English Literature Full Suggestions for Competitive Exam

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Periods / Age (hyMmg~n )	Sub- division of Period	Duration(mgq)	Characteristics
1. The old English period (c&ªvPxb hyM) or Anglo-Saxon period (G¨vs‡jv - m¨v·b hyM)		450-1066	1. Anonymous ( †ebvgx) 2. Paganism (A-L„ó ag©) 3. Sea Adventures (mgy`ª hvÎv) 4. Evil is defeated (cvcxi civRq) 5. Heroic deeds( exiZ¡ Mv_uv) 6. Literatiere is oral.
2. The middle English period (ga¨hyM) (1066-1500)	a) The Anglo Norman Period (G¨vs‡jv bgv©b hyM)	1066-1340	Religion(ag©) Love (†cÖg ) Chivalry (exiZ¡)
	b) The Age of Chaucer (Pmv‡ii hyM)	1340-1400
	c) The Barren Age (AÜKvi hyM)	1400-1500
3. The Renaissance period (†i‡bmvui hyM) (1500-1660)	a) Preparation for Renaissance (†i‡bvmvui cÖ¯‘wZ hyM)	1500-1558	1.  Love for the past (¯§„wZKvZiZv/AZx‡Zi fvjevmv) 2.  Cultural Movement ( mvs¯‹…wZK AMÖMwZ ) 3.  Passion for new knowledge (be¨Ávb Gi Abyf‚wZ ) Desire for unlimited wealth and power (Acwimxg m¤ú` I ÿgZvi cÖwZ ‡gvn)
	b) The Elizabethan Age (GwjRv‡ew_qvb)	1558-1603
	c) The Jacobean Age  (R¨v‡Kvweqvb hyM)	1603-1625
	d) The Caroline Age (K&¨v‡ivwjb hyM)	1625-1649
	e) The Commonwealth period	1649-1660
	f) The Shakespearean Age   (†k·cxqvi hyM)	1590-1616
	g) The Puritan period  (wcDwiUb hyM/weï×Zvi hyM)	1649-1660
4. The Neoclassical Period (wbIKø¨vwmK¨vj hyM ) (1660-1798)	a) The Restoration period (cyybiæ×v‡ii hyM)	1660-1700	Imitated Literature (AbyKiY) Lack Of Originality  (†gŠwjKZvi Afve) Appeal to reason (hyw³i Dci wbf©ikxj) Bombastic language (ˆkwíK fvlv)
	b) The Augustan Period (AMv÷vb hyM) or The Age of Pope (†cv‡ci hyM)	1700-1745
	c) The Age of Sensibility (Bw›`&ªqcivqYZvi hyM) or The age of Johnson	1745-1798
5. The Romantic period (†ivgvw›UK hyM )		1798-1832	High imagination (cÖPÐ Kíbv cÖeYZv). Love of nature (cÖK…wZ †cÖg). Love for freedom and liberty (¯^vaxbZvi cÖwZ fvjevmv). Love for the past (AZxZ-cÖxwZ). Simplicity in expression (mij cÖKvk fw½). Spontaneity (AvZ¥gvwÎKZv). Individualism (e¨w³ ¯^vZš¿¨). Supernaturalism (AwZcÖvK…ZZv). Revolutionary zeal (wecøex †PZbv).
6. The Victorian period (wf‡±vwiqvb hyM ) (1832-1901)	a) The Pre Raphaelites(cÖvK ivdv‡qjxq)	1848-1860	Age of doubt and Pessimism (mskq I nZvkvi hyM)  Practical and Materialistic (ev¯Íev`x I e¯‘ev`x hyM). GQvovI G hy‡Mi Ab¨vb¨ ˆewkó¨ n‡jv-Medievalism, Symbolism, Sensuousness, Truthfulness, Simplicity.
	b) The Aestheticism and Decadence (bv›`wbK †mŠ›`h© I ÿwqòzZvi hyM)	1880-1901
7. The Modern period (AvaywbK hyM) (1901-1939)	a) The Edwardian period (GWIqvWxq hyM)	1901-1910	Individualism (e¨vw³¯^Zš¿ev`) Experimentation The decline of religion and the loss of faith (m„wó KZ©vi Dci m‡›`n)/ Sexual perversion/Urbanization Rationalism/Frustration (nZvkv) /Absurdity Symbolism/Formalism/ Break with tradition.
	b ) The Georgian period (RR©xq hyM)	1910-1936
8. The Post-Modern Period  (Avaywb‡KvËi hyM )		1939---------

University Wits iv n‡jb

1. Marlowe (Leader of the group)	2. Kyd
3. Nashe	4. Greene
5. Lyly	6. Peele.

Zuv‡`i University Wits ejv nq KviY-They were the witty  students of Cambridge and Oxford University. 

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ü Ô†gUvwdwRK¨vj KweÕ kãwU cÖ_g e¨envi K‡ib Wv: Rbmb|

ü G¸‡jv n‡jv GK we‡kl ai‡Yi ag©ZË¡vkÖqx KweZv|

ˆewkó¨	D‡jøL‡hvM¨ Kwe
1. †cÖg	1. Rb Wvb
2. D™¢U Dcgv	2.RR© nve©vU
3. bvUKxqfv‡e ïiæ	3. wiPvW© µ¨k
	4. †nbwi fb
	5. Aveªvnvg KvD‡j

 

K¨vfvwjqvi Kwe‡Mvwô

G‡`i K‡e¨i g~j welq nj †cÖg I hy×| Giv wQ‡jb ivRfw³‡Z mgwc©Z cÖvY| G‡`i g‡a¨ Ab¨Zg n‡jb- 1. Rb mvKwj; 2. wiPvW© jvf‡jm; 3. ievU© †nwiK

N.B: Ben Jonson Cavalier poetic Movement ïiæ K‡ib| ZvB Zv‡K Cavalier Poet ejv nq Avi Zv‡K hviv AbymiY K‡ib we‡kl K‡i Robert Herrick , Rechard Lovelance, Sir John Suckling cÖgyL‡`i‡K Cavalier Poet ejv nq| Ab¨w`‡K John Donne Metaphysical Poetry Movement G †bZ…Z¡‡`b| Avi Zv‡K hviv AbymiY K‡i we‡kl K‡i George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Abruham Cowley, Fichard Crashaw cÖgyL‡`i †K Metaphysical poet ejv nq| (Z‡e G‡`i g‡a¨ Andrew Mavell ‡K Cavalier Ges Mataphysical Dfq †jLK ejv nq)|

evsjv mvwnZ¨ I Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨i g‡a¨ wgj I Awgj

 

1. evsjv mvwn‡Z¨i Avw` Kwe = jyBcv

1. Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨i Avw` Kwe = K¨vWgb (Caedmon)

2. evsjv mvwn‡Z¨i Avw` wb`k©b = Ph©vc`

2. Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨i Avw` wb`k©b = weDjd (Beowulf)

 

3. evsjv mvwn‡Z¨i †i‡bmvui hyM = 17751941

3. Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨i †i‡bmvui hyM = 1500-1660

 

4. evsjv mvwn‡Z¨i Kwe‡`i Kwe = wbg©‡j›`y ¸b

4. Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨i Kwe‡`i Kwe = GWgÛ †¯úbmvi

 

5. evsjv‡`‡ki RvZxq Kwe = KvRx bRiæj Bmjvg

5. Bsj¨v‡Ûi RvZxq Kwe = William Shakespeare

    

6. evsjv mvwn‡Z¨i 1g gnvKve¨ = †gNbv` ea

6. Bs‡iwR  mvwn‡Z¨i  1g gnvKve¨  = Beowulf

 

7.   Ô Paradise Lost' Gi bvqK = Satan

7.   Ô†gNb`eaKve¨Õ Gi bvqK = iveY

 

8. evsjv mvwn‡Z¨i we‡`ªvnx Kwe = KvRx bRiæj Bmjvg

8. Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨i we‡`ªvnx Kwe = Lord Byron

 

9. evsjv  mvwn‡Z¨i `ytLe`x Kwe = hZx›`ª‡gvnb evMPx

9.  Bs‡iwR  mvwn‡Z¨i `ytLe`x Kwe = †gw_D Avibì

 

10.    evsjv M‡`¨i RbK  = Ck¦iP›`ª we`¨vmvMi

10. Bs‡iwR  M‡`¨i RbK  = John Wyclif

 

11. †QvU M‡íi RbK = GWMvi Gjvb †cv

11. evsjv †QvU M‡íi RbK = iex›`ªbv_ VvKzi

 

12.    evsjv Dcb¨v‡mi RbK = ew¼gP›`ª P‡Ævcva¨vq

12.    Bs‡iwR Dcb¨v‡mi RbK =  †nbwi wdwìs

13.   evsjv mvwn‡Z¨i BwZnvm‡K = 3wU hy‡M fvM Kiv nq|

13.   Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨i BwZnvm‡K = 8wU hy‡M fvM Kiv nq|

 

14. evsjv mvwn‡Z¨ Dramatic Monologue Gi Rb¨ weL¨vZ- Kei KweZvwU (RwmgD`&`xb)

14. Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨ - Robert Browning.

 

15.    Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨ AÜKvi hyM 1400-1500 wLªt

15.    evsjv mvwn‡Z¨ AÜKvi hyM 1201- 1350wLªt

 

16.   Father of Renaissance ejv nq - †cÎvK‡K

16.   evsjvq ivRv ivg‡gvnb ivq‡K Father of the Bangla Renaissance ejv nq|

 

National poets

 

Nigeria	Chinua Achebe
Bangladesh	Kazi Nazrul Islam
India	Rabindranath Tagore
England	William Shakespeare, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
France	Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire
Greece	Homer
Ireland	Thomas Moore, William Butler Yeats
Italy	Dante Alighieri, Giosuè Carducci, Giacomo
Russia	Alexander Pushkin
United States	Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou

 

 

List of Books Banned By Governments

 

Animal Farm	George Orwell, 1945 (Political novella)
Areopagitica	John Milton , 1644 (Essay)
Doctor Zhivago	Boris Pasternak 1955-1988 (Novel)
Lady Chatterley's Lover(1928)	D. H. Lawrence 1928 (Novel)
Mein Kampf (1925)	Adolf Hitler, 1925 (Political manifesto)
The Satanic Verses(1988)	Salman Rushdie, 1988 (Novel)
Ulysses (1922)	James Joyce, 1922 (Novel)

Titles of Some Literary Persons 

(mvwnwZ¨K‡`i we‡kl Dcvwa)

 

Title	Name
Father of English Novel	Henry Fielding
Father of English Poem	Geoffrey Chaucer
Poet of Poets	Edmund Spenser
Famous Mock- Heroic Poet	Alexander Pope
English " Epic' Poet	John Milton
Both a Poet and Painter	Blake
The Poet of Nature in English Literature	William Wordsworth
Poet of Beauty in English Literature	John Keats
Rebel Poet in English Literature	Lord Byron
Poet of Skylark and Winds	P.B. Shelley
Father of Modern English Literature	G. B. Shaw
Most Translated Author of the World	V. I. Lenin
Father of English Learning/ History	Venerable Bede
The Founder of English Prose	Alfred the Great
Father of English Prose	John Wycliff
First Sonneteer in English Literature	Sir Thomas Wyatt
Father of English Tragedy	Christopher Marlowe
Bard of Avon/ Father of English Drama	William Shakespeare
Father of English Essay/ Master of Aphorism & Terseness	Francis Bacon
Father of English Comedy/ A Neo-Classicist	Ben Jonson
Poet of Love/ Metaphysical Poet/ Father of Metaphysical poetry	John Donne
Father of English Criticism/ First Poet Laureate	John Dryden
Master of English Satire	Jonathon Swift
The Compiler of First English Dictionary/ Father of English One Act Play	Samuel Johnson
Fathers of Romanticism	Coleridge & Wordsworth
Poet of Nature/ Lake Poet/ Poet of Children	William Wordsworth
Poet of Super Naturalism/ Opium Eater/ Lake Poet	S.T. Coleridge
Revolutionary   Poet/   Poet   of   Hope   & Regeneration	P. B Shelley
Poet of Beauty/ Poet of Sensuousness	John Keats
Anti- romantic in Romantic Age	Jane- Austen
A  representative  Poet  of  the  Victorian Period	Tennyson
Father of Dramatic Monologue	Robert Browing
The Greatest Modern Dramatist	G.B Shaw
Father of Revenge Tragedy	Thomas Kyd
First English Comedy Writer	Nicholas Udall
Writer of the First English Tragedy	Norton and Sackville
Father of Modern Drama	Henrik Ibsen
Father of English Grammar	Lindley Murray
Father of Science Fiction	Jules Verne
Father  of English  Stream  of Conscious Novel	James Joyce
Father of English Short Story	Edger Alien Poe
First Novel Prize Winner in Literature	Sully Prudhomme
A Great Psycho-analysist	Sigmund Freud
The Best Writer of English Travelogue	R. L Stevenson

  

 

Pen name and real name of the writers

(†jLK‡`i cÖK…Z bvg I QÙbvg)

 

Pen Name (QÙ bvg)	Real Name  (cÖK…Z bvg)
O' Henry	William Sydney Porter
George Eliot	Mary Ann Evans
George Orwell	Eric Arthur Blair
Currer Bell	Jane Eyre
Mark Twain	Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Captain Hercules Vinegar	Henry Fielding
Joseph Conrad	Jozef   Teoder    Konrad    Nalecz Korzeniowsti
Lee	G.B Shaw

 

Elaboration names of some writers

(wKQz †jL‡Ki m¤ú~Y© bvg)

 

Short Names	Elaboration of the Names
S.T. Coleridge	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
P.B. Shelley	Percy Bysshe Shelley
W.B. Yeats	William Butler Yeats
E. M. Forster	Edward Morgan Forster
T.S. Eliot	Thomas Stearns Eliot
G.B. Shaw	George Bernard Shaw
W.H. Auden	Wystan Hugh Auden
D.H Lawrence	David Herbert Lawrence
J.M. Synge	John Millington Synge
C.G Rossetti	Christina Gabriel Rossetti
D.G Rossetti	Dante Gabriel Rossetti
R.L Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson
G.M. Hopkins	Gerard Manley Hopkins
H.G. Wells	Herbert George Wells
J.K. Rowling	Joanne Kinan Rowling
R.K. Narayan	Rasipuran Krishnaswami Narayan
F.R. Leavis	Frank Raymond Leavis
0' Neill	Eugine O' Neill

Homonymous Writings of the writers 

(mgRvZxq bv‡g wfbœ †jL‡Ki MÖš’)

 

1.	Sir Thomas Malory	Morte d' Arther (1445) (prose)
	Alfred Tennyson	Morte d' Arther (1445) (poem)

 

2.	Ernest Hemingway	The Sun  also Rises (Novel)
	John Donne	The Sun Rising (poem)

 

3.	Alfred Tennyson	Ulysses (poem)
	James Joyce	Ulysses (novel)

 

4.	William Wordsworth	Rainbow (poem)
	D. H Lawrence	Rainbow (novel)

    

5.	Ovid	Metamorphoses
	Franz Kafka	The Metamorphosis

 

6.	E.M Forster	A Room with a view (novel)
	Virginia Woolf	A Room of One's Own (fiction)

      

7.	P. B Shelley	Prometheus Unbound (Lyrical drama)
	Aeschylus	Prometheus Unbound (play)

 

8.	Ben Jonson	Every Man in His Humour (play)
		Every Man Out of His Humour (play)

 

9.	William Wordsworth	Daffodils
	Robert Herrick	To Daffodils (poem)

      

10.	G. B Shaw	The man of Destiny (play)
		Man and Superman (play)

 

11.	William Shakespeare	Antony and Cleopatra (play)
	G. B Shaw	Caesar and Cleopatra (play)

 

12.	Alexander Pope	The Rape of the Lock (mock epic)
	Henry Fielding	Rape Upon Rape (novel)
	William Shakespeare	The Rape of Lucree (poem)
	Anthony Mascarenhas	The Rape of Bangladesh

 

13.	G. B Shaw	Candida  (play)
	Voltaire	Candide (satire)

 

14.	Alexander Campbell _	The Heart of India (history book)
	Joseph Conrad	The Heart of Darkness (novel)

     

15.	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream (play)
	John Masefield	Midsummer Night

     

16.	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea  (novel)
	J.M Synge	Riders to the Sea (play)

     

17.	Robert Frost	The Death of the Hired Man (poem)
	Arthur Miller	Death of a Salesman  (play)

     

18.	John Dryden	Preface to the Fables
	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Preface to Shakespeare (literary criticism)
	William Wordsworth	Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (literary criticism)

 

19.	Cyril Tourneur	The Revenger's Tragedy
		The Atheist's Tragedy

 

20.	Jeremy Taylor	Holy Living (a sermon in prose)
		Holy Dying (a sermon in prose)

 

21.	Charles Robert Darwin	The Origin of Species
	Sir James Jeans	The Origin of Life on Earth (prose)

 

†`kwfwËK †jLK (Writers Citizenship)

Writers of American Literature

Arther Miller        Eugene O Neill

Walt Whitman      Robert Frost

Emily Dickenson Herman Melville

Saul Bellow          O' Henry

Ernest Hemingway      Mark Twain

Kinnan Rawlings  Bertrand Russel

Allen Ginsberg     Henry Miller

Writers of French Literature

Voltaire                 Rousseau

Victor Hugo          Alexander Dumas

Writers of Russian Literature

Maxim Gorky       Dostoyevsky

Karl Marx             Leo Tolstoy

Writers of Irish Literature

G. B Shaw            Oscar Wilde

James Joyce          Oliver Goldsmith

Writers of English Literature

Alexander Pope    Jonathan Addison

Daniel Defoe        Samuel Johnson

Thomas Gray        William Blake

William Wordsworth  S.T Coleridge

Lord Byron           P. B Shelley

John Keats            Jane Austen

Charles Lamb       William Hazlitt

Tennyson              Robert Browning

Mathew Arnold    Charles Dickens

Thackeray             George Eliot

Thomas Hardy      Charles Darwin

A List of Some Woman Writers

Virginia Woolf     Pearl S. Buck

Doris Lessing        Emily Dickinson

Barrette Browning       Charlotte Bronte.

Emily Bronte.       Anne Bronte

George Eliot         Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell

Quotations

S	Writer	Quotations
1	William Shakespeare	To be or not to be that is the question.  Frailty thy name is woman, is the soul of wit.   *I must be cruel, only to be kind, There are more heaven and earth, Horatio/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. *There I either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. * There's a divinity that s\ ends. (Hamlet)
		* Fair is foul, foul is fair. * All the Perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. * Life's a but walking shadow. ..... it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and furry, Signifying nothing. *Look like the innocent flower But be the serpent under it. (Macbeth)
		"I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss." .(Othello)
		* Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life And thou no breath at al, am a man More sinned against than sinning. *Have more than thoi showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest. (King Lear)
		* Cowards die many times before their death. *Vini, Vidi, Vici   (Came, saw and conquered), *Men at some time are masters of their fates: (Julius Caesar)
		* "Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it." (Romeo and
		Man arc April when they woo, December when they wed. *A11 the world's stage And all the Man and Woman merely players. * Sweet are the uses of adversity. *Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind.(As You Like It)
		*A11 that glisters is not gold. (Marchant of Vanice)
		Than Isabella lives chaste and brother die, More than our brother is our chastity. (Measure for Measure)
		* 'Thought is free.' *'Hell is empty and all the devils are here.' * 'How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!' (The Tempest)
		*Some are born great, some achieve greatness/ And some have greatness thrust upon them.   (Twelfth Night)
2	John Keats	Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter. (Ode on a Grecian Urn)
		Beauty is truth truth beauty (0de on a Grecian Urn)
		A thing of beauty is a joy forever( Endymion)
3	William Wordsworh	Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings (Lyrical Ballads), b. Nature never did betray /The heart that loved her. (Tintern Abbey) c. Ten thousand saw I at a glance/ Tossing their heads sprightly dance.(Daffodils)
		d. The child is father of the man.(The Rainbow) Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass!, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. ( The Solitary Reaper)
4	P.B. Shelley	a. If winter comes can spring be far behind.(Ode to West Wind) b. Poets are unacknowledged legislature of the world (A Defense of Poetry), c. We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter * Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.(To a Skylark) Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!/ I fall upon the Thorns of
		Life! I bleed (Ode to the West Wind)
5	Gladstone	Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
6	Alexander Pope	Fools rush where angels fear to tread (An essay on Criticism)
		A Little learning is a dangerous thing
		To err is human, to forgive divine.
7	S.T. Coleridge	He prayeth best who loveth best ( The Ancient Mariner)
		Alone, alone, all, all alone/ Alone on a wide wide sea.
		Water, water, everywhere/ Nor any drop to drink.
8	Robert Frost.	And I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep (stopping by woods)
		Good fences make good neighbors.(Mending Wall)
		'Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. '(The Death of the Hired Man),
9	Francis Bacon	* Wives are young men's mistresses, companion of middle age and old men's nurses.(Of Marriage and Single Life ) *
		* Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.(Of Studies)
		* Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.(Of Studies)
		* History makes a man wise.(Of Studies)
		* It is impossible to love and wise at the same time.(Of Love) * Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds. ( Of Friendship). * A good friend is another himself. ( Of Friendship) * Opportunity makes a thief.   *A mixture of lie doth ever add pleasure(Of Truth)
10	John Milton	Better to reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven (Paradise Lost)
		Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world(Paradise Lost)
		The childhood shows the man/ As morning shows the day. ( Paradise Regained)
11	Aristotle	Man is by nature a political animal, (politics)
		He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is suffk himself, must be either a beast or a god (Politics)
		Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime
12	William Blake	What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" (Songs of Experience)
13	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains(The Social Contract,)
		Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.( Thoughts on Different Subjects)
14	Socrates	The unexamined life is not worth living( Apology by Plato )
		I know nothing except the fact of my Ignorance( Diogenes Laertius)
15	Rudyared Kipling	Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet (The Ballad of East and West)
16	Edmund Burke	Superstition is a religion of feeble minds(Reflections on the Revolution in France )
17	John Dryden	They think too little who talk too much
18	Martin Luther King	I have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its that all men are created equal(Speech at Civil Rights March on Washingtor
19	Kal Marx	Religion is the Opium of the people( Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right1)
20	Dr. Samual Johnson	Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.( Life of Samuel Johnson)
21	Neil Armstrong	That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (in New York Ti
22	Robert Browning	So absolutely good is truth, truth never hurts the teller. (Fifine at the Fair)
		Ignorance is not innocence but sin( The Inn Album)
23	Edmund Burke	The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
24	Christopher Marlowe	A Sound magician is a mighty God . Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? / And burnt the topless towers of Iliam. Sweet Helen makes me immortal.(Dr. Faustus) Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, (The Passionate Shepherd/ poem)
25	John Donne	For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love.(The Canonization) * This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere. (The Sun Rising)
26	Thomas Gray	Full many a flower is bron to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.(Elegy Written...) *"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise(Ode on a Distant Prospect).
27	Lord Byron	.Pleasure is sin and sometimes sin is pleasure. (Don Juan) b. Revenge is sweet especially to women.
28	Alfred Lord Tennyson	I will never rest from travels(Ulysses) The old order changeth yielding place to the new. ( Morte D'Arther)
29	Robert Browning	a. Ignorance is not innocence but sin.( The Inn Album) b. So absolutely good is truth, truth never hurts the teller. (Fifine at the Fair)
30	Mathew Arnold	"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."( Sohrab and Rustum)
31	Charles Dickens	Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door
32	George Eliot	No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
33	George Bernard Shaw	Nine soldiers out often are born fools Q Arms and the Man) *Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
34	William Butler Yeats	a. The falcon cannot hear the falconer. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold.( The Second Coming), b. All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born. (Easter 1916).c. It's certain that fine woman eat a crazy salad with their meat. ( A prayer for my Daughter)
35	Virginia Woolf	In fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.( Three Guineas)
36	H.D. Thoreau	That government is best which governs least.( Civil Disobedience)

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Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry(Essay) Arcadia wmWwb AvK©vwWqvi Kv‡Q c‡qwUªi Rb¨ G‡cvjwR Pvq|

Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queens. The Shepherd's  Calendars. the Ruins of Time. The Amoretti (Poem). He is called the Poet of the Poets. ‡¯úmvi Gi †dqix KzBb G‡gv‡iwËi †mdvW©m K¨v‡jÛvi G UvBg iæBb nBqv †M‡jv|

Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus. The Jew of Malta. Tamburlaine the great (Play) also known as Father of English Tragedy. gvëv LvIqvi d÷ KBiv gv‡jv©i †U¤úvi DBVv †M‡Q|

John Donne(1572-1632):  Forbidding Mourning, The Canonization, Go and Catch a Falling Star. The Sun Rising, Good Morrow, Butler My Heart Sweetest Love I Do not Goe , Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, The Relic. The Extasie, The Flea, Thou Hast Made Me, Death Be not Proud. (Put-in) Is the most prominent Metaphysical  Poet.  Wvb: GK ¸W g‡iv †Z mvb ivBwms Gi mgq GKUv ÷vi dwjs nw”Qj †`‡L gb© Ki‡Z Ki‡Z  †Kbb wb‡q †`Š‡o †M‡jv| wd¬qvi Kvg‡o G·Uvwm‡Z _vKv Wvb Gi gvB nvU©, myB‡U÷ jvf jywme †W_ n‡j †m e‡j `vD n¨v÷ †gW wg WvB|

George Herbert: The Altar, Easter Wings, The Collar. The Temple (poem) Is also a Metaphysical Poet, also known as Poet   of Religion. a‡g©i Kwe nve©vU gw›`‡ii †ew`‡Z (Aëvi) D‡V B÷vi DBs Gi Mjvq Kjvi cwi‡q w`j|

Andrew Marvel: To His Coy Mistress, The Definition of Love. Bermudas (Poem) evigyWvq e‡m gv‡f©j Zvi Kq wg‡m&ªm‡K jv‡fi †Wwd‡bmb †kLv‡”Q|

John Bunyan: The  Pilgrim's Progress (Novel). eywbqvi Gi cÖM‡im fv‡jv|

John Milton (1608-1674) : Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Lycidas (Poem) Samson Agonists ( Play) Areopagitica, (Speech) is called Epic Poet, The Master of Verse.

Paradise Lost attempted to justify the ways of God to man.

†mgmb Gi c¨vivWvBm jm n‡jI wgëb Gi w¯úm GwiIcvwMwUKvÕi Kj¨vb wjwPWvm g‡i wM‡q c¨vivWvBm wd‡i †cj|

John Dryden:  All for love, Absalom and Ahitophel (Play) also know as Father of English Criticism. Aj jv‡fi Rb¨ Ge‡mv‡jg WªvB n‡q †M‡jv|

William Congreye: Love for Love, The Way of the  World, The Duble Dealer, The Old Bachelor (Play).

Kb‡MÖf Iì e¨v‡Pji n‡qI Iqvì© Gi I‡q‡Z Wvej jvf Avi jvf Pvq|

Alexander Pope: The Rape of The Lock. The Duciad, An Essay on Criticism. (Poem) is Know as Mock Heroic Poet. Av‡j·vÛvi WvbwmqW Gi Wvb‡jm‡K †ic Kivi Lye wµwUwmRb n‡”Q|

Jonathon Swift: A Tale of the Tub, Gulliver's Travels (Prose) A Modest Propose (satirical essay). myBdU‡K Mvwjfv‡ii †Uj Uv ejvi  †cÖ‡cvR `vI|

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Roxana(Novel)

wW‡dvi †evb †i·vbv gjv gv‡Qi Rb¨ iwebm‡bi mv‡_ mgyy‡`ª †M‡Q|

Samuel Reachardson: Pamela/ Virtue Rewarded, the first modern novel. cv‡gjv GKRb wiP gwnjv bv|

Samual Johnson: Composed dictionary (1755), Preface to Shakespeare (essay) The Vanity of Human Wishes (Poem) Life of Cowley, Life of Milton. Rbm‡bi wWKkbvwi‡Z †m·wcqv‡ii †cÖwdm _vK‡jI wnDg¨vb DB‡mP Ges wgëb Ges KvBwjÕi jvBd Gi Gi †Kvb wfwbwU bvB|

Henry Fielding: Joseph Endrews, The History of Tom Jones, Amelia (Novel) Is Called Father of English Novel. Ug †RvÝ Gwgwji mv‡_ wdwìs gvivi mgq GÛyR Gi nv‡Z aiv c‡o|

Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, The Bard. (Poem).  †MÖ GLb evW© †`i wb‡q GwjwR wj‡L|

William Blake: Songs of Innocence, ( The Lamb, Nurses song of Experience (The Tyger, London). Marriage of Hell and Heven . (Poem) He is poet and painter.  †eøK B‡bv‡m›U n‡jI †nj I BwÛqv wbqv w¯úPUv fv‡jv wQ‡jv|

William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, Daffodils, Tintern Abbey, Intimations of Immortality. The Solitary Reaper, Michael, The Lucy Poems, The Rainbow, Written in March (Poem) is called Poet. Lyrical Ballad consists of 23 poems where W Wordsworth contributed 19 and Coleridge 4.

IWRI_© Gi cyÎ gvB‡Kj Zvi wjwiKvj †ejv‡W mvwjUvwi wicvi gwnjv Ges wUvb g‡Vi W‡dvWvj Gi Bci wcÖ‡jvW Ges gvP© gv‡m †iB‡ev †`‡L jywP c‡qmg †jLvq BgvU©vwjwU jvf Kij|

Samuel Taylor Goleridge: Biographia Literaria, (essay) The   Rime   of   the Ancient Mariner, Kubla khan, Dejection: An Ode (Poem) Known as Supernatural Poet.

a. Water, water everywhere / Nor any drop to drink.(Ancient Mariner ).

b. He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small, (Ancient Mariner)

c. Alone, alone, all, all alone/ Alone on a wide, wide sea.

†Kvì wWªsKm †L‡q eyov †gwibvi Kzejv Lvb Gi wW‡RK&kb IW Gi g‡Zv ev‡qvMÖvwdqv co‡Z em|

Lord Byron: Don Juan, The Vision of Judgment, Lara-Tale (Poem) . He is known as Rebel Poet. evBib Gi Ryqvq †cvjv jvivi †Kvb RvR‡g›U Gi wfmb fv‡jv bv|

a. PIeasure is sin and sometimes sin is pleasure. (Don Juan)

b. Revenge is sweet especially to women.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, Lyrical drama) Adonias, Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, The Cloud, The Revolt of Islam,(Poem)The Necessity of Atheism(essay).Revolutionary Poet. AwR‡gwÛqvm Gi kvwji Rb¨ G‡Wwbqvm cÖwgw_Dm‡K †e‡a ivL‡Q| Gw`‡K K¬vDW Gi Avov‡j Iq÷ IqvB‡Û †f‡m ¯‹vBjvK© cvwL Bmjv‡gi wi‡fvë Gi †bwmwmwU Abyfe Ki‡Q|

John Keats: Ode to Autumn,  Ode on Melancholy, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Isabella On first Looking into Chapman's Homer, Ka Belle Dame Sans Merci, Ode to Psyche, (Poem). Poet of Beauty. P¨vc‡gbR †nvgvi AUvg Kv‡j bv e‡j Wvb Mv‡j mvBwK Bmv‡ejv‡K wKm Kivi bvBwU‡½j cvwL †MÖmvb Avb© G e‡m †gjv¼ywjK IW MvB‡jv|

Jane Austen: Pride   and   Prejudice,   Sense   and Sensibility, Emma (Novel). Is called an anti-romantic in romantic period.  †Rb Aw÷b Gi Ggv AwZwi³ cÖvBW G mKj †mÝ Ges †mwÝwewjwU nvwi‡q‡Q|

Alfred Tennyson: In Memuriam, Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters, Morte D' Arther, Tithonus, The    Princess, Locksley Hall, The Lady of Shalott.(poem).  †Uwbkb Gi †`v¯Í BDwjwmm gwU wW Av_©vi Gi †g‡q wcÖ‡Ým †jwW Ae †kjU Gi Rb¨ †jvUm BU K‡i wZ‡_vbvm Gi g‡Zv Agi n‡Z PvB‡jI †g‡gvwi jm K‡i jy·‡j n‡j c‡o Av‡Q|

Robert Browning: Men and Women My Dutchess, Porphyria's Lover, Andrea Del Sarto, The Petriot, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Fra Lippo Lippi(poern) Famous for his Dramatic Monologues.  †cvi‡dwiqvi jvfvi ivweŸ jv÷ Wv‡Pm mn mKj †gb GÛ I‡qb †K Mjv wU‡c †g‡i †djvq †cÖwUªqvU eªvDwUs GwÛªqv †Wj mv‡Uv©i wbKU wjc (jvd) K‡I w`‡q bvwjk Kwi|

Mathew Arnold: Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy, Sohrab and Rustum, Thyrsis, (poem) Sweetness and Light, The Study of Poetry (essay) Melancholic poet. Avb©vì w_iwmm Gi mv‡_ †Wvfvi we‡m ¯‹jvi wRcwmI wbKU †mvnive iæ¯Íg Gi ÷wW Ae c‡qwUªi myBU Mí †kv‡b|

 

Alexander Dumas: The Three Musketeers (novel)

Walter Scott:  Ivanhoe (novel) wZb gv‡¯‹wUqv‡ii ¸wj `ygm K‡i ¯‹‡Ui Bfvb‡nv‡K fo‡K w`‡jv|

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations. The Pickwick Papers (novel) Q. Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (Novel). Gwgwji nvBU fv‡jv mv‡jv©wUi AvBR fv‡jv|

Edgar Allan Poet: The  Black  Cat,  The Tell  Tale   Heart (story) To Helen (poem) is called Father of short story. eø¨vK K¨vU †`‡L †cvÕi eD †n‡jb Gi nvU© †Uj †UBj K‡i DV‡jv|

William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair (novel).

Q. no man van be wise on an empty stomach.  †ZKvivwii †fwbwU †dqvi †`‡L RR© mvB‡j‡›Uwj gb© K‡i|

 

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the  D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native, A pair of Blue Eyes, Under the Greenwood Tree(novel). In Times of Breaking Nations. (poem). nvwW©i eD eøy AvBR hy³ †Um Gi wiUv‡b© †bmbm †eªK nBqv wMÖbDÛ wUªÕi wb‡P †M‡jv|

 

John Millington Synge: Riders to the Sea. (one act play) KbivW Gi nv‡U© WvK©‡bm †`‡L mvBwÄ ivB‡W †M‡jv|

 

George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleoatra Candida, Saint Joan, You Never Can Tell (Play) Known as famous modern dramatist. Irish born English Poet. k Gi K¨vwÛ Kb¨v †mB›U †Rvqvb wmRvi GÛ wK¬D‡cUªv‡K  †Uvì ejj g¨vb Gi Kv‡Q Avg© _vK‡jB mycvig¨vb nqbv|

 

Oscar Wilde: A Woman of no Importance, An Ideal Husband. The Importance of Being Earnest , (Play) The Picture of Dorian Gray (novel). IqvBì jvB‡d AvBwWqvj nvR‡eÛ Gi IqvB‡di †MÖ wcKPv‡ii †Kvb B¤ú‡U©Ý bvB|

 

William Butler Yeats : The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Easter -1916, The Second Coming, A prayer for my daughter, The Willd Swans at Coole, Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan, Among School Children, Circus Animuls Desertion, No second Troy, (poem) Helped Rabindranath Tagore in Translateing 'Gitanjali' in to English.

B‡qUm B÷vi 1916 mv‡j Bbmwd« †j‡Ki av‡i Kzwj cv‡K© †mvqvb †`L‡Z †`L‡Z Zvi WUvi Gi †m‡KÛ Kvwgs Gi Rb¨ †cÖmvi Ki‡jv| Uªq Gi evB‡Rw›Uqvi G wM‡q ¯‹zj wPj‡Wªb iv †jWv †mvqvb Gwb‡gj Gi †cÖg †`L‡jv|

 

David Herbert Lawrence: The White Peacock Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Novel) j‡iÝ Gi mÝ GÛ GÛ †jwW †P‡Uvwj©R jvfvim †iBb‡evi wb‡P †nvqvBU wcKK †`L‡Q|

 

Herbert George Wells: The Time Machine, The Invisible Man (Novel, Science fiction). UvBg †gwm‡b P‡o I‡qjm BwfwRej n‡q †M‡jv|

 

Yirginla Woolf: The Vouage Out, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own (novel), Flush (Bio). f‡qR AvDU G wM‡q jvBUnvDR Gi d¬vm †L‡q fvwR©wUi Dd Wj Gi g‡Zv wb‡Ri iæg G bvP‡Z ïiæ K‡i|

 

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Story). Kbvb †Wv‡qj Gi kvj©K †nvgm wWjvb _gvm Gi dvb© wnj Pzwii inm¨ D`NvUb Ki‡e|

 

George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm, (Novel) Shooting Elephant (Story). Politics and the English Language (Essay). 1948 mv‡j IiI‡qj Bwj‡d›U ky¨U K‡i GwU‡gj dv‡g© †d‡j w`‡jv|

 

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, Point Counterpoint(novel). nv·wjÕi wbD Iqv‡ì© Gi †Kvb c‡q›U bvB|

 

Edward Morgan Forster: A Passage to India (novel). My Wood, Aspects of the Novel ( essay). nv·wj †eªf K‡i d÷vi Gi mv‡_ †e‡P BwÛqvq cvjvB‡Q|

 

T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land, The Love Song of J .Alfred Prufrock. (Poem) Tradition and Indicidual Tlaent. The Metaphysical Poets (essay) Murder in the Cathedral (verse play), BwjqU cÖædK‡K †gUvwdwRKvwj BwÛwfRyqvwj gvW©vi K‡i I‡q÷ j¨v‡Û †d‡j i‡q‡Q|

 

Wystan Hugh Auden: In Memory of WB Yeats, Lullaby, The Shield of Acilles. (Poem). A‡Wb B‡qUm Gi ¯§i‡b wkì evwR‡q jyjvevB Mvq|

 

William Somerset Maugham: The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Luncheon (Story) of Human Bondage (novel) The Sacred Flame (play). gg Gi wnDg¨vb e‡ÛR bvB KviY †m †m‡µW †d¬g (cweÎ wkLv) Rvwj‡q Av›U MÖv‡dvmvi w`‡q jv K‡i|

 

Samual Beckett : Waiting for Godot. (play) nRmb Gi wRwÝ g¨vb‡K †Mvwìs d¬vBR Gi jW© †K wb‡q †e‡KU Gi MWU Gi Kv‡Q †Mj|

 

James Joyce: Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (novel) Araby (story). Rqm Gi Kb¨v Avivwe BDwjwmm Gi †cv‡U©U Avu‡K|

 

Philip Larkin: Church Going, Talking in Bed. High Window (poem). jviwKb †e‡W ï‡q DB‡Û w`‡q PvP© †`‡L|

 

R Emerson: The American Scholar, Nature (essay/ Speech). G‡gwiKvb ¯‹jvi Ggvimb Gi †bPvi fv‡jv|

 

William Faulkner : As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury. (novel). dKYvi †j _vKv Ae¯’vq WvBs Gi mvDÛ dvwi ïbj|

 

H.D. Thoreay : Economy, Civil disobedience, (Essay) _‡iv wmwfj‡K B‡Kvbwg‡Z Avm‡Z bv K‡i|

 

N. Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown. (story), The Scarlet Letter (Novel). n_Y© Gi ¯‹vi‡jU eªvDb Kvjv‡ii|

 

W. Whitman: When Lilacs Last at the Dooryard Bloomed, Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass, O Captain! My Captain! (Poem). K¨v‡Þb ûBUg¨vb MÖv‡mi wj‡f ï‡q jvBKvi dzj wb‡q msM Ae gvB‡mî Mvq|

 

Robert Frost: Mending Wall, Out Out, The Road not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Birches, The Death of the Hired Man, Home Burial, (Poem). d«÷ nvqvW© g¨vb Gi g„Zz¨i ci DW Ges †ivW Gi cv‡k weª‡Pm Mv‡Qi Qvqvq Iqvj evwb‡q Zv‡K evwiqvj Kij|

 

Earnest  Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls (novel).  †nwgsI‡q Gi †ej evwR‡q Iì g¨vb wm †Z wM‡q Avg©m †K †dqviI‡qj Rvbvj|

 

Toni Morison : Sula, A Mercy, The Bluest Eye (novel). eøy‡q÷ AvB Gi Uwb gwimb gvwm©‡K wb‡q Pzjv R¡vjv‡jv|

O' Neill : The Hairy Ape, Long Day's Journey into night , Desire Under the Elms (play). ¸wbj Zvi Gc †K wbq Gjg Mv‡Qi cvk w`‡q js Rwb©‡Z †ei n‡jv|

 

Rudyard Kipling : The Jungle Book (Story) The Seven Seas (Poem) Kim (novel). wKwcwjs Gi wKg R½j Ges †m‡fb wm cvwo w`‡q †bv‡ej †cj|

 

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman. (Play) evK Zvi ¸W Av_© †nbwi †K wMdU †`qvi wgjvi Gi †mjmg¨vb Gi  †W_ nj |

 

Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener (story) Moby Dick (novel).  †gjwfwji gwe wWK Gi Kvb‡Y evU©jevB gviv hvq|

 

Adrienne Rich: Living in Sin, Ant Jennifer's Tigers (Poem). wiP Gi †Rwbdvim UvBMvim wmb G wjf K‡i|

 

Allen Ginsberg: A Supermarket in California, September in Jessore Road. Q Millions of  babies watching the skies/ Bellies swollen, with big round eyes. wMbmevM© h‡kvi †ivW Gi mycvigv‡K©‡U nv‡U|

 

Suggestion - 1

Ø  Which was the oldest period in English Literature?

¾ Anglo-Saxon

Ø  Which one of the following is first long poem in English?

¾ Beowulf

Ø  Choose the right answer: Chaucer is the representative poet of—

¾ 14th century

Ø  Who is known as the father of English poetry? Who is called the father of English Poetry?

¾ Chaucer

Ø  The Canterbury Tales' are told by—

¾ Geoffrey Chaucer

Ø  The Canterbury Tales is as alive and- today as it was nearly 600 years ago.

¾     appealing

Ø  Geoffrey Chaucer wrote—

¾ S Canterbury Tales

Ø  Who is considered to be the father of English Poem?

¾ Geoffrey Chaucer

Ø  Who translated the Bible into English for the first time?

¾     John Wycliffe                            

Ø  Who translated 'The New Testament'?

¾ John Wycliffe

 

 

 

Suggestion- 2

Ø  'Renaissance' means

¾  rebirth

Ø  'Renaissance' means —

¾ the revival of learning

Ø  Renaissance K_vwUi A_© wK?

¾ beRxeb

Ø  The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the city of—

¾ Florence

Ø  Elizabethan tragedy is centered on —

¾ revenge

Ø  Which period is known as 'the golden age' of English Literature?

¾ the Elizabethan Age

Ø  Who wrote the plays "The Tempest' and "The Mid Summer Night's Dream"?

¾ Shakespeare

Ø  Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about—

¾ 2000 years ago                         

Ø  Shakespeare is known mostly for his —

¾ plays

Ø  Which of the following is a play by Shakespeare—

¾ King Lear

Ø  William Shakespeare was English dramatist and poet of the century.

¾ sixteenth

Ø  Which of the following plays is by William Shakespeare?

¾ Measure for Measure

Ø  'Shakespeare' is the writer of —

¾ The Tempest

Ø  A sonnet is a lyric poem of —

¾ 14 lines

Ø  William Shakespeare is the   author of —

¾ King Lear

Ø  "Twelfth Night" is—

¾ a comedy

Ø  Which book is a Tragedy?

¾ Hamlet

Ø  'Macbeth' is—

¾ a play

Ø  William Shakespeare is the author of—

¾ King Lear

Ø  Which is not true of an English sonnet?

¾ It has fourteen syllables in each line

Ø  William Shakespeare is a famous—

¾ dramatist

Ø  The play 'Romeo and Juliet' was written by—

¾ William Shakespeare

Ø  Who wrote The Tempest'?

¾ William Shakespeare

Ø  Romeo and Juliet is a —.

¾ Tragedy

Ø  William Shakespeare is not the author of—

¾ White Devil

Ø  The poem 'Under the Green Wood Tree' was written by—

¾ William Shakespeare                 

Ø  Macbeth is a — by Shakespeare.               

¾  play

Ø  Who is the greatest dramatist of all tunes?

¾ William Shakespeare

Ø  Which of the following is a 'Comedy' written by Shakespeare?

¾ As You Like It

Ø  Who is the writer of 'The Merchant of Venice'?

¾ William Shakespeare

Ø  Which is known as Shakespeare's Swansong? ,

¾ The Tempest

Ø  'To be or not to be that is the question.' From which novel the above sentence has been taken?

¾ Hamlet    

Ø  One of the following plays is not a tragedy—

¾ Tempest

Ø  Shakespeare was born in the year—

¾ 1564

Ø  Shakespeare is a famous — century English playwright.

¾ sixteenth

Ø  Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is a —

¾ Tragedy

Ø  In what year did Shakespeare die?

¾ 1616 AD

Ø  Shakespeare wrote brilliant—

¾ dramas

Ø  Hamlet by Shakespeare is-

-¾   a tragedy

Ø  Who is the author of 'The Taming of the Shrew"

¾ Shakespeare

Ø  Hamlet is a—by Shakespeare.

¾ play

Ø  Shakespeare lived during the reign of—

¾ Elizabeth I

Ø  Shakespearean play consists of—

¾ five acts

Ø  Ck¦iP›`ª we`¨vmvM‡ii ÔåvwšÍwejvm †Kvb MÖ‡š’i Abyev`?

¾ The Comedy of Errors

Ø  Mackbeth bvUKwU Kvi †jLv?

¾ William Shakespeare

Ø  Shakespeare's  Macbeth' is a—

¾ Tragedy

Ø  'Comedy of Errors'

¾ William Shakespeare

Ø  Shakespeare was famous for all but one of the following—

¾ Bourgeois drama

Ø  "Dr. Faustus" was written by—

¾  Christopher Marlow                   

Ø  Christopher Marlowe is Shakespeare's-

¾  Contemporary

Ø  Who is called the poet of poets?

¾ Edmund Spenser

Ø  Who wrote an epic 'The Faerie Queen'?

¾     Edmund Spenser

Ø  'The faerie Queen' is an—

¾ Epic

Ø  Who wrote 'The Ruins of Time' ?

¾ Edmund Spenser

Ø  Which of the following school of literature writings is connected with a medical theory?

¾ Comedy of humours

Ø  'Silent woman' written by—

¾ Ben John

Ø  Robert Herrick was an English —.

¾  Poet

Ø  Why is the poet so sad to see the daffodils in "The Daffodils?"

¾ The poet is sad because the flowers remind him of his own death.

Ø  The central idea of "To Daffodils" is that:

¾  life is short, so live to the fullest

Ø  "We have short time to stay, as you" (from the poem "To daffodils") is an example of:

¾     simile

Ø  In To daffodils", human life is compared with:

¾ ''morning's dew''

Ø  Which two things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to human being and daffodils?                                   

¾ summer's morning's dew

Ø  ''Hasting day'' in To Daffodils means—

¾ hurriedly passing day

Ø  Which one of the following is written by Robert Herrick?

¾ To Daffodils

Ø  In the poem 'To Daffodils' the poet weeps over—

¾ short-lined human life       

Ø  Which word seems out of place?

¾ cauliflower

Ø  The last time of "To daffodils' is

¾  Never to be found again

Ø  'Paradise Lost' attempted to—

¾  justify the ways of god to man

Ø  Paradise Lost is an epic written by—

¾ Milton

Ø  Who excels in dramatic monologue?

¾  John Milton

Ø  "Paradise Regained" is an epic by —

¾ John Milton                               

Ø  Who of the following is a famous epic poet in English literature?/Of the following authors who wrote an epic?

¾ John Milton

Ø  'Paradise Lost' is —

¾ an epic poem

Ø  †kvKMxwZ 'Lycidas' - Gi iPwqZv †K?

¾ John Milton

Ø  The central idea of "Under the greenwood tree" is that:

¾  life in nature is simple and free

Ø  In "Under the greenwood tree", which of the following is mentioned as an "enemy"?

¾ Winter

Ø  In 'Under the greenwood Tree' the 'Tree' refers to—  

¾ forest

Ø  Calliban is a character in —

¾ Tempest

Ø  Brutus is a famous character of Shakespeare in —

¾ Julius Caeser

Ø  'Ophelia' is an important character in the Shakespearean play?

¾ Hamlet      

Ø  Shylok  †h bvU‡Ki PwiÎ, †m  bvUKwUi bvg —

¾ The Merchant of Venice

Ø  'Faerie Queene' is:

¾ an epic

Suggestion- 3

 

Ø  Who wrote "Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise"?

¾  Thomas Gray                             

Ø  Who is famous for his elegies?

¾  Thomas Gray       

Ø  Who wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'—

¾  Jonathan Swift

Ø  'A Voyage of Lilliput' is written by—

¾  Jonathan Swift

Ø  Jonathan Swift is the author of— 

¾  Gulliver's Travels

Ø  Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?

¾  Jonathan Swift

Ø  'Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man" is

¾  poem                                

Ø  Poet Alexander Pope's famous work—

¾  The Rape of the Lock

Ø  ''To err is human, to forgive is divine' is written by—

¾  Alexander Pope

Ø  Who was the famous mock-heroic poet in English literature?

¾  Alexander Pope     

Ø  The first English novel. Pamela, has been written by—

¾  Samuel Richardson   

Ø  'Tom Jones' by Henry Fielding was first published in—    

¾  the 1st half of 18th century

Ø  Who is considered to be the father of English novel?

¾  Henry Fielding  

Ø  Edmund Burke belonged to—

¾  18th century

Ø  Who write first English dictionary?/Who is the author of the first dictionary?

¾  Samuel Johnson     

 

Suggestion- 4

Ø  Which is known as Romantic Period of English literature?

-¾   1798-1832

Ø  The Romantic Age began with the pubh'cation of—.

-¾   Lyrical Ballads

Ø  Romanticism is mainly connected with of—

-¾   Love and beauty

Ø  Pioneer of Romanticism is/are —

-¾   Both

Ø  Most important feature of a romantic poetry is —

-¾   Subjectivity or  Imagination

Ø  1798-1830 mvj ch©šÍ mgq‡K Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨i †Kvb Kvj ejv nq?

-¾   The Romantic Age

Ø  Who of the following was both a poet and painter?

-¾   Blake

Ø  The author of 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is—

 -¾ William Blake

Ø  Who among the following is not a novelist?

-¾   Blake

Ø  One of the four mentioned below is not a poet of Romantic age—

-¾ William Blake

Ø  In "I wandered Lonely as a Cloud" the    daffodils gave the poet.

-¾   a great deal of pleasure

Ø  Why were the daffodils in Wordsworth's I wandered Lonely as a Cloud' dancing?

-¾   There was a strong wind.

Ø  In "I Wondered Lonely As a Cloud" Wordsworth compares the

Ø  daffodils with —.

-¾   the stars of the milky way

Ø  William Wordsworth is pre-eminently—

-¾ a poet of nature

Ø  Lyrical Ballads was published in the year—

-¾   1798

Ø  William Wordsworth was a— 

-¾   a poet

Ø  The Daffodil is a poem written by —

-¾   William Wordsworth                 

Ø  William Wordsworth Gi mgmvgwqK Kwe †K?

-¾   S. T. Coleridge

Ø  Who is known as 'the poet of nature in English literature^'?

-¾   William Wordsworth

Ø  In "The Solitary Reaper' what does the word solitary mean?  

-¾   romantic                                    

Ø  Wordsworth was inspired by—

-¾   The French Revolution

Ø  The Solitary Reaper is a —

-¾   romantic poem

Ø   'Written in March  is a poem composed by—

-¾   Wordsworth

Ø  Who wrote the poem 'Solitary Reaper?

-¾   The Lucy Poems

Ø  Who wrote poem about Lucy?

-¾   William Wordsworth

Ø  Lucy m‡¤ú©‡K KweZv †Kvb  Kwe iPbv K‡ib?

-¾  William Wordsworth

Ø  The Daffodils' wK RvZxq iPbv?

-¾ KweZv

Ø  The literary work 'Kubla Khan' is —

-¾   a verse by Coleridge

Ø  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner¹ is a—

-¾ poem            '

Ø  Who is the author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?

-¾   S. T. Coleridge

Ø  Who was English poet addicted to opium?

-¾   S. T. Coleridge

Ø  P.B. Shelley is known as—

-¾   Romantic poet

Ø  Who wrote Prometheus Unbound?            

-¾   Shelley

Ø  The phrase ''trunkess legs'' in the poem'' Ozymandias ?

-¾   the poet

Ø  The central idea of "Ozymandias" is that—

-¾   all things, both great and small, will perish

Ø  In Shell's ''Ozymandias'' frown, and sneer of cold command'' are seen on—.

-¾   shattered visage

Ø  "Ode to the West Wind" is by—

-¾   Shelley

Ø   One of the following was a Romantic poet—

-¾   Shelly

Ø  In the poem "Ozymandias "Who calls ozymandias 'King of Kings"?

-¾   Ozymandias himself

Ø  Who is called the 'poet of beauty'? —

-¾   John Keats

Ø  In Shelly's "Ozymandias" the words, 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings' are inscribed on—

 -¾ the pedestal of the statue

Ø  What lies half sunk in the sand in Shelley's "Ozymandias"?

-¾   broken head of a statue     

Ø  In "Ozymandias" the poet says, "I met a traveller — an — land."

-¾   from, antique                           

Ø  fiZcÿx I mgxKi‡Yi Kwe (Poet of 'Skylark and Winds') bv‡g cwiwPZ †K?

-¾   P B Shelley

Ø  "Ode to Autumn" was written by —

-¾   Keats

Ø  Keats belong to —

-¾   Nineteenth century

Ø  Poet of sensuousness —

-¾   John Keats                             

Ø  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' — Who is the poet of the poem?

-¾   Keats

Ø  John Keats is primarily a poet of—

-¾   Beauty

Ø  Who wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale?'

-¾  Keats

Ø  g„Zz¨ n‡”Q wbQK "A Short Sleep" GB Dw³wU  Kvi?

-¾   wKUm&

Ø  Joho Keats  †Kvb †kÖbxi Kwe?

-¾   Romantic

Ø  John Keats is known as a Romantic poet. So is (choose one name)

-¾   Lord Byron

Ø  Who is the author of 'Heaven and Earth'?

-¾   Lord Byron                               

Ø  Who is sometimes called "Rebel Poet"?

-¾   Lord Byron

Ø  Who wrote the poem "Don Juan"?                   

-¾ Lord Byron 

Ø  Who is the author of 'Pride and Prejudice? /'Pride and Prejudice' is written by—

-¾   Jane Austen

Suggestion- 5

Ø  In which century was the Victorian period?

-¾   19th century 

Ø  The Victorian age is named after—

-¾   Queen Victoria _

Ø  Winch of the following ages in literary history is the latest?

-¾   The Victorian Age

Ø  Who wrote the poem 'Ulysses'?

-¾   Alfred Tennyson

Ø  Tennyson wrote—

-¾   Alfred Tennyson

Ø  'The Falcon' is a comedy by-

-¾   Alfred Tennyson

Ø  Tennyson 'In Memoriam' is-

-¾   Alfred Tennyson

Ø  Browning was the composer of any of the following poems—

-¾ Andrea Del Sarto

Ø  Who is the poet of the Victorian age?

-¾   Matthow  Arnold

Ø  Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?

-¾   Robert Browning

Ø  The poem The Patriot' is written by —

-¾   Robert Browning

Ø  Browning wrote___

-¾   Rabbi Ben Ezra

Ø  One of the following authors, one is French. Who is he?

-¾   Alexander Dumas

Ø  Who is the author of the novel 'Three Musketeers?

-¾   Alexander Dumas

Ø  'Vanity Fair' is a -¾

-¾   novel

Ø  Vanity Fair is a novel by-¾

-¾   Thackeray

Ø  The writer of David Copperfield is— 

-¾  Charles Dickens                        

Ø  Who wrote the two famous novels, 'David Copperfield' and 'A Tale of Two Cities"?

-¾  Charles Dickens

Ø  Charles Dickens was the writer of— 

-¾  David Copperfield

Ø  A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by—

-¾  Dickens

Ø  Charles Dickens is a great—

-¾   novelist                             

Ø  †Kvb cy¯ÍKwU Charles Dickens- Gi †jLv?

-¾   David Copperfield

Ø  Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one of the following—

-¾   Treasure Island

Ø  One of the four mentioned below is not a Novelist of modern age in English

Ø  Language. Who is he?

-¾   Charles Dickens

Ø   Who did not receive Noble Prize in literature:

-¾   Leo Tolstoy  

 

Suggestion- 6

 

Ø  The Return of the Native is written by—

-¾   Thomas Hardy

Ø  ' Sherlock Homes' was written by-¾

-¾   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Ø   Who created the detective 'Sherlock Holmes'?

-¾   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Ø  'Caesar and Cleopatra' is-¾

-¾   A Play By G.B. Shaw

Ø  Who among the following is a dramatist?

-¾  George Bernard Shaw

Ø  Who is the greatest English dramatist?

-¾  G. B. Shaw                                

Ø   Who is the author of the drama 'Joan of Arc?

-¾  G. B. Shaw

Ø  'Man and Superman' eBwU Kvi †jLv?

-¾  G. B. Shaw

Ø  George Bernard Shaw ­­is —

-¾  G. B. Shaw

Ø  Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature?

-¾   Bertrand Russell

Ø  Bertrand Russell was a British—

-¾   Philosopher

Ø  The author of 'Road to Freedom' is—

-¾   Bertrand Russell

Ø  What was the real name of the great American Short- story writer, 'O Henry?

-¾   William Sydney Porter

Ø  Who wrote the short story 'The Gift of the Magi?

-¾   O' Henry

Ø  O' Henry is famous for-

-¾   Short Story

Ø  Who was the greatest modern American short story writer?

-¾   O' Henry

Ø  'The Sacred Flame' is written by-

-¾   William Somerset Maugham

Ø  Who is the author of the book ' Of Human Bondage'?

-¾   Somerset Maugham

Ø  What kind of literary work is ' The Luncheon' by Somerset Maugham?

-¾   A short story

Ø  What is the work of Winston Churchill?

-¾ History of the Second World War

Ø  In Which year Winston Churchill got the Novel prize in literature?

-¾   1953

Ø  History of the II world war is written by-

-¾   Winston S. Churchill

Ø  Who was a statesman but awarded Novel Prize in English Literature?

-¾   Churchill

Ø  What was the first novel of Virginia Woolf?

-¾   The Voyage out

Ø  'To the light house' eBwUi iPwqZv †K?

-¾   Virginia Woolf

Ø  'The Rainbow' is -

-¾   A novel by D. H. Lawrence

Ø  'Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel written by-

-¾   D.H. Lawrence

Ø  The most striking feature of D.H. Lawrence's character is that-¾ 

-¾   They almost portray himself

Ø   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?

-¾   Ulysses

Ø  Any  one of the following pairs are literary collaborators-¾

-¾   Eliot and pound

Ø  T.S. Eliot was born in-

-¾   USA

Ø  The literary work, 'The Waste Land' is a -

-¾   Poem by T.S Eliot

Ø  In Which poem do you find hindu allusion of philosophy?

-¾   The Waste Land

Ø  According to most of the critics who is not a romantic poet?

-¾   T. S. Eliot

Ø  Who wrote 'The Waste Land'?

-¾   T. S. Eliot

Ø  Who is famous for the theory of 'Objective Co-Relative'?

-¾   T. S. Eliot

Ø  Who of the following was poet?

-¾   T.S. Eliot

Ø  T.S. Eliot is a ____ poet?

-¾   Modern

Ø  'The Waste Land' is ___?

-¾   a poem

Ø   Who is the author of 'For whom the Bell Tolls'?

-¾   Ernest Hemingway

Ø   Who is the author of 'A Farewell to Arms'?

-¾   Ernest Hemingway

Ø   Who is the author of 'The Old Man and the Sea.'

-¾   E. Hemingway

Ø  Earnest Hemingway is a famous—

-¾ American novelist

Ø  Who is the author of the novel "The Sun Also Rises"?

-¾ Ernest Hemingway

Ø  Earnest Hemingway is the author of—

-¾   The old man and the sea

Ø  Who is the author of 'Animal Farm'?

-¾   George Orwell

Ø  Who writes 'Waiting for Goddot'?

-¾   Samuel Beckett

Ø  Waiting for Godot' is —

-¾   an absurd drama                        

Ø  Who wrote 'The Birthday Party?

-¾   Harold Pinter

Ø  Nobel Prize winner in literature 'Harold Pinter' is from—

-¾   UK                                          

Ø  The Asian Drama  MÖ‡š’i iPwqZv †K?

¾ ¸bvi wgbWvj

Ø  Who is the author of 'India Wins Freedom?

¾ Abul Kalam Azad

Ø  Who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013?

¾ Alice Munro

Ø  Rabindranath Tagore wrote—.

¾ Balaka

Ø  Kazi Nazrul Islam is the—poet of Bangladesh.

¾ national  

Ø   Who is the author of the novel 'A Golden Age'?

¾ Tahmima Anam

Ø  Who wrote Madame Bovary?

¾ Gustave Elaubert

Ø  A Doll's House is written by—.

¾ Henrick Ibsen

Ø  "My Experiments with Truth" was written by—  

¾ Mahatma Gandhi

Ø   Who is the author of the book 'The Sense of an Ending'? —.

¾ Julian Barnes

Ø  Among the following who is not a poet?

¾ Doris Lessing

Ø  Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment?

¾ Dostoyevsky

Ø  "The Rape of Bangladesh''-

¾ Anthony Mascarenhas

Ø  The author of the famous book 'The Judgement' is —

¾ Kuldip Nayer

Ø  Which phrase would best describe 'the cuckoo'?

¾ 'the harbinger of spring'

Ø  Rabindranath Tagore won Nobel Prize for writing—.

¾ poetry

Ø  Kazi Nazrul Islam is a—poet.               

¾ rebel

Ø   Who is the author of 'The Origin of Species,'

¾ C. Darwin

Ø  Who is the author of 'Arabian Nights'?

¾ Sir Richard Burton

Ø  Who is the author of 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?

¾ Jules Verne

Ø  Which Indian English Writer wrote 'A Suitable Boy"?

¾ Vikram  Seth

Ø  "Victor Hugo" was¾

¾ French novelist

Ø  'Harry potter and the Half Blood Prince'

¾ J. K Rowling

Ø  Nissim Ezekiel is a famous poet of—.

¾ India                                         

Ø  Who wrote the book 'The Kite Runner'?

¾ Khaled Hosseini

Ø  'Things Fall Apart' was written by—

¾ Chinua Achebe

Ø  Guy de Maupassant is a famous— short story writer.

¾ French

Ø  Brick Lane is Written by—

¾ Monica Ali

Ø  'Alice hi the Wonderland¹ belongs to —

¾ Juvenile Literature

Ø  Of the following who is the most translated author of the word?

¾ V. I. Lenin

Ø  Who wrote the book 'Lord Jim : A Tale'?   

¾ Joseph Conrad

Ø  Who is the writer of the critical work 'Aspects of Novel'?

¾ Edward Morgan Forster

Ø  The God of Small Things' is written by —

¾ Aroundhuti Roy

Ø   Who is well known for his translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into English.

¾ Edward FitzGerald

Ø  Author of the Picture of Dorian Gray—

¾   Oscar Wilde

Ø  A famous short story of Maupassant is—

¾ The Diamond Necklace

Ø  Who wrote the book 'Cancer Ward'?

¾ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Ø  Goethe is the greatest poet of—

¾ Germany

Ø  What type book 'The Woman'

¾ Novel

Ø  S. Hornby is famous for—

¾ writing dictionaries

Ø  Who is the author of 'The Jungle Book'?

¾ Rudyard Kipling 

Ø  'A Brief History of Time' eBwUi †jLK Ñ

¾ w÷‡db nwKs

Ø  Award of Nobel Prize in Literature was started from the year—

¾ 1901

Ø  "The End of History and the last Man"

¾ M. Francis Fukuyama

Ø  'Justice' KweZvwUi iPwqZv †K?

¾ Henry Wordworth Longfellow

Ø  Author of 'The Time Machine' is—

¾ H. G. Wells

Ø  'Point Counterpoint- Gi †jLK †K?

¾ Aldous Huxley

Ø  'Uncle Tom's Cabin Gi †jLK †K?

¾ Mrs. Harriet Stowe

Ø  'Time, You Old Gipsy Man' KweZvwU Kiv †jLv?

¾ Ralph Hodgson

Ø  William Hazlitt †K wQ‡jb?

¾ Essayist

Ø  'The Affluent Society' eBwUi †jLK †K?

¾ J. K. Galbrath

Ø  The novel 'Roots' was written by

¾ Alex Haley

 

Suggestion-7

Ø Helen of Troy was the wife of—

¾ Menelaus

Ø Who was the first husband of Helen of Troy? 

¾ Menelaus

Ø "Achilles' was

 — a great Greek fighter

Ø According to the writer of 'A Mother in Mannville' which of the following word best describes the character of 'Jerry' —

¾ Integrity

Ø Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature?

¾ Bertrand Russell

Ø Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel prize in Literature?

¾ Robert Browning

Ø Who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013?

¾ Alice Munro

Ø Who was a statesman but awarded Nobel Prize in English Literature?

¾ Churchill

Ø   A Russian author who refused Nobel Prize —

¾   Boris Pasternak

Ø  Nobel Prize winner American woman novelist is—

¾   Pearl S. Buck

Ø  American female novelist Pearl S. Buck got Nobel Prize in 1938 for the book —

¾   The Good Earth

Ø  Nobel Prize winner in literature 'Harold Pinter' is from —

¾   UK

Ø  Who was not awarded the Nobel Prize?

¾   Elizabeth Barrett

Ø  Who as the only Laureate to refuse the Nobel Prize?

¾   Jea- Paul Sartre

Ø  Award of Nobel Prize in Literature was started from the year—

¾   1901

Ø  One of the following author one is American. Who is he?

¾   William Faulkner

Ø  Who was awarded Nobel Prize for the poem 'The Waste Land'?

¾   T. S. Eliot

Ø  The 'Poet Laureate' is—

¾   the Court Poet of England

Ø  Who was a 'poet laureate?

¾   William Wordsworth

Ø  Who is not a Poet laureate?

¾   Robert Browning                       

Ø  Who was a poet Laureate after William Wordsworth?

¾   Alfred Tennyson                        

Ø  Who of the following was both a poet and painter?

¾   Blake  

Ø  Who is called the 'poet of beauty?

¾   John Keats

Ø   Who is known as the father of English poetry?/ Who is called the father of English poetry ?

¾   Chaucer    

Ø   Who is the father of Modern English Poetry?

¾   Geoffrey Chaucer

Ø  Who is known as 'the poet of nature in English literature?

¾   William Wordsworth                  

Ø  Of the following who is the most translated author of the word?

¾   V. I. Lenin

Ø  Who is called the poet of poets?  

¾   Edmund Spenser

Ø  Who is the father of Modern English Literature?

¾   G. B. Shaw

Ø  Poet of sensuousness—

¾   John Keats                                 

Ø  Who is considered to be the father of English novel?

¾   Henry Fielding

Ø  John Keats is primarily a poet of—

¾   Beauty

Ø  Who is considered to be the father of English Poem?

¾   Geoffrey Chaucer

Ø  fiZcÿx I mgxKi‡bi Kwe (Poet of 'Skylark and Winds') bv‡g cwiwPZ †K?

¾   P B Shelley

Ø  Who was the famous mock-heroic poet in English literature?

¾   Alexander Pope                         

Ø  Who wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?

¾   Emily Bronte

Ø  Epics are divided into — types.

¾   two

Ø  The word 'Limerick' means

¾   a form of light verse

Ø   An epic based on — performed by a hero 33

¾   heroic deeds

Ø  The epic 'Odyssey' was written by—

¾   Homer                                     

Ø  The only medium of literature is—.

¾   language                                  

Ø  Who was not awarded the Nobel Prize?

¾   Elizabeth Barren

Ø  "The waves beside them danced" (from "I wandered lonely as a cloud") is an example of:

¾   personification

Ø  "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is an example of.

¾   simile

Ø  The central idea of "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is that:

¾   we can find solace in nature

Ø  The speaker of "I wandered lonely as a cloud" saw :

¾   golden daffodils

Ø  but in the end, she became her only shelter. This is an example of.....

¾   irony 

Ø  When a poem has a speaker, what does a novel have?

¾   narrator

Ø  Which of the following is a story in verse?

¾   ballad

Ø  "The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine." This is an example of—

¾   a satire

Ø  'There is no one so poor as a wealthy miser.' This is an example of-

¾   paradox

Ø  The Wrath of Achilles is the theme of—

¾   Iliad

Ø  Emily Bronte is a—

¾   novelist

Ø  Phoenix is-

¾   a mythical bird regenerating from ashes

Ø  Socrates believed that an angry man was—      

¾   equal to a beast

Ø  Which one of the following is not true for Socrates' wife?

¾   She did not insult Socrates

Ø  'After thunder comes rain'. Here thunder means -

¾   a loud noise which usually follows a flash of lightening

Ø  'Captive Lady' Kvi iPbv?

¾   gvB‡Kj ga~m~`b `Ë

Ø   A mournful poem written on the death of someone love and lost—

¾   Elegy

Ø  Homer's Illiad is a/an —

¾   Epic                                          

Ø  'Satanic Verses' is written by—

¾   Salman Rushide

Ø  'A Passage to India' is written by—

¾   E. M. Forster

Ø  Who was the tutor of Alexander the Great—

¾   Aristotle

Ø  Who wrote 'The Spanish Tragedy'?

¾   Thomas Kyd

Ø  Who as the only Laureate to refuse the Nobel Prize?

¾   Jea-Paul Sartre

Ø  What is the salient feature of all literatures?

¾   Artistic quality

Ø  If a part of a speech or writing breaks the theme, it is called—

¾   digression

Ø  The sentence "Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind?" expresses—

¾   wonder

Ø  Allegorical means—

¾   having symbolic meaning

Ø  'Melodrama' is a kind of play of—

¾   violent and sensational themes   

Ø  What is Limerick?

¾   A form of light verse

Ø  Debut' means —

¾   first apperance

Ø  Someone who writes plays is called a    

¾   playwright 

Ø  A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is —

¾   an allegory

Ø  What is an epic?

¾   a long poem

Ø  A Fantasy is—

¾   An imaginary story

Ø  Readers who have electic tastes in literature —

¾   read books on just one topic

Ø  Choose the one which does not fit in—  

¾   stanza                                      

Ø  'Blank verse' is a kind of verse —

¾   having no rhyming end

Ø  'Blank Versed A_©?

¾   AwgÎvÿi

Ø  A drama is a/an

¾   story translated into action 

Ø  Which one is a Metaphor?

¾   The boy takes after his father

Ø  Which word does not relate to literature?—

¾   demagogue

Ø  A poem of fourteen lines is called—

¾   Sonnet

Ø  The sentence, "Death, thou shalt not die." is an example of

¾   paradox

Ø  Writing one's own life story is known as—

¾   Autobiography

Ø  Protagonist' indicates

¾   the leading character or actor in a play

Ø  When a person writes the story of his own life it is called—

¾   an autobiography

Ø  What is 'Sonnet'

¾   A poem of fourteen lines

Ø  A sonnet is a poem having—lines. ft

¾   fourteen

Ø  'Ballad¹ is —

¾   a kind of short narrative poem

Ø  A Machiavellian character is—

¾   a selfish person

Ø  What is "Linguistics"

¾   The scientific study of language

Ø  What is catastrophy?

¾   The tragic end of dramatic events

Ø  Elegy wK ?

¾   Song of Lamentation    

 

Suggestions- 8

Ø  "I have a — that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal."

¾  dream                                        

Ø  Into the—of death rode the six hundred".

¾  valley                              

Ø  To be or not to be, that is the—."

¾  question

Ø  'If winter comes, can spring be far behind?' These lines were written by___

¾  Shelley

Ø  Who wrote 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'?

¾  Keats                                         

Ø  "Justice delayed is justice denied" was stated by—

¾  Gladstone

Ø  Who authored that statement "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"?

¾  Abraham Lincoln

Ø  Cowards die—before death.

¾  many times

Ø  'Our Sweetest songs are those that tell of a sadest thoughts is a quotation from Shelley's —

¾  Ode to a skylark

Ø  Frailty, They name is woman' ____ in which of the following novels you find this?

¾  Hamlet

Ø  "The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more." These lines are from the poem—

¾  Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

Ø  "The Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" Who is the poet of these lines? 

¾  P. B. Shelley

Ø  "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" was stated by—

¾  John Keats

Ø  'Knowledge is power' was stated by—  

¾  Bacon  

Ø  'Sweet are the uses of adversity' was stated by—

¾  William Shakespeare

Ø  Who authored the statement 'The government is the best which governs least?

¾  Henry David Thoreau       

Ø  'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her' is a quotation

¾  Wordsworth

Ø  "To be or not to be" is the beginning of a famous Soliloquy from—

¾  Hamlet

Ø  "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven" Who said this and where?

¾  S Satan in "Paradise Lost'

Ø  "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?

¾  Robert Herrick

Ø  'Govt. of the people, by the people for the people' was observed by—

¾  Abraham Lincon

Ø  They — in never-ending—

¾  Stretched, line

Ø  If Winter comes, can Spring be for behind?— is a line from

¾   Shelly's Ode to West Wind      

Ø  If Winter comes, can—be far behind?

¾   Spring

Ø  Whose dying words were, "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepins; will you remember to pay the debt?"

¾   Secretes

Ø  "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digestd." Said—

¾   Francis Bacon

Ø  'Veni, Vidi, Vici' this quotation from Shakespeare's—

¾   Julius Caesar

Ø  "Ten thousand saw I at a glance" Who said this?

¾   Wordsworth

Ø  "Cowards die many times before their death."

¾   Julius Caesar

Ø  Who has written?

       'He prayeth best, who loveth best

       All things great and small.'   

¾   Coleridge

Ø  Identify the poet of the verse the saddest thought."

¾   P.B. Shelley

Ø  Which ode begins with the lines?

       'My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains. My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.'

¾   Ode on the Spring

Ø  "Ten thousand saw I at a glance

       Tossing their heads in sprightly dance."

       What is the poet William Wordsworth referring to?

¾   daffodils

Ø   'All the perfumes of Arabian will not sweeten this little hand's is a quotation from—

¾   Macbeth

Ø  And miles to go before I sleep'— was written by—

¾   Robert Frost

Ø  These are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?

¾   C. Marlow

Ø   some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all the people all time" was stated by—

¾   Abraham Lincon

Ø   'Good face is the best letter of recommendation' was stated by —

¾   Queen Elizabeth

Ø   Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink

¾   Coleridge                                  

Ø   "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness in the desert air." —

¾   Thomas Gray

Ø   "Blow, blow thou winter wind

Ø   Thou art not to unkind

Ø   As mans Ingratitude

Ø   They tooth is not so keen,

Ø   Although they breath be rude. ' '

Ø   These are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?

¾   W. Shakespeare

Ø   "There are more things in have and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy-

¾   Hamlet

Ø   "Poet are unacknowledged legislators of the word" — Who told it?

¾   Shelley

Ø   Who said 'An unexamined life is not worth living' ?

¾   Socrates

Ø   England expects every man to do his duty- who told it?

¾   Nelson

Ø   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.

Ø   These lines are written by

¾   William Shakespeare 

Ø   Where is expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our ends?

¾   In Hamlet

Ø   Adela is character in a novel written by—

¾     E. M. Foster

Courtesy: Biswajit Debnath