Questions:
Wycliff PIERS THE PLOWMAN is in 3 parts published in 1362,77,92
*15000 Lines
*Contain 9 Dreams
*Inspired from Dante's THE DIVINE COMEDY
*Contain 9 Dreams
*Inspired from Dante's THE DIVINE COMEDY
Bacon's NEW ATLANTIS was influenced by
a) Aristotle's Poetics
b)Moore's Utopia
c)Plato's Republic
d)Lyly's Euphues
William Prynne's HISTRIOMASTIX (1633) is attack on
a)Stage
b)James I
c)Romances
d)Comedy of Errors
a) Aristotle's Poetics
b)Moore's Utopia
c)Plato's Republic
d)Lyly's Euphues
William Prynne's HISTRIOMASTIX (1633) is attack on
a)Stage
b)James I
c)Romances
d)Comedy of Errors
Q: C. Day Lewis belonged to a group of people known as
a) Maspaunday (Check)
b)Septimus
c)Sacular
d)Anti-War
a) Maspaunday (Check)
b)Septimus
c)Sacular
d)Anti-War
In the mid-fifties, the magazine QUEST was edited by
a) Daruwallah
b) Ezekiel
c) Mahapatra
d) Kalotkar
a) Daruwallah
b) Ezekiel
c) Mahapatra
d) Kalotkar
Irish National Theatre was founded in
a) 1901
b) 1902
c) 1903
d) 1904
a) 1901
b) 1902
c) 1903
d) 1904
Q: 1st Writer of MIDDLE STYLE is
a) Bacon
b) Addison
c) Thomas More
d) Pope
NOTE: Huge Latimer is 1st writer of PLAIN STYLE
a) Bacon
b) Addison
c) Thomas More
d) Pope
NOTE: Huge Latimer is 1st writer of PLAIN STYLE
Magazine
Coleridge-Watchman-1796
Jeffrey-Edinburgh Review-1802
Wilson-The Quarterley-1808
Gibson-Blackwood-1817
Eliot-Criterion-1922
Jeffrey-Edinburgh Review-1802
Wilson-The Quarterley-1808
Gibson-Blackwood-1817
Eliot-Criterion-1922
Who wrote "A PAIR OF MUSTJCHIOS"
a)Anand
b)Tagore
c)Rao
d)Desai
a)Anand
b)Tagore
c)Rao
d)Desai
"Exterer Book" include 7 old poems:
*Deor
*Wulf & Eadwacer
*The Wife's Lament
*The Husband's Message
*The Ruin
*The Wanderer
*The Seafarer
*Deor
*Wulf & Eadwacer
*The Wife's Lament
*The Husband's Message
*The Ruin
*The Wanderer
*The Seafarer
Q: In which Age no Substantial comedy was written
a)Georgian
b)Milton
c)Romantic
d)Victorian
a)Georgian
b)Milton
c)Romantic
d)Victorian
Q: Meaning of BIBLE is
a) God
b) Religion
c) Book
d) Christ
a) God
b) Religion
c) Book
d) Christ
Old book "in the English tongue for English men"
a) Schole of Teaching
b) Scholemaster
c) England
d) Great Bible
NOTE: Toxophilus by R Ascham
a) Schole of Teaching
b) Scholemaster
c) England
d) Great Bible
NOTE: Toxophilus by R Ascham
Meaning of quaire in King's Quair
a)Power
b)State
c)Book
d)city
ans: c) James of Scotland,4 beloved wife Jane Beaufort, Rhyme Royal syllable
b)State
c)Book
d)city
ans: c) James of Scotland,4 beloved wife Jane Beaufort, Rhyme Royal syllable
Term MARLOWE's MIGHTY LINE means A blank verse which could record every gesture of magnificence term by Ben Jonson
Last Work
+Castaway-Cowper
+Bright Star-Keats
+The Triumph of Life-Shelley
+Henry VIII-Shakespeare
+Bright Star-Keats
+The Triumph of Life-Shelley
+Henry VIII-Shakespeare
There is no duller dog in Literature than
a) Lyndgate
b) Occleve
c) Hawes
d) Henryson
ans: b) Comptton-Rickett. P.73
a) Lyndgate
b) Occleve
c) Hawes
d) Henryson
ans: b) Comptton-Rickett. P.73
Q: Which novel is regarded as a "novel of family and of home"
a) Pamela
b) Ulysses
c) The Vicar of Wakefield
d) Tom Jones
b) Ulysses
c) The Vicar of Wakefield
d) Tom Jones
Who is called "Poor idle singe of an empty day"
a) Morris
b) Rossetti
c) Thompson
d) Love
b) Rossetti
c) Thompson
d) Love
Who is known as "self taught farmer poet"
a) Morris
b) Lewis
c) Blunden
d) John Clare
a) Morris
b) Lewis
c) Blunden
d) John Clare
Q: "Fall of Angles" is also called
a) Fall of Evil
b) Genesis A
c) genesis B
d) Milton
Ans: c) IFOR EVANS, Page 12
a) Fall of Evil
b) Genesis A
c) genesis B
d) Milton
Ans: c) IFOR EVANS, Page 12
How many plays of Shakespeare have been given prose form in TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE
a)19
b)20
c)21
d)22
by Charles & Mary Lamb-1807
b)20
c)21
d)22
by Charles & Mary Lamb-1807
Q: Name of Beowulf's sword in poem BEOWULF
a)Lafing
b)Hrunting
c)Brand
d)Naegling (Given more than 20 names)
a)Lafing
b)Hrunting
c)Brand
d)Naegling (Given more than 20 names)
Whose son died in World War I
a) Pound
b) Kipling
c) GB Shah
d) Bregson
Ans: b)Son John,in Battle of Loos, Poem "MY BOY JACK" (1915)
a) Pound
b) Kipling
c) GB Shah
d) Bregson
Ans: b)Son John,in Battle of Loos, Poem "MY BOY JACK" (1915)
Who belongs to Beat Movement
a)Allen Ginsberg
b)R Souster
c)Charles Sourley
d)J Lenon
Ans: a)American Movement 1950, MH Abrams 209
a)Allen Ginsberg
b)R Souster
c)Charles Sourley
d)J Lenon
Ans: a)American Movement 1950, MH Abrams 209
Who is Laureate of the Body
a) Keki N. Daruwala
b) Gieve Patel
c) AK Ramanujan
d) KD Katrak
a) Keki N. Daruwala
b) Gieve Patel
c) AK Ramanujan
d) KD Katrak
Birth:
1552-Spenser
54-Sidney,Raleigh,Lyly
58-Kyd,Lodge,Peele
60-Greene
61-Bacon
64-Shakespeare,Marlowe
67-Nashe,Campion
70-Middleton
1552-Spenser
54-Sidney,Raleigh,Lyly
58-Kyd,Lodge,Peele
60-Greene
61-Bacon
64-Shakespeare,Marlowe
67-Nashe,Campion
70-Middleton
In Scott's IVANHOE, name of disguised Robinhood?
a) Katherine
b) William Breck
c) Robert Louis Barrelt
d) Briande Bess-Guilbert
b) William Breck
c) Robert Louis Barrelt
d) Briande Bess-Guilbert
Q: number of books in THE RING AND THE BOOK
a)10
b)7
c)5
d)12
narrative poem, a verse novel, of 21000 lines by Browning
c)5
d)12
narrative poem, a verse novel, of 21000 lines by Browning
Bible:
1382-Wyclif's Bible
1536-Tyndale's Bible
1539-Cramer's Great Bible
1560-Geneva's Bible
1568-Bishop's Bible
1611-King's Bible
1382-Wyclif's Bible
1536-Tyndale's Bible
1539-Cramer's Great Bible
1560-Geneva's Bible
1568-Bishop's Bible
1611-King's Bible
Q: Who has been hailed as "the master illusionist"
a)Richardson
b)Sterne
c)Fielding
d)Deniel Defoe
a)Richardson
b)Sterne
c)Fielding
d)Deniel Defoe
Q:French Poet TRISTAN TZARA gave birth
a)Dadaism
b)Futurism
c)Expressionism
d)Acmeism
began in Zurich,Switzerland,from 1916 to 22
a)Dadaism
b)Futurism
c)Expressionism
d)Acmeism
began in Zurich,Switzerland,from 1916 to 22
Which character kills his father and marries his mother
a)Laius
b)Rex
c)Oedipus
d)Laius
Ans:c)
He has 2 sons & 2 daughters from his mother
a)Laius
b)Rex
c)Oedipus
d)Laius
Ans:c)
He has 2 sons & 2 daughters from his mother
Father of TRAGEDY
a)Aeschylus
b)Sophocles
c)Euripides
d)Polybus
Q: The Character MOGLI was created by
a)Aeschylus
b)Sophocles
c)Euripides
d)Polybus
Q: The Character MOGLI was created by
a) IA Richards
b) Eliot
c) Rushdie
d) Rudyard Kipling
Ans: d) in THE JUNGLE BOOK: Nobel Prize-1907
b) Eliot
c) Rushdie
d) Rudyard Kipling
Ans: d) in THE JUNGLE BOOK: Nobel Prize-1907
Q: The term "Georgian" coined by
a) Edward Marsh
b) Shawn Marsh
c) Albet Marsh
d) Eliot
a) Edward Marsh
b) Shawn Marsh
c) Albet Marsh
d) Eliot
Sprung Rhyme is related to
a) Eliot
b) Hopkins
c) Pound
d) IA Richards
a) Eliot
b) Hopkins
c) Pound
d) IA Richards
Q: Who was "To be in league with the Devil"
a) Milton
b) Roger Bacon
c) Blake
d) Eliot
Ans: b)
Comptton-Rickett, Age of Chaucer
a) Milton
b) Roger Bacon
c) Blake
d) Eliot
Ans: b)
Comptton-Rickett, Age of Chaucer
FIVE Section of THE WASTE LAND
1.The Burial of the Dead
2.The Game of Chess
3.The Fire Sermon
4.Death by Water
5.What the thunder Said
1.The Burial of the Dead
2.The Game of Chess
3.The Fire Sermon
4.Death by Water
5.What the thunder Said
Q: The Egoist, The Scrutiny are the journals edited by
a) Shah & Young
b) Eliot & Pound
c) Eliot & Levis
d) Rickett & Cazamian
a) Shah & Young
b) Eliot & Pound
c) Eliot & Levis
d) Rickett & Cazamian
Book-Author
*Wealth of Nations-Adam Smith
*Poetics-Aristotle
*Principia-Newton
*Republic-Plato
*Origin of Species-Charles Darwin
*Poetics-Aristotle
*Principia-Newton
*Republic-Plato
*Origin of Species-Charles Darwin
Q: 1st poet laureate of 21st is (from 2009-19)
a) Motion
b) Marvell
c) Llosa
d) Carol Anne Duffy
NOTE: 1st women laureate, 1st biosexual poet.
a) Motion
b) Marvell
c) Llosa
d) Carol Anne Duffy
NOTE: 1st women laureate, 1st biosexual poet.
Q: who is known as 1st poet of Modern Age?
a) Pound
b) Eliot
c) Owen
d) Thomas
a) Pound
b) Eliot
c) Owen
d) Thomas
Q: Nick name of Queen Elizabeth is
a) Melisa
b) Bess
c) Diana
d) Mary II
a) Melisa
b) Bess
c) Diana
d) Mary II
Quote:
*To Be Is To Do-Socrates
*To Do Is To Be-Plato
*To Be Or Not To Be-Shakespeare
*To Be Is To Do-Socrates
*To Do Is To Be-Plato
*To Be Or Not To Be-Shakespeare
7 Feb
*1812-Dickens (d.70
*85-Lewis (d.1951
8 Feb
*1952-ElizabethII becomes Queen of UK
*1612-Samuel Butler (d.80
*1819-John Ruskin (d.00
*1812-Dickens (d.70
*85-Lewis (d.1951
8 Feb
*1952-ElizabethII becomes Queen of UK
*1612-Samuel Butler (d.80
*1819-John Ruskin (d.00
Death
Socraties-399 bc
Plato-347 bc
Aristotle-321 bc
Socraties-399 bc
Plato-347 bc
Aristotle-321 bc
Q: THE UNTOUCHABLE (1997, a deft transmulation of spy novel) is by
a) Reid Banks
b) Bainbridge
c) M.R. Anand
d) John Banville
a) Reid Banks
b) Bainbridge
c) M.R. Anand
d) John Banville
MACBETH
*3 witches called Weird Sisters
*Macbeth is called Bellona's Bridegroom in Act-I
*Bellona-Goddess war
*Hecate-Goddess Witchcraft
*3 witches called Weird Sisters
*Macbeth is called Bellona's Bridegroom in Act-I
*Bellona-Goddess war
*Hecate-Goddess Witchcraft
Samuel Langhorne Clemens is pen name of
a) Fitzgeralds
b) MarkTwain
c) Henry James
d) Whitman
a) Fitzgeralds
b) MarkTwain
c) Henry James
d) Whitman
Inn Yard Theater
1576-94: The Bull Inn
76-94: The Bell Savage
76-94: The Cross Keys
76-94: The Bell
76-94: The White Hart
76-94: The George
1576-94: The Bull Inn
76-94: The Bell Savage
76-94: The Cross Keys
76-94: The Bell
76-94: The White Hart
76-94: The George
London Playhouses
1573-Middle Temple Inn
76-St. Paul's Cathedral
76-Gray's Inn
76-Whitehall Theatre
76-Blackfriars
96-Blackfriars
76-St. Paul's Cathedral
76-Gray's Inn
76-Whitehall Theatre
76-Blackfriars
96-Blackfriars
Theater
1576-The Theater
77-Curtain
87-Rose
95-Swan
99-Globe
1600-Fortune
00-Boar's Head
04-Red Bull
08-Whitefriars
13-Hope
16-Cockpit
77-Curtain
87-Rose
95-Swan
99-Globe
1600-Fortune
00-Boar's Head
04-Red Bull
08-Whitefriars
13-Hope
16-Cockpit
Julius Caesar is also known as
a) Germanicus
b) France
c) Caligula
d) Tiberius
Ans: c) means "Little Soldier's Boot"
Note: (a) is his father
b) France
c) Caligula
d) Tiberius
Ans: c) means "Little Soldier's Boot"
Note: (a) is his father
22Jan
*1901-Edward VII become King of England
*1901-Death of Queen Victoria
*1949-Death of William Walsh (1891)
*1901-Edward VII become King of England
*1901-Death of Queen Victoria
*1949-Death of William Walsh (1891)
22 Jan 1901 Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother Victoria
Meter
Monometer-One feet
dimeter-two feet
trimeter-three
tetrameter-four
pentameter-five
hextameter-six
heptameter-seven
octameter-eight
Monometer-One feet
dimeter-two feet
trimeter-three
tetrameter-four
pentameter-five
hextameter-six
heptameter-seven
octameter-eight
Booker
10-HOWARD JACOBSON, The Finkler Question
09-HILARY MANTEL, Wolf Hall
08-ADIGA, The White Tiger
07-Anne Enright, The Gathering
10-HOWARD JACOBSON, The Finkler Question
09-HILARY MANTEL, Wolf Hall
08-ADIGA, The White Tiger
07-Anne Enright, The Gathering
Lyly's two works COMPASPE and ENDIMION performed in front of Queen Elizabeth probable by boys actors known as "Children of Paul's."
Canterbury Tales
*Lines:17000
*character-26 men 3 women
*Start:The Knights Tale
*End:The Parson's tale
*Based on Decamoran by Boccaccio
Chaman Lal
Books
*My True Faces
*Azadi
*Into Another Dawn
*The Crown
*The Lioncloth
*The English Queens
*Sunrise in Fiji
*The Salt of Life
King
1066-87:William Norman
87-1100:His son
00-35:Henry
35-54:Stephan
54-89:Henry II
89-99:Richard John
99-1216:Joh
16-72:Henry III
Birth Death
1659-1731:Defoe
67-45:Swift
68-44:Pope
72-29:Addison,Steele
89-61:Richardson
1707-57:Fielding
09-84:Johnson
28-74:Goldsmit
Raja Rao
*Kanthapura
*The Serpent & the Rope
*The Cat & Shakespeare
*Comrade Kirilov
*The Policeman & the Rose
*On the Ganga Ghat
Character-Book
*Elizabeth Bannet-Pride & Prejudice
*Maggie-Mill on the Floss
*Henchard-The Mayor of the Casterbridge
*King Magnus-Saint John
Autobiography:
Remine Scences-Tagore
My Story-Kamala Das
Towards Freedom-Nehru
The Words-Sarter
The Confession-Rousseau
Victorian protagonist exchange his soul for youth that never fade
a)Cylm Yeobright
b)Henry Esmond
c)Dorian Grey
d)Cliffors
Q: English Critic AC Bradley (1851-1935) published his book "Shakespearean Tragedy" in
a) 1903
b) 1904
c) 1905
d) 1906
The Term ANGLO SAXON was first used by the scholar Camden in his book HISTORY OF BRITIAN.
Who was prince of Troy in Homer's Illiad
a)Achilles
b)Hector
c)Menelaus
d)Paris
"Savitri," by Aurobindo, is the longest poem of English Literature written outside English speaking countries of Europe & America.
GB Shah is only person to have been awarded both, Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and Oscar (1938) for film Pygmalion(Play with same Name)
Romantic Age(1798-1837)is also known as British Regency Period
Shakespeare did not know Letters 'J' and 'X' Because these alphabets came after 14 years from his death. So u cant find J & X in his poems.
The evils of Private schools are mitigated by Dickens in
a) Nicholas Nickleby
b) Oliver twist
c) Great Expectations
d) None
Atwood:
*Bodily Harm
*Surfacing
*The Edible Woman
*Wilderness Tips
*The Tent
*Oryx & Crake
*The Robber Bride
*Cat's Eye
*The Handmaid's Tale
*The War of the Flood is the latest novel of Margaret Atwwood
*Theory of Tensions given by Allen Tate
*Principle of Texture given by Ranson
*Theory of Tensions given by Allen Tate
*Principle of Texture given by Ranson
Death:
Shelley-Drowning
Byron-Fever
Keats-TB
Bronte Sisters-TB
Dickinson-Suicide
Lamb-Infection Erysipelas
Marlowe-fight with Ingram Frizer
Full Title:
Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing To the Parliament of England (1644)
by
Milton
James Hogg is known as "the Eric Shepherd" Wordsworth "Muse of Poetry"
Shakespeare "Bard of Avon"
Wordsworth+Southey+coleridge "Lake Poets"
Carol Ann Duffy
*Take My Husband
*Cavern of Dreams
*Little Women,Big Boys
*Loss
*Casanova
*Meeting Midnight
*The Oldest Girl in the World
Lal Bahadur Shastri translated autobiography of Madam Curie into Hindi. she was French scientist who discovered Radium. won Nobel in 1903 & 11
Q: Who at the last stage of life became a LUNATIC
a) Shakespeare
b) Johnson
c) Swift
d) Coleridge
Ans: c)
Sahitya Academy Award English
2003-Chaudhuri
04-Mukherjee
05-Chatterjee
06-Rupa Bajwa
07-Malathi Rao
08-No award
09-Chaturvedi Badrinath
Q: Name of the First Newspaper (1702)
a)Daily News
b)Globus
c)Daily Courant
d)Daily Times
Ans: c) first published as Periodical in 1621
Nobel:
1901-Prudhomme
07-Kipling
09-Lagerlof
13-Tagore
15-Rolland
23-Yeats
25-Shaw
32-Galsworthy
34-Pirandello
36-O'Neill
38-Buck
07-Kipling
09-Lagerlof
13-Tagore
15-Rolland
23-Yeats
25-Shaw
32-Galsworthy
34-Pirandello
36-O'Neill
38-Buck
1909-Lagerlof
26-Deledda
28-Undset
38-Buck
45-Mistral
26-Deledda
28-Undset
38-Buck
45-Mistral
48-Eliot
49-Faulkner
50-Russell
53-Churchill
54-Hemingway
57-Camus
62-Steinbeck
64-Sartre
49-Faulkner
50-Russell
53-Churchill
54-Hemingway
57-Camus
62-Steinbeck
64-Sartre
66-Sachs
69-Beckett
76-Bellow
83-Golding
66-Sachs
91-Gordimer
93-Morrison
96-Szymborska
2004-Jelinek
7-Lessing
9-Muller
69-Beckett
76-Bellow
83-Golding
66-Sachs
91-Gordimer
93-Morrison
96-Szymborska
2004-Jelinek
7-Lessing
9-Muller
Nobel for LIT work
29-Mann-Buddenbrooks
32-Galsworthy-Forsyte Saga
37-RMD Gard-Les Thibault
54-Hemingway-Old Man & Sea
65-Sholokhov-The Don
29-Mann-Buddenbrooks
32-Galsworthy-Forsyte Saga
37-RMD Gard-Les Thibault
54-Hemingway-Old Man & Sea
65-Sholokhov-The Don
02-Mommsen-A history of Rome
19-Spitteler-Olympian Spring
20-Hamsun-Growth of the Soil
24-Reymont-The Peasants
Q: Whose novels are called "Domestic" or "Tea Table" novels
a) Jane Austin
b) Emily Bronte
c) Virgina Woolf
d) Charles Dickens
a) Jane Austin
b) Emily Bronte
c) Virgina Woolf
d) Charles Dickens
Q: Art of English Poesy (1602) is a book of Criticism by
a) Sidney
b) Champion
c) Fletcher
d) Moris
Q: Clear copy of Canterbury Tales
a)Troy Boke
b)Falles of Orincesm
c)Governail of Pirnces
d)Storie of Thebes
Ans:d) all books by Lydgate
a)Troy Boke
b)Falles of Orincesm
c)Governail of Pirnces
d)Storie of Thebes
Ans:d) all books by Lydgate
Q: In Italy, Love Poetry is called
a)Amourist
b)vulgar
c)Songs
d)Cultural Ans: a)Brought in England by Wyatt & Surrey
a)Amourist
b)vulgar
c)Songs
d)Cultural Ans: a)Brought in England by Wyatt & Surrey
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