It was first popularised by Ernst Mandel.

47. The tramp in Harold Pinter's play, "The Caretaker' often travels under an assumed name of Bernard
Jenkins. The play performed in three acts.

48. The early English plays imitating Greek and Latin plays are Gorboduc, Ralph Roister Doister and
Gammer Gurton's Needle.

49. Act I, Scene 1 of William Congreve's play, The Way of the World' opens at a Chocolate-House.

50. William Wordsworth's statement of purpose in publishing the book, 'Lyrical Ballads' is to choose
incidents from common Iife and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible, in a
selection of language really used by men.

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1.Jacques Lacan proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in language.

2. The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign of Elizabeth I ensured the supremacy of
the Church of England and allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of the Anglican Church.

3. Alfred Tennyson's poems The Lotus-Eaters', 'Ulysses' & Tithonus' speak of old age and death.

4. Samuel Johnson's book, 'Lives of Poets (1781) was originally a series of introductions to the poets
he wrote for a group of London publishers. They were collected as Prefaces, Biographical and Critical,
to the Works of English Poets.

5. The sections of T S Eliot's poem, 'The Waste Land' in the order in which they appear in the poem
are-"The Burial of the Dead', 'A Game of Chess', The Fire Sermon', Death by Water' & 'What the Thunder
Said'.

6. Hélène Cixous' essay, The Laugh of the Medusa' has become a staple of feminist criticism because
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8. The novels of Graham Greene which end in some form of suicide by the protagonist are The Heart
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9. The History of King Lear' is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of Wiliam Shakespeare's tragedy, 'King
Lear in which Tate gave a happy ending to King Lear

10. In Raja Rao's novel, 'Kanthapura', Harikatha is strategically used as a medium of 'consciousness
raising

11. Virginia Woolf's novel, Orlando: A Biography' offers a fictionalized survey of English Literature from
Elizabethan times to 1928.

12. The poems of P B Shelley's "Adonais', Lord Byron's 'Don Juan'& STColeridge's The Aeolian Harp'
begin in the first person pronoun.

13. In his 'Anatomy of Melancholy', Robert Burton proposes the two principal kinds: Love & Religious.

14. In Andrew Marvell's poem, "A Dialogue between Soul and Body, Body has the last word. The poem
describes the conflict between the human Body and the human Soul, each alleging its troubles and
sufferings to the other.

15. In William Blake's poem, 'A Poison Tree', the speaker's anger grows and becomes an apple.

16. For deconstructive critics how human beings read and interpret signs they receive will determine
their modes of knowing and being, whether those signs come in the form of literary texts or bank
statements. The fact of the matter is that human beings use signs to function in the world and are
always likely to do so.

17. Jan McEwan's novel, 'Saturday' spans one day in the life of a London neurosurgeon.

18. Lytton Strachey in his book, Eminent Victorians observes I have attempted, through the medium of
biography, to present some Victorian visions to the modern eye'. The four main characters in this book
are Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon.

19. In his attack delivered on the theatre in "A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the
English Stage', Jeremy Collier specially arraigned William Congreve and John Vanbrugh.

20. During the colonial era, the British used to call the Indian Languages vernaculars. We do not use
this word for our bhashas because verna is, literally a home-born slave and the natives of India were
never slaves.

21. Thomas More's Utopia displays strong influence of Plato's Republic and Amerigo Vespucci's
account of the travels

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25, Jamaica Kincaid's narrative, "A Small Place' is an essay that discusses the politics of tourism and
other neo-colonial modes of foreign intervention.

26. William Wordsworth had a deep influence on Thomas Hardy. According to Hardy the poem, 'The
Leech-gatherer by William Wordsworth was his best cure for despair

27. In Henry James's novel, 'Ambassadors' there is a character, Mrs. Newsome who never appears in
the novel. we get to know about this significant person, however, from the other characters

28. Walter Scott's novels are called 'Waverley Novels' because Walter Scott started his novel-writing
career in his 43 year with the novel, Waverley'

29. Maxim Gorky, the great Russian writer of fiction and drama, was in real life a man called Aleksei
Peshkov.

30. The Duchess of Malfi married her steward, Antonio. For the Elizabethan audience her marriage
was a triple offence. She was a widow marrying a second time. She married on her own outside the
Church. She married beneath her status in disregard of 'degree'

31. Henrik Ibsen play, 'Ghosts' was written in 1881 when its author was in Italy. This is considered to
be his most remarkable intellectual effort. The softening of the brain as a result of a disease inherited
from his father is the subject.

32. Leo Tolstoy's novel, 'War and Peace' carries a lengthy discussion of determinism and free will in its
epilogue. The key themes in the novel are spirituality in the main characters and family happiness as
the ultimate reward for spiritual suffering.

33. Girish Karnad's play, 'Nagmandala' has multiple narratives. It is open-ended. It combines
conventional and subversive modes. Story is personified in the play.

34. In Caryl Churchill's play, 'Serious Money' the state of the British economy is symbolized by a
takeover bid by an international cartel. Money is the only criterion for success for the players in this
play's share-market.

35. Eric Arthur Blair became the famous British novelist, George Orwell. Orwell was conversant in
Hindustani and fond of Indian food. He lived in Myanmar's trading town, Katha. This town gave him
the model for the fictional district of Kyauktada in Burmese Days. Orwell was born on June 25, 1903 in
Motihari, Bihar.

36. Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of the Common Reader from Dr. Samuel Johnson's essay on
Thomas Gray in 'The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets'.

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40. Wlliam Wordsworth's poem, 'Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room' is known as the
sonnet upon sonnet. Wordsworth is explaining within context of the sonnet, how he uses and enjoys
using the sonnet form.

41. The terms First language, Native language & Primary language applied to mother tongue.

42. The Geneva Bible is the earliest English version Bible printed with verse divisions.

43. E.M. Forster's novel, 'Passage to India' begins with a description of the city of Chandrapore. It has
an old Indian part and a new part consisting of the British civil station. The streets are mean, the
temples ineffective. It is a city or gardens. It is a tropical pleasaunce washed by a noble river.

44. Philip Larkin's poetry collection, 'The Whitsun Weddings' describes a long train journey and
establishes a 'we' voice of collective outlook.

45. The group of playhouses of Elizabethan period in chronological order: Theatre (1576), The Curtain
(1577), The Rose (1587), The Swan (1595), The Globe (1599), The Fortune (1600), The Redbull (1604)
& The Hope (1613-14).

46. In the novel, "Notes from Underground', Fyodor Dostoevsky narrates the novel through the
Underground Man (Underworld), whose enhanced sense of self is at once his greatest strength and
most powerful weakness wnlcn distinguishes him from the rest of the world.

47. Samuel Richardson, the son of a joiner (artisan), he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a
printer throughout hislife. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters for those who could not
write for themselves. This humble task taught him the art of expressing himself in letters.

47.An Essay on Man is a poem (but not a prose essay) published by Alexander Pope in 1734.

49. Mirabell deceives Lady Wishfort into believing that he loves her in William Congreve's play, The
Way of the World

50. Charles Lamb speaks to Bridget, "Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry
supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had. We must ride where we formerly walked: live
better and be softer and shall be wise to do so - than we had means to do in the good old days you
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1. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799 and finished in its first version in 1805, was not
published until 1850. A main concept this poem is "the spots of time

2. In Chaucer's Prologue, the Parson is represented as a man who criticized the corrupt clergy,
practiced what he preached and who was a poor but honest clerk.

3. Though S T Coleridge refers to "Motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity', the human villain' Iago is
far from motiveless'. His motives are: 'He has been disappointed of military promotion' & "he suspects
Othello of cuckolding him

4. "The New Reasoner" was a British journal of dissident Communism published from 1957 to 1959 by
John Saville and E.P. Thompson. The publication is best remembered as an antecedent of the long
running journal, "New Left Review".

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8. The narrator of Herman Melville's short story, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street' is the
Lawyer, who runs. .a law practice on Wall Street in New York. It is a departure from the themes of the
sea-faring adventures that Melville often dwelt upon.

9. Gayatri Spivak sees the project of colonialism as characterized by what Michael Foucault had called
'epistemic violence, the imposition of a' given set of beliefs over another.

10. Alfred Tennyson's poem about women's rights and women's sphere is The Princess'.

11. IL Migilor Fabro is the expression T S Eliot used for Ezra Pound.

12. The word 'nature' in the eighteenth century literature stands for Human nature.

13. Friedrich Schlegel is given credit for first using the term 'romantic'.

14.Gestalt theory of literature considers text as an experimentation in form.

15. The first Canadian poet is Oliver Goldsmith. He is best known for his poem, The Rising Village'
(1825).
16. Heroic quatrain is four line stanzas in iambic pentameter.

17. Bildungsroman translated literally means Development novel.

18. James Joyce's novel, 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' faithfully renders a young man's
confused images of love and rejection.

19. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between faith and reason.

20. For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in special' relates to Geoffrey Chaucer's
Monk.

21. The historical novel began in the Augustan Age.

22. The new humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during
1920-1940.

23. 'Fancy' deals with 'Imagination and Reason'

24. Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal' is written in the form of a Social Satire.

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29. "New Left Review" was established in 1960 when the two journals The New Reasoner' and
'Universities and Left Review' merged their boards. The first editor-in-chief of the merged publication
was Stuart Hal. It was covering world politics, economy, and culture.

30. Nissim Ezeikel addressed the question 'of time' in his poetry.

31. Symbolist movement was influenced by poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe.

32. TS Eliot made use of Cinemetoscope technique in the poem, The Waste Land'.

33. The Rambler appeared every Tuesday and Saturday.

34. Tottel's Miscellany contained 50 sonnets.

35. Formal Criticism relates to the structure of literary devices.

36. A Foot in prosody is a basic unit of rhythmic measurement.

37. Ireland emerges as the most important metaphor in Seamus Heaney.

38. The major contribution of the Restoration period is in the field of poetry.
39. The plays of Edward Albee deal with hypocrisy of aristocracy.

40. In formalistic school of criticism, art is style.

41. The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is Mary Edgeworth.

42. The term Victorian' evokes the attitudes of moral correctness.

43. Tambus' is a metrical foot consisting of two syllables.

44. 11,396 definitions of romanticism were given by F. L. Lucas.

45. The 'Reader-Response Theory' implies that the readers of an age construct the meaning.

46. Myth Criticism' focuses on recurrence of archetypal patterns.

47. An Idyll' is usually a poem about a picturesque country life.

48.The Lost Generation' refers to the generation that came to maturity in the 1930s.

49. Jonathan Swift's prose parody and satire, 'A Tale of a Tub' is about contending religious parties.

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1. Monica Ali's novel, 'Brick Lane' centers around the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi immigrant who
has married Chanu.

2. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress' was written while he was in prison for the crime of preaching
the Gospel without a license.

3.In Juvenalian satire, the speakeris a social revolutionary. Juvenalian satire is relatively
contemptuous and abrasive,
and makes uses of strong irony and sarcasm while Horatian Satire criticizes some social vice through
gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour.

4.Jane Austen's novel, 'Pride and Prejudice' most clearly shows the infuence of Henry Fielding

5. Alfred Russell Wallace was the most important of the 'evolutionists' during the Victorian period.
Though Charles Darwin is credited with developing the Theory of Evolution, but some scholars say
that Alfred Russel Wallace too deserves credit for it.

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10. Northrop Frye described value judgments as 'the donkey's carrot of literary criticism'.

11. The Winter Morning' forms part of William Cowper's longer poem, The Task: A Poem', in Six Books

12. Victorian Compromise' is an expression first used by G.K. Chesterton. The term was used by him
because the Victorian Age was a complex and contradictory era. It was the age of progress, stability,
great social reforms but it was also charactersised by poverty, injustice and social unrest.

13. Thomas More's Latin masterpiece, "Utopia' was translated into English in 1551. Raphael Hythloday
is its narrator.

14. William Beckford's oriental fantasy, "Vathek' was originally written in French. The novel recounts
the temptation and fall of the title character having a violent temper and an insatiable desire for both
power and pleasure.

15. The term 'American Renaissance' was first used by F. O. Matthiessen. The term was coined in his
book, 'American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman'.

16. Gladly would he leam, and gladly teach' is a line from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Prologue to Canterbury
Tales' for the character Clerk.

17. The second part of The Pilgrim's Progress' was published in 1684 which is considered much more
than a mere sequel to or repetition of the earlier volume.

18. Muriel Spark's novel, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' is a rewriting of the Victorian novel, Jane
Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë

19. The Chartist Demonstration in London involving the third presentation of Charter took place in
1848. It was a working-class movement for political reform in Britain.

20. The Religion of Man (1931) is a compilation of lectures by Rabindranath Tagore, edited by him and
drawn largely from his Hibbert Lectures given at Oxford University in May 1930.

21. Charles Dickens's novel, 'Oliver Twist' attacks the New Poor Law of 1834 in the opening chapters.

22. The boy Simon in William Golding's novel, 'Lord of the Flies' is associated with Christ.

23. Jonathan Swift's epitaph reads 'one who strove with all his might to champion liberty

24. Rohinton Mistry's novel, 'Such A Long Journey' relates to the declaration of Emergency in India in

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26. Chaucer was born1340 in Edward III lived in Richard ii and died1400 in Henry IV.
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28. Edward Albee used the 'success' myth in the play, 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'. It is a critical
study on Woolf's novels.

29. Johnson's edition of William Shakespeare appeared in 1765. To benefit the reading audience, he
added explanatory notes to various passages.

30. After William Shakespeare made his debut as a London playwright, he was described as an
'upstart crow by Robert Greene.

31. Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway' depicts a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-
society woman in post-First World War England.

32. The Caribbean novel, "No Telephone to Heaven' by Michelle Ciff makes intertextual references to
Jane Eyre

33. The term 'metaphysical poets', was first used by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Both John Dryden and Dr
Samuel Johnson had used the term 'Metaphysical' in a negative sense.

34. A SatyT Against Reason and Mankind' is a satirical poem by the English Restoration poet John
Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.
35. In Wiliam Shakespeare's plays we find widowed queens questioning the assumptions of male
politics.

36. Seamus Heaney translated the epic Beowulf. Set in 6th century, it is the longest and greatest
surviving Anglo-Saxon poem.

37. In an anthology of short-fiction, 'Black Venus' Angela Carter takes elements from the poetry of a
famous French poet, Bundelaire and places them in a very different paradigm.

38. Jane Austen's novel, 'Emma' opens with a young woman who is 'handsome, clever and rich'.

39. William Blake commented about John Milton's Paradise Lost, 'Milton belongs to the Devil's party
without knowing it'.

40. The term, "the Valley of Ashes' occurs in E. Scot Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby'. Nick
Carraway is the narrator of the novel.

41. Geoffrey Chaucer referring to Friar says, 'He knew the tavern well in every town'

42. About Saint Joan in GB Shaw's play, 'Saint Joan', 'She is inspired but diabolically inspired'.

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reason and from sense perceptions and experience.
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46. The character, Tulsi of V.S. Naipaul's novel, 'A House for Mr. Biswas' lived in Hanuman House. The
novel has strong autobiographical elements. Mr. Biswas is based on Naipaul's father and the
character of Anand on Naipaul himself.

47. In Jane Austen's novel, 'Pride and Prejudice', Lydia and Wickham eloped to Gretna Green which is a
village in the south of Scotland famous for runaway weddings.

48.The sequence of the schools of criticism is Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response & New
Historicism.

49. The term 'gothic, a category of fiction, also applies to architecture.

50. The gap-toothed character in "Prologue to the Centerbury Tales' is the Wife of Bath.
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1. During Medieval times most plays were religious and were used to teach people about the Bible and
the lives of saints. These plays are the Mystery Play, the Miracle Play and the Morality Play.

2. The Red Cross Knight in Edmund Spenser's poem, "The Faerie Queene' represents Truth. The book
cont. which is basically a letter by Spenser to Sir Walter Raleigh.

3. Daniel Defoe's novel, 'Moll Flanders' was considered to be the best by E.M. Forster. Greed, vanity
and repentance are the recurrent themes of the novel.

4. Edmund Burke denounced the French Revolution in the essay, 'Reflections on the Revolution in
France'

5. Robert Frost is called 'A New England Poet'. He called himself a 'Disgruntled Democrat'

6. Margaret Atwood's 'Survival' is a thematic guide to Canadian literature. It is work of literary

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10. John Milton was the last of the Christian Humanists. Christian Humanism was a Renaissance
movement that combined a revived interest in the nature of humanity with the Christian faith.

11. The narrative of Raja Rao's novel, Kanthapura' is based on Puranas. The novel is narrated by
Achakka, an old woman of the imaginary village.

12. Criticizing the negritude movement, Wole Soyinka wrote, 'A tiger does not proclaim its tigretude'

13. The literary movement, Jindiworobak' relates to Australian literature. The movement was named
after the Jindyworobak Club, founded by Rex Ingamells in Adelaide.

14. The Montreal Group of Poets championed the cause of Modernist poetry in Canada. The group
consists of poets like A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, Leo Kennedy and A.M. Klein.

15. The terms, 'Abyssinian maid', 'Xanadu', 'Alph' and "Singing of Mount Abora' appears in S.T.
Coleridge's poem, Kubla Khan'.

16. S.T. Coleridge's statement that imagination 'dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate'
relates to primary imagination.
17. Essays of Elia' are personal impressions. Many of the essays have personal references which
Charles Lamb is generally considered the master of.

18. Walter Scott is a writer of historical romances. His work, Ivanhoe' is a historical romance set in
12h-century England. De Bracy is a character in it.

19. Gynocriticism focuses on women as writers. It examines the place of female writers in literary
history and treatment of female characters in books by both male and female writers.

20. Pre-Raphaelite poetry is mainly concerned with narrative and nature. Pre-Raphaelitism in poetry
had major influence upon the writers of the Decadence.

21. The concept of 'mad woman in the attic' can be traced to Charlotte Brontë's novel, 'Jane Eyre'.

22. John Ruskin is often called as 'the prophet of modern society', He is famous for his five volumes
work, 'Modern Painters'.

23. Bosola is the executioner in John Webster's tragic play, 'The Duchess of Malfi". He is involved in
the murder of the Duchess, her children, Cariola, Antonio, the Cardinal, Ferdinand, and a servant.

24. The mystery plays deal with the New Testament.

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William Carlos Williams.

29. Michael Ondaatje represents the Sri Lankan diaspora. He is winner of the Booker Prize for his
novel, "The English Patient (1992)', which was adapted as the 1996 film of the same name.

30. Out of Africa is a film adaptation of Karen Blixen's memoir. The memoir is an account of her life
while living in Kenya for 17 years.

31. 'Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial literature' was written by Bill Ashcroft,
Helen Tifin & Gareth Grifiths. The phrase, 'The Empire Writes Back to the Centre' is originally used by
Salman Rushdie,as he was punning on "The Empire Strikes Back", the famous American T.V. show.

32. Geofrey Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale' is a high romance told in heroic couplets. Palamon marries
Emelye in the Knight's Tale. Arcite dies at the end of the Knight's Tale.

33. Andrew Marvell pays his homage to the Protector and a tribute to the royal dignity of Charles I in
"Horatian Ode upon Cromewells' Return from Ireland'.

34. The character of the leech-gatherer appears in William Wordsworth's poem, 'Resolution and
Independence'
35. Thomas Carlyle's novel, 'Sartor Resartus' was written under the influence of German romance.

36. The image of the Neptune taming the sea horse appears in Robert Browning's poem, 'My Last
Duchess

37. The locale of J M Singe's play, 'Riders to the Sea' is Aran Island. The play is a one act tragedy about
peasant life.

38. Arthur Millers' play, "The Death of a Salesm history of Willy Loman, who was a salesman by
profession living in Brooklyn is mainly about American pragmatism. The play is the complete life

39. The patient in Michael Ondaatje's novel, The English Patient' is Almasy

40. Mimetic criticism views literary work as imitation.

41. The Nun's Priest's Tale' had its origin in the Italian Giovanni Boccaccio's long epic poem, "Teseide".

42. Restoration comedy begins with William Congreve.

43. The picaresque novel with a female pica room is Daniel Defoe's novel, "Moll Flanders'.

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47. Harold Pinter's play, 'Care Taker can be called a comedy of menace. David Campton, Nigel Dennis,
N. F. Simpson and Harold Pinter are famous writers of comedy of menace.

48. Toni Morrison used male narrator for the first time in the novel, 'Song of Solomon'.

49 The soul of tragedy, according to Aristotle's Poetics, is plot.

50. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet occurs in Russian Formalism. Syuzhet is an employment of

narrative and Fabula is the chronological order of the events contained in the story.
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1. In William Langland's poem, 'Piers the Plowman', Piers appears finally as the good Samaritan.

2. It is decided that in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales', each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in all four
stories.

3 Christopher Marlowe's tragedy, 'Tamburlaine Part I' has a Machiavellean hero. The term,
'Machiavellean hero' applies to a protagonist who seeks political or social gain at any cost.

4. Jonathan Swift's 'A Tale of a Tub' is a religious allegory. It criticizes the religion and discusses three
brothers-Peter, Jack&Martin. Peter is a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church, Jack a symbol of
Puritanism, and Martin a symbol of the Church of England.

5. Alexander Pope's poem, 'An Essay on Man' is based on the ideas of Lord Bolingbroke, an English
politician, government official and political philosopher.

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Power'. It was first published in the North British Review, August, 1848, as part of a critical essay on
Alexander Pope.

10. Alfred Tennyson is the most sensitive to the confiict between the old and the new. He joined the
Apostles, a political and literary group at Trinity College of Cambridge University while a student there.

11. The Office of Circumlocution occurs in Charles Dickens' novel, Little Dorit.

12. The term 'Stream of Consciousness' was taken from William James book, The Principles of
Psychology"

13. Fraser's comparative study, "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion' focuses on
Archetypes

14. Arthur Miller's play, 'Death of a Salesman' relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of the
character Willy Loman.

15. Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic treatment in Judith Wright.

16. Margaret Atwood novel, 'The Handmaid's Tale' is adapted into a film in 1990.
17. Salman Rushdie's novel, Grimus' refers to the 15h Century Spain as a starting point.

18. The journal, The Miscellany' was published from The Writers Workshop, Calcutta.

19. Wole Soyinka recreates the life of the Yoruba/lbo community in his works.

20. T.S. Eliot's theory of Objective Correlative' appeared in his essay entitled, 'Hamlet".

21. Sprung Rhythm is an example of meter. It is developed by G.M. Hopkins.

22. Verse stories dealing with chivalry, knight, errantry, enchantments, and love are known as the
metrical romances.

23. Margaret Atwood's fiction is marked by 'aesthetics of flesh'.

24. The Shadow of Night' is a long poem written by George Chapman. He dedicated the work, which
he calls a 'poor and
strange trifle,' to fellow poet Matthew Roydon.

25. The bucolic lovers are presented in the John Keats' poem, 'Ode on a Grecian Um'

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30 The word 'experience' is a key to the portrait of the Wife of Bath in the General Prologue to The
Canterbury Tales.

31. The Box Hill episode features in Jane Austen's novel, "Emma'. The novel ends with the marriage of
Harriet and Mr. Martin and that of Emma and Mr. Knightley.

32. The image of Buddha is used at the beginning of Joseph Conrad's novel, "Heart of Darkness'

33. Greek playwright Euripides is often called an ironist because he structures his plot in an unusual
way.

34. The philosophy of the character Meursault is developed in Albert Camus's novel, 'The Stranger or
The Outsider".
35. Charles Baudelaire's poetry, 'Flowers of Evil" has themes of sex and death.

36. Mulk Raj Anand's 'Coolie' is a novel of protest. The novel is about a 14-year-old boy, Munoo, who
belongs to the lowest and untouchable caste.

37. The novels of the Canadian author Beatrice Culleton are instances of resistance literature. She is
known for her novel,
In Search of April Raintree'.
38. Aristotle says that poetry is superior to History since it bears the stamp of high seriousness and
truth.

39. In a discussion on his famous story "Metamorphosis", Kafka Said: "The terror of art is that the
dream reveals the reality'.

40. Johnson argues in his 'Preface to William Shakespeare' that the dramatist 'sacrifices the virtue to
the convenience.

41. Alexander Pope poem, 'An Essay on Man' claims 'to vindicate the ways of God to man'. Whereas
the opening lines of John Milton's epic, 'Paradise Lost', claim to "justify the ways of God to men".

42. Matthew Anold rejected historical and personal estimates of poetry in his essay, "The Study of
Poetry"

43. The character Ferdinand, after looking at the dead body of his sister the Duchess in John
Webster's play, "The Duchess of Malfi' utters, 'Covered her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young'.

44. Charles Dickens' novel, 'The Tale of Two Cities' has a romantic hero Sidney Cartoon, with a
weakness.

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(1880) and 'Naturalism in the Theatre' (1882).

47. Carlyle and Ruskin advocated the theory of Art for Life's Sake while Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater
pleaded for Art for Art's Sake.

48. Philip Larkin calls the church 'a serious house' in the poem, 'Church Going

49. Ted Hughes's poetry emphasized the pitiless and 😃 violent forces of nature.
50. Out of the four dialects that flourished in the pre-Chaucerian period, the East-Midland became the
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1. Closet dramas are plays that have been written to be read, but not performed. This art form was
popularized in the Romantic era by such writers as Robert Browning and Goethe.

2. An epiphany is an experience of sudden and striking realization. Famous epiphanies include

Archimedes 's discovery
of a method to determine the density of an object and Isaac Newton's realization tnat moon are both
pulled by the same force.

2. In rhetoric, meiosis is a euphemistic figure of specch that intentionally understates something or

implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is. Meiosis is the opposite of auxesis, and
also sometimes used as a synonym for litotes. E.g. "The Pond" for the Atlantic Ocean ("across the
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6. The quest narrative is one of the oldest and surest ways of telling a story. The form of a quest
narrative is simple Basically, the author describes his or her desire to discover something. A quest
narrative is a story that revolves around an adventure, and more specifically, a journey (traveling
expedition).

7 Socratic irony is when you pretend to be ignorant to expose the ignorance or inconsistency of
someone else.

9. The successive syllables with approximately equal light stresses constitute a Pyrhic.

10. Parody is a form of burlesque.

11. Young people using unconventional dress, manners and behavior as a way of social protest is
beatnik.

12. A homily is a commentary that follows a reading of scripture.

13 A poet once refered to an old man as "A tattered coat upon a stick". That is an example of
metaphor.

14. "Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair, Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes are sunny." The
above lines of Samuel Deniel sonnet sequence, 'Delia' are characterized by antithesis.

15. Poetic license may be defined as any departure from the rules of pronunciation or diction, for the
sake of rhyme or metre, or an unjustifiable departure from fact.

16. The determining feature of syllabic verse is neither stress nor quantity but the number of syllables
in a line.

17. Inversion is the change in the world order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this book I like. Another
term for inversion is Hyperbaton.

18. Idylls are small lyrical poems generally describing the scenes and pleasures of rural countryside.

19. Hamartia is the tragic flaw in the character of a tragic hero.

20. Peripetia is the reversal of fortune which happens due to Hamartia in the character of the tragic
hero.

21. In a tragedy the hero remains in a state of deception or illusion to a great extent. Gradually he
emerges from this state of illusion but by this time it is too late to rectify his error. This realization of
real facts is called Recognition or Anagnorisis.

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24. A trochee is a metrical foot which consists of a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a
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25. Dactylic is a metrical foot which consists of long syllable followed by two short syllables. (SUU)
AAn amphibrach is a metrical foot which consists of a long syllable between two short syllables.
(USU) hic is a metrical foot which consists of two unaccented, short syllables. It is also known as a
dibrach. (UU)

26. Snondaic is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables or two stressed syllables.

30. Masculine ending and feminine ending are terms used in prosody, the study of verse form.
"Masculine ending" refers to a line ending in a stressed syllable. "Feminine ending" is its opposite,
describing a line ending in an unstressless syllable.

31. Eight line stanza with the rhyming scheme of abababcc is called the Italian Stanza.

32 "Had we but world enough, and time,/ This coyness, lady, were no crime." This statement is an
example of Irony.

33. A Spenserian stanza has eight iambic pentameters.

34. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his friend, 'Horatio, I am dead.' This is an example of prolepsis.
35. Roman a Clef is a French term which literary means a novel with a key. It was created by
Madeleine de Scudery, a French writer.

36. Heroic quatrain is four line stanzas in iambic hexameter.

37. The phrase "loud colour is an example of Synaesthesia. In literature, synesthesia refers to a
technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal
to more than one senses (like hearing, seeing, smell etc.) at a given time.

38. All Arabia breathes from yonder box." This line from Alexander Pope's mock-heroic poem, "The
Rape of the Lock is an example of metonymy.

39. A nineteen-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain is called villanelle.

40. French stanza is about repetition of rhymes and lines.

41. Cacsura is kind of pause which denotes the absence of sound. The pause is formed by the
rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics.

42. The sentence, The terms of the contract are not disagreeable to me' is an example of litotes.

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47. Utilitarianism is defined as a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the
greatest pleasure to the greatest number.

48. Higher Criticism is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the
Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document.

49. Lay is a particular type of short medieval tale of knighthood in verse form.

50. A monody is a poem in which one person laments another's death.

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1. Onomatopoeia is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes.

New Historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and interpreted
with context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic.

3. "Collocations" refer to grouping of words in a sentence.

4. Dora is the pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to a patient whom he diagnosed with hysteria, and
treated for eleven weeks in 1900. Her most manifest hysterical symptom was aphonia, or loss of
voice. The patient's real name was Ida Bauer. Freud published a case study about Dora as, Fragments
of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria"

5. While "a well-boiled icicle" for "a well-oiled bicycle" is an example of Spoonerism, someone saying
"Congenita food" for Continental food' is an example of Malaproprism.

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10. Morality Plays are dramatized allegories of the life of man. They depict man's temptation and
sinning, his quest for salvation and his confrontation with Death.

11. Internal rhyme is rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry.

12. Feminine ending refers to the ending of a line in an unstressed syllable.

13. Masculine ending refers toa line ending in a stressed syllable.

14. Anagnorisis' is a term used by Aristotle for describing the moment of discovery by the protagonist.

15. Metonymy and apostrophe are used in the following lines by Blake: "Tyger, tyger, burning bright/In
the forest of the night,/What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

16. Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often called sprung
rhythm.

17. Paeon is a metrical foot of one long syllable and three short syllables in any order.
18. A particle is a patchwork of words, sentences, passages.

19. A stanza of eight iambic pentametres on the pattern of ab, ab, ab, cc is known as Ottava rima. Its
earliest known use is in the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio.

20 "More is thy due than more than all can pay" is an example of Extra Syllable.

21. Unrhymed metrical composition consisting of five iambic measures in each line is called Blank
Verse.

22. Pantheism is the theory that all nature is the expression of one universal spirit.

23. The study of poetry's meter and form called Prosody.

24. Acrostic, a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word.

25. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry is called meter.

26. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as is called
metaphor.

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31. Jintishi is a Japanese poetic form.

32. A funny poem of five lines called Limerick.

33 A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as Ottava Rima.

34. When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the reading, it is a case of
enjambment.

35. The opposite of hyperbole is meiosis.

36. Nemesis is a literary device that refers to a situation of poetic justice where the good characters
are rewarded for their virtues and the evil characters are punished for their vices.
37. Motif is an object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work. In a literary piece, a motif is
a recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme while a theme is a central idea
or message.

38. The term deus ex machina refers to the circumstance where an implausible concept or a divine
character is introduced into a storyline for the purpose of resolving its conflict and procuring an
interesting outcome
39. Cadcnce is the term used to signal the rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece.
In poetry, it is the momentary changes in rhythm and pitch. Cadences help set the rhythmic paces of a
literary piece.

40. Anecdote is defined as a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to
support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh.

41. Aposiopesis a rhetorical device in which the speaker or writer breaks off abruptly and leaves the
statement incomplete, as if the speaker is not willing to state what is present in his mind due to being
overcome by passion, excitement or fear. In a piece of literature, it means to leave a sentence
unfinished so that the reader determine his own meanings.

42. Cliché refers to an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original
meaning or novelty. A cliché may also refer to actions and events which are predictable because of
some previous events.

43. In literature, colloquialism is the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.

44. In literature, a conflict is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces
usually a protagonist and an antagonist. (e.g. To be, or not to be-that is the question).

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47. The intentional fallacy holds that the proper object of literary study is literary texts and how they
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work rather than authors' lives or the social and historical worlds to which literature refers.

48. An exemplum is a moral anecdote, brief or extended, real or fictitious, used to illustrate a point.
"The Friar's Tale" in Chaucer's work, The Canterbury Tales' is a longer example of an exemplum.

49. A travesty is an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a parody, or grossly inferior imitation.

50. Choral character applied to a character in a play who, while participating in the action to some
degree, also provides the audience with an ironic commentary upon it, thus performing a function
similar to that of the chorus in Greek tragedy. Two examples are Thersites in Shakespeare's tragedy,
"Troilus and Cressida' and Wong in Brecht's play, The Good Woman of Setzuan'
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1.Genealogy of the Gentile Gods
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Giovanni Boccaccio

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4. Certain Notes of Instruction

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5. The School of Abuse✓✓

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6. Discourse of English Poetry

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William Webbe

7. The Arte of English Poesie

{1589}
George Puttenham

8. Treatise on the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.✓✓

{ 1593-}
Richard Hooker

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Philip Sidney
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10. Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral

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{1597}
Francis Bacon

11. Palladis Tamia: Wits Treasury

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12.The Model of Poesy

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13. Observations in the Art of English Poesie

{1602}
Thomas Campion

14. A Defence of Rhyme

{1603}
Samuel Daniel

15. The Advancement of Learning✓✓

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16 Novum Organum Scientiarum

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17. New Atlantis✓✓

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18. Timber: or, Discoveries✓✓

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Ben Jonson
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19. Good Thoughts in Bad Times

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Thomas Fuller

20 A Discourse on the Liberty of Prophesying

{1647}
Jeremy Taylor

21. Answer to Davenant's Preface to Gondibert

(An Epic Poem by William Davement)
{1650}
Thomas Hobbes

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23. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding{1689}✓✓

24. Two Treatises of Government{1689}
25. The Second Treatise of Civil Government {1690}
John Locke{23,24,25}
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26. Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning

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Sir William Temple

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Jeremy Collier.

28. The Selling of Joseph (Anti-Slavery Tract)

{1700}
Samuel Sewall

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17th Century

1. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies -1694

Mary Astell

2. The Adventure of the Black Lady - 1697

Aphra Behn

18 th Century

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Daniel Defoe
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3. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, (1791)

Mary Wollstonecraft

4. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female

Citizen, (1791)
Olympe de Gouges

5. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, (1798)

Mary Wollstonecraft

19th century
1. Pride and Prejudice, (1813)
Jane Austen

2. The Great Lawsuit, (1843)

Margaret Fuller

3. Woman in the Nineteenth Century, (1845)

Margaret Fuller

4. Jane Eyre, (1847)

Charlotte Brontë

5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,(1848)

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6. The Scarlet Letter, (1850)

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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7. Ain't I a Woman? (1851)

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Sojourner Truth

7. What Time of Night It Is,(1853) Sojourner Truth

8. Villette. (1853)
Charlotte Brontë

9. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, (1861)

Harriet Jacobs

10. The Subjection of Women,(1869)

John Stuart Mill
11. Women and Politics, (1869)
Charles Kingsley

12. Women's Temperance Movement. (1873)

Mark Twain

13. Papa's Own Girl, (1874)

Marie Howland

14. A Doll's House, (1879)

Henrik Ibsen

15. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

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16. The Story of an Hour, (1894)

Kate Chopin
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17. The Storm (1898)

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Kate Chopin

18. Women and Economics,(1898) Charlotte Perkins Gilman

19. The Awakening (1899)

Kate Chopin

20th century

1. Votes for Women (1901)

Mark Twain
2. The House of Mirth, (1905)
Edith Wharton

3. Moving the Mountain,(1911) Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4.Pygmalion, (1912)
George Bernard Shaw

5. Herald (1915)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

6. The Job (1917)

Sinclair Lewis

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Edith Wharton
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8. A Room of One's Own (1929)

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9.Three Guineas ( 1938)

Virginia Woolf

10. The Second Sex (1949)

Simone de Beauvoir

11On the Publication of the Second Sex ( 1963)

Simone de Beauvoir

11. The Bell Jar (1963)

Sylvia Plath
12 The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Betty Friedan

13. Sexual Politics (1968)

Kate Millett

14. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

Maya Angelou

15. The Female Eunuch (1970)

Germaine Greer

16. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

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17. The First Sex ( 1971)

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18. Lesbian/Woman (1972)

Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon

19. Surfacing (1972)

Margaret Atwood

20. The Tyranny of Structurelessness ( 1972)

Jo Freeman

21.Fear of Flying(1973)
Erica Jong
20. Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution (1973)
Jill Johnston

21. Rape (1973)

Adrienne Rich

22. The Female Man(1975)

Joanna Russ

23. Meridian (1976)

Alice Walker

24. The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography

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25. The Bloody Chamber(1979)

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26. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the
Nineteenth-Century Literary : Imagination (1979)
Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar

27. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980)

Julia Kristeva

27. Man Made Language, (1980)

Dale Spender

28. The Color Purple (1982)

Alice Walker
29. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)
Audre Lorde

30.In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose

(1983)
Alice Walker

31. Sister Outsider (1984)

Audre Lorde

32. The Handmaid's Tale ( 1985)

Margaret Atwood

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Judith Butler

35. Sexual/Textual Politics, (1991)

Toril Moi

36. Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)

Alice Walker

37. Becoming the Third Wave (1992)

Rebecca Walker

38. Ain't She Still a Woman?(1999)

bell hooks
39. The Whole Woman, (1999) Germaine Greer

21th century

1. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for

Education...(2013)
Malala Yousafzai & Christina

2. We Should All Be Feminist (2014)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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1. The Advancement and Refomation of Modern Poetry.

{1701}

2. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry✓✓

{1704}
3. A Large Account of the Taste in Poetry
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John Dennis{29,30,31}
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5. An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision

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6. .Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

{1710}
George Berkeley {33,34}

7..An Essay on Criticism✓✓ (poem)

{1711}
Alexander Pope

8. On the Pleasures of the Imagination (Spectator Essays)

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Joseph Addison

9. The Art of Political Lying

{1712}
Jonathan Swift & John Arbuthnot

10. The Complete Art of Poetry

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11. An Essay on Man (poem)

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Alexander Pope

12. Treatise of Human Nature

{1738}
David Hume

13. A Dictionary of the English Language ✓✓

{1755}
Samuel Johnson.

14. The Natural History of Religion Of the Passions

15. Of Tragedy
16. Of the Standard of Taste
{1757}
David Hume
{Four Dissertations: A Collection of Four Essays}

17. . A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our ldeas of

the Sublime and Beautiful
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18. Conjectures on Original Composition

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19. "A City Night-Piece"

20. "The Present State of Polite Learning"

{1759}
Oliver Goldsmith[48,49]

21. An Essay on the Study of Literature

{1761}
Edward Gibbon
22. Social Contract Theory
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
{1762}

23 .Preface to Shakespeare✓✓
Dr Samuel Johnson
{1765}

24. Thoughts on the Present Discontents

{1770}
Edmund Burke
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25. Common Sense

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Thomas Paine
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26. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets✓✓

{1779}
Samuel Johnson

27.. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

{1779}
David Hume

28. Critique of Pure Reason

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29. Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
{1785}
30. Cntique of Practical Reason
{1788}
31. Critique of Judgment
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Immanuel Kant[57,58,59,60]

32. Reflections on the Revolution in France✓✓

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33. Rights of Man

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34. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman✓✓

{1792}
Mary Wollstonecraft

35.The Marriage of Heaven or Hell✓✓

{1793}
William Blake

36. Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man

{1794}
Friedrich Schiller

37. Critical Fragments Athenaeum Fragments On

Incomprehensibility
{1798}
Friedrich Schlegel

38. An Essay on the Principle of Population

{1798}
Thomas Robert Malthus

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40. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads✓✓

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{1800}
William Wordsworth.

41. On Naive and Sentimental Poetry

{1800}
Friedrich Schiller.

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1. Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads {1802}✓✓

William Wordsworth

2. An Essay on the Principles of Human Action {1805}

William Hazlitt

3. The Age of Reason {1807}

Thomas Paine

4. Tales from Shakespeare {1807}

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6. A Descriptive Catalogue {1809}

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7. Lectures on Shakespeare{ 1810}

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8. On the Tragedies of Shakespeare{1811}

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10. On the Principles of Genial Criticism{1814}
11. The Statesman's Manual{1816}
12. Biographia Literaria{1817}✓✓
Samuel Taylor Coleridge {10,11,12}

13. The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature,

Men, and Manners{1817}
William Hazlitt & Leigh Hunt

14. Characters of Shakespear's Plays{1817}

William Hazlitt

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16. The Paradox of Acting{1820}

Denis Diderot

17.The Four Ages of Poetry{1820}

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18. A Tragic Incident at Ravenna{1820}

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19.The Confessions of an English Opium Eater{1821}✓✓

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William Hazlitt

21. Essays of Elia{1823}

Charles Lamb

22. The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers{1823}

Charles Lamb

23.My First Acquaintance with Poets{1823}

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26. The Spirit of the Age{1825}

William Hazlitt
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1. John Gower's poem, "Confessio Amantis' is known as 'an encyclopedia of

the art of love' and it was written in English East-Midland dialect.

2. William Caxton printed the first book, History of Troy' in English in 1974.
He himself has written this book. He was basically a merchant.

3. The true import of the clerk's tale in The Canterbury Tales' is 'that man
must learn to endure adversity with courage and understanding'.

4. Through "The Battle of Agincourt (1415)', England's supremacy in Europe

was established and Henry V became a symbol of the national glory.

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7. The Thistle and the Rose' and The Golden Targe' are two allegories of
William Dunbar.

8. Sir John Lindsay's "The Satire of the Three Estates' is remarkable for
reformist zeal.

9. The first tragedy of Senecan School to be written in England was

'Gorbuduc' or Ferrex and Porrex' by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton.
Blank verse is used for the first time for dramatic purposes in it.

10. George Gascoigne's Jocasta' is an important Senecan tragedy.

11. The greatest shortcoming of 15th century poetry was poor versification.

12. John Skelton satirized the vice of the clergy in his 'Book of Colin Clout'.

13. The best of John Heywood's interludes or farces was The Four P's'.
14. Gavin Douglas was the first translator of Virgil into English.

15. Ralph Robinson's translation of Thomas More's work, 'Utopia' appeared

in 1551. Utopia' is also known as The Kingdom of Nowhere'.

16. The Tale of Melibens' in "The Canterbury Tales' was told by Geoffrey
Chaucer himself.

17. The authorized version of bible is based on the translation made by

William Tyndale.

18. John Fisher's works, "The Spiritual Consolation' and "The Ways to
Perfect Religion' were written while he was imprisoned in the Tower of
London. He composed them for the use of his half-sister Elizabeth White,
who was a nun in the Dominican house at Dartford.

19. Both The Prince of Machiavelli' and "The Courtier of Castiglione' are
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21. Miles Coverdale completed the translation of the bible begun by William
Tyndale.

22. Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England from Italy and
Surrey had invented the English form of it. Surey is also noted for translation
of Virgil's two books in a strange meter.

23. The sonnet forms, "The Italian Terza Rima' and 'The Ottava Rima' were
introduced by Wyatt to England.

24. Pathetic fallacy is one of the dominant characteristics of Philip Sidney's

prose romance, "Arcadia

25. The Elizabethan love for picturesque description was inherited from Italy.
26. Thomas Nash is best known as the creator of a new genre, the
picaresque novel.

27. Francis Bacon had borrowed the tem 'essay' from the French writer
Montaigue. He published its first edition in 1597.

28. The greatest demerit of Francis Bacon as an essayist when compared to

Montaigne or Lamb is his lack of personal touch.

29. Francis Bacon is called the first great stylist in English prose. Bacon put
an end to defect of prolixity and diffuseness found in English prose.

30. Michael Drayton is regarded as the first to poetise geography in his

topographical poem, "Ploy- Olbion.

31. Prince Arthur is the hero in Edmund Spenser's poem, "The Fairy Queen,
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34 The Knights undertake dangerous adventures in each book of Edmund

Spenser's epic, "The Faerie Queene' in order to win the favour of their lady
love.

35. John Lyly wrote mostly comedies. He is best known for his book,
"Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit'.

36. Thomas Kyd's play, The Spanish Tragedy' shows conspicuous influence
of Seneca. It is historically important because it foreshadows William
Shakespeare's Hamlet.

37. Christopher Marlowe's tragedies are all one-man tragedies. His all four
great tragedies shares two features in common: They are written in blank
verse and they have a theme of overreaching.
38. George Gascoigne is credited for introducing the first English comedy,
"The Supposes', the first verse satire, The Stel Glass' and the first
translation from the Greek tragedy Jocasta'.

39.The Spenserian poet, Abraham Cowley had said that he became

'irrecoverably a poet' by reading Spenser's "The Faerie Queene' when a boy.

40.In "Euphues' by John Lyly, Naples has been described as a place 'of more
pleasure than profit and yet of more profit than pity'

41. The two gentlemen in the William Shakespeare's comedy, "Two

Gentlemen of Verona' are Valentine and Protens.

42 Queen Elizabeth is Fair Vestal' in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer

Night's Dream', 'Gloriana' in Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queen' and
'Cynthia' in Raleigh's love poem, "The Ocean to Cynthia'.

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marriages in Geoffrey Chaucer's work, 'The Canterbury Tales.

46. E.P. Thompson's magnum opus, "The Making of the English Working
Class' (1963) is a seminal text on the history of the working class. He is also
biographer of William Morris and William Blake.

47. The poem, 'The Owl and the Nightingale is a verse debate ot two birds
who advocate their relative merits.

48..The Ballad of Chevy Chase' is called 'a little epic. It describes the gallant
fight between two lords, Percy of Northumberland' and 'Douglas of
Scotland".

49. Layamon's Brut' is a voluminous poem or 30,000 lines proauced under

French influence. It is a legendary history of England.
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the life and exploits of Sophie Fevvers, a cockney bird
woman, hatched from an egg laid by unknown parents and
ready to develop fully fledged wings.

👉Walter Pater's essays, 'Studies in the History of

Renaissance' provoked widespread public debate due to his
supposed advocacy of aesthetic hedonism.
👉In Thomas Hardy's novel, The Woodlander', Hintock Wood
is presented as somehow expressive of the unfulfilled
intention which makes life what it is.

👉RL Stevenson's novel, 'Kidnapped' and its sequel,

'Catriona' are set in 18th century Scotland.

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👉May Sinclair's novel, 'Mary Oliver: A Life' traces the

expanding consciousness of a middle-class girl, the youngest
child in a family of boys.

👉Colin MacInnes The London Novels/London Trilogy' is

about the dissenting, anarchic and constantly shifting youth
culture in the 1950's.

👉EMForster s novel, 'Maurice' examines taboos especially

homosexuality, about a relationship between two men. It is
posthumously published novel.

👉EM Forster's novel, 'A Passage to India' was published in

1924 following a period in which he had acted as secretary
and companion to Maharaja of Dewas Senior.

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contemporary French poetry, had impressed T S Eliot in his
early career.

👉 James Joyce's novel, 'Dubliners' is a collection of fifteen

stories.
👉Prostitutes are the Nightingales of the T S Eliot's poem,
'Sweeny Among the Nightingales'

👉TS Eliot's poem, "Hippopotamus' is a satire on the church.

👉TS Eliot wrote poems in 1927-30 which are called Ariel
poems. They are published as a series of illustrated poems
by the publishing firm Faber and Gwyer. These poems are
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fisher community through the story of pathetic character
Maurya.
👉 Eugene lonesco's play, The Chairs' shows emptiness of
existence by representing empty chairs.

👉Shangri-la is the name of the Tibetan mountain retreat

described in James Hilton's novel, 'The Lost Horizon'

👉 Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah' is a five part play

which is supposed to trace the history of a mankind.

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old glory of his ancestors.

👉The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on William

Shakespeare's The Tempest', is a long poem by W. H Auden.
The poem is a series of dramatic monologues spoken by the
characters in William Shakespeare's play after the end of the
play itself.
👉Lawrence Durrell was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He
is the author of the overtly erotic, "The Black Book: An Agon'.
He is deeply influenced by the American novelist Henry Miller

👉Aldous Huxley described his experiences of India in the

travel book, 'Jesting Pilate,

👉According to Matthew Amold, High Seriousnes is the

lacuna in Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry.

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was impressionism.

👉 In his doctrine of the 'Objective Correlative', TS Eliot

follows the theory and practice of the Symbolists.
👉 Naturalism is the term used by Emile Zola and other
French writers to distinguish their methods from the realism
of Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert.

👉Margaret Hale is the central woman character in Elizabeth

Gaskell's novel, North and South'. On the request of Charles
Dickens, Gaskell changed the title of the work from Margaret
Hale to North and South.

👉The second volume of John Ruskin's book on art, 'Modern

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for money.

👉Anthony Trollope's satirical and the longest novel, The

Way We Live Now' was inspired by the financial scandals of
the early 1870s.
👉The Pied Piper of Hamelin is Robert Browning's children's
poem. It tells of a story of the town of Hamelin infested with
rats. The Pied Piper comes to Hamelin and tells the Mayor
that he will get rid of the rats for 'a thousand guilders'

👉 Robert Browning wrote his tragedy, 'Strafford' at the

earnest request of one of the great Victorian actors, W. C.
Macready.

👉Chewtham is the first lover of Dorothea whom she rejects

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tragedy, 'John Woodvil.

👉William Morris' book, 'Sigurd the Volsung' is an epic of the

old Northern warrior who had defied death and fate. Morris
claimed in the preface that he thought it equal to the great
tale of Troy. It is divided in four books and covers the 13th
century Norse text Völsungasaga.

👉Robert Browning reflects his love for poetry in the poems

like "Fra Lippo Lippi' & 'Andrea Del Sarto'.

👉The White Ship', 'Sister Helen' & Eden Bower' are the
famous ballads of D.G. Rossetti.

👉Aurey Beadrsley, the leader of the Decadent Movement,

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Algermon Swinburne and Ezra Pound.

👉George Eliot's novel, 'The Mill on the Floss' is looked upon

as spiritual autobiography. The novel is divided into seven
books and loss of innocence is its major theme.
👉The title of the third essay, 'Qui Judicatis Terram' in John
Rukin's essay and book on economy, 'Unto This Last' has
been taken from Dante.

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📝Matthew Arnold called Joseph Addison's prose 'Attic' and

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📝 Nicholas Rowe's play, "The Fair Penitent' is the stage

adaptation of Philip Massinger and Nathan Field's tragedy,
"The Fatal Dowry

📝 Bilfil is Squire Allwothy's nephew who conspires against

him in Henry Fielding's novel, "Tom Jones
📝James Thomson can be called first poet of the Romantic
Revival.
📝Friday is Robinson Crusoe's companion on the island. The
novel is based on the true story of a shipwrecKed seaman
Alexander Selkirk.

📝Croaker is a laughable character in Oliver Goldsmith 's

play, 'Good Natured Man.

📝 Tobias Smollett's "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle' is

his longest novel.

📝 Molière, a French playwright and actor, influenced

Restoration Comedy.

📝Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Criticism' shows an influence

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by the discovery of some fifty urns in the neighbourhood
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📝John Dryden's All for Love' is a transitional play showing

the features of both, the heroic play and the sentimental
tragedy.

📝John Dryden wrote the poem, 'Astrae Redux in celebration

of the restoration of Charles II
📝Dr Samuel Johnson begins his 'Lives of the Poets' with
Abraham Cowley. In the life of Cowley, Dr Johnson applied
the term Metaphysical School of Poets.

📝John Milton's tragedy, "Samson Agonistes is taken from

the biblical book, "Book of Judges. It is a tragedy

on the Greek model. It is published in the same volume as his

epic Paradise Regained in 1671.
📝The journey in John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress is
undertaken in ten stages
📝The first usage of the term Post-Modernism is attributed
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📝John Davidson will be remembered as a writer of ballads.
📝" the more realistic you are, the less real you are". Kipling
is famous for using it.

📝GB Shaw is considered half-hearted rationalist.

📝The Years' is one of the longest novel of Virginia Woolf.
📝D.H. Lawrence's novella, "The Man Who Died' was
originally a story titled, "The Escaped Cook
The Rainbow' deals with three generations of a single family
and focuses on the individual's growth and fulfilment within
the confinine strictures of English social life. The novel,
women in Love is its sequel
📝Wendhanm Lewis's modernist novel, Tarr" presents two
artists, and their struggles with money, women, and social
situations
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Wednesday' and 'Four Quartets.

📝The opening lines of TS Eliot's early poem, The Death of

Saint Narcissus' were incorporated into The Waste Land'
📝In 1918, T S Eliot proclaimed James Joyce 'the best living
prose writer' and he described "Scylla and Charybdis'
section of the novel, 'Ulysses' as almost the finest I have
read: I have lived on it ever since I read it.
📝The title of Evelyn Waugh's novel, 'A Handful of Dust'
reveals his debt to the bleakness of T. S. Eliot's poem, "The
Waste Land'.
📝 In Aldous Huxley's novel, 'Eyeless in Gaza', a dead dog
drops from an aeroplane and bloodily explodes on a fat roof
where the hero is making love.😄
📝Stephen Spender quoted 29 lines of William Wordsworth's
The Prelude' in his autobiography, 'World Within World'.
📝Monica Ali's novel, 'Brick Lane' depicts the plight of the
Bangladeshi immigrants in East London.

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📝Rose Macaulay's novel, "The World My Wilderness"' uses

quotation from T s Eliot's poem, "The Waste Land.
📝Graham Greene has been powerfully drawn to Africa by
reading as a boy Rider Haggard's novel, 'King Solomon's
Mines'.

📝 Scobie is the suicidal protagonist of the Graham Greene's

novel, "The Heart of the Matter .
📝Anthony Powell's novel in twelve volumes, 'A Dance to the
Music of Time' is compared to Marcel Proust's novel in seven
volumes, 'In Search of Lost Time (French: A la recherche du
temps perdu)".

📝Angus Wilson's novels are essentially comedies of

manners.
📝 Irish Murdoch's novel, "The Bell'takes its title from the
convent bell which bears the inscription 'Vox ego sum amons
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📝"The Medium is the Message' is a concept given by

Marshal McLuhan.

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Report", named after the Chair, Board of Education, Sir
Henry Newbolt.

📝In 1722, the Crown awarded a certain English merchant

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Wood a patent to manufacture copper coins for Ireland.

Jonathan Swift intervened by way of composing a series of
letters in response, better known as The Drapier's Letters.
📝"While the world moves
In appentency on its metalled way Of time past and time
future ...

These lines are from Eliot's "Burnt Norton" in Four Quarters

(1936).

📝A basement room. Two beds, flat against the back wall. A

serving hatch, closed, between the beds. A door to the

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📝Shakespearean Actors
O David Garrick from 18th century
O John Gielgud from 20th century

O Henry Irving from the 19th century

O Thomas Betterton from The Restoration period

📝" In his "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the

Human Sciences," Derrida is all praise for the bricoleur whom
Levi-Strauss sees as a supreme methodologist, "someone
who uses 'the means at hand" Here Levi-Strauss contrasts
bricoleur with engineer in terms of method and approach.

📝"Heinrich Boll has something to say, and not of course

merely something about the Germans. He says it several
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These lines are from D. J. Enright's "Three New Germans".

📝Michel Foucault's earlier "archaeological" study is found in

The Birth of the Clinic (1963 in French and 1973 in English).

📝 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is widely recognized as a

masterpiece. It is also one of the finest examples of coming-
of-age novel.
📝Mulk Raj Anand wrote Coolie.
📝Premashram was written by Premchandra.
📝Raja Rao wrote The Cat and Shakespeare.
📝The following extract is taken from Sheridan's play The
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her day. To my knowledge she has been the cause of six
matches being broken off and three sons disinherited, of four
forced elopements

📝Lady Sneerwell: She certainly has talents but her manner

is gross.
📝Franz Kafka has not been discussed by Simone de Beavoir
in "The Myth of Woman in Five Authors" in The Second Sex.
Some of them discussed are Montherlant, Lawrence and
Stendhal.

📝In a collection of essays Other Colors (2007), Orhan

Pamuk shares how he writes his novels, tells about his
friendship with his daughter, talks about his loneliness and
happiness.

📝Two plays Larin Sahib by Gurcharan Das and Doongaji

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Indian plays in English.
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📝Morris West, Patrick White and Thomas Keneally are

Australian
authors but Bill Pearson is an American writer.

📝After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand wrote a number of

semiautobiographieal works to narrate chunks of his own life
through a fictional persona. The name he gave this persona
is Krishan Chander.
"What a mockery this
Of history, the past and that to come!
Now do I feel how all men are deceived, Reading of nations
and their, in faith,
Faith given to vanity and emptiness ...

📝The above extract is from Prelude by Wordsworth Book 9

Residence in France.

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📝In More's Utopia, the fictional traveller Raphael

Hythloday's second name in Greek means dispenser of
nonsense.

📝 "You do not dwell in me nor I in you however much I

pander to your name"

These lines are from Geoffrey Hill's "Lachrimae" addressed

to the Christ.
📝The author of Black Skin, White Masks is Franz Fanon.
📝K. S. Maniam has written the novel The Return.
📝R. S. Crane is a well-known Neo-Aristotelian critic.
📝The act of reading a text is both determinate and
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📝Girish Karnad's Hayavadana, originally in Kannada, has

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been translated into English by the playwright himself.

📝Edward Said's well-known book Orientalism was published

in 1978.

📝"To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. William

📝Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us" is an ode
composed by Ben Jonson.

📝Call me Ishmael Tonight is written by Agha Shahid Ali

📝"All fiction for me is a kind of magic or trickery - a
confidence trick." The statement has been made by Angus
Wilson.

📝H.L. Mencken invented the term Bible Belt.

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Yes Man was created by Jack Conway.

📝We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret

things. ..... Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. These lines are from
Jacques Derrida's epigraph to his "Structure, Sign and Play in
the Discourse of the Human Sciences".

📝In Mann's Death in Venice, death of the protagonist occurs

in a beach.
📝Two poets Olivier Goldsmith and George Crabbe wrote
the "Village" poems that address the perennial theme of rural
poverty.

📝Yeats developed his theory of 'gyres' in his book A Vision

(1925).

📝Flowers is a short play written by Girish Karnad.

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📝When we rewrite a piece of discourse from one script into

another, it is called transliteration.

📝"No wonder then" from Adrienne Rich's "A Valediction

Forbidding Mourning" means "No wonder that you now find
the words menacing".
📝The term "womanism" was first used by Alice Walker in
Color Purple.

📝The following characters are matched with the respective

work in which they appear.
D Lady Dedlock - Dickens' Bleak House

O Lady Bertram - Austen's Mansfield Park

O Lady Harriet - Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters

O Lady Jane - Thackeray's Vanity Fair
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Since
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Written"
📝The above extract is taken from Italo Calvino's If on a
Winter's Night a Traveller.

📝Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is based on Charles Dickens's

Great Expectations.

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📝J.M. Coetzee's Foe is based on Daniel Defoe's Robinson
Crusoe.

📝 The correct chronological order: Volpone by Jonson - The

Duchess of Malfi by Webster - A Game of Chess Middleton -
The City Madam Philip Massinger.

📝'Nasal tone' in speech is a distinguishing feature of

American English.
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📝The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward

Gibbon is a significant work in six volumes.

📝The first novel written by Graham Greene is The Man

Within (1929). The other novels are Stamboul Train (1932),
England Made Me (1935), Brighton Rock (1938), Power and
the Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948), and End of
the Affair (1951).
📝From among the Canterbury pilgrims, The Knight, The
Squire and The Prioress belong to the 'upper-class'.

📝Plagiarism is a well-known word and concept in academic

circles. The word plagiarius in Latin, however, meant a
trickster, a cheat.

📝Raphael sets himself up as the 'Knight' with a pestle

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📝Hellenism - Hebraism is coined by Matthew Arnold in his
chapter four of Culture and Anarchy.

📝Inscape - Instress is used by G. H. Hopkins

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📝 In King Lear, Edgar speaks in the voice of Poor Tom.

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📝In Wordsworth's Prelude, the Boy of Winander is affected

by Muteness.

📝St. Magnus Martyr, St. Mary Woolnoth, Lower Thames

Street, Queen Victoria Street, King William Street and the
London bridge are mentioned by their names in The Waste
Land.
📝The Quiet American (1955) is an anti-war novel by Graham
Greene.

📝After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Good Morning, Midnight and

Wide Sargasso Sea are novels written by Jean Rhys.

📝The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary

history was John Dryden who succeeded William Davenant in
1670 till 1688.

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Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,

Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,

Stranger to civil and religious rage,

The good man walked innoxious through his age ...

📝The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to Charles

Darwin.
📝 In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Piggy maintains,
"Life is scientific".

📝Structural Anthropology of Claude Levi Strauss included

The Raw and the Cooked (1964).

📝Chaucer's Pardoner makes his living by selling

indulgences to those who committed sins.

📝Coleridge's companion Robert Southey invited the former

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📝Tono-Bungay (1909) by H.G. Wells is about the condition

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of England as Empire.

📝Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is an autobiography.

📝Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of
Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit are romantic
comedies centered around the themes of love and laughter.
📝Abraham Cowley wrote a poem comparing a lover's heart
to a hand grenade.

📝The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to Werner

Heisenberg. Jabberwocky is a creation in Lewis Carroll's
work Through the Looking Glass.

📝Didi and Gogo are nicknames given, respectively, for

Vladimir and Estragon.
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📝Chaucer wrote nine legends of good women in his The

Legend of Good Women.

📝The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by

William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt.
📝Dylan Thomas is associated with the group The New
Apocalypse.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the
inevitable hour
The paths of glory lead but to the grave ...
📝Here Hour is the subject of awaits. These lines are from
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray.

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Congreve.

📝The old order changeth, yielding place to new" is from

Idylls of the King by Tennyson.

📝The Inheritors by William Golding, The Magus by John

Fowles and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein are
examples of fantasy fiction.
📝The History Man is a campus novel by the British author
Malcolm Bradbury set in 1972 in the fictional seaside town of
Watermouth
in the South of England. Watermouth bears some
resemblance to Brighton.

📝The Magus is a postmodern novel by the British author

John Fowles, telling the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young
British graduate who is teaching English on a small Greek
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📝Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a book by Ernst Cassirer

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which argues that man is a symbolic animal.

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📝Spenser is a kind of English Homer, telling stories of

heroic confrontations. He fashioned an original verse form:
The Spenserian Stanza. He did not oppose England's break
with the Roman Catholic Church. He is a Christian poet.

📝William Blake developed the ideas of "Prolifics" and

"Devourers" in Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
📝Surrealism is associated with Andre Breton.
📝"And miles to go before I sleep" is a line from a poem by
Robert Frost.

📝"The Disquieting Muses" by Sylvia Plath, "The Starry

Night" by Anne Sexton, "Mournin Picture" by Adrienne Rich
and "Muse des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden are inspired by
paintings.
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📝"All rising to a great place is by a winding staire." This line

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is from Francis Bacon's essay "Of Great Place".

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📝In Jeremy Collier's 1698 pamphlet attacking the

immorality and profaneness of the English stage, John
Vanbrugh was the principal target.

📝Charles Dickens's visit to the United States produced

Martin Chuzzlewit.
📝Tony Harrison is a working-class poet.
📝New Science is a work associated with Giambattista Vico.
📝Petrarch's sonnet sequence is Rime Sparse.
📝The island setting of Latmos figure in Keats's Endymion.
The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by
Charles Baudelaire.
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📝Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political

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📝"My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With thy
green mother in some shady groove" (William Drummond )

The above quote is an example of a run-on line.

📝The Vision of Judgment (1822) by Lord Byron is a satire in

Ottava rima, attacking George III and Robert Southey.
📝Here's a famous exchange from Arthur Conan Doyle's The
Adventure of Silver Blaze:

'Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my

attention?'

📝'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time'

'The dog did nothing in the night-time'

"That was the curious incident.'

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📝These lines are from Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed

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Youth".

📝 In Aphra Behn's Oronooko, the titular character dies by

being cut into pieces slowly by the executioner.

📝Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat is a meticulous, present-

tense account of a woman with a death-wish. She plots the
plan of her own violent murder.
📝The library where the Battle of Books takes place is King's
Library.

📝In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the first scene finds Oedipus

in a conversation with a priest.

📝John Lyly was Shakespeare's contemporary who did not

write tragedies.

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📝The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, tells the story

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📝Thomas Babington Macaulay, the writer of the infamous

Minute of 1835, finds a mention in Salman Rushdie's The
Moor's Last Sigh.

📝The issue of privileging speech over writing was taken up

for
discussion in Plato's Phaedrus.
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📝In one of her novels, The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood demonstrated
the potentially 'cannibalistic' nature of human relationships.

📝Rajkumar is from The Glass Palace by Ghosh.

📝Tripid is from The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Murugan is from The
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📝Plays by Badal Sircar are Bhooma, Evam Indrajeet and That Other History.
📝The play Agra Bazar is by Habib Tanvir.
📝Jaya is the protagonist of Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence.
📝In Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain, Makak's vision of
freedom for his people is through a decolonisation of the mind.
📝Spivak sees the project of colonialism as characterized by what Foucault
had called 'epistemic violence', the imposition of a given set of beliefs over
another. Spivak suggests that participation in the political process - access
to citizenship, becoming a voter - will help to mobilize the subaltern on "the
long road to hegemony.

📝Our Sister Killjoy or Reflection from a Black Eyed Squint (1977) is written
by Ghanian author Ama Ata Aidoo.

📝Joys of Motherhood (1979) is a novel by the Nigerian author Buche

Emecheta.

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Thiongo.
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Gordimer.

📝Langston Hughes wrote Don't You want to be Free? (1937).

📝Amiri Baraka wrote Dutchman (1964).
📝Lorraine Hansberry wrote Raisin in the Sun (1959).
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📝Clara's Ole Man is a play written by Ed Bullins in 1965.
Religious controversies in England particularly during the 15th century led to
the promotion of English prose.

📝Ian McEwan suggests the fragility of love through his fiction, Arnold
Wesker wrote the Roots in 1958.

📝Jumpers (1972) is written by Tom Stoppard.

📝Harold Pinter wrote The Room in 1957.
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📝Most culinary terms in English are derived from French cooking.

📝 Blended learning is a mode of instruction/learning in which a variety of
instructional modes are integrated.

📝'Risk-taking' is one of the traits of a good language learner. A teaching

method advocated by Dr. Georgia Lozanav which is based on the principle of
'joy and easiness' is called Suggesto paedia.
📝Albert Camus, in his essay, "The Myth of Sisyphus" conveys the absurdity
of human existence, the futility of all human endeavour and the concept of
existentialism.

📝"In The Portrait of a Lady, Gilbert Osmond marries Isabel Archer because
Osmond wanted to get hold of Isabel's property. He loved her. Though he did
not like her moral ideas about many things in life, he had hoped to win her
over.

📝U. R. Ananthamurthy's novel Samskara is a satire on the representatives

of a decadent Brahmin society. Samskara is a regional novel.

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to the mythic characters/ figures Adonais and Hercules.

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📝Girish Karnad bases his play Hayavadana on Thomas Mann's Transposed

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Heads. It is a mock-heroic transcription of the original Sanskrit tales.

📝Heartbreak House was written by George Bernard Shaw in 1920.

📝John Galsworthy wrote Loyalties in 1922.
📝In the Jungle of Cities is written by Bertolt Brecht in 1923. The Family
Reunion is written by T.S. Eliot in 1939.
📝In November 1910 in an exhibition Manet And the PostImpressionist,
organized by Roger Fry, the paintings of three painters Cezanne, Van Gogh,
Gauguin were displayed.

📝Phaedra, the wife of Theseus, commits suicide by hanging herself

because her stepson, Hippolytus rejected her love. Theplay Hippolytus by
Euripides was later adapted by Eugene O'Neill in his play Desire Under the
Elms in 1924.

📝Seamus Heaney is a poet in whose verse rural Ulster figures prominently.

📝Alexander Dumas wrote The Count of Monte Christo in 1845.
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📝Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert was published in 1856.

📝The Human Comedy is written by Honore de Balzac.
📝Anna Karenina by Tolstoy was published in 1877. Among her most
prominent qualities are her passionate spirit and determination to live life on
her own terms. She is a victim of the Russian patriarchal system. Anna is
deeply devoted to her family and children.
📝Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita (1955).
📝Germinal is a novel by French author Emile Zola written in 1885.
📝Foucault's Pendulum is a novel written by an Italian writer Umberto Eco in
1988.

📝If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (1979) is written by the Italian writer Italo
Calvino.

📝Clouds by Aristophanes is an attack on 'modern' education and morals as

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Aristotle - Poetics

Quintillian - Institutio Oratoria

Ben Jonson - Discoveries

Longinus - On the Sublime

Sidney - An Apology for Poetry

Dryden - An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

📝Imagist poetry -- The poet spreads his language across the page as
though language were sensation, to reproduce the mental effect of 'image.
The image is itself an instrument of vision, or lens, as well as an expression
of imagination. The new artist as scientist focuses vision through image as
against the symbol which resorts to reduction to simplicity.

📝The myth critics are Robert Graves, Francis Fergusson and Northrop
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📝John Osborne and Kingsley Amis are "Angry Young Men" of the 1950's
British literary scene.

📝Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy contains nine volumes.

📝Milton's Areopagitica was published in 1644. It argues for the liberty of
Unlicensed Printing. It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.
📝Thomas Hardy's last major novel was Jude the Obscure.
📝The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country Mouse
and the City Mouse is a satire on John Dryden written by Mathew Prior.

📝Apollonian - Dionysian is coined by Friedrich Nietzsche in The Birth of

Tragedy (1872).

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🤳 D. H. Lawrence popularized the concept of primitivismoin his novels.
🤳Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920.
🤳George Eliot's attempt to write a historical novel Romola
(1863) about the Italian Renaissance was not successful.

🤳Scott is known for the creation of mad, irrational witch-like

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🤳Joseph Addison called Isaac Newton "The Miracle of the

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present age".

🤳Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph for the monument erected

in Newton's memory.

🤳The play Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer was first

performed in 1773. The author asked a friend "Did it make you
laugh?" and getting the answer "Exceedingly" said then that was
all he required. He used for plot a reputed experience of his own
as a schoolboy when he lost his way and asked to be directed to
an inn but was shown the gateway to the local squire's house.

🤳Johnson's opinion regarding the "Violation" of the three

unities in the plays of Shakespeare are that he followed the
important Unity of Action satisfactorily and Unity of Time and
Place arise from false assumptions.

🤳The Tatler appeared thrice a week On Tuesdays, Thursdays

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test of greatness is the page of history. Nothing can be said to

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be great that has a distinct limit, or that borders on something

evidently greater than itself. Besides, what is shortlived and
pampered into mere notoriety, is of a gross and vulgar quality in
itself.

This passage describing the quality of greatness is taken from

"The Indian Jugglers" by William Hazlitt.
🤳In Blake's "The Human Abstract", the fragmented world of
Experience is symbolized in the image of the Fruit of Deceit.

🤳"Psychology and Art Today" (1935) is written by W. H. Auden.

👉The following works are matched with their respective

playwrights.

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🤳 Antonio's Revenge (1600) - John Marston

🤳The Changeling (1622) - Thomas Middleton and William
Rowley.

🤳Though Coleridge refers to "Motive hunting of a motiveless

malignity", the "human villain" lago is far from "motiveless". His
motives are he has been disappointed of military promotion and
he suspects Othello of cuckolding him.

🤳In 'The Prologue' to Dr. Faustus, the chorus proposes that the
theme should be "cursed necromancy" and "self-conceit". The
centre of his plays is a proud character on Marlowe's model,
with a bold licence in speech and action, full of elaborate
metaphors, phrase tumbling after phrase, as he asserts himself
in the French Court.

🤳 Dryden unjustly described his style as "a dwarfish thought,

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playwright George Chapman.
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🤳In Paradise Lost Book IX, Milton writes that Adam was
overcome with "female charm" and so ate the forbidden fruit
against his "better knowledge".

🤳In "The Good Morrow", a poem of Donne, the lover's face is

reflected in the eyes of his beloved.
🤳Thomas Otway wrote The Orphan, or the Unhappy Marriage
(1680). John Vanbrugh wrote The Provok'd Husband.

🤳William Wycherley wrote The Country Wife (1675).

🤳George Farquhar wrote The Recruiting Officer (1706).
🤳In the novel Wuthering Heights, the hero driven by passion
and revenge, add a new dimension to the concept of suffering.
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🤳In the Prologue, the Parson is represented as a man who

criticized the corrupt clergy, and practiced what he preached.
He was a poor but honest clerk.

🤳Vittoria Corombona is a character from White Devil by

Webster.
🤳Hieornimo is a character from The Spanish Tragedie by
Thomas Kyd.

🤳Old Knowell is a character from Every Man in his Humour by

Jonson.

🤳The character Aspatia is from Maids Tragedy by Francis

Beaumont and John Fletcher.

🤳When Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch and

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🤳The following characters from Spenser's Faerie Queene

represent the respective virtues.

Una - Truth

Guyon - Temperance
Duessa - Deceit

Orgoglio - Pride.

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Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nap caught
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"Consume my heart away; sick with desire/ And fastened to a

dying animal."

🤳The above lines are taken from "Sailing to Byzantium" by

Yeats.
🤳Hugh Sykes Dykes, David Gascoyne and Kenneth Allot are
surrealist poets.

🤳The protagonist returns with an admonition, the diamond sent

to him for smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe. This
scene occurs in the novel The Heart of the Matter by Graham
Greene.

🤳The books in Samuel Beckett's trilogy published together in

London in 1959 under the English title are Molloy, Malone Dies,
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🤳Yasmine Gooneratne's "The Pleasures of Conquest", termed

as a postcolonial novel of the nineties, is ironically enough set in
the tropical island nation of Amnesia.

🤳Meena Alexander is an internationally acclaimed poet,

scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India
and Sudan, Alexander lives and works in the New York City.
🤳Aurora Leigh is a poem in nine books by Elizabeth Barrett
Browning in blank verse.
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📝According to Barthes, a text which draws attention to its

artifice, to the ways in which it is structured, is called a
writerly text. He states this in "Pleasure of the Text" in S/Z.

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📝Michael Ondaatje wrote Anil's Ghost.

📝Cyril Dabydeen wrote Drums of My Flesh.
📝Dryden's dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled The
State of Innocence.
📝Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet's Sexual
Politics and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch, were
published in 1970.

📝Coleridge in Table Talk defines poetry as 'the best words

in the best order.

📝When Thomas Carlyle says, "Close thy Byron; open thy

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📝Conrad's Heart of Darkness presents two conflicting

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discourses present in his own culture. They are Anti-

colonialism and Eurocentricism.

📝Robert Frost defined free verse as playing tennis without a

net.

📝Pope's The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic poem,

written in heroic couplets and produced in two versions,
consisting of 2 and 5 cantos.

📝The 'Vulgate Bible' was prepared to make the Bible

available to the common men.

📝Literary works such as Charles Dickens's David

Copperfield, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh and James
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man provide
examples of the Bildugsroman in the novelistic form.

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stanzas.

📝In the Fall of Hyperion, Keats's Muse figure is Moneta.

📝Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel best captures a sense
of the political turmoil particularly regarding the issue of
religion just after the Restoration.
📝George Eliot has described herself as an agnostic.
📝Preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth was
written by Jean Paul Sartre.

📝Horace formulated the concept of the utile dulci, profit

combined with delight in Ars Poetica.

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📝"The just man justices" is an example of the syntactic.

📝A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable is
trochee.
📝An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable is
iambic.

📝A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables is

dactylic.

📝Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable is

anapestic. The separation of styles in accordance with class
appears more consistently in Shakespeare than in the
medieval works of literature and art.
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were no crime."

This statement is an example of Irony.

📝A Spenserian stanza has eight iambic pentameters.

📝"The greatness of a poet", Arnold says, "lies in his
powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life". But T. S.
Eliot pointed out it was "not a happy way of putting it, as if
ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering
humanity".

📝Derrida's American disciples were Geoffrey Hartman, Paul

de Man, and J. Hills Miller.

📝Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe and Hope are theatres of

England.

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The above lines are spoken by Othello to Brabantio, Roderigo

and Officers.

📝Act V of Marlowe's Edward the Second shows the murder

of the king. It takes place in a room in the Berkeley Castle.

The 📝Shepheards Calender - 1579

📝Tottel's Miscellany - 1557
📝Astrophel and Stella - 1591
📝The Spanish Tragedie - about 1585
📝The Life and Death of Mr. Badman is written by John
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📝Sylva: or A Discourse of Forest Trees is written by John

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📝Nature's Pictures is written by Margaret Cavendish.

📝Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson is written by
Lucy Hutchinson.

📝But deeds, and language, such as men do use; And

persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would
show an image of the time, and sport with human follies, not
with crime.

📝In the above lines, Jonson in Every man in his Humour,

opposes the artificiality of the romantic tragic-comedy. He
initiates the use of realism.

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"And if no piece of chronicle we prove,

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"That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me."

(Paradise Lost, Book I)

The 'glory' is being referred to by Satan as "The courage

never to submit or yield".
📝The novel Tristram Shandy, published in 1760, has been
described as a "novel without predecessors", the product of
an original mind and became immediately popular. It is a
peculiar blend of pathos

📝Samuel Richardson is the son of a joiner and he was

apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer throughout
his life. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters
for those who could not write for themselves. This humble
task taught him the art of expressing himself in letters.

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📝Mirabell deceives Lady Wishfort into believing that he

loves her in The Way of the World.

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"Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry
supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had. We
must ride where we formerly walked: live better and be softer
and shall be wise to do so than we had means to do in the
good old days you speak of." Lamb says this to Bridget in
"Old China".

📝Wordsworth began writing The Prelude of 14 books as

early as 1799. It was finished in its first version in 1805 and
was not published until 1850. It was his wife who gave the
title.

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"Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight."

This selfish and possessive nature of love is illustrated in

Blake's "The Clod and the Pebble.
📝Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of Maria: or The Wrongs
of Woman.

📝Henry James' theory states that the novel should be

objective, realistic and it should be viewed as an artistic form.

📝Ulysses, Jacob's Room by Woolf and Aaron's Rod by D. H.

Lawrence were written in 1922.

📝A Passage to India by Forster was written in 1924.

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📝In Lord of Flies, Golding inverts the morality of R. M.
Ballantyne's The Coral Island. It involves adventures of three
boys marooned on the South Pacific Island. Two of the
names are repeated in Golding's tale. They are Ralph and
Jack.

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📝 The Last Labyrinth by Arun Joshi - Gargi.
📝 Kanthapura by Rao - Ratna.
📝In spite of being constant in his relationship with Sophia,
Tom is involved in relationships with three other ladies in the
three parts of Tom Jones. They are Molly Seagrim, Mrs.
Westernand Lady Bellaston.

📝Women in Love by Lawrence is greeted with the headlines:

'A book the police should ban; loathsome study of sex
depravity; misleading youth to unspeakable disaster. Its
opening chapter was originally suppressed.

📝In Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn", the key ideas are best
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versus eternal bliss and beauty versus truth, etc.
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📝They bow to other forms of objective authority: the

authority of the past and the authority of social consensus.
They adopt the scientific attitude without the science.

📝In Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Lucky gives two pages of

unpunctuated speech.
📝Laura Mulvey's pioneering essay, "Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema" is an instance of the feminist
appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses Lacan's
concept of the gaze.

📝. Angus Wilson, David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury are

Campus Novelists.

📝The title character of The Stranger by Camus is

Meursault, an Algerian who kills an Arab man. The story,
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theme and outlook of the novel are cited as exemplars of
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📝The Faerie Queene is an epic celebration of Queen

Elizabeth and The Protestant Faith.

📝Pope's The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers and bad

writing. It is a pessimistic commentary on the civilization of
the time. It is about the coronation of Theobald.
📝Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states the following. Each
language presents us with its own categorization of the
universe. Language is a guide to social reality. A language
and the society that uses it interlock.

📝Dante encounters Socrates and Plato in Limbo, the first

circle of hell.

📝Thomas Chatterton is an eighteenth-century English poet

who committed suicide after years of living close to
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you want. But the horses didn't want it - they swerved apart;
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the earth didn't want it."

Through these lines in A Passage to India, Forster suggests

that though Fielding and Aziz want, the horses and the earth
of India do not want the English and the Indians to be friends.

📝An extremely simplified form of a language used as a

contact language among speakers of different languages is a
pidgin.

📝 Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic and novelist, took

sides in the literary squabbles of the 1860s against
Swinburne and the Rossettis. He wrote a review which
introduced the term The Fleshly School of Poetry.

📝The narrator of Piers Plowman falls asleep on the Malvern

hills.

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final sonnet (#108) brings no resolution.

📝Milton opposed the Licensing Act of 1643 with his

Areopagitica.

📝Addison claimed "I have not published a single paper that

is not written in a spirit of benevolence and with a love of
mankind", in his essay "To See Ourselves as Others See Us".
📝A protagonist Tess writes a letter of confession, but it gets
lost under the carpet only to be found on the wedding day.

📝In an age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow

insensitive to subtle joys. The italicised words are an
example of a transferred epithet.

📝In Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, Hale is murdered with

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📝In Lord of the Flies, Simon comes to realize that the 'beast'
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is actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that

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which is breaking things up.

📝Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey and The Way of All

Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler are texts that exemplifies the
antiVictorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century.

📝The abolition of the Lord Chamberlain's office in 1968

allowed mainstream British theatre companies to
commission and perform work that was politically, socially
and sexually controversial without fear of censorship.

📝The Wife of Bath's philosophy of marriage shows that she

is a strong person with keen awareness of her own rights.

📝Ikemefuna is killed in Achebe's Things Fall Apart in

conformity with an African tribal custom.

📝We will do it, I tell you; we will do it. The repetition of a

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📝In the Advancement of Learning, Bacon attempted a

preliminary survey of the entire field of learning, by analyzing
the principal obstacles of Rhetoric, Medieval scholasticism
and Pseudo sciences to its advancement. The one that he
did not mention as an obstacle is Inductive method.
📝In Jane Austen's novels, young male characters are sent
to the University for education. Some of them who went to
the university are Tom Bertram from Mansfield park, John
Thorpe and James Morland from Northanger Abbey.

📝Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling

directness in his portrayal of Thomas Gradgrind.

📝Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco belong

to The Theatre of Absurd.
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Seamus Heaney

📝 "A serious house on serious earth it is" - "Church Going"

by Philip Larkin

📝 "Time held me green and dying" - "Fern Hill" by Dylan

Thomas
📝 "I hold creation in my foot" - "Hawk" by Ted Hughes
📝Onomatopoeia is the use of words whose pronunciation
imitates the sound the word describes.

📝Commedia dell'arte is a form of theatre characterized by

masked types which began in Italy in the 16th century and
was responsible for the advent of the actresses and

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combination of two words: agitation and propaganda. It was

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originally used in Soviet Russia, inspired by a Communist

Party committee called the Department for Agitation and
Propaganda.

📝"Mending Wall", a poem by Robert Frost, deals with

neighbourly relations.

📝 Katherine Susannah Prichard wrote a novel Coonardoo.

📝John Stuart Mill defines 'happiness' as Pleasure and the
absence of pain.

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Victorian ideal of respectable middle-class femininity. The
phrase originated with a popular long poem by Coventry
Patmore.

📝Flaneur is associated with the poetry of Charles

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📝Keki Daruwala describes his "mistress" as "No, she is not

Anglo-Indian.
She is Indian English, the language that I use."

📝Sanctity of the Latin texts of Scriptures, rejection of

Christian principles are primary causative agents of the
Reformation as well as characteristics of Renaissance
humanism.
"Stand up, young woman ... and tell me what sort of a
barbarous people your country folk are, where child-murder
is become so commonplace as to require the restraint of
laws like yours." The queen in Scott's The Heart of Midlothian
is referring to a strange Scottish law according to which if a
woman secretly gives birth to a child and the child is missing
and she has not confided to anyone about her pregnancy,
she is considered guilty of infanticide. New historicist critics
remind us that it is treacherous to reconstruct the past as it
really was - rather than as we have been conditioned by our
own place and time to believe the way it was. They are less

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📝In Sense and Sensibility, Austen portrays an 'excess of

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sensibility' in Marianne and sense in Elinor.

📝Ben Jonson disliked fantastic comedy and wide-ranging

chroniclehistory and stupendous tragedy.

📝In the 1950s and 60s, Baldwin and Ellison returned to the
universal themes and focused on innovations in literary
forms. In the 1930s and 40s, African and American
Literature was mostly preoccupied with protest.
📝In coining the term 'Ecriture feminine', Helene Cixous
signifies a mode of textual production, not necessarily
written by women. She has used James Joyce to justify her
statement.

📝The following are the villainous characters in Jacobean

plays.

De Flores - The Changeling

Luke Frugal - The City Madam

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century in Britain. Abolitionist literature included books
written by the former slaves. Two such writers are Olaudah
Equiano and Mary Prince.

📝Hippolyte Taine published his four-volume History of

English

📝Literature in 1864 based on race, historical moment and

milieu. The two 'mother-figures' in Dickens's Great
Expectations are Miss Havisham and Mrs. Joe.

📝Judith Wright's works primarily focus on the Australian

environment. The major concern is the relationship between
the settlers, the indigenous Australians and the bush. A .
correspondence between inner existence and objective
reality is also visible.

📝Two novels of Anita Desai that were shortlisted for the

Booker Prize are In Custody and Feasting, Fasting.

📝Edward Said discusses two forms of orientalism. They are

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With all the eagerness to know the truths of life, she retained
very childlike ideas about marriage ... the really delightful
marriage must be that when your husband was a sort of a
father, and could even teach you Hebrew, if you wished it ...

📝Here she refers to Dorothea and she is the protagonist of

George Eliot's novel Middlemarch.
📝G. V. Desani's All About H Hatter acted as an influence on
Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style in English.

📝Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho is a novel about

Emily's adventures in the castle of Udolpho, the outcome of
the adventures, her escape and her final union with
Valencourt.

📝In Marxist criticism, the term 'interpellation' defines the

ways in which the subjects of an ideology are placed in false
positions of knowledge regarding themselves.

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shifter, a cheat or a liar.

📝"The death of Gregor Samsa is marked by a slow ebbing

away of life hardly perceptible". This is the ending line of
Kafka's "Metamorphosis".

📝Archetypal criticism accepts as its informing principle that

archetypes are present in all literature and provide the basis
of its interconnectedness. Practitioners include Northrop
Frye and Maud Bodkin.

📝In the sonnet "Death, Be Not Proud", Donne says to death:

"Those whom thou think'st thou dost over-throw/ Die not,
poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
It means Death is not as strong as he thinks he is.

📝In Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi

Pirandello, the stage itself, the symbol of appearance and
reality, becomes the setting of the play.

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📝Badal Sircar's Pagla Ghora is a play about the condition of

women in post-Second World War Bengal. The major
concerns are sexual passion and lack of communication
between men and women.

📝The various symbols used in Girish Karnad's Tughlaq are

associated with Pythons and Vultures.

📝Collocations refer to grouping of words in a sentence.

📝Congreve's The Way of the World was staged in 1700. It
was played at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. It was a
failure on stage. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's Look Back
in Anger displays rebelliousness and restlessness.

The following novels are matched with their major themes.

📝The Heart of Midlothian, Tess of the D'urbervilles -

Infanticide

📝The End of the Affair, The Golden Bowl - Adultery

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dyed in Orlando's blood, Rosalind faints because she is

counterfeiting as sheherself later claims.

📝In Euripides's Medea, the chorus consists of fifteen

Corinthian women who are Medea's next-door neighbours.

📝Mahasweta Devi never received the Commonwealth

Writers Prize. She received Ramon Magsaysay Award,
Jnanpith Award and Padmashri.
📝The Statute of Pleadings makes English the official
language of the English Parliament in 1362.

One power alone makes a poet - 📝The Imagination, The

Divine Vision - William Blake.

📝What the imagination seizes on beauty must be the truth -

Keats.

📝The great instrument of moral good is the imagination -

Shelley.

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📝Tolstoy's War and Peace carries a lengthy discussion of

determinism and free will in its epilogue.

📝Nagamandala by Girish Karnad has multiple narratives. It

is openended. It combines conventional and subversive
modes. The story is personified in the play.

📝The correct chronological order: io

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international cartel. Money is the only criterion for success
for the players in this play's share-market.

📝Eric Arthur Blair is the pseudonym Of the British novelist,

George Orwell. Orwell was conversant in Hindustani and fond
of Indian food.
Young Eric Blair lived in Myanmar's trading town,
Katha. This town gave him the model for the fictional district
of Kyauktada in Burmese Days. Orwell was born on June 25,
1903 in Motihari, Bihar. The Orwell Commemorative
Committee in Motihari has been demanding a restorationof
Orwell's birthplace as a heritage site. Orwell never returned
to his birth place. The British journalist Ian Jack was mainly
responsible for our knowledge of Orwell's antecedents
relating to Katha and Motihari.

📝Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of the common reader

from Dr. Johnson. She remains indebted to The Lives of the
Most Eminent English Poets; the essay on Gray.

📝J. M. Coetzee was the first writer to be awarded the

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📝In Afraid of Virginia Woolf, George and Martha's blue

and green-eyed son is a myth. He is a creation of the couple's
imagination originating from their sense of sterility and
vacuum in
life.

📝"In the word rapidly, 'ly' is an adverbial suffix indicating

manner. While rapid is a free morpheme, ly is a bound-
morphem. "Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not
last long." Dr. Johnson said these words.

📝"Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room", is a sonnet

by William Wordsworth

👉Stevie Smith wrote Novel on Yellow Paper.

📝"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by the
American writer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

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📝 Simulacrum/ Simulacra - Jean Baudrillard
📝 The Subaltern - Gayatri C. Spivak
📝Metahistory - Hayden White
📝 Polyphony - Mikhael Bakhtin
📝Hegemony - Antonio Gramsci
📝Stationer's Company was incorporated in London in 1557
to oversee authors' and printers', or printer-publishers' rights.
A poem including history - Ezra Pound, The Cantos.

📝The correct chronological order: The University Wits - The

Metaphysical poets - Transitional poets - The Aesthetes -
The
Georgians - The High Modernists

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description of the city of Chandrapore. It has an old Indian

part and a new part consisting of the British civil station. The
streetsare mean,the temples ineffective. It is a city of
gardens.

📝Escapist fiction lacks serious fiction's apocalyptic

experience of finality. The two versions of literary experience
are qualitatively different; every novel fits one category or the
other, not both. Serious fiction, however, compels our
attention by representing improvements (the "world of
potency") asbeing achieved (a "world of act") and by showing
narrative movement "through time to an end, an end, we must
sense even if we cannot know it." The Senseof an Ending:
Studies in the Theory of Fiction is written by Frank Kermode.

📝Philip Larkin's "The Whitsun Weddings" describes along

train journey and establishes a 'we' voice of collective
outlook.
And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where

ignorant armies clash by night ...

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"One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die."

📝These lines are from "Death be not Proud" sonnet by

Donne.

"This one last gift I give: that after men

Shall know, and later lovers, far-removed,
Praise you, 'All these were lovely'; say, 'He loved"
📝These lines are from "The Great Lover" by Rupert Brooke.
📝The Oxford Companions like The Oxford Companion to
TwentiethCentury Literature in English, The Oxford
Companion to Canadian Literature, and The Oxford
Companion to American Literature are handy reference
volumes for teachers and students of English. The one
volume, The Oxford Companion to Indian Literature in
English, has not yet appeared in this series. 😢
📝Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is concerned with the jumbled
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📝In The Rape of Lock, Belinda's guardian sylph is unable to

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earthly lover lurking in Belinda's heart.

Ah! I'll never, never meet such a man again.

You ought to have heard him recite poetry ...
Oh, he enlarged my mind."

📝These words are spoken by the Russian about Kurtz In

Heart of Darkness.

📝ELT methods sequence - The grammar translation method

->Direct method -- >The silent way -- > the communication
language teaching.

📝A fleeting meaning of the text is created through the play

of 'difference' and 'differance'. Metaphysics involves
installing hierarchies and orders of subordination in the
various dualisms that it encounters. Therefore, Derrida's
rejects the notion of the 'Metaphysics of Presence'.

... a prince's court

Is like a common fountain, whence should flow
Pure silver drops in general: but if't chance

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a foreign location.

📝Literary works by post-modern British writers such as

Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson
generally tend to share the use of fragmented narrative
structures with multiple shifts in consciousness, chronology
and location.

📝Some post-colonial writers maintain that being 'unhomed'

is not the same as being 'homeless'. Because the migrants
are not at home in themselves. Their cultural identity crisis
has made them psychological refugees.

📝Margaret Laurence's novel, The Stone Angel is set in a

fictional small town in Manitoba called Manawaka. The novel
is narrated retrospectively by Hagar Shipley.

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📝 I. A. Richards' Practical Criticism (1929) inaugurated a new
phase in the history of English critical thought. The book's
subtitle is A Study in Literary Judgement.

📝In his attack delivered on the theatre in A Short View of

the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, Jeremy
Collier specially arraigned Congreve and Vanbrugh.

📝The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, The Mysteries

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commissioned by Alyque Padamsee. The play had

communalism as its theme. This play was banned from the
Deccan Herald Theatre Festival for dealing with a sensitive
issue. The play, however, was produced by Playpen in
Bangalore on July 1993.

📝I have known three generations of John Smiths. The type

breeds true. John Smith II and III went to the same school,
university and learned profession as John Smith I. Yet John
Smith I wrote pseudoSwinburne; John Smith II wrote pseudo-
Brooke; and John Smith
III is now writing pseudo-Eliot. But unless John Smith can
write John Smith, however unfashionable the result, why
does he bother to write at all? Surely one Swinburne; one
Brooke, and one Eliot are enough in any age?

👉This passage is taken from "The Poet and his Public" by

Robert Graves. The poets in question are Algernon Charles
Swinburne, Stopford Brooke, and Thomas Stearns Eliot.

📝More's Utopia displays strong influence of Plato's Republic

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bhashas because verna is, literally a home-born slave and the

natives of India were never slaves.

📝By 'language transfer' means the carryover of rules of the

mother tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the
Second language in question.

📝Peter Carey's The True History of the Kelly Gang is an

epistolary novel. It has characters such as Edward Kelly, his
mother, and his wife. It is also about the Bush and the
frontier.
📝A poem "Among School Children" by Yeats from Under the
Tower Collection that opens with the lines:
I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old
nun in a white hoodreplies;
The children learn to cipher and to sing ...

📝Foucault argues in History of Sexuality that modern

sexuality is produced through and as discourse. The
proliferation of modern discourses of sexuality is more
striking than their suppression. Modern sexuality is intimately

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"... I've stopped believing in miracles." "But I'll believe. Tell me!
Transform ourselves to the point that ... ?"
"That our living together could be a true marriage."
(She goes out down the hall.)

📝English has borrowed words such as sky, give, law, and leg
from Norse.

📝English has also borrowed some pronouns like they, their,

them from Norse.
📝After the Norman Conquest, French became the language
of the court, the language of nobility and polite society, and
literature. Among the French words that came into English
are study, logic, grammar, noun, etc.

📝Choices of linguistic forms in using a language, or how a

language is actually spoken/ written, especially one that
differs from its prescribed grammar, is called Usage.

📝Jamaica Kincaid's narrative" A Small Place "is an essay

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📝A.K. Ramanujan - "The Striders"
📝William Wordsworth had a deep influence on Thomas
Hardy. According to Hardy, the poem "The Leech gatherer"
by Wordsworth was his 'best cure for despair'.
📝In Henry James's Ambassadors, there is a character Mrs.
Newsome who never appears in the novel. We get to know
about this significant person, however, from the other
characters.

📝Scott's novels are called "Waverley Novels" because Scott

started his novel-writing career in his 43rd year with the
novel, Waverley.

📝The 'Renaissance Man' is a near-mythical figure: a knight,

courtier, musician, poet, scholar and statesman. Someone

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Gordimer.

📝The Duchess of Malfi married her steward, Antonio. For

the Elizabethan audience her marriage was a triple offence.
She was a widow marrying a second time. She married on
her own outside the Church. She married beneath her status
in disregard of 'degree'.
📝William Hazlitt has written the essay, "The Indian
Jugglers".

📝George Meredith's Modern Love (1862) can be best

described as a sonnet sequence.

📝The play Ghosts was written by Ibsen in 1881 when he was

in Italy.
This is considered to be his most remarkable intellectual
effort. The softening of the brain as a result of a disease
inherited from his father is the subject.

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talking about? We still don't know. But putting the question

like this suggests a clear and limited way of interpreting the
idea that different languages represent different worlds.

✍️Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice starts with the famous

statement:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife".

✍️In Kanthapura by Raja Rao, Harikatha is strategically used

as a medium of 'consciousness raising.

✍️Woolf's Orlando offers a fictionalized survey of English

Literature from Elizabethan times to 1928.

✍️A poem Lamia by Keats does not begin in the first-person

pronoun. But the poems Shelley's "Adonais", Byron's Don

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✍️Listed below are some English journals widely read by

professionals:

Screen, Critical Quarterly, Review of English, Wasafiri.

✍️The journal Review of English Studies founded by C. B.

Cox, and now being edited by Colin MacCabe, carries not
only critical and scholarly essays in English Studies but
reviews film, culture, language and contemporary political
issues.
✍️In Marvell's "A Dialogue between Soul and Body", Body
has the last word.

✍️In Blake's poem "A Poison Tree" the speaker's anger

grows and becomes an apple.

✍️For deconstructive critics, how human beings read and

interpret signs they receive will determine their modes of
knowing and being, whether those signs come in the form of
literary texts or bank statements. The fact of the matter is

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✍️The author of the book Eminent Victorians (1920), Lytton

Strachey observes "I have attempted, through the medium of
biography, to present some Victorian visions to the modern
eye". The four main characters in this book are Cardinal
Manning, Florence
Nightingale, Dr. Arnold and General Gordon.

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📝Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is a Jewish advertising agent.

📝His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot;
Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.
These lines are from Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel.
Shimei is this character whose stinginess passed into a
proverb.
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the needle without the thread."

👉 This famous passage describing the relation of idea to
form is from The Art of Fiction by Henry James.

👉The Norman Conquest - 1066

👉William Caxton and the introduction of printing - 1476
👉The King James Bible - 1611
👉Dr. Johnson's English Dictionary - 1755
📝"Late capitalism", by which is meant accelerated
technological development and the massive extension of
intellectually qualified labour, was first popularised by Ernst
Mandel.

📝"Metaphor is so widespread that it is often used as an

umbrella term to include other figures of speech such as
metonyms which can be technically distinguished from it in
its narrower usage." Here, umbrella term is the metaphorical
phrase.

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And crown their paramours
Against their bridal day, which is not long;
Sweet Thames! run softly till I end my song ...

These are lines from Spenser's Prothalamion. T.S. Eliot's

uses these lines in an ironic sense in his Waste Land in the
section titled "The Fire Sermon".

📝No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours!

For what wears out the life of mortal men?
'Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy
of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers ...
These lines are from "The Scholar Gipsy" by Arnold.

📝The roman a clef (French for "novel with a key") uses

contemporary historical figures as its chief characters. They
are given fictional names. One example is Aldous Huxley's
Point Counter Point. Its Mark Rampion is modelled on D. H.
Lawrence.

📝She was a worthy woman al hir lyve,

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bubbling with vitality.

📝The novel Solid Mandala tells the story of twin brothers,

Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and Arthur, the
innocent half-wit; the way their lives are inextricably
intertwined.

📝Thomas Parnell, Alexander Pope and John Gay are

members of the Scriblerus Club
📝Epiphany is a theological term brought into literary
criticism by James Joyce.

📝Him the Almighty Power

Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal Sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains
and penal fire
Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.
(Paradise Lost, I. 44-49)

📝Shelley's "Alastor", Byron's Manfred and Keats's

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📝The novel Invisible Man by Ellison has a scene where

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African American students are made to compete and fight

with each other as they rush for the gold coins tossed on an
electric blanket.

📝G.M. Hopkins's "Windhover" is dedicated 'To Christ, our

Lord'.

📝The tramp in Pinter's first big hit, The Caretaker, often

travels under an assumed name. It is Bernard Jenkins.
📝Gorboduc, Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton's
Needle are some of the early English plays imitating Greek
and Latin plays.

📝Act I Scene of William Congreve's Way of the World opens

in a Chocolate-House.

📝The phrase "a well-boiled icicle" for "a well-oiled bicycle"

is an example of Spoonerism. "Congenital food" for
'Continental food' is an example of Malaproprism.

👉👉All the following events happened in one year, 1900.👇

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than either Attic Greece or Ancient Rome.

📝Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the Oxford Book of

English Verse.

📝 Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare d'

Orsay, Paris.

📝Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.

📝 Hugo de Vries identified what would later come to be
called genes.

📝Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams.

Coca-cola arrived in Britain.

👉"Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found

worthy".

📝This is the epigraph to Rudyard Kipling's novella, "The Man

Who Would be the King"

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Chiasmus.

📝"At the end of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick

Caraway
observes: "They were careless people". "They" are Tom and
Daisy.

👉William Wordsworth's statement of purpose in publishing

the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrase:
📝"to choose incidents from common life and to relate or
describe them, throughout, as far as possible, in a selection
of language really used by men".

📝"It. was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought laying down
her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision."

👉These lines are from To the Lighthouse by Woolf.

📝He feels it himself and says often that he is "preparing to
leave all this; preparing to leave ... ", while he waves his hands

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👉This line is from A Passage to India by Forster.

📝Sprung Rhythm is the rhythm which causes ideas to
spring in our minds - hence Sprung Rhythm. In Sprung
Rhythm, the feet are of equal length and its metre is derived
from the metre of Anglo Saxon poetry which was based on
accent and linked by alliteration.

📝 Jacques Lacan proposes that the unconscious comes

into being only in language.
📝The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign
of Elizabeth I ensured the supremacy of the Church of
England and allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of
the Anglican church.

📝 "The Lotos-Eaters", "Ulysses" and "Tithonus" are poems

by Tennyson which speak of old age and death.

📝Wordsworth addresses Milton in his sonnet "London"

(1807) thus:

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📝While preparing herself to murder Duncan, Lady Macbeth

calls on the spirits of hell to "unsex me here". (Macbeth
I.5.39) Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I
by the side Of Humber would complain.

📝Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,

Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
👉These lines are from "To the Skylark" by P. B. Shelley.
👉The following imagery is associated with the respective
novels in which they appear.

Train - Dombey and Sons by Dickens

Egdon Heath - The Return of the Native by Hardy

Fog - Bleak House by Dickens

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are homosexual or heterosexual.

📝The novels of Graham Greene such as The Heart of the

Matter, Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory end in
some form of suicide by the protagonist but England Made
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📝How noble in reason!

how infinite in faculty!
in form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a God!

Hamlet marvels at man in this passage.

📝Said identifies Orientalism as a style of thought based on an ontological

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📝Shug Avery is the lesbian singer and Celie's friend in Alice Walker's Color
Purple (1982). She is upright and honest in asserting her lesbian identity and
she is bent on self-assertion.

📝The year 1828 is a landmark in the history of American language and

literature because Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the
English Language in that year.

📝George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin [1953] is a comingof-age

story. It is also an elegiac account of a village's growth into awareness in the
late colonial period. This was George Lamming's first novel. The title is taken
from Derrek Walcott's Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos (1949).
📝We are likely to misunderstand an Emily Dickinson poem if we take her
famous dashes to be ... quite specific and unambiguous.

📝 Tayeb Salih's Seasons of Migration to the North has parallels with the
story/ stories of Othello and Heart of Darkness; where he said ' I am no
Othello, Othello was a lie'.

📝Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities is subtitled Reflections on

the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. In this book, Anderson advances the
view that nations are not natural entities but narrative constructs. In
Anderson's view, modern nationalism is basically a consequence of the
convergence of capitalism, the new print technology and the fixity that
resulted from print extending to 'Vernacular' languages.

👉A mock-heroic poem uses a heroic style to deride airs and affectations.

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the past" is the final line of the novel Great Gatsby.

👉"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain"

are lines from The Mayor of the Casterbridge.

👉"He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly", are lines
from Sons and Lovers.

👉"In their death, they were not divided" are lines from The Mill on The
Floss.

📝"There is nothing outside the text," is a statement by Jacques Derrida.

👉Fanny Robin, Tess D'Urberville, Marty South are women abandoned by
their lovers in Hardy's novels.

👉Samuel Johnson describes the essay as "a loose sally of the mind; an
irregular indigested piece".

👉Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks are New Critics.
👉The following characters are from Amitav Ghaosh's novels.
Ila - Shadow Lines

Sonali - Calcutta Chromosome

Piyali - Hungry Tide

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marginalized. It refers to the works of nonheterosexuals.

📝In The Duchess of Malfi, Ferdinand sets a whole group of mad men on the
Duchess and they dance and sing in a crazy manner. His desire was to
provide a strange entertainment to drive the Duchess mad.

📝The Signifying Monkey of Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a notable contribution

to the study of African-American literature because it offers a theory of
African-American criticism that draws upon rhetorical and signifying
practices.

📝Harold Bloom wrote influential commentaries on such poets as

Shelley, Blake and Yeats, published works such as The Anxiety of Influence,
A Map of Misreading, Poetry and Repression and The Western Canon. He
also asserted that most literary criticism is but slightly disguised religion. He
is, arguably, the most widely known and contrarian among his American
peers in the English Academy.

📝According to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci, hegemony

involves a degree of consent on the part of subject people.

📝According to Homi Bhabha, mimicry is not mere copying or emulating the

colonizer's culture, behaviour and manners but is informed by both mockery
and a certain menace.

📝In Pinter's Birthday Party, Stanley is given the drum as a birthday present.
📝Lord Jim ends when Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin.
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"disenchantment of our culture with culture itself". Lionel Trilling said this in
his essay "On the Teaching of Modern Literature".

📝"Only that film, which fluttered on the grate,

Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing."

👉The above lines are quoted from "Frost at Midnight" by Coleridge.

📝 W. B. Yeats employs ottava rima in his poem "Among School Children".
📝In Defence of Poetry, Sydney attributed to poetry a moral power whereby
poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous models.
📝"An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" presents portraits of contemporary
individuals such as Addison and Lord Hervey.

📝Julius Caesar by Shakespeare does not use 'cross-dressing' as a device

but he used this in his plays like As You Like It, Cymbeline and Two
Gentlemen of Verona.

📝Discipline and Punish by Foucault cannot be categorised under the

postcolonial theory. "White mythology", "Nation and Narration" and
Orientalism comes under the postcolonial theory.

📝Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement

of empiricist philosophy.

📝"Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all
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📝The dramatic structure of Restoration comedies combines the features of

the Elizabethan Theatre and the Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and France,

📝American poet Walt Whitman wrote: "I sound my barbaric yawp over the
roofs of the world" in his Leaves of Grass.

📝The etymological meaning of the word "trope" is turning.

📝English poet Coleridge defined poetic imagination as "a repetition in the
finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite 'I AM' " Everything that
man esteems
📝The phrase "dark Satanic mills" has become the most famous description
of the force at the centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used
by William Blake.

👉"Five miles meandering with a mazy motion

Through wood and dale the scared river ran."

📝These are lines from "Kubla Khan" by Coleridge. The sacred river ran into
caverns measureless to man.

📝Seamus Heaney, the twentieth century poet, is a winner of the Nobel

Prize for literature who rejected the label "British" though he has always
written in English rather than his regional language.

📝Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici is a story of conversion or

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📝When you say "I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips",
you are using a rhetorical device of Enumeration.

📝Bianca appears in Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton.

📝Beatrice appears in The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William
Rowley.

📝Doll Tearsheet appears in The City Madam by Philip Massinger.

📝Malevelo appears in The Malcontent by john Marston.
📝With Bacon, the essay form transforms into an aphoristic expression of
accumulated public wisdom.

📝Evelyn Waugh's Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about

the English at War.

📝Benjamin Disraeli coined the phrase "The Two Nations"

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📝Virginia Woolf discusses the idea of character and the

understanding of realism of writers like Arnold Bennett, John
Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her famous essay is called 'Mr.
Bennet and Mrs. Brown'. Mrs. Brown is the name Woolf gives
a woman whom she happens to meet in a train.

📝E. M. Forster uses some recurrent images such as Wasp,

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Joyce is set in Dublin.

👉The Plumed Serpent (1926) by D. H. Lawrence is set in

Mexico.

👉An Outcast of the Islands (1896) by Conrad is set in Malay.

👉Under Western Eyes (1911) by Conrad is set in Russia.
📝Langue is the abstract language system, the grammar of a
language. Parole is the language actually produced by its
user following langue.

📝In Monica Ali's Brick Lane, Chanu has'a face like a frog'.
👉According to Matthew Arnold, 'touchstones' help us test
truth and seriousness that constitute the best poetry. The
'touchstones' are the lines and expressions of the great
masters.

✍Pidgin is "an extremely simplified form of language used

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📝Prosodic features of a language tell us the speaker's age,

emotional state,socialclass,educational background,
geographical provenance, etc.

👉Possession: A Romance is a novel by the British writerA. S.

Byatt whichwas a 1990 best-seller. The work incorporates
many genres such as letters, diaries and poetry as third-
person narratives. The plot here involves two time-periods -
the contemporary and the Victorian.
📝The following words and phrases, 'peace makers', 'help-
meet, 'the fat of the land', 'a labour of love', 'the eleventh
hour' and 'the shadow of death' were made current by the
sixteenth-century translators of the Bible.

👉The Norman Conquest - 1066

👉The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer - 1400
👉William Tyndall's New Testament - (1525-26)
👉The Birth of William Shakespeare - 1564
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Woman - 1790

👉Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge - 1798

👉Lyrical Ballads with 'Preface', second edition by
Wordsworth and Coleridge - 1800.

👉The Grecian urn is John Keats's 'Sylvan Historian'.

📝The renowned German poet Raine Marie Rilke was born in
Prague and died of Leukemia. When he was young, he met
Tolstoy and was influenced by him. The titles of his last two
works contain the words "sonnets" and "elegies".

👉A play The Clouds by Aristophanes gained notoriety for its

caricature of the philosopher Socrates.

📝Raskolnikov murders the old lady to get her money and

achieve his ambition in life to prove his superiority over other
young men of the time. This is the plot of Dostoevskij

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👉 Pakistani Bride (1990) is a novel by Bapsi Sidhwa.

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👉What the Body Remembers (1999) is a novel by Shauna

Singh.

👉 Train to Pakistan (1956) is a novel by Khushwant Singh.

👉The Ice-Candy Man (1988) is a novel by Bapsi Sidhwa.
📝In his poem "A Morning Walk", Nissim Ezekiel talks about a
'Barbaric City sick with slums/ Deprived of seasons, blessed
with rains/ Its hawkers, beggars, iron-lunged/ Processions
led by frantic drums. The city is Mumbai.

📝In Practical Criticism, I. A. Richards links the four kinds of

meanings in most human utterances to four aspects. These
are Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention.

👉In Christabel, after Geraldine enters Sir Leoline's castle on

her way to Christabel's chamber, there are several ill omens
which warn the reader about Geraldine. The 'angry moan' of
the ailing mastiff bitch, 'The Owlet's Scritch' and 'a tongue of

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as Fox. It is about the process of writing poetry and about

Thoughtentering the poet's brain like the Fox emerging from
darkness.

📝In Aristotle's Poetics, we read that tragedy is the imitation

of an action that is complete and whole, and of a certain
magnitude ... having a beginning, a middle, and an end'.

📝The following works are matched with their

👉 The Deserted Village (1770) - Goldsmith
👉"A Poison Tree" (1794) - Blake
👉 "Ozymandias" (1818) - Shelley
👉"The Blessed Damozel" (1850) - Dante Rossetti.
📝The term homology means a correspondence between
two or more structures.Raymond Williams developed a
theory of relations between literary works and social classes
in terms of homologies.

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👉The preliminary version of James Joyce's Portrait of the

Artist as a Young Man was called Stephen Hero.

📝A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or

subjects borrowed from other works. It is distinguished from
parody. Not all parody is pastiche.

📝The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul is subtitled The

Caribbean Revisited.
📝'Fluency' in language is the same as the ability to put
oneself across comfortably in speech and/ or writing.

📝Pathetic Fallacy is a term that applies to descriptions that

are not true but imaginary and fanciful. Pathetic Fallacy is
generally understood as human traits being applied or
attributed to nonhuman things in nature. In its first use, the
term was used with disapproval because nature cannot be
equated with the human in respect of emotions and
responses. It is coined by John Ruskin in his Modern

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The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood The Rhymers' Club.

📝Aucitya refers to Propriety.

👉In the closing paragraph of The Trial, two men accompany
Joseph K to a part of the city to eventually execute him. The
place is a Quarry.

📝In his essay "Signs Taken for Wonders", Homi Bhabha

discusses the "discovery' of English in colonial India.
👉Edmund Spenser's Amoretti was the first Sonnet
Sequence in English.

📝The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street

and A House for Mr. Biswas are novels by Naipaul.

👉"Kubla Khan" takes an epigraph from Samuel Purchas'

Purchas His Pilgrimage.

📝The Battle of the Books depicts the quarrel between the

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the hamlet sleep".

👉The Deserted Village comments on the accumulation of

wealth and the consequent loss of human lives and values.

📝The title of Woolf's A Room of One's Own set a course for

academic literary feminism.

📝In a play Indian Ink by Stoppard, we see a reworking of E.

M. Forster's A Passage to India as a cameo.
👉P. B. Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" uses terza rima.
📝When one says that "someone is no more" or that
"someone has breathed his/ her last", the speaker is
resorting to euphemism.

👉The term episteme signifies knowledge.

👉A speaking picture is a better definition of an image in
literary writing.

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👉According to him, moderns still imitate the ancients.

Eugenius's argues on the superiority of the modern over the
ancient. Lisideius's expresses his views in favour of the
French drama over the English drama. Neander defends the
modern drama.

👉The term invective refers to the abusive writing or speech

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👉How Far Can You Go (1981), a novel by David Lodge, won

Whitbread award.

👉The White Teeth (2000) is a novel by Zadie Smith.

👉An Equal Music (1999) is a novel by Vikram Seth.
👉The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two
important writers in England: For Yeats who died and for
Auden who left England for the U. S.
👉The Enlightenment was characterized by a belief in the
universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific
experimentation.

👉The Shakespearean play Hamlet contains the line: " ...

there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow" in act 5,
scene 2. It is said by Hamlet to Horatio.

👉Condition of the Working Class in England is a book by

German Frederic Engels.

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👉Unto This Last is a book by John Ruskin.

👉Aston, Davies and Mick are characters in Harold Pinter's
Caretaker. In the Jane Austen novel Persuasion, we find the
characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and
Captain Wentworth.

👉Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theatre turns the spectator into a

critical observer, relies on argument and presents man as a
process.
👉Ceremony (1977), written by an American native Leslie, is
a novel in which the protagonist is a war veteran called Tayo.
Tayo returns from World War II, thoroughly disillusioned and
haunted by his violent actions of war time. Tayo seeks
consolation and counsel from old Betonie. The protagonist
realizes the importance of harmonizing humanity and the
universe.

👉The poem "One Word More" in Men and Women is

addressed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning by the poet Robert

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👉John Bunyan's Christian passes through the following

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Hill of Difficulty, House Beautiful and Valley of the Shadow of

the Dead.

📝The poets W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Cecil Day

Lewis of England during the 1930s had left-leaning
tendencies.

👉Emerson's friends called him The Sage of Concord.

👉Dickinson is called The Nun of Amherst.
📝Harold Bloom in The Anxiety of Influence divided poets
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"strong" and "weak" and popularized the practice of
misreading.

👉In The Rape of the Lock, Pope repeatedly compares

Belinda to the sun.

📝The Gyanpeeth award is not given to the Indian-English

writers.

👉Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and

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Wordsworth and Coleridge.

📝The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals,

critics, writers and artists like John Maynard Keynes, Lytton
Strachey, E.M. Forster, Roger Fry and Clive Bell.

👉 "Interlanguage" is a term we owe to M. A. K. Halliday. It is

a distinct stage in a learner's progress in the study of a
second language.
👉In a classic statement that inaugurated feminist thought in
English, we read: "A woman writing thinks back through her
mothers".

👆These lines are from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's

Own.

👉John Milton and John Dryden were contemporaries.

Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton fiercely opposed
monarchy.

👉 Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate of England in

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either really well. For either a new terrain is fatiguing and
awkward, and in our day most men prefer paved walks and
some form of rapid transportsome easy theory or
overmastering dogma." (R. P. Blackmur, "A Critic's Job of
Work"). However, Blackmur admits that some people do
however manage to be good critics and good walkers.

📝The world dominated by cold and hypocritical materialists

is represented by William Blake in the mythological figure of
Urizen. Urizen is a prophetic book published in 1794.
📝The following terms are matched with their respective
theorists.

👉Third Space - Edward Soja

👉Hybridity - Homi Bhabha
👉Reception aesthetics - Wolfgang Iser
👉Langue -Ferdinand de Saussure
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👉"The contact zone" is a space where disparate cultures

meet, clash and grapple with each other. In Postcolonial
societies "contact" suggests the historical moment when
settler and indigenous cultures first met. The idea of the
Contact Zone was first proposed and defined by Mary Louise
Pratt's Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
(1992).

👉In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster Geryon represents

fraud.
👉 I. A. Richards's famous experiment with poems and his
Cambridge students is detailed in Practical Criticism: A
Study of Literary Judgement (1929). Richards was
astonished by the poor quality of his students' "stock
responses".

👉Waiting for Godot is a play in which no one comes, no one

goes, nothing happens. In its opening scene, a man struggles
hard to remove his boot. The play was originally written in
French and later translated into English. It was first

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👉The Parson Tale in the Canterbury Tales is in prose.

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associative power. It plays with fixities and definites.

Imagination "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to

recreate" and it is a shaping and modifying power.

👉Julia Kristeva's 'Intertextuality' derives from Saussure's

signs and Bakhtin's Dialogism. Intertextuality is the shaping
of a text's meaning by another text. Intertextual figures
include allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation,
pastiche and parody.
👉Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths about white purity
through characters like Norton and Bledsoe.

👉Ralph Waldo Emerson was an eloquent pulpit orator, a

member of the Unitarian Church under William Chawming. In
essays like Nature, he elaborates on the importance of
seeing familiar things in new ways. His famous "American
Scholar" was delivered as an address before the Phi Beta
Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837.

👉 "Exorcism" is the title of Act III of Who's Afraid of Virginia

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advanced by Alice Walker. Alice Walker developed the term
womanist in her essay In Search of Our Mother's Garden:
Womanist Prose (1983)

👉. A Subaltern perspective is one where the politically

dispossessed could be voiceless, written out of the historical
record and ignored because their activities do not count as
"Cultural" or "Structured".
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👉Langue and parole - Ferdinand de Saussure.
👉Competence and performance - Noam Chomsky 👉Iconic indexical
symbolic - C. S. Pierce
👉Readerly, writerly - Roland Barthes.
📝Jean Baudrillard adopts Disneyland as his own sign. Disneyland is an
artefact that so obviously announces its own fictiveness that it would seem

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📝D. G. Rossetti was a Londoner, the son of an Italian refugee who taught
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Goethe's Faust (Part I, Scene 1) opens in Faust's study. Is it their single-mind-

sized skulls or a trained

Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats

Gives their days this bullet and automatic purpose ...

📝These lines are from the poem "Thrushes". In the above lines, 'their' refers
to the thrushes and their concentration in achieving what they set out for.
These lines depict the efficiency of the thrushes in catching their prey.

📝The characters who appeared in The Waste Land are Belladonna,

Engenides, the Typist, Marie, Madame Sosostris, Tiresias and the Youngman
Carbuncular.

📝Wilkie Collins's novel, The Moonstone (1868) tells the story of a fabulous
yellow diamond stolen from an Indian shrine.

📝Nissim Ezekiel wrote the poems "How the English Lessons

📝Ended", "The Railway Clerk", "Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S."
📝Raghu, Dehuti and Tara are characters in Naipaul's A House for Mr.
Biswas.

📝Ralph Singh appeared in the Mimic Man by Naipaul.

📝 In English literature, the trope of the vampire was used for the first time
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📝Universal grammar, associated with Noam Chomsky, is a set of basic

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📝The opening sentence of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, "Happy families areall

alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". The specific cause of
the unhappiness in Oblonsky's house was the husband's affair with a French
governess.

📝The periodical The Spectator had the avowed intention "to enliven
morality with wit and to temper wit with morality ... to bring philosophy out of
the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and
assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee houses". It also promoted family,
marriage and courtesy.
📝Tam O' Shanter by John Clare is about the experience of an ordinary
human being and became quite popular during that time. John Clare, having
suffered bouts of madness, could really feel for the misery of common man.
He was the son of a farm labourer.

📝Alexander Pope's An Essay in Criticism purports to define wit and nature

as they apply to the literature of his age. He claims no originality in the
thought that governs this work. It is a prose essay that gives us such quotes
as "A little learning is a dangerous thing!" A register is a variety of language
used in social situations or one specially designed for the subject it deals
with.

Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the

English Stage (1698) attacked the coarseness and the ugliness of the
Restoration Theatre. Congreve replied to Collier with his Amendments of Mr.
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📝The basic concept that creation was ordered, that every species exists in
a hierarchy of status, from God to the lowest creature, was prevalent in the
Renaissance. In this hierarchical continuum, man occupies the middle
position between the animal kind and the angels. This world view is known
as The Great Chain of Being.

📝 In Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, the lighthouse does not symbolize

the permanence at the heart of change, celebration of life in the heart of
death and celebration of order in the heart of chaos.

📝Can one imagine any private soldier, in the nineties or now, reading
Barrack-Room Ballads and feeling that here was a writer who spoke for him?
It is very hard to do so. [ .... ] When he is writing not of British but of loyal
Indians he carries the 'Salaam, Sahib' motif to sometimes disgusting lengths.
Yet it remains true that he has far more interest in the common soldier, far
more anxiety that he shall get a fair deal, than most of the liberals of his day
and our own. He sees that the soldier is neglected, meanly underpaid and
hypocritically despised by the people whose incomes he safeguards.

These are George Orwell's words on Rudyard Kipling.

📝"In the well-known poem "To his Coy Mistress", the word coy means shy.
📝"It blurs distinctions among literary, non-literary and cultural texts,
showing how all three intercirculate, share in, and mutually constitute each
other" - This statement explains the practice of New Historicism coined by
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📝Items in apublished book appear in the following order: Copyright Page,

Footnotes, Bibliography, Index.

📝James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper and George Crabbe

are Transitional poets.

📝George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley and

John Donne are Metaphysical Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried
Sassoon, Blunden and Robert Graves are War poets.

📝W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater Brooke are Georgian

poets.
📝The title Pale Fire by Nabokov is taken from Shakespeare's Timon of
Athens

"The moon's an arrant thief, / And her pale fire she snatches from the sun"
(Act IV, scene iii)

📝The title of Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree is taken from a song in
Shakespeare's As You Like It (Act II, Scene v).

📝The title Cakes and Ale by Maugham is taken from Shakespeare's Twelfth
Night. It is part of a line uttered by Malvolio.

""Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes
and ale"

📝The emergence of the concept of World literature is associated with

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have nothing to do with the kitchen is Mrs Bennet. Mrs. Bennet is the proud
mother in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

📝Keats writes about the "beaker full of the blushful Hippocrene".

Hippocrene is the fountain of the horse and a spring sacred to the Muses.

📝The Prelude was published posthumously. In this poem,

Wordsworth records his development as a poet. The poem runs into 14
books. In these books, the poet celebrates the sublime natural scenery in
developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.

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👉Victor Shklovsky's name is associated with Russian

Formalism.

👉Derrida makes use of the term aporia to refer to the

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authors.

👉 Reliques of Ancient English

👉Poetry (1765) - Bishop Thomas Percy
👉The French Revolution (1791) - William Blake
👉A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) - Mary
Wollstonecraft

👉 Lyrical Ballads (1798) - Wordsworth.

👉In Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the main action is relayed
at second hand through an enclosing frame story. An
unnamed narrator is telling the story which he heard from
Marlow.

👉The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such

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👉Johnson remarked on Dryden thus, "He found it [English]

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brick and left it marble".

👉Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in 1993 and Seamus

Heaney in 1995. The beginnings lines of the poem are
matched with their respective poets.

👉 "Because I could not stop for death ... " - Emily Dickinson
👉 "So much depends/ upon ... " - William Carlos Williams
👉 "Two roads diverged in a wood ... - Robert Frost
👉The predominant tone of Jonathan Swift's A Modest
Proposal is irony.

👉C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s

for introducing the Basic English Project. Ogden also
contributed to The Meaning of Meaning (1923).

👉"Art for Art's Sake" became a rallying cry for the

Aesthetes. Graham Greene was a Catholic novelist, an
Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-
away places wrecked by political conflicts. His four catholic

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👉The statement, "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all

knowledge", appears in Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical
Ballads in 1800.

👉"Literary criticism is a description and evaluation of its

object", says Brooks in "The Formalist Critics".

👉"Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a tapestry as

diverse poetshave done", says Sidney in his Defence of
Poesy.
👉In a travel book titled Following the Equator, Mark Twain
gives an account of his visit to India.

👉William Blake's famous poems such as "London", "The

Sick Rose" and "The Tyger" appear in Songs of Experience.

👉The last of Gulliver's Travels is set in The Land of the

Houyhnhnms. In the Pub Scene of The Waste Land, we see a
departure from Standard English.

👉The lines, "If it were done when 'tis one, then 'twere well/
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👉The term 'Comedy of Menace' is associated with the early

plays of Harold Pinter. The term is coined by Irving Wardle
who borrowed it from the play The Lunatic View by Campton.

👉Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936. He was born in India

but schooled in England. He is the author of Jungle Book and
Barrack Room Ballads.

👉In Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, the dull poet Richard Flecknoe

chooses Thomas Shadwell as his successor-poet.
👉"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" is from
Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind".

📝The opening lines of the following literary works are

matched with the respective work titles.

👉 "Let us go then, you and I ... " - "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock" by Eliot

👉 "Call me Ishmael ... " - Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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👉"I wish either ... begot me ... - Tristram Shandy by Sterne.

👉A word newly coined or a word used in a new sense is
neologism. Edward Said makes use of the Foucault's concept
of discursive formulation in his work

👉Orientalism is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial

theory. It utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony.
👉Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods in
"The Four Ages of Poetry". They are iron, gold, silver and
brass.

👉The French Lieutenant's Woman has three alternate

endings. "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you
shall see how a slave was made a man", is an example of
Chiasmus. Chiasmus is a rhetorical or a literary figure in
which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are
repeated in the reverse order.

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👉Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day

was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin.

👉Material feminism studies inequality in terms of both class

and gender.

👉Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after The

Restoration.
👉The period from 1660 to 1669 covers three major events:
The Great Fire, the Plague of London and the Dutch war.

👉In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or run-on.

👉Nissim Ezekiel wrote the essay "Naipaul's India and Mine".
👉The biography of T. S. Eliot is written by Peter Ackroyd.
👉The biography of James Joyce is written by Richard
Ellman.

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extends.

📝In Ben Jonson's Volpone, the animal imagery includes the

following important characters:

👉Volpone (the Sly Fox) - a greedy, childless Venetian

nobleman

👉Mosca (the Fly/Parasite) - his servant

👉Voltore (the Vulture) - a lawyer
 👉Corbaccio (the Raven) - an avaricious old miser
👉Bonario - Corbaccio's son
👉Corvino (the Carrion Crow) - a merchant
👉 Celia - Corvino's wife
👉Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands is an essay that
propounds an anti-essentialist view of place. He also said

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👉Aston is a character in Pinter's The Caretaker.

👉Byron's English Bards and Scottish Reviewers is about the
survey of English poetry and a contemporary literary scene.

👉Eliotian character Prufrock utters the question - "Do I eat

a peach".

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Lamb thus, "He had succeeded as a writer not by conforming

to the Spirit of the Age, but in opposition to it".

👉The Restoration comedy, The Double Dealer was written

by William Congreve.

👉Nadine Gordimer and Stanley Middleton shared the prize

in 1974, whilst Michael Ondaatje and Barry Unsworth were
joint winners in 1992. As a result, the Booker Prize committee
changed the rules so that only one book could win in the
future.
👉Little Nell is a character in Dickens's The Old Curiosity
Shop.

👉R. K. Narayan has created an identifiable imagined locale

Malgudi. Stanley Fish is a reader-response theorist.

👉The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian sonnet is abab bcbc

cdcd ee.

👉Marlovian character Barabas is consumed by greed.

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race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay."
This claim for poetry is made in Arnold's "The Study of
Poetry".

👉R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island is a utopian novel. It

was the inspiration for William Golding's dystopian novel Lord
of the Flies (1954), which inverted the morality of The Coral
Island. In Ballantyne's story, the children encounter evil, but
in the Lord of the Flies, evil is within them.
👉Shakespearean tragedies are structured as exposition,
conflict, climax and denouement.

👉The term, 'curtal sonnet, was coined by Gerard Manley

Hopkins.

👉Saints and Sinners is a play on modern middle-class life by

Henry Arthur Jones.

👉Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by

Seneca.

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📝Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his friend, "Horatio, I am

dead." This is an example of prolepsis, a figure of speech in
which the speaker raises an objection and then immediately
answers it.

👉The City of Dreadful Night, a long poem depicting the late

Victorian sense of gloom and despondency, is written by
James Thomson.
👉A Bend in the River, a novel by V. S. Naipaul, is set in Africa
and carries echoes of Joseph Conrad.

👉In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda's lapdog is named Shock.

👉You Can't Do Both is a novel by Kingsley Amis.
👉The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the
fiction of Philip Roth. He first created a character named
Nathan Zuckerman in the novel My Life as a Man (1974). This
character later appeared in his many other novels.

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👉Tennyson poem "Tithonus" is a dramatic monologue.

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👉The character Giovanni features in John Ford's Tis Pity

She's a Whore.

👉Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for

literature in the year 1995.

👉The pamphlet on the Irish condition, "An Address to the

Irish People" was composed by P. B. Shelley.
👉"Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" is written by Jonathan
Swift.

👉Widowers' Houses was written by G.B. Shaw.

👉A Marxist critic Raymond Williams has reconsidered the
classic problem of 'base and superstructure" in relation to
literature.

👉"Heteroglossia" refers to the juxtaposition of multiple

voices in a text.

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👉Byron's The Vision of Judgement is a satire directed

against Robert Southey.

👉Tom Paine's The Rights of Man was published in 1791.

👉Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's
Return from Ireland" was written in 1650.

👉"The Rime of Ancient Mariner" is about guilt and expiation

of the Ancient Mariner.
👉"To Daffodils" is a poem, written by Robert Herrick.
👉A novel The Siege of Krishnapur reconstructs the
historical events of the Indian Mutiny.

👉"England, My England" is a poem by W. E. Henley.

👉Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University due to
the publication of The Necessity of Atheism.

👉Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery is written by

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👉Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms is divided into five

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📝👉"Panopticism" is the title of a chapter in a well-known

book
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault which refers to an
experimental laboratory of power in which behaviour could
be modified. Foucault viewed the panopticon as a symbol of
the disciplinary society of surveillance.

👉The following is an example of a heroic couplet:

"She was a worthy woman al hir lyve:
Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde five"
👉The character Flamineo of Webster's The White Devil
utters the memorable words:
Oft gay and honour'd robes those tortures try:
We think cag'd birds sing, when indeed they cry.

👉William Faulkner, Philip Roth and J. D. Salinger are Jewish

American novelists.

👉Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine has epic features.

👉Sir Fopling is a character in Etherege's The Man of Mode.
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👉A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed by a weak

syllable is called trochee.

👉Chaucer focuses on the depiction of defiance through the

character of the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales.

👉Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliot's novel Adam

Bede.
👉The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel of judges to the
best novel by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the
Republic of Ireland.

👉The Unfortunate Traveller has been authored by Thomas

Nashe.

👉The author of "Nation and Narration" is Homi Bhabha.

👉Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy has a great impact on
the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction.

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👉Halfbreed is written by the metis author Maria Campbell.
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👉Aritha van Herk wrote No Fixed Address.

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👉The expression "murderous innocence" is an example of

oxymoron, a figure of speech in which apparently
contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

👉The Enlightenment believed in the universal authority of

Reason.

👉Keats uses the Spenserian stanza in The Eve of St. Agnes.

👉The phrase Egoistical sublime is first used by Keats in a
letter to Richard Woodhouse, dated 27 October 1818.

👉John Galsworthy is known for his unforgettable sense of

humour and comedy.

👉Apocalyptic novels are Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated

City,
Hartley's Facial Justice and V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr
Biswas.

👉These are lines from John Donne's poem "Good Morrow":

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of essays on "The Pleasures of Imagination", written by

Joseph Addison.

👉 Jane Austen, George Eliot and Joseph Conrad belong to

the 'Great Tradition', enunciated by F. R. Leavis but James
Joyce does not belong in the group.

👉Isaac Bashevis Singer is an American-Polish writer.

👉Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot has two Acts.
👉James Joyce's Exiles is a Play.
👉The subtitle of William Godwin's Caleb Williams is Things
As They Are.

👉"It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were
striking thirteen", is the opening sentence of Nineteen
Eighty-Four.

👉Helen Cixous belongs to the group of radical feminists.

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👉Abel Whittle is a character in The Mayor of Casterbridge.

👉In the April eclogue of The Shepheardes Calender,
Spenser praises Queen Elizabeth I.

👉"Politics and the English Language" is an essay by George

Orwell.
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📝"He is not fully recognized at home; he is not recognized at

all abroad. Yet I firmly believe that the poetical performance
of Wordsworth is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton,
undoubtedly the most considerable in our language from the
Elizabethan age to the present time."

👉The Globe Theatre opened in 1599.

👉"The epithet "a comic epic in prose" is best applied to
Fielding's Tom Jones.

👉Muriel Spark has written a dystopian novel called The

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

👉Samuel Butler's Erewhon is an example of Utopian

Literature.

👉"The line "moments of unageing intellect" occurs in

Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium".

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👉Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by the Australian author

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Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize.

👉The famous line " ... Where ignorant armies clash by night"
is taken from the poem "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold.
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) is a dystopian novel, a work of
speculative fiction, by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
She also wrote Surfacing and The Blind Assassin.

😒The Stone Angel, first published in 1964 by McClelland

and Stewart, is perhaps the best-known of Margaret
Laurence's series of novels set in the fictitious town of
Manawaka, Manitoba.

👉The verse form of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was

influenced by Spenser.

👉Chaucer's Parliament of Fowles has the structure of a

debate as well as a beast fable.

👉Thomas Paine wrote a book with the title The Age of

Reason. The Restoration comedy has been criticized mainly

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Midsummer Night's Dream.

👉 The term 'Cultural Materialism' is associated with

Raymond Williams.

👉Doris Lessing wrote The Grass is Singing.

👉Northrop Frye is a Canadian critic who wrote Fearful
Symmetry and Anatomy of Criticism.
👉Sethe is a character in Tony Morrison's Beloved.
👉Imagined Communities is a book by Benedict Anderson.
👉John Suckling is a Cavalier poet.
👉The Importance of Being Earnest, a play by Oscar Wilde
has the subtitle, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.

👉"Master Harold" ... and the boys is a play by Athol Fugard

set in 1950.

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rhetorical effect; e.g. this book I like. Another term for

inversion is Hyperbaton.

👉The religious movement known as Methodism in the 18th

century England was founded by John Wesley.

👉 "My First Acquaintance with Poets", an unforgettable

account of meeting with literary heroes, is written by William
Hazlitt.
👉The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spenser's Faerie
Queene is represented by the character Britomart.

👉The book Speech Acts is written by John Searle.

👉Omeros is an epic poem written by the Caribbean writer
Derek

👉Walcott, first published in 1990. The work is divided into

seven "books" containing a total of sixty-four chapters. Many
critics view Omeros as Walcott's "major achievement".

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👉The most notable achievement in Jacobean prose was

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👉The Court of Chancery is a setting in Dickens' Bleak

House.

👉William Wordsworth coined the famous phrase 'spots of

time'.

👉The statement 'I think, therefore, I am' is by Descartes.

👉Harold Pinter wrote The Room, The Homecoming, No
Man's Land and One for the Road.

😳The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, was awarded to

Salman Rushdie.

👉Pope's The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in two

cantos.

👉In Keats' poetic career, the most productive year was

1819.

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👉Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton is sub-titled A Story

of Provincial Life.

👉Some of the Jacobean playwrights were prolific. One of

them who is claimed to have written 200 plays is Thomas
Heywood.

😳The concept of "Star-equilibrium" in connection with man-

woman relationship appears in Women in Love.
👉Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and
Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) attacked William
Wycherley and William Congreve.

👉The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the Great Exhibition,

was designed by Joseph Paxton.

👉Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings

of T. S. Eliot.

👉In his voyages of the land of Brobdingnagian, Gulliver

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👉Mary Shelley's famous work Frankenstein is dedicated

William Godwin.

👉"The poem "Whitsun Wedding" by Philip Larkin records his

impressions while travelling to London by train.

👉The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to

attack his victims was John Dryden.
👉One of the most famous movements of direct address to
the reader - "Reader, I married him" - occurs in Charlotte
Bronte's Jane Eyre.

👉Langland's Piers Plowman is a satire on clergy.

👉Sexual jealousy is a theme in Shakespeare's Othello.
👉The title for the book The New Criticism, published in
1941, was written by John Crowe Ransom.

👉Dr. Faustus is a tragedy but not a Revenge Tragedy.

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and Angel.

👉A monosyllabic rhyme on the final stressed syllable of two

lines of verse is called masculine rhyme.

👉A fatwa was issued on Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses.

👉"There is nothing outside the text" is a key statement
emanating from Deconstruction.
👉One of the important texts of Angry Young Man Movement
is Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis.

👉Alexander Pope satirizes Lord Harvey in the portrait of

Sporus.

👉The hero of Marlowe's Tamburlaine was born as a

shepherd.

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👉Reformation was predominantly a movement in religion.

English Iambic Pentameter was brought to its first maturity in
sonnet.

👉The concept of human mind as tabula rasa or a blank

tablet was propounded by John Locke.

👉The terms 'resonance' and 'wonder' are associated with

Stephen Greenblatt.
👉The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer in The Prologue to
Canterbury Tales is ten-syllabic line.

👉Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species was published in

the year 1859.

👉The author of Juno and the Paycock [tragicomedy] is

Sean O'Casey.

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👉Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" is addressed to The

American Imperial Mission in the Philippines.

👉Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet

Monroe in 1912.

👉John Gower was Geoffrey Chaucer's contemporary.

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👉Chaucer's The House of Fame parodies Dante's Divine

Comedy.

👉Forster's Maurice is an example of homosexual fiction.

👉 W. B. Yeats's "Easter 1916" is a response to a major
political uprising.
👉J. S. Mill is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism
which means that the supreme objective of moral action is
the achievement of the greatest happiness for the greatest
number. The 'Condition of England' literature refers to the
literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour
classes.

👉Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate

response to Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse.

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👉Dr. Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes expresses

cynicism which means general distrust of others' motives.

📝"Atrivial comedy for serious people" was the subtitle for

The Importance of Being Earnest.

📝"In the deserts of the heart/ Let the healing fountain start,
/ In the prison of his days, / Teach the free man how to
praise" are lines from "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" by Auden.
👉The Temple is a collection of poems by George Herbert.
👉Ben Jonson's comedies are Volpone, The Alchemist and
Epicene.

👉Allen Ginsberg belonged to the American Beat Movement.

"The Lost Generation" is a name applied to the disillusioned
intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First
World War. Gertrude Stein called them "The Lost
Generation".

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👉Tommy Wilhelm is a character in Seize the Day by Saul

Bellow. Imagined Communities is a concept propounded by
Benedict Anderson.

👉The New Historicists include Greenblatt, Montrose and

Goldberg.
👉Wallace Stevens' The Man with the Blue Guitar may be
linked to the work of the artist Picasso.

👉The author of Gender Trouble is Judith Butler.

👉The structural analysis of signs was practiced by Roland
Barthes. Northanger Abbey is a spoof of a Gothic novel.

👉The Uncanny is essentially a Freudian concept.

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movement. Among the major texts of Transcendentalist
thought are the essays of Emerson, Thoreau's Walden and
the writings of Margaret Fuller.

👉In the1817 review of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria,

Francis Jeffrey coined the term 'Lake School of Poets'
grouping Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey.
👉"I am the enemy you killed, my friend/ I knew you in this
dark ... " The above lines are taken from "Strange Meeting" by
Wilfred Owen.

👉The following lines are spoken by Mark Antony about

Caesar:
His life was gentle and the elements.
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all
the world, 'This was a man!

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👉 The Odyssey - Omeros
👉"When my love swears that she is made of truth/ I do
believe her, though I know she lies". These lines are from
William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 138".

👉"Great wits are sure to madness near allied/ And thin

partitions do their bounds divide". The above lines appear in
Absalom and Achitophel.
👉Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak developed the term strategic
essentialism.

👉Jabberwocky is a character in Lewis Carroll's Through the

Looking Glass.

👉According to Edward Said's thesis on Orientalism, the

Oriental people used the East dialectically to define their
self-image as irrational and primitive. The Oriental people
used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as

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👉Doris Lessing's interest in Sufism is widely recognized.

👉Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way of speech/ writing,
is also known as circumlocution.

👉The Muse of History is a classic postcolonial essay by

Derek Walcott.
👉"Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict
myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" The above lines are
from Walt Whitman's "Songs of Myself".

👉"Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" Is written by Jonathan

Swift.

👉"Lycidas" is an elegy written for Edward King by Milton.

👉"Adonais" is an elegy written for Keats by Shelley.
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reflections on Whiteness and the literary imagination..

👉The term 'horizon of expectations' is associated with H. R.

Jauss.

👉The immediate source for Christopher Marlowe's Doctor

Faustus is a German narrative.
👉Lady Gregory, W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge were
associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement.

👉The term diaspora was originally applied to the ethnic

group Jews. When a person has a wooden leg, we are apt to
say, 'He has a wooden leg. Now this wooden leg is
metaphorical.

👉Prosody studies Metrics.

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✍Larry Slade is a character in The Iceman Cometh.

✍Iambus is a metrical foot consisting of two syllables.
✍The lines "Not that he wished is greatness to create / For
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✍Sean O' Casey's Juno and the Paycock is a tragi-comedy.

✍The 'Reader-Response Theory' implies that the readers of
an age construct the meaning.

✍Myth Criticism focuses on the recurrence of archetypal

patterns.

✍"An Idyll" is usually a poem about a picturesque country

life.
✍ "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting" is a line from
"Immortality Ode".

✍Tale of a Tub is about contending religious parties.

✍Congreve's The Way of the World ends with a dance party.
✍On seeing Ferdinand, Miranda exclaimed, "O, father, surely
that is a spirit. Lord! How it looks about?'

✍John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress was written while he

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✍The most important of the 'evolutionists' during the

Victorian period was Charles Darwin.

✍A philosophical attitude pervading much of modern

literature is Absurdism.

✍G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatter is written in the

picaresque mode.
✍The Indian English novelist who, for the first time,
addressed the question of language and indigenous
experience was Raja Rao in Kanthapura.

✍A classical influence on Ben Jonson's Volpone is

Aristophanes.

✍Arun Joshi wrote The Apprentice.

✍The Indian English poet who addressed the question 'of
time' in his poetry is Nissim Ezekiel.

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✍Tottel's Miscellany contained 54 sonnets in 1557.

✍Imagism is associated with T. E. Hulme.
✍The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from a poem by W. B.
Yeats "Second coming".

✍Formal Criticism relates to the structure of literary

devices.
✍A 'Foot' in prosody is a basic unit of rhythmic
measurement.

✍Francis Bacon is known for his aphoristic prose style.

Ireland emerges as the most important metaphor in Seamus
Heaney.

✍The major contribution of the Restoration period is in the

field of Drama. Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley and Keats belong
to the Romantic period.

✍Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by E. M. Forster.

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✍In the formalistic school of criticism, art is style.

✍"Rugby Chapel" is a poem by Matthew Arnold in the
memory of his father.

✍"Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight" is a

line from Marlowe's Dr. Faustus.
✍Pope's Essay on Man can best be read as a poem of
philosophical apprehension of life.

✍The term 'Victorian' evokes the attitudes of moral

earnestness.

✍Webster do not belong to the university wits.

✍Bosola is a character in the play Duchess of Malfi by
Webster.

✍A Dance of the Forests is written by Wole Soyinka.

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of love and rejection is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
man.

✍Victorian Age witnessed a clash between faith and reason.

"For gold in Physique is Cordial/ Therefore, he loved gold in
special" is a phrase which describes Chaucer's Doctor.

✍The historical novel began in the Romantic Period.

✍The term 'Campus novel' is associated with Kingsley Amis.
✍The new humanism school of philosophy and literary
criticism was popular in America during the period 1910-
1930.

✍Internal rhyme is rhyming of two or more words in the

same line of poetry. For example, I want to fight, in the
Sunday night. The macabre element in drama was introduced
by John Lyly.

✍The line "I am no Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be ....... "
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allegory or is a project in the political economy Social Satire.

✍The most obvious feature of Johnson's The Lives of the

Poets is the equipoise between Biography and criticism.

✍"The Kelson of creation is love". The line occurs in Walt

Whitman's "Song of Myself".

✍The early religious drama is associated with Miracles and

morality.
✍The Tale of Two Cities has a romantic hero with a
weakness.

✍Sheridan's first play was The Rivals.

✍Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism of excess of
emotion.

✍"'The Valley of Ashes' features in the novel The Great

Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald.

✍Chaucer refers to the Friar when he says 'He knew the

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✍"She is inspired but diabolically inspired". The lady

referred to is Saint Joan.

✍Gerald tames the Arab mare in Women in Love by

Lawrence. Tennyson's poem about women's rights and
women's sphere is The Princess.

✍"Hymn to Adversity" (1762) is a poem by Thomas Gray.

✍The King James Bible was published in 1611.
✍"The Figure a Poem Makes" is an essay by Robert Frost.
✍"Ripeness is all" is a phrase from King Lear Act V scene ii.
✍A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy was published in
1904.

✍Topsy appears in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher

Stowe.

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stands for External nature.

✍A credit for the first use of the term "romantic" is

attributed to Friedrich Schlegel.

✍Gudrun is a character in the novel Woman in Love by D. H.

Lawrence.

✍July's People is a novel by Nadine Gordimer.

✍Heroic Couplet is a pair of Rhyming iambic pentameter
lines.

✍Gestalt' theory of literature considers text as a unified

whole. It is attributed to a German Max Wertheimer. Margaret
Laurence is a novelist from Canada.

✍'Anagnorisis' is a term used by Aristotle for describing the

moment of discovery by the protagonist.

✍In Richard III, a play by Shakespeare, we find widowed

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✍Seamus Heaney is a British poet who has translated

Beowulf.

✍The Praise ofChimney-Sweepers is an essay by Charles

Lamb.

✍The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner is a novel by

Alan Sillitoe, who is one of the angry young man.
✍In Black Venus, Angela Carter takes elements from the
poetry61/151 of the famous French poet Baudelaire and
places them in a very different paradigm.

✍Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a three-part

structure in a classic ode.

✍"The words "where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are
they?" occur in "Ode to Autumn" written in 1819.

✍"Music that gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids

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✍Emma by Jane Austen opens with a young woman who is

'handsome, clever and rich'.

✍It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I, "Milton belongs

tothe Devil's party without knowing it". William Blake made
this statement.
✍Live Like Pigs (1958) is a play by Arden.
✍'A woman drew her long black hair out tight/ And fiddled
whisper music on those strings'. These lines are from the
section "What the thunder said" of Eliot's The Waste Land.

✍The chronological order of Achebe's novels is

Things Fall Apart (1958)
No Longer at Ease (1960)
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💐Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders is considered to be the best by E. M. Forster.

🌾Reflections on the Revolution in France is a political pamphlet written by
the Irish statesman Edmund Burke and published in November 1790.
Edmund Burke denounced the French Revolution in it.

🌾The line "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" appears in The Old
Man and the Sea.

🌾Robert Frost is known as "A New England Poet".

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🌾Bertolt Brecht's concept of epic theatre was influenced by Erwin

Piscator.

🌾The relationship between Othello and lago is an example of irony. The

rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is abab, cdcd, efef, gg.

🌾Using "the Bench" for the judiciary is an example of Synecdoche.

🌾 Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, trochee, dactyl and a first paeon is
often called sprung rhythm.
🌾The phrase "dear inheritor" is from the poem "Package for a Distant
Future" by Sylvia Kantaris.

🌾The following lines are from Dryden's Mac Flecknoe. 'Even I, a dunce of
more renown than they, Was sent before but to prepare thy way'.

🌾Fanny Burney's Evelina is about a young lady's entry into the English
fashionable society.

🌾The unexpurgated text of Lady Chatterley's Lover was published

🌾Sir Andrew Freeport is a character in The Coverley Papers by Addison.
🌾The Grand Inquisitor is a character in Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor
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🌾Bradley Pearson is the narrator of Iris Murdoch's novel The Black Prince.
🌾Victorian Compromise' is an expression first used by G. K. Chesterton.
🌾More's Latin Masterpiece Utopia was translated into English in 1551 by
Ralph Robinson.

🌾The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry is written by Harold Bloom in

1973.

🌾Ben Jonson and Samuel Daniel are not members of the group, 'The
University Wits'.
🌾William Beckford's oriental fantasy Vathek was originally written in French
in 1786.

🌾The term 'American Renaissance' was first used by F. O. Matthiessen in

1941.

🌾"Gladly would he learn, and gladly teach" is a line from Chaucer's

Prologue to Canterbury Tales.

🌾The correct chronological order is The Playboy of the Western World

(1907) by J.M. Synge, Justice (1910) by Galsworthy, Saint Joan (1923) by G.
B. Shaw and The Family Reunion (1939) by T. S. Eliot.

🌾The second part of Pilgrim's Progress was published in 1678 and the first
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Aldous Huxley and Nineteen Eighty Four (1949) by George Orwell.

🌾Roland Barthes is the author of The Death of the Author (1967). The
author of the Elizabethan sonnet sequence Idea is Michael Drayton.

🌾Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) is a rewriting of the
Victorian novel Jane Eyre.

🌾The Romantic Imagination (1952) is the title of a book by C. M.

Bowra.

🌾"Ode on the Spring" was written by Thomas Gray in 1746.

The following works are matched with their respective authors.

🌾 Darwin - The Origin of Species (1859)

🌾George Eliot - Adam Bede (1859)
🌾 J. S. Mill - On Liberty (1859)
🌾 Ruskin - Unto This Last (1860)
🌾Three Guineas is the title of a book by Virginia Woolf in 1938.
🌾Harold Pinter's first four plays are The Room (1957), The Dumb
Waiter (1957), The Birthday Party (1957) and The Caretaker (1959).

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🌾T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland was first published in The Criterion in 1919.
🌾The phrase, 'bottomless perdition' occurs in Milton's Paradise Lost in
Book I.

🌾The correct chronological order of Eugene O'Neill's works

Hairy Ape (1922),Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) by O'Neil, A Streetcar
Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams and Death of a Salesman
(1949) by Arthur Miller.

The following characters are matched with the plays in which they appear.

🌾Beatrice - Much ado about nothing.

🌾Hermione - The Winter'sTale.
🌾Vittoria Corombona - The White Devil.
🌾The Chartist Demonstration in London involving the third presentation of
the Charter took place in 1848.

"Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of

Eternity, Until Death tramples it into fragments"

🌾The above lines are from Shelley's "Adonais" (1821).

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🌾The book, The Religion of Man is written by Rabindranath Tagore.
🌾In the poem "Windhover" Hopkins uses Cross Rhyme which he termed as
sprung rhythm.

🌾Dickens attacks the New Poor Law of 1834 in the opening chapters of
Oliver Twist.

🌾"Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath, O my God, take the gentle
path". These lines are taken from the poem "Discipline" by Herbert.
🌾An epithalamium is a poem written specifically for the bride on the way to
her marital chamber. Epithalamion of Edmund Spenser (1595) is a good
example. At the close of "In Memoriam A. H. H.", Tennyson has appended a
poem, on the nuptials of his sister, which is strictly an epithalamium. E. E.
Cummings also returns to the form in his poem "Epithalamion", which
appears in his 1923 book

🌾The Gutenberg Bible was first published in 1456.

🌾Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" remains 'a fragment' because he was
interrupted by a caller, a person on business from Porlock.

🌾The correct chronological order is Thinking About Women (1938) by

Margaret Anderson, The Prisoner of Sex (1971) by Norman Mailer, Sexual
Politics (1970) by Kate Millet and The Second Sex (1949) by Simone de
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The poem is written in 28 rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter.

🌾Eliot uses St. Augustine and Buddha concurrently in The Waste Land.
🌾The author of The Provok'd Husband, Sir John Vanbrugh, in 1728 also
wrote Careless Husband and She Would and She Would not, and The
Provoked Wife (1697).

🌾Simon in Golding's Lord of the Flies is associated with Christ.

🌾The complete title of Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy is The
Strange and Surprising Adventures of Tristram Shandy (1759)/ The Life and
Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
🌾If a poem ends in an unstressed syllable, the ending is called a feminine
ending.

🌾Salman Rushdie's Shame is set in Pakistan. The central theme of the

novel is that violence is born out of shame.

🌾The correct chronological order is Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), Bunyan's

Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Dryden's Hind and the Panther (1687) and
Hutchinson's Memoirs (1806).

The Little Minister is a novel by James M. Barrie.

🌾Jonathan Swift's epitaph reads: "one who strove with all his might to
champion liberty".
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🎋The chronological order of the publication of the following works is Vanity

Fair, Henry Esmond, Middlemarch and The Return of the Native.

🎋Pre - Raphaelite poetry is mainly concerned with form and design. The
concept of "mad woman in the attic" can be traced to Jane Eyre.

🎋Ruskin is often considered as “the prophet of modern society”. His first

two lectures in Sesame and Lilies give his views on education, and human
society.

🎋The Tapyser is not a pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales.

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🎋The chronological order of Shakespearean Tragedies is Hamlet, Othello,

King Lear, and Macbeth.

🎋Pope's Essay on Criticism sums up the art of poetry as taught first by

Longinus.

🎋Swift's Tale of a Tub is a satire on dogma and superstition.

🎋Dr. Johnson started The Rambler.
🎋Edmund Burke cautioned against the dangers of popular liberty.
🎋Allen Ginsberg's Vision of America is inspired by Walt Whitman.
🎋Michael Ondaatje represents the Sri Lankan diaspora.
🎋Out of Africa is the film adaptation of a work by Karen Blixen.
🎋The theatre of cruelty is associated with Antonin Artaud.
🎋The Empire Writes Back was written by Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin and
Gareth Griffiths.

🎋A particle is a patchwork of words, sentences and passages.

🎋"Careless she is with artful Care/Affecting to seem unaffected" is an
example of paradox.
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🎋Samuel Beckett wrote Endgame.

🎋The Plough and the Stars was written by Sean O'casey.
🎋The subtitle of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel is A poem.
🎋Samuel Butler's Hudibras is modelled upon Don Quixote.
🎋John Bunyan was the last of the Christian Humanists.
🎋The narrative of Raja Rao's Kanthapura is based on the Puranas.
🎋Arundhati Roy wrote Algebra of Infinite Justice in 2001.
🎋Achebe wrote "A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude".
🎋"Jindiworobak" movement relates to Australian literature.
🎋 The Montreal group of poets championed the cause of Modernist poetry.
🎋The figure of the "Abyssinian maid" appears in "Kubla Khan".
Coleridge's statement that imagination "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in
order to recreate" relates to the primary imagination.

🌾"Did he who made the Lamb made thee" appears in "The Tyger" by
William Blake.
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🎋Bharata Muni composed the Natya Shastra.

🎋Thechronological order of the emergence of the following critical
practices is
Structuralism, New Criticism, Deconstruction, Reader Response and New
Historicism.

🎋"Peripeteia" means reversal of fortune.

🎋The correct chronological order of Shakespearean plays is Love's
Labours Lost (1597), Twelfth Night (1602), Othello (1603), The Tempest
(perf. 1611).
🎋The chronological order of the publication of the following works is Utopia
(1516), Ralph Roister Doister (1566), Shepherds Calendar (1579), Astrophel
and Stella (1591). The order of evolution of the different genres is Sonnet,
periodical essay, gothic novel and absurd play.

🎋The chronological order of the lifetime of the following writers is T. S.

Eliot, Stephen Spender, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes.

🎋Longinus defines Sublime as a kind of loftiness and excellence in

language.

🎋Negative capability is a term used by Keats which is the ability of a man to

be in "uncertainties, mysteries,doubts, withoutany irritable reaching after
fact and reason".

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"Lycidas", Adonais, "Thyrsis" and "In Memory of W B Yeats".

🎋The chronological order of the publication of the following critical works

is "Two Uses of Language" (1924) by I. A. Richards, "The Death of the
Author" (1967) by Roland Barthes, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse
of Human Sciences" (1967) by Derrida and "Signs taken for Wonders" (1983)
by Franco Moretti.

🎋The first four parts of Eliot's Waste Land are ordered as "The Burial of the
Dead", "A Game of Chess", "Fire Sermon" and "Death by Water".

✍The chronological order of the publication of the following works in Indian

English is
 Kanthapura by Raja Rao (1938), Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
(1954), Midnight's Childrenby
Salman Rushdie (1981), Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh (1995).

✍The chronological order of the publication of the following works is

Craft of Fiction (1921) by Percy Lubbock, Aspects of the Novel (1927) by E.
M. Forster, The English Novel: Form and Function (1953) by Dorothy Van
Ghent, The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes.

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🎋Diary writing - Samuel Pepys
🎋Girish Karnad - Kannada
🎋Eliza Doolittle - Pygmalion
✍William Morris is a Pre-Raphaelite.
✍Gieve Patel is a Gujarati.
🎋Pearl is the daughter of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.
🎋Chaucer's" The Knight's Tale" is a high romance told in heroic couplets.
🎋Marlowe's first original work was Tamburlaine the Great.
🎋Marvell pays his homage to the Protector in a tribute to the royal
"Horatian ode upon Cromewell's Return" from Ireland.

🎋The Life and Death of Mr. Badman is written by John Bunyan.

🎋Dr. Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in
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🎋Carlyle's Sartor Resartus was written under the influence of German

romance.

🎋The image of Neptune taming the sea horse appears in Robert

Browning's "My Last Duchess".

🎋T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is dedicated to Il miglior fabro ("The better
Craftsman") which refers to Ezra Pound.

🎋The locale of Riders to the Sea is Aran Island.

🎋The "Bog" poems are associated with Seamus Heaney.
🎋Edward Bond's Bingo deals with the life of Shakespeare.
🎋Arthur Miller's The Death of a Salesman is mainly about American dream.
🎋The patient in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient is Almasy.
🎋"The concept of "arche-writing" is developed by Derrida.
🎋A figure of speech in which two terms opposite in meaning are placed
side by side in one phrase is known as oxymoron.

🎋The chronological order of the lifetime of the Shakespearean critics is

Bradley, Spurgeon,
T. S. Eliot and Stephen Greenblatt.

🎋The chronological order of the movements in English history is Pre-

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is Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson.

🎋The chronological order of the following works is Religio Medici (1642),

Areopagitica (1644), Urn Burial (1658), Essay on Dramatic Poesy (1668).

🎋The chronological order of the lifetime of the following Indian English

writers is Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das and Meena Alexander.

🎋The correct chronological sequence of the creation of characters: Lady

Havisham, Dorothea, Jude and Mrs Morel.

🎋The chronological order of the publication of the following critical works

is Theory of Literature (1942), The Well-Wrought Urn (1947), The Verbal Icon
(1954) and Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983).

🎋 The chronological order of the lifetime of the following writers is W. B.

Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer and Seamus Heaney.

🎋The following terms are associated with the respective figures.

✍ Hjelmslev - Glossematics
✍Magic Realism - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
✍Emily Bronte - Yorkshire Moors
✍The Castle of Otranto - Gothic novel
🎋The Diverting History of John Gilpin is written by William Cowper.
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🎋A. D. Hope wrote the poem "Australia".

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🎋The Office of Circumlocution occurs in Dickens's Little Dorrit.

🎋The novel Mary Barton is written by Mrs Gaskell.
🎋Martha Quest is written by Doris Lessing.
🎋"The term "Stream of Consciousness" was taken from the book The
Principles of Psychology by William James.

🎋G. S. Fraser's The Golden Bough focuses on Symbols.

🎋Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman relies for its tragic seriousness on the
fate of Willy Loman.

🎋Margaret Atwood's Survival makes a case for Canadian identity in

Canadian literature as characterized by the symbol of 'survival'. The Moor's
Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie refers to the 15th century Spain as a starting
point.

🎋Imamu Amiri Baraka is An American writer.

🎋The Miscellany was published from The Writers Workshop.
🎋Chinua Achebe recreates the life of the Ibo community.
🎋Nadine Gordimer is a White female author is sympathetic to the cause of
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🎋Eliot's theory of "objective correlative" appeared in his essay entitled

"Hamlet and His Problems".

🎋Sprung Rhythm is an example of Verse.

🎋"More is thy due than more than all can pay" is an example of Inversion.
🎋Unrhymed metrical composition consisting of five iambic measures in
each line is called blank verse.

💐Gynocriticism" focuses on Women as writers.

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🦋In his poem "Whispers of Immortality", T. S. Eliot says that

the dramatists, John Webster and John Donne, "was much
possessed by death/ And saw the skull beneath the skin"
and a poet "knew the anguish of the marrow/ The ague of the
skeleton".

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🦋"I waited for you impatiently .... all this blasted psychology
is a double-edged weapon", is uttered by Porfiry Petrovich to
Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment.

🦋Three Germanic tribes, the Jutes, the Angles and the

Saxons invaded Britons in the fifth century AD, bringing with
them the roots of modern English.

🦋"Yeshwant Rao", "Chaitanya" and "The Priest" are parts of

the series of poems called Jejuri, written by Arun Kolatkar.
🦋Bertolt Brecht's concept of alienation was a rejection of
the idea that realism was the only mode of art critique that a
capitalist society should produce. Alienation is best
described as distancing artistic conventions to prevent an
emotional catharsis.

🦋Ngugi wa Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from

English to Gikuyu.

🦋Alexander Pope commends Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius,

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elegy, anticipating the poet's death.

🦋In John Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress, The Slough of

Despond is the first obstacle encountered by Christian on his
progress.

🦋"Burnt Norton" - "East Coker" - "The Dry Salvages" - "Little

Gidding" is the correct chronological sequence of publication
of the four parts of The Four Quartets.
🦋 The novels of Charles Dickens deal with the problems of
the discontents of an urban civilization, share a sense of fun
and determining optimism, and incorporate elements of
popular contemporary culture.

🦋Published in 1604, the first monolingual English Dictionary

was Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabetical.

🦋Thomas More's Utopia consists of two parts. Book I is

narrated by Thomas More and Book II by is narrated by
Raphael Hythloday. Here, both of them are first-person

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us back our primitive unattached state."

🦋The following lines are matched with the respective

poems of Ted Hughes.

👉 "The boa-constrictor's coil/ Is a fossil" - "The Jaguar"

👉 "My manners are tearing off heads / The allotment of
death" "Hawk Roosting"
👉 "More coiled steel than living" - "Thrushes"
"Time in the sea eats its tail" - "Relic"
🦋Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands expresses the
contrast between the solidarity of shipboard life and the
profound underlying loneliness of existence thus: "loneliness
impenetrable and transparent, elusive and everlasting .... that
surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the
cradle to the grave, and perhaps beyond".

🦋John Dryden's two philosophico-religious poems are The

Hind and the Panther and Religio Laici.

🦋Cambridge University figures in William Wordsworth's

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🦋Alexander Pope translated Homer.

🦋Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy is a coming-of-age novel.
🦋The English ban on James Joyce's Ulysses was lifted in
1936.

🦋Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and T. E. Hulme are imagists.

🦋Thomas Carew's Poems appeared in print in 1640 and
contain avariety of amorous addresses to and reflections on,
a fictional mistress known as Celia.

🦋The following works are matched with their respective

authors.

👉William Golding - Darkness Visible

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🦋English poet Matthew Arnold referred to Oxford as "that

sweet city with her dreaming spires".

🦋Rossetti is a poet as well as a painter.

🦋Maurya is a character in Rider to the Sea by John
Millington Synge.

🦋Osborne's Look Back in Anger was first staged in 1956.

🦋Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is a fictional biography.
🦋Hopkins' "Curtal Sonnet" consists of 10 1/2 lines.
🦋God is referred to as the , President of Immortals" in Tess
of the D'bervilles.

🦋Balnibarbi is mentioned in the book Laputa of Gulliver's

Travels. The phrase 'Sweetness and Light' was first used by
Swift.

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🦋The Lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all
compact". These lines are from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

🦋 John Donne 'affects the metaphysics'. This remark was

made by John Dryden.

🦋The source of E. M. Forster's title Where Angels Fear to

Tread is Pope's An Essay on Criticism.
🦋 Lamia is a narrative poem by Keats.
🦋"In Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold recommend
fusion of Hellenism and Hebraism.

🦋The criterion of Leavis' Great Tradition is reader-response.

🦋The dictum 'only connect' is central to the writings of E.M
Forster. The Chartist Movement sought Extension of the
political rights to the working class.

🦋Apologia Pro Vista Sua by Newman is a defence of the

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🦋"Plurality", according to John Stuart Mill, is necessary for

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the intellectual enrichment of the society.

🦋Negative Capability is depersonalized empathy with

experience.

🦋Robert Herrick is a Cavalier poet.

🦋Eliot's 'Objective correlative' signifies the writer's ability to
objectify the desired states of mind.
🦋In Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson says 'There is no moral
purpose'. The Renaissance is written by Walter Pater.

🦋The line 'Love is not Time's fool' occurs in a sonnet by

William Shakespeare

🦋The poem "The Old playhouse" is written by Kamala Das.

🦋A discourse Culture and Imperialism is written by Edward
Said. Misanthrope is a person who dislikes humankind and
avoids human society.

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American poet who wrote A Bird in the House and In the

Night.

🦋Canopus in Argos: Archive is a sequence of five Science

Fiction novels by Doris Lessing.

🦋Albert Camus's The Outsider is an existentialist novel.

🦋Character Raskolnikov and Sonya occurred in Fyodor
Dostoevsk Crime and Punishment (1866).
🦋Chinua Achebe generally writes about the Igbo society
and can best bedescribed as a writer of cross cultural
encounter.

🦋Stanley Fish belongs to the reader-response theory.

🦋In Langland's Piers Plowman, Piers appears finally as
Jesus. It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in
all four stories.

🦋Pope's An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of Lord

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💧"In "The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream", Keats sees a ladder leading upwards
and is addressed by a prophetess in the following words: "None can usurp
this height ... / But those to whom the miseries of the world/ Are misery, and
will not let them rest." The name of the prophetess is Moneta.

💧Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse has a tripartite structure. The three

parts are named "The Window", "Time Passes", and "The Lighthouse".

💧Voss by Patrick White is based on the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the

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included William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.

💧The seven deadly sins are portrayed in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Some
of the sins are lust and envy.

💧Richardson's Pamela had its origin in an elementary letter-writing manual.

💧The Medall, a poem written by John Dryden in 1681, is sub-titled A Satyre
against Sedition.

💧 "Full fathom five thy father lies" is an example of alliteration from

Shakespeare's Tempest.
💧A troche is a two-syllable foot of verse in which the stress falls on the first
syllable.

💧Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" combines two poetic forms, the lyric
and the ballad.

💧E. M. Forster is associated with the quote, "Only connect" which is the
epigraph of his novel Howards End.

💧Feste is a clown in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

💧A boy falling out of the sky, children ... skating on a pond at the edge of
wood and the dogs go on with their doggy life are some of the images that
appear in Auden's poem "Musee des Beaux Arts".

💧The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard has a play within the play.
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💧James Thomson's long poem, The Seasons, revised and expanded all his
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life, began in the first instance as a poem entitled Winter.

💧Two cantos from the seventh book of The Faerie Queene appeared
posthumously. They are known as Mutability cantos.

💧Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from historicism.
💧Max's son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter's The Home Coming is a pimp.
💧In the second ending of John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman,
Charles Smithson's lawyer finds that Sarah has been living in the house of D.
G. Rossetti.
💧In 1692, William Congreve published Incognita, a work of fiction which is
dubbed a 'novel' on its title-page. The sub-title of it is Love and Duty
Reconcil'd.

💧"In "Tradition and the Individual Talent", T. S. Eliot uses the analogy of the
catalyst to elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry. He cites the example of
a filament of platinum and in the poetic process this is equivalent to the mind
of the poet.

💧Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets combines analytical

criticism, literary history, and personal biography.

💧J. M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize on two occasions for his works, Life
and Times of Michael K. and Disgrace.

💧Plato has a bearing on the composition of Shelley's "Adonais".

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💧Jeremy Collier - A Short View of the Immorality and Profanity of the Stage
💧Thomas Rymer - A Short View of Tragedy
✍The following characters are matched with the respective novels in which
they appear.

💧 Pip - Great Expectations

💧Causaubon - Middlemarch
💧Becky Sharp - Vanity Fair
💧Heathcliff - Wuthering Heights
💧The closing sentence of W. M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair is "Which of us is
happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or, having it, is satisfied?"

💧Lovewit in Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist leaves his house, setting the
stage for his servant Face, along with Subtle, a fake alchemist to fleece
people because of an epidemic of plague.

💧By the end of the 1950s, novelists like Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin, Alan
Sillitoe and David Storey were routinely lumped together as representatives
of "Kitchen-sink realism".

💧David Sylvester in 1954 wrote the article "The Kitchen Sink", calling
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💧In Biographia Literaria, S. T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the

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faculty by which the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.

💧The Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels have so few words in their language

because their wants and passions are fewer than human wants and
passions. So, they need fewer words for expression.

💧The Wandering Islands is the title of A.D. Hope's first published book of
poems.

💧The Bhasmasura myth is used in R. K. Narayan's The Man-Eater of

Malgudi.

💧During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from
French and Latin.

💧The last word in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is "The"

💧One of the key terms in Michael Foucault's work is discourse. This is best
described as conceptual frameworks which enable some mode of thought
and deny or severely constrain certain others.

💧The narrators of Oroonoko are a woman and a purported eyewitness of

the events described.

💧Dr. Thomas Stockman in An Enemy of the People, a character of Henrik

Ibsen, speaks the following lines: "The life of a normally constituted idea is
generally about seventeen or eighteen years, at the most twenty".

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💧Feminist criticism recuperates female writers ignored by the canon.

Feminist literary critics offer a criticism of the construction of gender.

💧Feminist literary critics mostly reject the essentializing of 'male' and

'female'. Amerika by Franz Kafka is alternatively titled as The Man Who
Disappeared.

💧Towards the end of Evelyn Waugh's, A Handful of Dust, the protagonist

Tony Last is trapped in the jungle by the calculating crazy Mr. Todd who
forces him to read and reread the novels of a particular author. Waugh has
also written a short story dealing with Tony's singular experience in the
jungle. It is based on Charles Dickens titled "The Man Who Liked Dickens".

💧At the beginning of the Restoration period, there was a seismic shift in the
social, political and religious attitudes of the English. England shifted from a
Republican Puritan Commonwealth to an aristocratic Anglican monarchy.

💧The Grammar-Translation Method in English Language Teaching lay a

special emphasis on accuracy.

💧"['They] then heaved out, / away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship."
This line describing Beowulf's departure from Geatland, is typical of the
poem's form and Old English poetic technique because it features
alliteration and it has strong stresses.

💧 P. Lal is a poet, a translator, a publisher and an essayist who founded a

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💧Russian formalism claimed that "the device is the only hero of literature".
💧In Jean Francois Lyotard's works, the term "language games", sometimes
also called "phrase regimens", denotes the multiplicity of communities of
meaning and the innumerable and incommensurable separate systems in
which meanings are produced.

💧Alice Munro is most famous for depicting the Ontario part of Canada.
💧In John Gay's Beggar's Opera, Peachum is a Fencer of stolen goods, and
a master of a gang of thieves and an Impleader of less powerful criminals.

💧In the opening stanza of "Song of Myself", Whitman begins his

spiritual awakening at the age of 37

💧Tennyson describes and condemns the spirit of aestheticism in "The

Palace of Art". He advocates that the sole religion is the worship of beauty
and of knowledge for their own sake and ignores human responsibility and
obligations of one's fellowmen.

💧Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author deliberately blurs

the border lines between the world of the theatre and the world of 'real life'
by carefully chiselled dialogues like:

"Don't you feel the ground beneath your feet as you reflect that this 'you'
which you feel today, all this present reality of yours, is destined to seem a
mere illusion to you tomorrow?" - Father to Stage Manager

💧In a poem written in memory of Major Robert Gregory, Lady Gregory's

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💧Jacques Derrida's work received some criticism from analytical

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philosophers. John Searle is one of his critics.

💧Vikram Seth bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet,
George Herbert, near Salisbury, England, in 1996.

💧Where Shall We Go This Summer and Cry the Peacock by Anita Desai
take as their subject the suppression and the oppression of Indian women.

💧The two Indian English authors who received appreciation and

encouragement from their British counterparts are R. K. Narayan and Mulk
Raj Anand. R. K. Narayan was appreciated by Graham Greene and Mulk Raj
Anand by E. M. Forster.

The following characters are matched with the respective works in which
they appear.

💧Count Fosco - The Woman in White

💧Maggie Tulliver - Mill on the Floss
💧Lucy Snowe - Villette
💧 Margaret Hale - North and South
💧Poet Alun Lewis was accidently killed in Burma by a pistol shot in 1944.
His posthumously published collection of poems "Ha! Ha! Among the
Trumpets" is divided into three sections. The first section describes a tense,
waiting England and the second the voyage to the East. In the third section,
he uncomfortably comes to terms with the alien contours, the harsh light
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💧In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Dryden refers to William Shakespeare

with the phrase "he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature".

💧Emily Dickinson's use of "open form" or "free verse" is comparable to that

of her contemporary American poet Walt Whitman. In "A Letter of the
Authors".

💧 Edmund Spenser admits that the two characters, Belphoebe and The
Faerie Queene in Faerie Queene, represent Queen Elizabeth.

💧The African novelist Nuruddin Farah was a student of philosophy and

literature in India.
💧William Blake was influenced by the religious writings of Jacob Boehme
and Emanuel Swedenborg.

💧The British King, Alfred the Great having defeated the Viking invaders,
consciously used the English language to create a sense of national identity
and retain political control over independent countries.

💧In "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell provides a list of
rules to aid in curing the English language. The final rule was to break any of
these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

💧In his Defence of Poesy, Heroical or epic poetry is the "best and most
accomplished kind of poetry" in Sidney's estimation.

💧The Romantic poet Leigh Hunt in What is Poetry? makes the

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🍄"The lines written by T.S. Eliot in "East Coker", "In my beginning is my

end", is used by Anita Desai as the epigraph for her novel, Baumgartner's
Bombay.

🍄Falstaff's first words in HenryIV, Part I are"Now,Hal, whattime of day is it,

lad?"

🍄In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the Parson and the
Ploughman are examples of deep Christian goodness.

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🍄Ray Bradbury has titled one of his short story collections - Golden Apples
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Aengus".

🍄Travesties by Tom Stoppard, set in Zurich during the First World War,
presents a character's interactions with James Joyce as he was writing
Ulysses

🍄 Tristan Zara during the rise of Dadaism, and Lenin leading up to the
Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zurich at that time.

🍄Ulysses describes about Telemachus in these lines from "Ulysses":

"Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere Of common duties, decent not
to fail In offices of tenderness ... " where that he is patient and selfless.
🍄In Restoration comedies, the London life of hedonistic young men is
portrayed. The names encapsulate traits. The heroines seek a say in the
choice of a marriage partner.

🍄At the end of Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author,
the Boy commits suicide.

🍄Ambitious, energetic, and scheming are the adjectives which describe

Becky Sharp, a major character in Vanity Fair.

🍄Lopakhin in Anton Chekhov's play, The Cherry Orchard, is the first to

suggest the selling of the orchard.

🍄The correct chronological sequence of the founding of the following 18th

century English periodicals is:
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🍄Northrop Frye identified "strangled articulateness" as a theme in

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🍄Elaine Showalter and Sandra Gilbert are gynocritics.

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🍄Padmini, Kapila and Devadatta are the three protagonists in Girish

Karnad's play Hayavadana.

🍄Aurobindo Ghosh, the author of "Savitri", taught for some time at Baroda
College after his return from England in 1893. He taught English and French.

🍄Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander can be classified as an epyllion.

🍄English, German and Scandinavian belong to the Indo-European language
family.

🍄 Longinus states that immoderate emotion becomes a major obstacle in

the way of achieving the sublime.

🍄Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs are beat writers.
Robert Lowell is a confessional poet.

🍄Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue was a masque written by Ben Jonson,

staged on Twelfth Night and it was the first masque in which Prince Charles
took part.

🍄Elizabeth Bishop's poems are best remembered for their conversational

intimacy.

🍄William Godwin's Caleb Williams, a chilling novel of surveillance and

entrapment, had the alternative title Things as They Are.

🍄In "My Last Duchess", the Duchess's misdemeanours according to the

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🍄In his essay "From Work to Text", Roland Barthes says that the text is held
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in language and the text is a methodological field.

🍄Seamus Heaney's poem "Digging" in his first volume of poetry, Death of a

Naturalist, illustrates his respect for the natural world of the farming
community and the labour of his ancestors, his displaced vocation of digging
with a pen, and his preoccupation with his roots.

🍄Here is a list of Indian writers who have translated their work into English.
👉O.V. Vijayan - Malayalam.
👉Vilas Sarang - Marathi.
👉 Krishna Baldev Vaid - Hindi.
👉Girish Karnad - Kannada.
🍄In Book VIII of Paradise Lost, Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness
as his passion for Eve before Raphael.

👉The correct chronological sequence of the English texts is:

The Owl and the Nightingale (12th or 13th century) - Troilus andCriseyde
(1380s) - Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) - Utopia (1516)

🍄 In Sophocles's play King Oedipus, Laius, the erstwhile ruler of

Thebes, was murdered at the crossroads on his way to Delphi.

🍄The quintessentially metafictional novel, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller

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🍄The novel Maurice by E. M. Forster appeared posthumously in 1971. Since

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it had a homosexual theme, Forster considered its subject matter too

indelicate for publication during his life time. It was influenced by a writer
Edward Carpenter who was a socialist and an open homosexual.

🍄B. B. Kachru has elaborated on the "Indianisation" of English.

🍄Literary texts are universal and transcend history, that is the historical
context of their production and reception has no bearing on the literary work
which is aesthetically autonomous, having its own laws, being a world into
itself. This is the view advocated by formalism.

🍄As Gunter Grass's novel The Tin Drum opens, we find Oskar Matzerath in
a mental hospital writing his story.
🍄D. H. Lawrence's 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in Mexico.
🍄Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth wrote historical novels. Kazuo
Ishiguro's novels, An Artist of the Floating World and A Pale View of Hills, are
set mostly in Japan.

🍄In The Advancement of Learning, Bacon discusses the need for a more
advanced study on moral knowledge and civil knowledge.

🍄Carlyle's Sartos Resartus purports to be the autobiography of a mad

German philosopher edited by an equally fictitious editor.

🍄As Sidney argues in A Defence of Poesy, the discipline of poetry is more

useful and praiseworthy than history because in poetry, man can see "virtue
exalted and vice punished" while history is only a collection of facts.
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🍄"The title "Morte d'Arthur" means the Death of Arthur.

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🍄Nirad C. Chaudhuri called Kim "the finest novel in the English language
with an Indian theme".

🍄Alfred Lord Tennyson is the author of the poem "The Defence of

Lucknow" dealing with the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of
Indian Mutiny.

🍄Roman Jakobson holds the view that metaphor and metonymy are the
two fundamental structures of language.

🍄Elinor and Marianne are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen's Sense
and Sensibility.
🍄Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit can be
characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman.

👉The correct chronological sequence of publication:

🍄The Advancement of Learning (1605) - Paradise Lost (1667) MacFlecknoe
(1682) - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

🍄Poe's "The Raven" mourns the death of Poe's lost beloved Lenore.
🍄In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macduff was "untimely ripped" from his
mother's womb.

🍄Alexander Pope revised "The Rape of the Lock" three times. In the final
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🍄An Imaginary Life by David Malouf tells the story of the Roman poet, Ovid
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during his exile in Tomis.

🍄Virginia Woolf dismissed Ulysses as "a misfire".

🍄Daniel Defoe offers his novel Robinson Crusoe to his readers as a
collection of "Strange Surprising Adventures".

🍄In his Defence of Poesy, Sidney recommends The Mirror of Magistrates

and The Shepherd's Calendar as good examples of English Poesy.

🍄In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Mr. Brocklehurst accuses Jane of lying
when he visits Lowood School.

🍄William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying contains one of the shortest chapters in

literary history. The name of the chapter is "My mother is a fish".

🍄The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular history

of a remarkable woman, St. Theresa.

🍄The following lines from the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" written by Keats
is an example of Synaesthesia:

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been

Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!

🍄"The term "poetic justice" to designate the idea that the good are
rewarded and the evil punished, was devised by Thomas Rhymer. Miles
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✍T.S. Eliot's The Love song of Alfred Prufrock is a Dramatic Monologue.

👉Eliot called the poem a "love song" in reference to Rudyard Kipling's poem
"The Love Song of Har Dyal"

Dramatic Monologue.-
👉 A type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character
Other works in dramatic monologue
1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Ulysses
2. Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach.
3. My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning

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✍Hillis Miller's The Critic as Host has been viewed as a reply to -

The Deconstructive Angel.(By MH ABRAHAM)

✍Who regarded Tristram Shandy as a very insipid, tedious performance? -

Horace Walpole.

👉His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of
Otranto (1764)

✍Name the historical tragedy written by John Ford -

Perkin Warbeck.
✍Who wrote Mary Barton? -
Elizabeth Gaskell.

✍Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive to seek, to find and
not to yield.
These lines are from -

Ulysses.

✍Who wrote The Seventeenth Century Background? -

Basil Willey.

👉He was British scholar of English literature and intellectual history.

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John Purvey.
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John Gower.

✍Which 20th century novelist made extensive use of Epiphany? -

James Joyce.
Epiphany- an experience of a sudden and striking realization.
👉 Joyce used epiphany as a literary device within each entry of his short
story collection Dubliners
👉 Joyce had first expounded on epiphany's meaning in the fragment
Stephen Hero.
👉 In Hinduism, epiphany might refer to Arjuna's realization that Krishna is
indeed representing the Universe.
✍O Thou soul of my soul I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest.
Whom does Browning address in these lines? -

His wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

✍Who laments Faustus's( Dr. Faustus by Marlow) hellish fall thus: Cut is the
branch that might have grown full straight/ And burnt is Apollo's laurel
bough ... ? -

The Chorus
Chorus- Group of singers who comment, participate in a Play.

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✍Tis Pity She's a Whore is a play by -

John Ford.

✍Which is Sterne's quasi-autobiographieal work? - Journal to Stella.

✍The Geneva School of critics pioneered Structural Linguistics.
Prominent figures
1. Ferdinand de Saussure
2.Charles Bally
✍Who was deeply interested in German Philosophy of Transcendentalism?
Thomas De Quincy.
His important works
1. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
2. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.
3. On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts.
4. The English Mail-Coach
(Note- all above asked in UGC NET)

✍Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the
world are lines from Yeats -
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Yeats believed that the current gyre, the one that had been in existence
since the birth of Christ, was coming to an end, and would be replaced by a
new historical epoch characterized by bloodshed, chaos, and disorder.

✍She broke his car and his heart

figure of speech?

zeugma
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🔶Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", a key work of the Beat Movement, was dedicated
to Carl Solomon.

🟢The following are the views of Samuel Johnson on the death of Cordelia
in King Lear.
🔺It is contrary to the natural ideas of justice.
🔺It is contrary to the hope of the reader.
🔺 It is contrary to the faith of chronicles.
🔸The Absence of War, Racing Demon, and Murmuring Judges are part of a
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🔹Father Dolan punishes Stephen with the pandybat in Joyce's Portrait of

the Artist as a Young Man because Stephen is not doing his work as his
glasses are broken.

🔸Using a non-linear narrative, the American novel Ceremony

explores the psychic damage to a veteran of World War II and
shows how a measure of healing is attained through his acceptance of
Laguna myths and rituals.

🔹Lyuba Ranevsky sees her dead mother walking through the orchard when
she looks at the orchard in Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard.

🔸Swift gets the idea of writing "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" after the
reading of a maxim by la Rochefoucauld.

🔹Mutton and pork are words borrowed from French after the Norman
Conquest.

🔹In the Oresteia trilogy by Aeschylus, Cassandra, cursed by Apollo,

predicts the death of Agamemnon, though her prophecy is ignored. Orestes,
who has come back with the intention of murdering Clytemnestra
unexpectedly meets her, and pretending to be a stranger, tells her that
Orestes is dead. Orestes, pursued by the Furies, flees from them when they
fall asleep. Then, Clytemnestra's ghost appears to wake them up.

🔸The first instance of female cross-dressing with the disconcerting

nuances of a boy actor dressing as a boy while playing the role of a woman
in the dramatic world of Shakespeare occurs in The Two Gentlemen of
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🔸The English journal The Tatler announced that it was "principally intended
for the use of Politick Persons who are so publick-spirited as to neglect their
own Affairs to look into Transactions of State" but failed to live up to this and
amused readers with "accounts of Gallantry, Pleasure and Entertainment".

🔹The grammar-translation method of language teaching includes focus on

the grammar rules, the vocabulary memorization, and the written language.

🔹Rukmani is the narrator of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve.

🔸New Historicist critic would interpret Derrida's statement, "there is
nothing outside the text" into "literature" encompasses all cultural artefacts
and all the values, power relations, and ways of seeing reflected in those
artefacts; there is nothing outside of the "text" broadly conceived.

🔸Elizabeth Bennet and Anne Elliot two Austen heroines who are right-
minded but neglected in the beginning. However, they are gradually
acknowledged to be correct by the characters who have previously looked
down on them.

🔸The variety of English used between non-native speakers who do not

share a first language is called English as a lingua franca.

🔸 E. M. Forster wrote the libretto for the opera version of Billy Budd.
🔹 Jai Ratan, P. Lal, and Gordon C. Roadarmel have translated Premchand's
Godan.
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appear.
🔸 "mind forg'd manacles" - "London"

🔸 "eternal winter" - "Holy Thursday"

🔸 "fearful symmetry" - "The Tyger"
🔸"crimson joy" - "The Sick Rose"
🔹In the debate between the two birds in the Middle English poem "The Owl
and the Nightingale", Master Nicholas of Guildford acts as the arbiter.

🔸In the first scene of Goethe's Faust, Faust appears dejected by the study
of Philosophy, Law, Medicine and Theology. He turns to Magic art to acquire
infinite knowledge. But he fails and attempts to commit suicide in
desperation, but refrains at the final moment. The chiming of the bells
announcing Easter festivities prevents Faust from committing suicide.

🔸The novel The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad presents a young captain
who like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner is haunted by the
"vision of a ship drifting in calm and swinging in light airs, with all the crew
dying slowly about her decks" and who feels "the sickness of my soul ... the
weight of my sins ... my sense of unworthiness".

🔸""Holy Sonnet 17" is an elegy on John Donne's wife, who died in 1617.
🔸 Beryl Bainbridge Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November
1932 - 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool.
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🔻The Egoist - Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden

🔺 The English Review - Ford Madox Ford
🔻Blast - Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis.
🔹 Poetry: A Magazine of Verse - Harriet Monroe
🔸People should honour and respect all living things best expresses the
theme of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
🔹 "The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis" was proposed by Merrill
Swain.

🔹In Tristram Shandy, Corporal Trim's brother Tom describes the oppression
of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is
inspired by a letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man named
Ignatius Sancho. Sterne's reply became an integral part of 18th century
abolitionist literature.

🔸In Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, Yvette sings "The
Fraternization Song" to Mother Courage and Kattrin.

🔹In Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Emma goes every week for her
clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen under the pretext of taking piano
lessons.
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small events of ordinary life.

🔸In The Story of My Experiments with Truth, M. K. Gandhi covers the

narrative of his life from early childhood upto 1921.

🔹In a writing system, the minimal unit that can cause a difference of
meaning is called grapheme.

🔹Nnu Ego is a character in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.

🔸Etymon is the etymological source of a word.
🔹Code switching is changing from one language variety to another in
discourse.
🔸Cognate are words with a common ancestor.
🔹Pragmatics are the rules governing the social use of language.
🔸Heteroglossia functions in a novel in alliance with its stylistic system
incorporating multiple voices inscribed in social language and differentiated
components of a writer's ideological position.

🔹In Ulysses, Leopold Bloom works for a Dublin newspaper.

🔸The Caretaker and The Room are some of the early plays by Harold
Pinter.

🔹Thomas Carew, a contemporary of John Donne, wrote the following lines

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🔸In his poem "Australia", A.D. Hope says that Australia is "without songs,
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architecture, history" and the poet turns to her "to find/ The Arabian desert
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of the human mind/ Hoping if still from deserts prophets come".

🔸Basic English, a simplified and fundamental framework of English, was

formulated by I. A. Richards and C. K. Ogden.

🔹The British authors Hannah More and Anna Yearsley selfconsciously

engaged with the issue of slavery in some of their poems.

🔹Anita Desai wrote In Custody.

🔸Nayantara Sahgal wrote Rich Like Us.
🔹Arun Joshi wrote The Last Labyrinth.
🔸Kamala Markandaya wrote The Nowhere Man.
🔹The right chronological sequence is Sister Carrie (1900) - The Great
Gatsby (1925) - Beloved (1987) - The American Pastoral (1997)

🔸Marx and Engels originally used the term "ideology" in The German
Ideology to denote something that mystifies the actual material conditions
of society, a sort of false consciousness.

🔹"The plot of Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K. unravels the narrative
of a poor man of colour trying to survive in a civil-war situation, never taking
sides.

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🔹Northrop Frye's influential work, Anatomy of Criticism includes, as the

subtitle indicates, four Essays. The four essays are titled "Historical
Criticism: A Theory of Modes", "Ethical Criticism: A Theory of Symbols",
"Archetypal Criticism: A Theory of Myths", and "Rhetorical Criticism: A
Theory of Genres".

🔹In Robert Browning's "Andrea del Sarto", the speaker compares himself
with Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael.

🔹In Jonathan Swift's Gullivers Travels, Gulliver refers to William Dampier,

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🔹The following lines are spoken by Jacques in Shakespeare's As You Like

It: "All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players ... "

🔹The river Ganges and Humber are mentioned in Andrew Marvell's poem
"To His Coy Mistress".

🔹"The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" is an example of
ploce.

🔹These following images are part of W.H. Auden's poem "In Memory of
W.B. Yeats".
"Mercury sinking in the mouth of the dying day"
"Wolves running through evergreen forests"
"Silence invading the suburbs"

🔹Richard Crashaw is the author of Steps to the Temple.

🔹The following books are matched with their respective authors.
🔸Jim Dixon - Lucky Jim
🔸Jimmy Porter - Look Back in Anger
🔸Joe Lampton - Room at the Top
🔸Charles Lumley - Hurry on Down
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🔹Byron's work, Beppo revolves around a wife whose husband is presumed

to be lost at sea and she takes a lover in his absence. Everybody behaves
agreeably on the husband's return. Byron's technical skills in verse is in
display here as the work counterpoints the colloquial and the formal.

🔹Toru Dutt is the author of the poem, "Our Casuarina Tree".

🔹In the Jacobean play A Game at Chess, the Black King and his men,
representing Spain and the Jesuits, are checkmated by the White Knight,
Prince Charles. This political satire drew crowds to the Globe Theatre until
the Spanish ambassador protested and James I suppressed the play.

🔹Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with multinational

capitalism.

🔹Early in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, while Tony and his young son,
John Andrew, walk to the church, John tells his father a story he has heard
from the stable manager, Ben about a mule named Peppermint "who had
drunk his company's rum ration" in the First World War and subsequently
died.

🔹The Oxford English Dictionary was published in twelve volumes with its
current title in the year 1933.

🔹The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is notorious for its
many digressions across nine volumes and its failure to deliver a complete
autobiography. In the third volume, Tristram Shandy finally recounts his birth.

🔹Miguel de Cervantes's inimitable Don Quixote foreshadows metafictional

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🔹"In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature; art is
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an imitation of life. In order to argue his case, he gives the example of a chair.

🔹The Second Shepherd's Play contains the characters Coll, Gib, Dan and
Mak.

🔹Tereza, in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being,

troubled by Tomas's promiscuity, falls an easy prey to jealousy, fear and
nightmares. She dreams of cats attacking her as well as she dreams that
she is dead, stripped of her clothes and plagued by other naked corpses.

🔹The following are the opening lines of Wordsworth's "Immortality Ode":

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light
The glory and freshness of a dream ...

🔹These lines closely resemble the lines of Coleridge's poem "The

Mad Monk":
There was a time when earth, and sea, and skies
The bright green vale, and the forest's dark recess, With all things, lay before
mine eyes In steady loveliness ...

🔹Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market", a rare blend of allegory and fairy-tale

world, presents the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. Laura buys fruits
from the goblins in exchange for her "golden lock" of hair and a "tear more
rare than pearl". Jeanie, a girl who ate the goblins' fruits, "pined away" and
"sought them by night and day". Laura's hair "grew thin and grey" and she
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🔹In Nineteen Eighty - Four, Winston Smith, the protagonist of

🔹George Orwell's dystopia, got an evidence of the party's dishonesty. It
was a photograph which proves that some citizen accused of a crime was
out of the country while it was committed.

🔹The Indian Queen is a heroic tragedy in rhymed couplets writtenby John

Dryden.
🔹In J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, David Lurie is working on an opera on the life
of one of the Romantic poets, Byron.

🔹Yorkshire moors landscape of England figures prominently in the poetry

of Ted Hughes.

🔹The title of M.C. Chagla's autobiography is Roses in December.

🔹The King James Bible have the expression, "a leopard can't change its
spots".

🔹In Albert Camus's novel The Plague, Dr. Rieux describes the phenomenon
of dying rats using the metaphors of disease, especially the bubonic plague.
M. Michel is the first victim of the plague. Tarrou thinks that the plague
symbolizes human indifference.
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🔹Stephen Krashen's theory of second language acquisition consists of six

main hypotheses. Some of them are The Input Hypothesis, The Affective
Filter Hypothesis and The Monitor Hypothesis.

🔹Pantomime is one of Derek Walcott's plays which explores colonial

relationships through the Robinson Crusoe story.

🔹'Anti - foundationalism' holds that every theory poses different questions

and, therefore, what counts as 'fact' and 'truth' differs in every case.

🔹The following images are matched with the respective poems of Keats in
which they appear.
beechen green - "Ode to a Nightingale gathering swallows - "To Autumn"
globed peonies - "Ode on Melancholy" green altar - "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

🔹Charles Dickens expressed a wish to "exterminate the race" of Indians

following the 1857 Mutiny in India.

🔹The second part of Pilgrim's Progress deals with the pilgrimage of

Christian's wife, Christiana. Mercy and Great-heart are her companions and
guides during the journey.

🔹Amede or How to Get Rid of It, a play by Eugene Ionesco, uses the
grotesque image of the leg of a corpse thrusting onto the stage.
This leg begins to grow larger as the play progresses in a menacing manner.

🔹Rasselas in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas finds that complete happiness is

elusive and that "while you are making the choice of life, you neglect to live".
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Men and Women (1987).

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🔹Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" is a short story about
the domestic erosions of Alzheimer's disease.

🔹"Le Morte d'Arthur" begins thus: "It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon,
when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty
duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time".

🔸The Naxalite movement is the subject of Asif Currimbhoy's play, Inquilab.

🔸Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, being
metatheatrical, lays bare the constructed nature of theatrical performance.
In referring to Hamlet's end and the Elizabethan stage conditions lacking
curtains, Guildenstern who is one of the characters of Stoppard's play says:
"No one gets up after death there is no applause - there is only silence and
some second-hand clothes, and that's death".

🔸Anita Nair has translated the classic Malayalam novel, Chemmeen.

🔸The following lines are written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
"God himself is the best Poet,
And the Real is His song."

🔹These are lines from a poem "Auden's Funeral" by Stephen Spender:

You are your words. Your listeners see
Written on your face the poems they hear
Like letters carved in a tree's bark
The sight and sound of solitudes endured ...

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✏️Sordello, based on the life of a thirteenth-century

troubadour, earned him the reputation for composing poems
of impenetrable difficulty which marked a catastrophic failure
in Robert Browning's poetic career.

✏️In Tristram Shandy, the Author's preface is hawked to the

highest bidder.
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Handful of Dust and he owed the title to The Waste Land.

✏️The illusion of peace in Victorian England during the years

1830- 1850, was broken by incidents such as the disaster of
the Indian Mutiny and the incompetent bungling of the
Crimean War.

✏️Gulliver receives the following response from The King of

Brobdingnag when he boasts about his countrymen: " ... the
most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever
suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth."
✏️Dante travels through the various circles of the hell In the
Inferno and finds Judas who is unable to speak because
Lucifer is chewing on his head.

✏️In his book, In Theory, Aijaz Ahmad works out the relations
between the three entities: Classes, Nations and Literatures.

📝In 1660, a group of 12 people including Robert Boyle and

Christopher Wren formed the Royal Society. In 1663, it
became The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural

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✏️P.B. Shelley wrote The Wandering Jew, a poem in four

cantos and the short lyric, "The Wandering Jew's Soliloquy".

✏️According to T.S. Eliot, in those parts where the dead

poets assert their immortality, we are likely to find "not only
the best, but the most individual parts of a poet's work".

✏️In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer the pilgrim, narrates both Sir

Thopas' Tale and The Tale of Melibee.
✏️During the reign of Norman Kings, it was fashionable to
speak French in upper-class circles in England.

✏️W. B. Yeats collaborated with Purohit Swami in translating

the Ten Principal Upanishads into English.

✏️Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst" is one of the first English

poems celebrating a specific place, a forerunner to
"Cooper's Hill" and "Windsor-Forest".

✏️Tom Stoppard has consciously drawn upon earlier, often

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📝After discovering the truth about his heinous crimes

committed in the past, Oedipus requests exile as his
punishment.

📝Women in Love opens with The Brangwen sisters, Ursula

and
Gudrun, who are "working and talking."

📝Samuel Johnson has the following to say about the

English poet Thomas Gray:
"These images are marked by glittering accumulations of
ungraceful ornaments: they strike, rather than please. The
images are magnified by affectation: the language is
laboured into harshness. The mind of the writer seems to
work with unnatural violence - 'Double, double, toil and
trouble'. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by
walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and
there is too little appearance of ease and nature."

📝"Take the smoking disclaimer issue" begins Vishal

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Bharadwaj makes with his rhetorical question is the smoking

disclaimer on objects perceived as 'art' is simply superfluous.

📝According to Speech Act theorists such as Austin and

Searle, certain verbs actually 'perform' an act when they are
uttered. Haunted castles, strange noises, and an acceptance
of the supernatural with all its trappings mark the gothic
fiction.

✏️Pinter once admitted that he first became aware of the

dramatic power of the pause from seeinga popular American
comedian Jack Benny.

✏️Charles Dickens's Bleak House severely criticises

England's Court of Chancery.

📝The following are some of the characteristics of the ideal

state described in Thomas More's Utopia.
Personal property, money and vice are effectively abolished.
The root causes of crime, ambition and political conflict are
eliminated. Its priesthood, which includes some women, is
limited in number.

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They choked my cries with force and fright, And tied me on a
palfrey white ...

✏️The Return of the Native, a novel by Thomas Hardy, begins

with the sombre description of Egdon Heath.

✏️The metrical form of Gower's Confessio Amantis is

octosyllabic couplets.
✏️At the end of Alexander Pope's poem, "The Rape of the
Lock"turns into a star.

✏️The use of the epithet The Bard for Shakespeare, The Iron
Lady for Margaret Thatcher and The King are the examples
of antonomasia.

✏️Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood depicts the historical

event of the notorious murders committed in 1843.

✏️"Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats repudiates the

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✏️In Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a character named Pip

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✏️"Widgeon" a poem by Seamus Heaney is dedicated to the

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Irish poet Paul Muldoon.

✏️In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Piggy and Simon are
put to death.

✏️In Canterbury Tales, the Summoner has a red face full of

sores.

The pace of the speech is called tempo.

📝The following books are matched with their respective
authors.

✏️Sexual Politics - Kate Millet

✏️A Literature of Their Own - Elaine Showalter
✏️Thinking About Women - Mary Ellmann
✏️The Laugh of the Medusa - Helene Cixous
✏️Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
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Tempest. They describe Ariel's music. The passage

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Land.
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Some god o' th' island. Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the
King my father's wrack, This music crept by me upon the
waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air. Thence I have followed it,
Or it hath drawn me rather .... "
📝The correct chronological order of Shakespearean plays
is as follows:

✏️Love's Labour's Lost (1598)

✏️Midsummer Night's Dream (1600)
✏️As You Like It (1600)
✏️Antony and Cleopatra (1607)
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✏️The closing lines of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina present

Levin's affirmation that whatever happens to him, life is not
meaningless but unquestionably meaningful.

✏️The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins begins with a Prologue

titled "The Storming of Seringapatam", saying "I address
these lines written in India - to my relatives in England".

✏️"In "Gerontion", T.S. Eliot says that "History has many

cunning
passages, contrived corridors/ And issues, deceives with
whispering ambitions, / Guides us by vanities."

✏️In Frances Burney's novel Evelina, the eponymous heroine

comes out into the society at two locations. They are Bristol
and London. "Fear no more the heat of the sun, Nor the
furious winter's rages" are lines by Shakespeare which is
repeated several times in Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs.
Dalloway.

✏️" In the poem "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse",

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✏️Ernest Hemingway made the comment that, "All modern

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called Huckleberry Finn".

✏️The Emblem is a poetic genre containing a symbolic

picture with a text and a verse exposition popular in the early
17th century. Francis Quarles popularised this kind of poetry
through the work Emblems (1635).

✏️Byron work Don Juan begins thus:

"I want a hero: an uncommon want, when every year and
month sends forth a new one"
✏️The title of Sir Thomas Browne's famous treatise, Religio
Medici means Religion of a Doctor.

✏️Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire is a retelling of Sophocles's

Antigone.

✏️Paul de Man wrote Blindness and Insight and Allegories of

Reading.

✏️ Samuel Johnson denounced the metaphysical poets

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an example of litotes.

📝The following lines are from William Blake's "Auguries of

Innocence".
To see a World in a Grain of Sand

✏️And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of

your hand And Eternity in an hour ...
✏️In D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, Winifred's Pekinese
dog is called Looloo.

✏️New Critic Cleanth Brooks put forward the idea of the

'heresy of paraphrase.

✏️Edmund Spenser's "Colin Clout's Come Home Again" is a

fine example of pastoral eclogue.

✏️In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, John Dryden refers to Ben

Jonson as "the most learned and judicious Writer which any

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Preservation Society of Queensland and served as its
president several times thereafter.

✏️Aphra Behn's Oroonoko is set in Surinam.

✏️Robert Bridges published the first collected edition of
Gerard Manley Hopkins's poems in 1918.

✏️Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of

the characters in Philip Sidney's Arcadia.
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✏️The eponymous saint of Dryden's "Song for St. Cecilia's

Day" is an Armenian devotee of Christian faith. St. Cecilia
was a Roman lady and an early Christian martyr. St. Cecilia's
festival is celebrated on 22 November in England. St. Cecilia
is the patroness of music and is fabled to have invented the
organ.

✏️Michael Roberts's anthology Faber Book of Modern Verse

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1936.

✏️Jean Baudrillard proposed that the First Gulf War had

never taken place and it was simply a hyperreal, media-
generated spectacle.

✏️Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial was prompted by the

discovery of ancient burial-urns near Norwich.

✏️A Modern Instance, Catch-22, and The Naked and the

Dead are WAR Fictions.
✏️Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin and Donald Davie are the
poets of The Movement of the 1950's England.

✏️Maps, Gifts and Secrets belong to Nuruddin Farah's Blood

in the Sun Trilogy.

💧Nissim Ezekiel - "Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher"

💧A. K. Ramanujan - "Small-scale Reflections on a Great
House"

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📝Ferdinand de Saussure made the seminal distinction

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between langue and parole in his lectures compiled as a

study by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye titled Course in
General Linguistics (1916). A language consists in the
interrelationship between langue and parole. Langue is the
particular language-system, the elements of which we learn
as children, and which is codified in our grammars and
dictionaries, whereas parole is the language occasion (what
A says to B).
📝The chief characters and the respective novels are given
below:

✏️Arthur Seaton - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

✏️Marlene - Top Girls
✏️Anna Wulf - The Golden Notebook
✏️Beckwith - The Swimming Pool Library
📝The following lines are from the final passage of James
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artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."

✏️The 1950s saw a backlash against modernism and New

Romanticism which gave rise to The Movement. Departure
and New Poems are the little magazines which came to be
associated with The Movement.

✏️The error of interpreting a literary work by referring to an

evidence outside itself, such as the design and the purpose
of the author, is called Intentional fallacy.
✏️A. R. Ammons parodies William Wordsworth's famous
sonnet "The World is Too Much with Us" in his "Swoggled".
I'd rather
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Suckled by
Outworn pagan
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✏️Frances Burney's Evelina is subtitled The History of a

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belonging in his poem "A Far Cry from Africa" through the
following painful question:

Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?

I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?

✏️""The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow/

Loosely as cannon-smoke to stand apart .... " are lines from
PhilipLarkin's"Sad Steps". The poem alludes to Philip
Sidney's Astrophel and Stella.

📝 The following lines are matched with the respective

poems in which they appear:

✏️ "I leant upon a coppice gate ... " - "The Darkling Thrush"
by Thomas Hardy

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Eliot were published in the 1920s.

Look, Stranger! by W. H. Auden and The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell were published in 1936 and 1937.

✏️The Book of Night Women is a book by Marlon James

which is dedicated "To the railroad of bones". Its epigraph, "I
am the woman they give dead women's clothes to", is taken
from Christine Gelineau's "Inheritance".

✏️The following lines are from William Wordsworth's poem

"The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its
Commencement".
"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven."

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of the politics of language and acts of police interrogation.

✏️Semiotics originated mainly in the works of the two

theorists, Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de
Saussure.

✏️Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy was originally

published in 1621. It was later expanded and altered in five
subsequent editions. The magazine, Blast self-consciously
created an identity for Vorticists, a group of painters,
sculptors and writers.

✏️The figure of speech used in the following lines is

anaphora. Anaphora is characterized by repetition of words
or group of words at the beginning of consecutive sentences.

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destruction and the rehabilitation of Nagasaki.

✏️David Copperfield opens with the lines, "Whether I shall

turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station
will be held by anyone else, these pages must show".

✏️Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Dr.

Faustus shows traces of Morality plays such as its
soliloquizing protagonist, the Good and the Bad Angel and its
final moral.

✏️The branch of philosophy that asks the question, 'How do

we know what we know?' is epistemolog

✏️The eighteenth-century practice of bookselling in England

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the spa town of Bath as the primary location.

✏️In the communicative approach to ELT, the development

of language learning or teaching involves a shift from form-
based to a meaning-based approach and from broad-based
competence to specific needs.
✏️The Moral Essays of Alexander Pope are addressed to
Martha Blount, Lord Cobham, Bathurst and Burlington.

✏️Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children

presents the wartorn Europe. The Mother Courage follows
troops with her canteen wagon. Anna Fierling is the real
name of Mother Courage.

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mentioned by name in Paradise Lost.

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English, born and living in Malaysia. He wrote two novels The
Return and Between Lives.

✏️Thomas Percy collected old songs, ballads and romances

in English and Scots in his Reliques of Ancient English
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Famous Pen name
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Samuel Clemens

👉Currer, Ellis, & Acton Bell

Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Brontë
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
👉 bell hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins

✍The year of the French Revolution - 1789

French Revolution influenced to - The Duel by Joseph Conrad
Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
French Revolution poem by Wordsworth.
👉Who is best known as the creator of a new genre, the picaresque novel? -
Thomas Nash.
👉He is known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller, his pamphlets
including Pierce Penniless

✍The theatre The Rose was built in -

1586.
👉 Rose Theatre, London playhouse built by Philip Henslowe

✍A Game of Chess a political satire by Middleton is set in - England.

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✍Charles Dickens left once novel unfinished -

Edwin Drood.

✍Frankenstein a work of proto science fiction was written by -

Mary Shelley.
👉Mary Shelley's 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein is famously subtitled The
Modern Prometheus, after the Greek myth of the god Prometheus

✍The plays of William Congreve are known as -

Comedy of Manners.

✍Charles Lamb called Heywood a prose Shakespeare for his -

A Woman Killed With Kindness.

✍Jonathan Swift published whose Letters in 1700 and 1703? -

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Note- Atticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-

winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird.

✍Who was first crowned the hero of the Dunceland in Dunciad? -

Theobald.

✍John Hall the Metaphysical poet is known for his translation of -

On the Sublime.
👉On the Sublime Roman-era Greek work of literary criticism (1st century)
by Longinus

Longinus finds five sources of the sublime

1. Grandeur of Thought( Best source)
2. Capacity for Strong Emotion
3. Appropriate Use of Pictures
4. Nobility of Diction
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✍Occleve wrote an elegy entitled The Regiment of Prince. On whose death

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✍What is Ossian? -
A body of ballads collected by Macpherson.

✍Purchase, His Pilgrimage, which influenced Coleridge in writing Kubla

Khan, was written by -

Hakluyt.

✍Who wrote a parody on Dryden's The Hind and the Panther entitled Story
of the Country Mouse? -
Matthew Prior.

✍Whose Diary opens on January 1, 1660 and continues until May 31, 1669?
Samuel Pepys.
His Diary provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness
accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second
Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.

✍Sir Fapling Flutter is the subtitle of the play -

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✍Coleridge's Biographia Literaria or Biographical Sketches of My Literary

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✍Who wrote '' If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him' ? -
Voltaire.

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explored racism, abuse and discrimination are: Maya Angelou, James
Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Octavia Butler, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Alex
Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright& Toni
Morrison.

🔹In 1795, S.T. Coleridge and Robert Southey married two sisters, Sarah and
Edith Flicker respectively who were sisters of William Wordsworth's fiancée,
Mary Hutchinson.

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🔹The British quarterly literary periodical, 'The Yellow Book' (1894-1897)

was associated with Aestheticism and Decadence movements.

🔹Mary Seacole, J.A. Froude, Mary Kingsley & Anthony Trollope are travel
writers.

🔹John Dryden has been called as the founder of descriptive literary

criticism. Descriptive criticism analyses the existing literary works.

🔹Graham Hough declares that Ozymandias is an extremely clear and direct

poem, advancing to a predetermined end by means of the firmly held image.
🔹Harold Bloom's book, 'How to Read and Why' addresses the uses of deep
reading, the pleasures and benefits of reading well.

🔹Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future seting that tends ta

focus on society as "high tech low life".

🔹The term The New Woman' was coined by writer Sarah Grandin in her
article, The New Aspect of the Woman Question' published in the 'North
American Review' in Mar 1894.

🔹Laurence Sterne incorporated into his novel, 'Tristram Shandy' many

passages taken almost word for word from Robert Burton's work, 'The
Anatomy of Melancholy' & Francis Bacon's essay, "Of Death'.

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🔹 In Frances Burney's novel, Evelina, the eponymous heroine comes out in

society in two locations. They are Bristol & London.

🔹The lines, "Fear no more the heat of the sun,/ Nor the furious winter's
rages" by Shakespeare is repeated several times in Virginia Woolf's novel,
'Mrs. Dalloway'.

🔹Kamila Shamsie's novel, Home Fire' is a retelling of Sophocles 's play,

'Antigone'. In the novel, British Muel contend with identity, terrorism and
divided loyalties. lt has been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
🔹The title of Sir Thomas Browne's famous treatise, 'Religio Medici' means
Religion of a Doctor.

🔹Blindness and Insight', "The Rhetoric of Romanticism, The Resistance to

Theory' & "Allegories of Readingar important works of criticism and theory
by Paul de Man.

🔹In the biography of Abraham Cowley in his Lives of Poets, Samuel

Johnson denounced the metaphysical poets savin About the beginning of
the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the
metaphysical.

🔹In D. H. Lawrence novel, 'Women in Love', Winifred's pekinese dog called

Looloo. The novel is a sequel to his earlier novel, The Rainbow'
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🔹Harold Pinter once admitted that he first became aware of the dramatic
power of the pause from seeing a popular American comedian Jack Benny.

🔹The ideal state in Thomas More's fiction, Utopia' is described as where (i)
Personal property, money and vice are effectively abolished. (ii) The root
causes of crime, ambition and political conflict, are eliminated. (ii) Its
priesthood, which includes some women, is limited in number.

🔹The literary works offering gimpses of the Naxal movement are: Jhumpa
Lahiri's The Lowland', Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance', Upamanyu
Chatterjee's English, August', Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger', Neel
Mukherjee's The Lives of Others', Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things'
& "Walking with the Comrades' and Mahasweta Devi's 'Mother of 1084'&
'Draupdi.

🔹Thomas Hardy's novel, The Retum of the Native' begins with the sombre
description of Egdon Heath. Besides setting, Egdon Heath considered by
some critics to be the leading character as well.

🔹Margaret Atwood's novel, 'Alias Grace' depicts the historical event of the
notorious murders committed in 1843. The story is based on real person
Grace Marks (1828-1873), a murderer and notorious criminal.

🔹The poem, 'Sailing to Byzantium' by W. B. Yeats repudiates the sensual

world in favour of 'the artifice of eternity."

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🔹The characters Simon and Piggy are put to death in William Golding's
novel, "Lord of the Flies'

🔹The pace of speech is called tempo. Rate of speech is also called speed,
pace and rhythm.

🔹Alfred Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade' describes The
Crimean War. The poem narrates the story of a brigade consisting of 600
soldiers who rode on horseback into the "valley of death" for about one and
a half miles.

🔹In Robert Browning's poem, 'Andrea del Sarto', Andrea compare himself
with Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci & Raphael. The poem is a dramatic
monologue which is narrated by Renaissance painter Andrea del Sarto to his
wife
Lucrezia.

🔹In Jonathan Swif's satire, 'Gullivers Travels', Gulliver refers to William

Dampier, the famous writer of two voyages, as cousin. William Dampier is the
author of the book, 'A New Voyage Round the World' inspired Swift's
'Gullivers Travels' and Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'.

🔹The character Rosalind in William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy, 'As

You Like It' says the line, 'All the world's a stage,/And all the men and women
merely players.

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🔹The famous books on the themes of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and

Transgender (LGBT) are Oscar Wilde's novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray',
Tennessee Williams' play, 'Streetcar Named Desire', Virginia Woolf's novel,
'Mrs. Dalloway', Alice Walker's novel, 'The Color Purple' & Chuck Palahniuk's
novel, 'Fight Club'.

🔹Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with multinational

capitalism while modernism with Monopoly Capitalism.

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💧Evelyn Waugh's novel, 'A Handful of Dust' examines the themes of

contemporary amorality and the death of spiritual values.

💧Jean Rhys' second novel, 'After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie' is about Julia
Martin who is struggling to retrieve both life and love after leaving her ex-
lover, Mr Mackenzie. The novel is set in Paris.

💧Laurence Sterne's novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,

Gentleman' is notorious for its many digressions across nine volumes and its

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carpenter.

💧Audre Lorde's essay, 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining
Difference' calls for a more ample kind of feminism, one that would be
attentive to the double oppression faced by women of color.

💧Milan Kundera's novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being', tells the story
of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his
incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful
lover.

💧Christina Rossetti's poem, "Goblin Market', a rare blend of allegory and

fairytale world presents the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. Laura,
who goes to the market again, does not see the goblins but hears only their
shrill cry piercing the air.

💧Daniel Defoe's eponymous character Moll Flanders born in the prison,

Newgate.

💧Anita Desai's novel, The Village by the Sea' is a story of survival set in a
small fishing village near Bombay. Lila and Hari are its characters.

💧The main aim of George Orwell's dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four

was to warn of the serious danger totalitarianism poses to society. Its theme
is using of media manipulation and advanced technology to control the
public.

💧The Indian Queen is a heroic tragedy in rhymed couplets by John Dryden

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Black literature to Afro-American folklore and to the traditions of African
languages.

💧Yorkshire moors, the landscape of England figures prominently in the

poetry of Ted Hughes. He is famous as a poet of violence and it is one of
obsessive themes in his poetry.

💧The King James Bible gave the expression, "a leopard can't change its
spots," to English language.
💧In Albert Camus's novel, "The Plague' centers on a physician and the
people he works with and treats in an Algerian port town that is struck by
the plague.

💧Kamala Markandaya's novel, The Coffer Dams' revolves round a dam

under construction in a south Indian village by a British Engineering firm
'Clinton-Mackendrick Co'.

💧Stephen Krashen's theory of second language acquisition consists of five

main hypotheses: the Acquisition-Learning hypothesis, the Monitor
hypothesis, the Input hypothesis, the Natural Order hypothesis, and the
Affective Filter hypothesis.

💧Derek Walcott's play, Pantomime' is an exploration of colonial

relationships through the Robinson Crusoe story The play is based on a
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face-to-face interaction and communication. The idea is usually credited to
Michael Long

💧In Harold Pinter's play, Birthday Party', Stanley is terrorised by two visitors
Goldberg & McCann to a seaside boarding house. The play ends with
Stanley's forced removal from the house by Goldberg and McCann.

💧 Charles Dickens expressed a wish to "exterminate the race" of Indians

following the 1857 Mutiny in India.

💧The second part of John Bunyan's novel, The Pilgrim's Progress' deals
with the pilgrimage of Christian's wife, Christiana. Mercy and Greatheart is
her companion and guide in this journey.

💧Eugene Ionesco's play, 'Amedee or How to Get Rid of It' revolves around a
dead body which is continually growing in the apartment of Amedee and
Madeline who have been married for 20 years.

💧The character Rasselas in Samuel Johnson's apologue, Rasselas finds

that complete happiness is elusive and that while you are making the choice
of life, you neglect to live'.

💧Alice Munro's short story, The Bear Came over the Mountain' is about the
domestic erosions of Alzheimer's disease The story revolves around an old
couple, Grant and Fiona and tells of an evolution of love under the
background of aging.

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💧The main theme of Upton Sinclair's novel, 'The Jungle' is the evil of
capitalism.

💧Jack London called the novel, the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery'
Chimamanda Adichie's last novel, 'Americanah' centres on the romantic and
existential struggles ofa young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu studying in the
United Statęs and finding success as a blogger. She is blogging about race

💧Carson McCulers' book, 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' is a war-ravaged

novel focusing on different themes of isolation, loneliness, and hopefulness.
The entire plot revolves around the deaf and mute protagonist, John Singer.
Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, 'Ceremony' explores the psychic damage to a
veteran of World War lI and shows how a measure ot healing is attained
through his acceptance of Laguna myths and rituals. Tayo is the hero of the
novel.

💧Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel, 'A Clockwork Orange' delineates the

extremes of both freedom and suppression. The protagonist Alex and his
gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until
the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses.

💧Jonathan Swift gets the idea of writing his work, Verses on the Death of
Dr. Swift' after a reading of a maxim by French author La Rochefoucauld.

💧Jessie L. Weston's book, From Ritual to Romance' is notable for being

mentioned by T. S. Eliot in the notes to his poem, The Waste Land, 'Not only
the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the
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💧ST Coleridge on lamgination and Fancy, 'The Fancy is indeed no other

than a mode of Memory emancipated from the order of time and space'.

💧After independence, although English was not an Indian language, it was

accorded the status of an Associate language.

💧ST Coleridge on Primary Imagination, "The IMAGINATION then, I consider

either as primary, or secondary. The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the
living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in
the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.

💧The grammar-translation method of language teaching includes focus on

grammar rules, vocabulary memorization & focus on written language.

💧 Rukmani is the narrator in Kamala Markandaya's novel, 'Nectar in a

Sieve'. The novel is abouta woman's struggle to find happiness in a changing
India.

💧ST Coleridge on Secondary Imagination, The secondary Imagination I

consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet
still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only
in degree, and in the mode of operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in
order to recreate.

💧Jane Austen's novel, 'Mansfield Park' tells the story of Fanny Price comes
to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram.

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💧For Herman Melville's novel, 'Billy Bud', E. M. Forster wrote the libretto for
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its opera version.

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💧Jai Ratan, P. Lal & Gordon C. Roadarmel are the translators of Prem
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Chand's novel, Godan'

💧Fred Vincy is an inveterate gambler in George Eliot's novel, 'Middlemarch

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