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Suggestion - 1
➢ Which was the
oldest period in English Literature?
⎯ Anglo-Saxon
➢ Which one of
the following is first long poem in English?
⎯ Beowulf
➢ Choose the
right answer: Chaucer is the representative poet of—
⎯ 14th century
➢ Who is known
as the father of English poetry? Who is called the father of English Poetry?
⎯ Chaucer
➢ The Canterbury
Tales' are told by—
⎯ Geoffrey
Chaucer
➢ The Canterbury
Tales is as alive and today as it was nearly 600 years ago.
⎯ appealing
➢ Geoffrey
Chaucer wrote—
⎯ S Canterbury
Tales
➢ Who is
considered to be the father of English Poem?
⎯ Geoffrey
Chaucer
➢ Who translated
the Bible into English for the first time?
⎯ John Wycliffe
➢ Who translated
'The New Testament'?
⎯ John Wycliffe
Suggestion- 2
➢ 'Renaissance'
means
⎯ rebirth
➢ 'Renaissance'
means —
⎯ the revival of
learning
➢ Renaissance কথাটির
অর্থ কি?
⎯ নবজীবন
➢ The beginning
of the Renaissance may be traced to the city of—
⎯ Florence
➢ Elizabethan
tragedy is centered on —
⎯ revenge
➢ Which period
is known as 'the golden age' of English Literature?
⎯ the
Elizabethan Age
➢ Who wrote the
plays "The Tempest' and "The Mid Summer Night's Dream"?
⎯ Shakespeare
➢ Julius Caesar
was the ruler of Rome about—
⎯ 2000 years ago
➢ Shakespeare is
known mostly for his —
⎯ plays
➢ Which of the
following is a play by Shakespeare—
⎯ King Lear
➢ William
Shakespeare was English dramatist and poet of the century.
⎯ sixteenth
➢ Which of the
following plays is by William Shakespeare?
⎯ Measure for
Measure
➢ 'Shakespeare'
is the writer of —
⎯ The Tempest
➢ A sonnet is a
lyric poem of —
⎯ 14 lines
➢ William
Shakespeare is the author of —
⎯ King Lear
➢ "Twelfth
Night" is—
⎯ a comedy
➢ Which book is
a Tragedy?
⎯ Hamlet
➢ 'Macbeth' is—
⎯ a play
➢ William
Shakespeare is the author of—
⎯ King Lear
➢ Which is not
true of an English sonnet?
⎯ It has
fourteen syllables in each line
➢ William
Shakespeare is a famous—
⎯ dramatist
➢ The play 'Romeo
and Juliet' was written by—
⎯ William
Shakespeare
➢ Who wrote The
Tempest'?
⎯ William
Shakespeare
➢ Romeo and
Juliet is a —.
⎯ Tragedy
➢ William
Shakespeare is not the author of—
⎯ White Devil
Note: The White Devil (full original title: The White Divel; or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano. With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan) is a tragedy by English playwright John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634).
➢ The poem
'Under the Green Wood Tree' was written by—
⎯ William
Shakespeare
➢ Macbeth is a —
by Shakespeare.
⎯ play
➢ Who is the
greatest dramatist of all tunes?
⎯ William
Shakespeare
➢ Which of the
following is a 'Comedy' written by Shakespeare?
⎯ As You Like It
➢ Who is the
writer of 'The Merchant of Venice'?
⎯ William
Shakespeare
➢ Which is known
as Shakespeare's Swansong?
⎯ The Tempest
➢ 'To be or not
to be that is the question.' From which novel the above sentence has been
taken?
⎯ Hamlet
➢ One of the
following plays is not a tragedy—
⎯ Tempest
Note: The Tempest is a play by English playwright William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone. Genre: Comedy, Tragicomedy.
➢ Shakespeare
was born in the year—
⎯ 1564
➢ Shakespeare is
a famous — century English playwright.
⎯ sixteenth
➢ Shakespeare's
'King Lear' is a —
⎯ Tragedy
➢ In what year
did Shakespeare die?
⎯ 1616 AD
Note: BC (before Christ) is used for years before Christ. AD (Anno domini) for years measured after Christ.
➢ Shakespeare
wrote brilliant—
⎯ dramas
➢ Hamlet by
Shakespeare is-
−⎯ a tragedy
➢ Who is the
author of 'The Taming of the Shrew"
⎯ Shakespeare
➢ Hamlet is a—by
Shakespeare.
⎯ play
➢ Shakespeare
lived during the reign of—
⎯ Elizabeth I
➢ Shakespearean
play consists of—
⎯ five acts
➢ ইশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগরের
‘ভ্রান্তিবিলাস’ কোন গ্রন্থের অনুবাদ?
⎯ The Comedy of
Errors
Note: The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play.
➢ Mackbeth নাটকটি
কার লেখা?
⎯ William
Shakespeare
➢ Shakespeare's
Macbeth' is a—
⎯ Tragedy
➢ 'Comedy of
Errors' by
⎯ William
Shakespeare
➢ Shakespeare
was famous for all but one of the following—
⎯ Bourgeois
drama
➢ "Dr.
Faustus" was written by—
⎯ Christopher
Marlow
Note: The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust. It was probably written in 1592 or 1593, shortly before Marlowe's death. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era several years later.
➢ Christopher
Marlowe is Shakespeare's-
⎯ Contemporary
Note: Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (/ˈmɑːrloʊ/; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. And William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
➢ Who is called
the poet of poets?
⎯ Edmund Spenser
➢ Who wrote an
epic 'The Faerie Queen'?
⎯ Edmund Spenser
➢ 'The faerie
Queen' is an—
⎯ Epic
➢ Who wrote 'The
Ruins of Time'?
⎯ Edmund Spenser
➢ Which of the
following school of literature writings is connected with a medical theory?
⎯ Comedy of
humours
➢ 'Silent woman'
written by—
⎯ Ben John
➢ Robert Herrick
was an English —.
⎯ Poet
➢ Why is the
poet so sad to see the daffodils in "The Daffodils?"
⎯ The poet is
sad because the flowers remind him of his own death.
➢ The central
idea of "To Daffodils" is that:
⎯ life is short,
so live to the fullest
➢ "We have
short time to stay, as you" (from the poem "To daffodils") is an
example of:
⎯ simile
➢ In To
daffodils", human life is compared with:
⎯ ''morning's
dew''
➢ Which two
things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to human being and daffodils?
⎯ summer's
morning's dew
➢ ''Hasting
day'' in To Daffodils means—
⎯ hurriedly
passing day
➢ Which one of
the following is written by Robert Herrick?
⎯ To Daffodils
➢ In the poem
'To Daffodils' the poet weeps over—
⎯ short-lined
human life
➢ Which word
seems out of place?
⎯ cauliflower
➢ The last time
of "To daffodils' is
⎯ Never to be
found again
➢ 'Paradise
Lost' attempted to—
⎯ justify the
ways of God to man
➢ Paradise Lost
is an epic written by—
⎯ John Milton
Note: প্যারাডাইস লস্ট ইংরেজ কবি জন মিল্টন রচিত মহাকাব্য। বাইবেল-এর কাহিনীকে ভিত্তি করে এই মহাকাব্য রচিত হয়েছিল, যা ১৬৬৭ সালে প্রকাশিত হয়েছিল। প্রথম সংস্করণে এটি দশ খণ্ডে প্রকাশিত হলেও দ্বিতীয় সংস্করণে (১৬৭৪) এটি বারো খণ্ডে প্রকাশিত হয়।এটি একটি মহাকাব্য যা ব্লাঙ্ক ভার্স বা মুক্ত ছন্দে রচিত।মহাকাব্য টি বাইবেল এর কাহিনির ওপর ভিত্তি করে রচিত। প্রথম খণ্ডে মিল্টনের উদ্দেশ্য লক্ষ করা যায় মুলত মানুষের প্রতি ঈশ্বরের দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি কে প্রকাশ করা। বাংলা সাহিত্যের প্রথম মহাকাব্য 'মেঘনাদবধ' কাব্যে 'প্যারাডাইস লস্ট' কাব্যের ছায়া পরিলক্ষিত হয়।
➢ Who excels in
dramatic monologue?
⎯ John Milton
Note: নাটকীয় এককভাষণ (Dramatic monologue), কাব্য ছন্দ রূপ। নাটকীয় মনোলোগ হল এক ধরনের কবিতা যা একটি স্বতন্ত্র চরিত্রের বক্তৃতার আকারে লেখা। নাটকের ক্ষেত্রে Dramatic monologue কে Soliloquy (স্বগতোক্তি) বলে। অর্থাৎ, অভিনেতৃ কর্তৃক অন্যের অগোচরে আপন মনে উক্তি। আবার, দর্শকের উদ্দেশ্যে অভিনেতৃর সংলাপ দেওয়াকে বলা হয় Aside (noun). Definition of aside: an actor's speech heard by the audience but supposedly not by other characters.
➢ "Paradise
Regained" is an epic by —
⎯ John Milton
➢ Who of the
following is a famous epic poet in English literature? / Of the following authors
who wrote an epic?
⎯ John Milton
➢ 'Paradise
Lost' is —
⎯ an epic poem
➢ শোকগীতি
‘Lycidas’- এর রচয়িতা কে?
⎯ John Milton
➢ The central
idea of "Under the greenwood tree" is that:
⎯ life in nature
is simple and free
➢ In "Under
the greenwood tree", which of the following is mentioned as an
"enemy"?
⎯ Winter
➢ In 'Under the
greenwood Tree' the 'Tree' refers to—
⎯ forest
➢ Calliban is a
character in —
⎯ Tempest
➢ Brutus is a
famous character of Shakespeare in —
⎯ Julius Caeser
➢ 'Ophelia' is
an important character in the Shakespearean play?
⎯ Hamlet
➢ Shylok যে নাটকের
চরিত্র, সে নাটকটির নাম
⎯ The Merchant
of Venice
Note: The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599.
➢ 'Faerie
Queene' is:
⎯ an epic
Note: The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI.
Suggestion- 3
➢ Who wrote
"Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise"?
⎯ Thomas Gray
➢ Who is famous
for his elegies?
⎯ Thomas Gray
➢ Who wrote
'Gulliver's Travels'—
⎯ Jonathan Swift
➢ 'A Voyage of
Lilliput' is written by—
⎯ Jonathan Swift
➢ Jonathan Swift
is the author of—
⎯ Gulliver's
Travels
➢ Who is the
most famous satirist in English literature?
⎯ Jonathan Swift
➢ 'Alexander
Pope's "An Essay on Man" is
⎯ poem
➢ Poet Alexander
Pope's famous work—
⎯ The Rape of
the Lock
➢ ''To err is
human, to forgive is divine' is written by—
⎯ Alexander Pope
➢ Who was the
famous mock-heroic poet in English literature?
⎯ Alexander Pope
➢ The first
English novel. Pamela, has been written by—
⎯ Samuel
Richardson
➢ 'Tom Jones' by
Henry Fielding was first published in—
⎯ the 1st half
of 18th century
➢ Who is
considered to be the father of English novel?
⎯ Henry Fielding
➢ Edmund Burke
belonged to—
⎯ 18th century
➢ Who write
first English dictionary?/ Who
is the author of the first dictionary?
⎯ Samuel Johnson
Suggestion- 4
➢ Which is known
as Romantic Period of English literature?
−⎯ 1798-18324
➢ The Romantic
Age began with the pubh' cation of—.
−⎯ Lyrical
Ballads
➢ Romanticism is
mainly connected with of—
−⎯ Love and
beauty
➢ Pioneer of
Romanticism is/ are —
−⎯ Both
➢ Most important
feature of a romantic poetry is —
−⎯ Subjectivity
or Imagination
➢ 1798-1830 সাল পর্যন্ত
সময়কে ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের কোন কাল বলা হয়?
−⎯ The Romantic
Age
➢ Who of the
following was both a poet and painter?
−⎯ Blake
➢ The author of
'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is—
−⎯ William Blake
➢ Who among the
following is not a novelist?
−⎯ Blake
➢ One of the
four mentioned below is not a poet of Romantic age—
−⎯ William Blake
➢ In "I
wandered Lonely as a Cloud" the daffodils gave the poet.
−⎯ a great deal
of pleasure
➢ Why were the
daffodils in Wordsworth's I wandered Lonely as a Cloud' dancing?
−⎯ There was a
strong wind.
➢ In "I
Wondered Lonely As a Cloud" Wordsworth compares the
➢ daffodils with
—.
−⎯ the stars of
the milky way
➢ William
Wordsworth is pre-eminently—
−⎯ a poet of
nature
➢ Lyrical
Ballads was published in the year—
−⎯ 1798
➢ William
Wordsworth was a—
−⎯ a poet
➢ The Daffodil
is a poem written by —
−⎯ William
Wordsworth
➢ William
Wordsworth এর সমসাময়িক কবি কে?
−⎯ S. T.
Coleridge
➢ Who is known
as 'the poet of nature in English literature'?
−⎯ William
Wordsworth
➢ In "The
Solitary Reaper' what does the word solitary mean?
−⎯ romantic
➢ Wordsworth was
inspired by—
−⎯ The French
Revolution
➢ The Solitary
Reaper is a —
−⎯ romantic poem
➢ 'Written in
March is a poem composed by—
−⎯ Wordsworth
➢ Who wrote the
poem 'Solitary Reaper?
−⎯ The Lucy Poems
➢ Who wrote poem
about Lucy?
−⎯ William
Wordsworth
➢ Lucy সম্পর্কে কবিতা
কোন কবি রচনা করেন?
−⎯ William
Wordsworth
➢ The Daffodils কী
জাতীয় রচনা?
−⎯ কবিতা
➢ The literary
work 'Kubla Khan' is —
−⎯ a verse by
Coleridge
➢ 'The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner is a—
−⎯ poem
➢ Who is the
author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?
−⎯ S. T.
Coleridge
➢ Who was
English poet addicted to opium?
−⎯ S. T.
Coleridge
➢ P.B. Shelley
is known as—
−⎯ Romantic poet
➢ Who wrote
Prometheus Unbound?
−⎯ Shelley
➢ The phrase
''trunkess legs'' in the poem'' Ozymandias ?
−⎯ the poet
➢ The central
idea of "Ozymandias" is that—
−⎯ all things,
both great and small, will perish
➢ In Shell's
''Ozymandias'' frown, and sneer of cold command'' are seen on—
−⎯ shattered
visage
➢ "Ode to
the West Wind" is by—
−⎯ Shelley
➢ One of the
following was a romantic poet—
−⎯ Shelly
➢ In the poem
"Ozymandias "Who calls ozymandias 'King of Kings"?
−⎯ Ozymandias
himself
➢ Who is called
the 'poet of beauty'? —
−⎯ John Keats
➢ In Shelly's
"Ozymandias" the words, 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings' are inscribed
on—
−⎯ the pedestal
of the statue
➢ What lies half
sunk in the sand in Shelley's "Ozymandias"?
−⎯ broken head of
a statue
➢ In
"Ozymandias" the poet says, "I met a traveller — an —
land."
−⎯ from, antique
➢ ভরতপক্ষী ও সমীকরণের
কবি (Poet of ‘Skylark and Winds’) নামে পরিচিত কে?
−⎯ P B Shelley
➢ "Ode to
Autumn" was written by —
−⎯ Keats
➢ Keats belong
to —
−⎯ Nineteenth
century
➢ Poet of
sensuousness —
−⎯ John Keats
➢ 'Ode on a
Grecian Urn' — Who is the poet of the poem?
−⎯ Keats
➢ John Keats is
primarily a poet of—
−⎯ Beauty
➢ Who wrote 'Ode
to a Nightingale?'
−⎯ Keats
➢ মৃত্যু হচ্ছে নিছক
‘A Short Sleep’ এই উক্তিটি কার?
−⎯ কিটস
➢ Joho Keats কোন
শ্রেণীর কবি?
−⎯ Romantic
➢ John Keats is
known as a romantic poet. So is (choose one name)
−⎯ Lord Byron
➢ Who is the
author of 'Heaven and Earth'?
−⎯ Lord Byron
➢ Who is
sometimes called "Rebel Poet"?
−⎯ Lord Byron
➢ Who wrote the
poem "Don Juan"?
−⎯ Lord Byron
➢ Who is the
author of 'Pride and Prejudice? /'Pride and Prejudice' is written by—
−⎯ Jane Austen
Suggestion- 5
➢ In which
century was the Victorian period?
−⎯ 19th century
➢ The Victorian
age is named after—
−⎯ Queen Victoria
_
➢ Winch of the
following ages in literary history is the latest?
−⎯ The Victorian
Age
➢ Who wrote the
poem 'Ulysses'?
−⎯ Alfred
Tennyson
➢ Tennyson
wrote—
−⎯ Alfred
Tennyson
➢ 'The Falcon'
is a comedy by-
−⎯ Alfred
Tennyson
➢ Tennyson 'In
Memoriam' is-
−⎯ Alfred
Tennyson
➢ Browning was
the composer of any of the following poems—
−⎯ Andrea Del
Sarto
➢ Who is the
poet of the Victorian age?
−⎯ Matthow Arnold
➢ Who among the
following is not a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
−⎯ Robert
Browning
➢ The poem The
Patriot' is written by —
−⎯ Robert
Browning
➢ Browning
wrote___
−⎯ Rabbi Ben Ezra
➢ One of the
following authors, one is French. Who is he?
−⎯ Alexander
Dumas
➢ Who is the
author of the novel 'Three Musketeers?
−⎯ Alexander
Dumas
➢ 'Vanity Fair'
is a −⎯
−⎯ novel
➢ Vanity Fair is
a novel by−⎯
−⎯ Thackeray
➢ The writer of
David Copperfield is—
−⎯ Charles
Dickens
➢ Who wrote the
two famous novels, 'David Copperfield' and 'A Tale of Two Cities"?
−⎯ Charles
Dickens
➢ Charles
Dickens was the writer of—
−⎯ David
Copperfield
➢ A Tale of Two
Cities is a novel by—
−⎯ Dickens
➢ Charles
Dickens is a great—
−⎯ novelist
➢ কোন পুস্তকটি Charles
Dickens- এর লেখা?
−⎯ David
Copperfield
➢ Charles
Dickens is not the novelist for one of the following—
−⎯ Treasure
Island
➢ One of the
four mentioned below is not a Novelist of modern age in English
➢ Language. Who
is he?
−⎯ Charles
Dickens
➢ Who did not
receive Noble Prize in literature:
−⎯ Leo Tolstoy
Suggestion- 6
➢ The Return of
the Native is written by—
−⎯ Thomas Hardy
➢ ' Sherlock
Homes' was written by−⎯
−⎯ Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle
➢ Who created
the detective 'Sherlock Holmes'?
−⎯ Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle
➢ 'Caesar and
Cleopatra' is−⎯
−⎯ A Play By G.B.
Shaw
➢ Who among the
following is a dramatist?
−⎯ George Bernard
Shaw
➢ Who is the
greatest English dramatist?
−⎯ G. B. Shaw
➢ Who is the
author of the drama 'Joan of Arc?
−⎯ G. B. Shaw
➢ 'Man and
Superman' বইটি কার লেখা?
−⎯ G. B. Shaw
➢ George Bernard
Shaw is —
−⎯ G. B. Shaw
➢ Who is the
modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature?
−⎯ Bertrand
Russell
➢ Bertrand
Russell was a British—
−⎯ Philosopher
➢ The author of
'Road to Freedom' is—
−⎯ Bertrand
Russell
➢ What was the
real name of the great American Short- story writer, 'O Henry?
−⎯ William Sydney
Porter
➢ Who wrote the
short story 'The Gift of the Magi?
−⎯ O' Henry
➢ O' Henry is
famous for-
−⎯ Short Story
➢ Who was the
greatest modern American short story writer?
−⎯ O' Henry
➢ 'The Sacred
Flame' is written by-
−⎯ William
Somerset Maugham
➢ Who is the
author of the book ' Of Human Bondage'?
−⎯ Somerset
Maugham
➢ What kind of
literary work is ' The Luncheon' by Somerset Maugham?
−⎯ A short story
➢ What is the
work of Winston Churchill?
−⎯ History of the
Second World War
➢ In Which year
Winston Churchill got the Novel prize in literature?
−⎯ 1953
➢ History of the
II world war is written by-
−⎯ Winston S.
Churchill
➢ Who was a
statesman but awarded Novel Prize in English Literature?
−⎯ Churchill
➢ What was the
first novel of Virginia Woolf?
−⎯ The Voyage out
➢ 'To the light
house' বইটির রচয়িতা কে?
−⎯ Virginia Woolf
➢ 'The Rainbow'
is -
−⎯ A novel by D.
H. Lawrence
➢ 'Lady
Chatterley's Lover is a novel written by-
−⎯ D.H. Lawrence
➢ The most
striking feature of D.H.
Lawrence's character is that−⎯
−⎯ They almost
portray himself
➢ D.H. Lawrence
a famous novelist of modern age is not the author of one of the four Novels
mentioned below. Which is the Novel?
−⎯ Ulysses
➢ Any one of the
following pairs are literary collaborators−⎯
−⎯ Eliot and
pound
➢ T.S. Eliot was
born in-
−⎯ USA
➢ The literary
work, 'The Waste Land' is a -
−⎯ Poem by T.S
Eliot
➢ In Which poem
do you find hindu allusion of philosophy?
−⎯ The Waste Land
➢ According to
most of the critics who is not a romantic poet?
−⎯ T. S. Eliot
➢ Who wrote 'The
Waste Land'?
−⎯ T. S. Eliot
➢ Who is famous
for the theory of 'Objective Co-Relative'?
−⎯ T. S. Eliot
➢ Who of the
following was poet?
−⎯ T.S. Eliot
➢ T.S. Eliot is
a ____ poet?
−⎯ Modern
➢ 'The Waste
Land' is ___?
−⎯ a poem
➢ Who is the
author of 'For whom the Bell Tolls'?
−⎯ Ernest
Hemingway
➢ Who is the
author of 'A Farewell to Arms'?
−⎯ Ernest
Hemingway
➢ Who is the
author of 'The Old Man and the Sea.'
−⎯ E. Hemingway
➢ Earnest
Hemingway is a famous—
−⎯ American
novelist
➢ Who is the
author of the novel "The Sun
Also Rises"?
−⎯ Ernest
Hemingway
➢ Earnest
Hemingway is the author of—
−⎯ The old man
and the sea
➢ Who is the
author of 'Animal Farm'?
−⎯ George Orwell
➢ Who writes
'Waiting for Goddot'?
−⎯ Samuel Beckett
➢ Waiting for
Godot' is —
−⎯ an absurd
drama
➢ Who wrote 'The
Birthday Party?
−⎯ Harold Pinter
➢ Nobel Prize
winner in literature 'Harold Pinter' is from—
−⎯ UK
➢ The Asian
Drama গ্রন্থের রচয়িতা কে?
⎯ গুনার মিনডাল
➢ Who is the
author of 'India Wins Freedom?
⎯ Abul Kalam
Azad
➢ Who received
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013?
⎯ Alice Munro
➢ Rabindranath
Tagore wrote—.
⎯ Balaka
➢ Kazi Nazrul
Islam is the—poet of Bangladesh.
⎯ national
➢ Who is the
author of the novel 'A Golden Age'?
⎯ Tahmima Anam
➢ Who wrote
Madame Bovary?
⎯ Gustave
Elaubert
➢ A Doll's House
is written by—.
⎯ Henrick Ibsen
➢ "My
Experiments with Truth" was written by—
⎯ Mahatma Gandhi
➢ Who is the
author of the book 'The Sense of an Ending'? —.
⎯ Julian Barnes
➢ Among the
following who is not a poet?
⎯ Doris Lessing
➢ Who wrote
'Crime and Punishment?
⎯ Dostoyevsky
➢ "The Rape
of Bangladesh''-
⎯ Anthony
Mascarenhas
➢ The author of
the famous book 'The Judgement' is —
⎯ Kuldip Nayer
➢ Which phrase
would best describe 'the cuckoo'?
⎯ 'the harbinger
of spring'
➢ Rabindranath
Tagore won Nobel Prize for writing—.
⎯ poetry
➢ Kazi Nazrul
Islam is a—poet.
⎯ rebel
➢ Who is the
author of 'The Origin of Species,'
⎯ C. Darwin
➢ Who is the
author of 'Arabian Nights'?
⎯ Sir Richard
Burton8
➢ Who is the
author of 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
⎯ Jules Verne
➢ Which Indian
English Writer wrote 'A Suitable Boy"?
⎯ Vikram Seth
➢ "Victor
Hugo" was⎯
⎯ French
novelist
➢ 'Harry potter
and the Half Blood Prince'
⎯ J. K Rowling
➢ Nissim Ezekiel
is a famous poet of—.
⎯ India
➢ Who wrote the
book 'The Kite Runner'?
⎯ Khaled
Hosseini
➢ 'Things Fall
Apart' was written by—
⎯ Chinua Achebe
➢ Guy de
Maupassant is a famous— short story writer.
⎯ French
➢ Brick Lane is
Written by—
⎯ Monica Ali
➢ 'Alice hi the
Wonderland1 belongs to —
⎯ Juvenile
Literature
➢ Of the
following who is the most translated author of the word?
⎯ V. I. Lenin
➢ Who wrote the
book 'Lord Jim: A Tale'?
⎯ Joseph Conrad
➢ Who is the
writer of the critical work 'Aspects of Novel'?
⎯ Edward Morgan
Forster
➢ The God of
Small Things' is written by —
⎯ Aroundhuti Roy
➢ Who is well
known for his translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into English.
⎯ Edward Fitz Gerald
➢ Author of the
Picture of Dorian Gray—
⎯ Oscar Wilde
➢ A famous short
story of Maupassant is—
⎯ The Diamond
Necklace
➢ Who wrote the
book 'Cancer Ward'?
⎯ Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
➢ Goethe is the
greatest poet of—
⎯ Germany
➢ What type book
'The Woman'
⎯ Novel
➢ S. Hornby is
famous for—
⎯ writing
dictionaries
➢ Who is the
author of 'The Jungle Book'?
⎯ Rudyard
Kipling
➢ 'A Brief
History of Time' বইটির লেখক
⎯স্টিফেন হকিং
➢ Award of Nobel
Prize in Literature was started from the year—
⎯ 1901
➢ "The End
of History and the last Man"
⎯ M. Francis
Fukuyama
➢ 'Justice' কবিতাটির
রচয়িতা কে?
⎯ Henry
Wordworth Longfellow
➢ Author of 'The
Time Machine' is—
⎯ H. G. Wells
➢ 'Point
Counterpoint- Gi লেখক কে?
⎯ Aldous Huxley
➢ 'Uncle Tom's
Cabin Gi লেখক কে?
⎯ Mrs. Harriet
Stowe
➢ 'Time, You Old
Gipsy Man' কবিতাটির রচয়িতা কে?
⎯ Ralph Hodgson
➢ William
Hazlitt কে ছিলেন?
⎯ Essayist
➢ 'The Affluent
Society' বইটির লেখক কে?
⎯ J. K. Galbrath
➢ The novel
'Roots' was written by
⎯ Alex Haley
Suggestion-7
➢ Helen of Troy
was the wife of—
⎯ Menelaus
➢ Who was the
first husband of Helen of Troy?
⎯ Menelaus
➢
"Achilles' was
— a great Greek fighter
➢ According to
the writer of 'A Mother in Mannville' which of the following word best
describes the character of 'Jerry' —
⎯ Integrity
➢ Who is the
modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature?
⎯ Bertrand
Russell
➢ Who among the
following is not a recipient of the Nobel prize in Literature?
⎯ Robert
Browning
➢ Who received
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013?
⎯ Alice Munro
➢ Who was a
statesman but awarded Nobel Prize in English Literature?
⎯ Churchill
➢ A Russian
author who refused Nobel Prize —
⎯ Boris
Pasternak
➢ Nobel Prize
winner American woman novelist is—
⎯ Pearl S. Buck
➢ American
female novelist Pearl S. Buck got Nobel Prize in 1938 for the book —
⎯ The Good Earth
➢ Nobel Prize
winner in literature 'Harold Pinter' is from —
⎯ UK
➢ Who was not
awarded the Nobel Prize?
⎯ Elizabeth
Barrett
➢ Who as the
only Laureate to refuse the Nobel Prize?
⎯ Jea- Paul
Sartre
➢ Award of Nobel
Prize in Literature was
started from the year—
⎯ 1901
➢ One of the
following author one is American. Who is he?
⎯ William
Faulkner
➢ Who was
awarded Nobel Prize for the poem 'The Waste Land'?
⎯ T. S. Eliot
➢ The 'Poet
Laureate' is—
⎯ the Court Poet
of England
➢ Who was a
'poet laureate?
⎯ William
Wordsworth
➢ Who is not a
Poet laureate?
⎯ Robert
Browning
➢ Who was a poet
Laureate after William Wordsworth?
⎯ Alfred
Tennyson
➢ Who of the
following was both a poet and painter?
⎯ Blake
➢ Who is called
the 'poet of beauty?
⎯ John Keats
➢ Who is known
as the father of English poetry? / Who is called the father of English poetry ?
⎯ Chaucer
➢ Who is the
father of Modern English Poetry?
⎯ Geoffrey
Chaucer
➢ Who is known
as 'the poet of nature in English literature?
⎯ William
Wordsworth
➢ Of the
following who is the most translated author of the word?
⎯ V. I. Lenin
➢ Who is called
the poet of poets?
⎯ Edmund Spenser
➢ Who is the
father of Modern English
Literature?
⎯ G. B. Shaw
➢ Poet of
sensuousness—
⎯ John Keats
➢ Who is
considered to be the father of
English novel?
⎯ Henry Fielding
➢ John Keats is
primarily a poet of—
⎯ Beauty
➢ Who is
considered to be the father of English Poem?
⎯ Geoffrey
Chaucer
➢ ভরতপক্ষী ও সমীকরনের
কবি (Poet of 'Skylark and Winds') নামে পরিচিত কে?
⎯ P B Shelley
➢ Who was the
famous mock-heroic poet in English literature?
⎯ Alexander Pope
➢ Who wrote
'Wuthering Heights'?
⎯ Emily Bronte
➢ Epics are
divided into — types.
⎯ two
➢ The word
'Limerick' means
⎯ a form of
light verse
➢ An epic based
on — performed by a hero 33
⎯ heroic deeds
➢ The epic
'Odyssey' was written by—
⎯ Homer
➢ The only
medium of literature is—.
⎯ language
➢ Who was not
awarded the Nobel Prize?
⎯ Elizabeth
Barren
➢ "The
waves beside them danced" (from "I wandered lonely as a cloud")
is an example of:
⎯
personification
➢ "I
wandered lonely as a cloud" is an example of.
⎯ simile
➢ The central
idea of "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is that:
⎯ we can find
solace in nature
➢ The speaker of
"I wandered lonely as a cloud" saw :
⎯ golden
daffodils
➢ but in the
end, she became her only shelter. This is an example of.....
⎯ irony
➢ When a poem
has a speaker, what does a novel have?
⎯ narrator
➢ Which of the
following is a story in verse?
⎯ ballad
➢ "The
hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may
dine." This is an example of—
⎯ a satire
➢ 'There is no
one so poor as a wealthy miser.' This is an example of-
⎯ paradox
➢ The Wrath of
Achilles is the theme of—
⎯ Iliad
➢ Emily Bronte
is a—
⎯ novelist
➢ Phoenix is-
⎯ a mythical
bird regenerating from ashes
➢ Socrates
believed that an angry man was—
⎯ equal to a
beast
➢ Which one of
the following is not true for Socrates' wife?
⎯ She did not
insult Socrates
➢ 'After thunder
comes rain'. Here thunder means -
⎯ a loud noise
which usually follows a flash of lightening
➢ 'Captive Lady'
কার রচনা?
⎯ মাইকেল মধূসূদন দত্ত
➢ A mournful
poem written on the death of someone love and lost—
⎯ Elegy
➢ Homer's Illiad
is a/an —
⎯ Epic
➢ 'Satanic
Verses' is written by—
⎯ Salman Rushide
➢ 'A Passage to
India' is written by—
⎯ E. M. Forster
➢ Who was the
tutor of Alexander the Great—
⎯ Aristotle
➢ Who wrote 'The
Spanish Tragedy'?
⎯ Thomas Kyd
➢ Who as the
only Laureate to refuse the Nobel Prize?
⎯ Jea-Paul
Sartre
➢ What is the
salient feature of all literatures?
⎯ Artistic
quality
➢ If a part of a
speech or writing breaks the theme, it is called—
⎯ digression
➢ The sentence
"Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind?" expresses—
⎯ wonder
➢ Allegorical
means—
⎯ having
symbolic meaning
➢ 'Melodrama' is
a kind of play of—
⎯ violent and
sensational themes
➢ What is
Limerick?
⎯ A form of
light verse
➢ ‘Debut’ means
—
⎯ first
apperance
➢ Someone who
writes plays is called a
⎯ playwright
➢ A work which
has a meaning behind the surface meaning is —
⎯ an allegory
➢ What is an
epic?
⎯ a long poem
➢ A Fantasy is—
⎯ An imaginary
story
➢ Readers who
have electic tastes in literature —
⎯ read books on
just one topic
➢ Choose the one
which does not fit in—
⎯ stanza
➢ 'Blank verse'
is a kind of verse —
⎯ having no
rhyming end
➢ 'Blank Versed অর্থ?
⎯ অমিত্রাক্ষর
➢ A drama is
a/an
⎯ story
translated into action
➢ Which one is a
Metaphor?
⎯ The boy takes
after his father
➢ Which word
does not relate to literature?
⎯ demagogue
➢ A poem of
fourteen lines is called—
⎯ Sonnet
➢ The sentence,
"Death, thou shalt not die." is an example of
⎯ paradox
➢ Writing one's
own life story is known as—
⎯ Autobiography
➢ Protagonist'
indicates
⎯ the leading
character or actor in a play
➢ When a person
writes the story of his own life it is called—
⎯ an
autobiography
➢ What is
'Sonnet'
⎯ A poem of
fourteen lines
➢ A sonnet is a
poem having—lines. ft
⎯ fourteen
➢ 'Ballad1 is —
⎯ a kind of
short narrative poem
➢ A
Machiavellian character is—
⎯ a selfish
person
➢ What is
"Linguistics"
⎯ The scientific
study of language
➢ What is
catastrophy?
⎯ The tragic end
of dramatic events
➢ Elegy কী?
⎯ Song of
Lamentation
Suggestions- 8
➢ "I have a
— that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all
men are created equal."
⎯ dream
➢ Into the—of
death rode the six hundred".
⎯ valley
➢ To be or not
to be, that is the—."
⎯ question
➢ 'If winter
comes, can spring be far behind?' These lines were written by___
⎯ Shelley
➢ Who wrote
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'?
⎯ Keats
➢ "Justice
delayed is justice denied" was stated by—
⎯ Gladstone
➢ Who authored
that statement "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"?
⎯ Abraham
Lincoln
➢ Cowards
die—before death.
⎯ many times
➢ 'Our Sweetest
songs are those that tell of a sadest thoughts is a quotation from Shelley's —
⎯ Ode to a
skylark
➢ Frailty, They
name is woman' ____ in which of the following novels you find this?
⎯ Hamlet
➢ "The
music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more." These lines are
from the poem—
⎯ Ode to a
Nightingale by John Keats
➢ "The
Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" Who
is the poet of these lines?
⎯ P. B. Shelley
➢ "A thing
of beauty is a joy forever" was stated by—
⎯ John Keats
➢ 'Knowledge is
power' was stated by—
⎯ Bacon
➢ 'Sweet are the
uses of adversity' was stated by—
⎯ William
Shakespeare
➢ Who authored
the statement 'The government is the best which governs least?
⎯ Henry David
Thoreau
➢ 'Nature never
did betray the heart that loved her' is a quotation
⎯ Wordsworth
➢ "To be or
not to be" is the beginning of a famous Soliloquy from—
⎯ Hamlet
➢ "Better
to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven" who said this and where?
⎯ S Satan in
"Paradise Lost'
➢ "Fair
daffodils! we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early rising sun
Has not attained his noon."
Who is the writer of these beautiful lines?
⎯ Robert Herrick
➢ 'Govt. of the
people, by the people for the people' was observed by—
⎯ Abraham Lincon
➢ They — in
never-ending—
⎯ Stretched,
line
➢ If Winter
comes, can Spring be far behind?— is a line from
⎯ Shelly's Ode
to West Wind
➢ If Winter
comes, can—be far behind?
⎯ Spring
➢ Whose dying
words were, "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepins; will you remember to pay
the debt?"
⎯ Secretes
➢ "Some
books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and
digestd." Said—
⎯ Francis Bacon
➢ 'Veni, Vidi,
Vici' this quotation from Shakespeare's—
⎯ Julius Caesar
➢ "Ten
thousand saw I at a glance" Who said this?
⎯ Wordsworth
➢ "Cowards
die many times before their death."
⎯ Julius Caesar
➢ Who has
written?
'He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things great and small.'
⎯ Coleridge
➢ Identify the
poet of the verse the saddest thought."
⎯ P.B. Shelley
➢ Which ode
begins with the lines?
'My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness
pains. My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.'
⎯ Ode on the
Spring
➢ "Ten
thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance."
What is the poet William Wordsworth referring to?
⎯ daffodils
➢ “All the
perfumes of Arabian will not sweeten
this little hand's” is a quotation from—
⎯ Macbeth
➢ And miles to
go before I sleep'— was written by—
⎯ Robert Frost
➢ These are a
few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?
⎯ C. Marlow
➢ “some of the
people all the time; but you can't fool all the people all time” was stated by—
⎯ Abraham Lincon
➢ 'Good face is
the best letter of recommendation' was stated by —
⎯ Queen
Elizabeth
➢ Water, water,
everywhere, not a drop to drink
⎯ Coleridge
➢ "Full
many a flower is born to blush
unseen, And waste its sweetness in the
desert air." —
⎯ Thomas Gray
➢ “Blow, blow
thou winter wind
Thou art not to unkind
As mans Ingratitude
They tooth is not so keen,
Although they breath be rude.”
These are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?
⎯ W. Shakespeare
➢ "There
are more things in have and
earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy-
⎯ Hamlet
➢ "Poet are
unacknowledged legislators of the word" — Who told it?
⎯ Shelley
➢ Who said 'An
unexamined life is not worth living'?
⎯ Socrates
➢ England
expects every man to do his duty- who told it?
⎯ Nelson
➢ Al the world's
a stage, And all the men and women merely
players' The have their exist and their entrance And each man in his
time plays many parts. These lines are written by
⎯ William
Shakespeare
➢ Where is
expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our ends?
⎯ In Hamlet
➢ Adela is
character in a novel written by—
⎯ E. M. Foster
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