Thomas Hardy

homas Hardy
Famous as Novelist & Poet
Born on 02 June 1840
Born in Dorset, England
Died on 11 January 1928
Nationality United Kingdom
Works & A Pair of Blue eyes, Wessex Tales & The Return of the native; Order of Merit (1910
Achievements

Thomas Hardy was an English author, novelist and poet,

as a poet and claimed poems as his first love, they are no
known as the Wessex stories. These novels, plotted in a s
conditions. Most of his works reflect his stoical glumnes
with themes of disappointment in love and life, human suffering and all-powering fate. Most of his works are s
characters falling prey to the unanticipated conditions. Among his most important works are novels Far from th

Childhood & Early Life

Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 in the east of Dorchester in Dorset in England to a stonemason and hi
until the age of eight when he went to school for the first time. After schooling in Bockhampton, he became an
Churches until 1862 when he moved to London to study architecture at King's College, London. He did well in
Association but he had developed a passion for writing by then and decided to take it as a career.

Marriages
Thomas Hardy met his first wife Emma Lavinia 1870 in Cornwell, while still working as an architect. They ma
reasons, her death in 1912 came as a shocking and painful experience to him. He mourned deeply and wrote po
their courtship and reflected both his remorse and love for his wife. One of such works was the Poems 1912-19
Dugdale was his previous secretary and 39 years younger to him.

Views on Religion
There are strong suggestion that Hardy's stance on religion swayed between agnosticism and atheism. Most of
times of human suffering. As an author and poet, Hardy seemingly was fascinated with fatalistic ends and expr
mixture of philosophy and spiritualism which did not discard the existence of God, yet questioned it. Hardy rat
However a Church devotee, Hardy drew heavily upon the role of God in the irony and tragedy of life and huma

Notable Works
Hardy as a writer is mainly known for his novels. His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady was written in 1
After a turbulent first experienced, Hardy anonymously published two novels Desperate Remedies and Under t
release of his first important work A Pair of Blue Eyes. The book was a recollection of his courtship with his fi

Another stunning success was the beginning of the series of Wessex Tales which was published after his secon
success. He next wrote The Return of the native, published in 1878. Hardy moved with his wife to Max Gate, i
Woodlanders (1887) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891).

Hardy's first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems was published in 1898. Since then, a prodigious output of his po
though he could not achieve anything of distinct in this genre and it remained overshadowed by his works in pr
displayed his affection for natural world. Although like his novels, his poems also carry strain of irony of life,

Themes
Hardy's short stories and novel series are best remembered for their meticulous portrayal of life troubled by soc
set in a semi-fictional place Wessex, a large area of south-west England. His most controversial novel, Jude the
Town on a Tower, Hardy displays a firm stand against an orthodox and conventional path for attaining love. Fa
always find themselves trapped and are often defeated by the fate and unforeseen conditions. His books portray

Death
In December 1927, Hardy fell sick with pleurisy and eventually died in January 1928. After the funeral on 16 J

Thomas Hardy Timeline:

1840- Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840.
1862- He moved to London to study architecture at King's College, London.
1867- His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady was written in 1867
1870- Thomas Hardy met his first wife Emma Lavinia 1870.
1873- His first important work A Pair of Blue Eyes was published.
1874- Hardy and Emma married in 1874.
1874- His second novel Far from the Madding Crowd was first published in 1874.
1886- He wrote The Mayor of Casterbridge, published in 1886.
1898- Hardy's first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems was published in 1898.
1912- His first wife Emma died.
1914- He married Florence Dugdale.
1927- Hardy fell sick with pleurisy.
1928- Thomas Hardy died.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Born: 16-Dec-1775
Birthplace: Steventon, Hampshire, England
Died: 18-Jul-1817
Location of death: Winchester, Hampshire, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Author
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Pride and Prejudice
English novelist, born on the 16th of December 1775 at the parsonage of Steventon, in Hampshire, a village of
youngest of seven children. Her mother was Cassandra Leigh, niece of Theophilus Leigh, a dry humorist, and f
could have been more uneventful than Miss Austen's. She did not marry, and she never left home except on sho
Steventon, where she began early to trifle with her pen, always jestingly, for family entertainment. In 1801 the
Austen, Jane and her sister Cassandra, to whom she was always deeply attached, to keep up the home; his sons
rank. In 1805 the Austen ladies moved to Southampton, and in 1809 to Chawton, near Alton, in Hampshire, and
as a memorial window in the cathedral testifies.
During her placid life Miss Austen never allowed her literary work to interfere with her domestic duties: sewing
were quiet and her area circumscribed, she saw enough of middle-class provincial society to find a basis on wh
her sympathetic imagination that there are not in English fiction more faithful representations of the life she kne
wide) of ivory" on which she worked "with so fine a brush" -- her own phrases -- was her own invention.
Her best known, if not her best work, Pride and Prejudice, was also her first. It was written between October 17
Sense and Sensibility, which was written, on an old scenario called "Eleanor and Marianne", in 1797 and 1798.
(although it is true that she sold that manuscript in 1803 for £10 to a Bath bookseller, only, however, to see it lo
there is no evidence that between 1798 and 1809 she wrote anything but the fragment called "The Watsons", af
- Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion being written between 1811 and 1816. All her works were initially ano
Although Pride and Prejudice is the novel which in the mind of the public is most intimately associated with M
more elaborate. But the fact that Pride and Prejudice is more single-minded, that the love story of Elizabeth Be
and Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram have parallel streams), has given Pride and Prejudice its popularity abov
character. Entirely satisfactory as is Pride and Prejudice so far as it goes, it is, however, thin beside the nicenes
exhibited in Mansfield Park.
It has been generally agreed by the best critics that Miss Austen has never been approached in her own domain.
the trivial daily comedy of small provincial family life, disdaining equally the assistance offered by passion, cri
she disregarded all alike when she took her pen in hand. Her interest was in life's little perplexities of emotion a
from the Cobb at Lyme Regis, in Persuasion; the most abandoned, Maria's elopement with Crawford, in Mansf
Emma may be said to be her Egoist, or the Egoist his Emma. But irony and fidelity to the fact alone would not h
admirably lucid and flowing prose style which makes her stories the easiest reading.
Recognition came to Miss Austen slowly. It was not until many decades later that to read her became a necessit
(Madame d'Arblay) and Maria Edgeworth, who in her day were the popular women novelists of real life, while
ridicule, are no longer anything but names. Although much delayed in her fame, Miss Austen had always her pa
Disraeli and Archbishop Whately, the last of whom may be said to have been her discoverer. Macaulay, whose
many critics give the palm to Emma. Disraeli read Pride and Prejudice seventeen times. Scott's testimony is oft
ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I have ever met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like an
truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me."
Father: Rev. George Austen (clergyman, b. 1731, d. Jan-1805)
Mother: Cassandra Leigh (b. 1739, d. 1827)
Brother: Frank
Brother: Charles
Sister: Cassandra
Brother: Edward
Brother: Henry
Boyfriend: Harris Bigg-Wither (broken engagement)
Is the subject of books:
A Portrait of Jane Austen , 1978, BY: David Cecil
Author of books:
Sense and Sensibility (1811, novel)
Pride and Prejudice (1813, novel)
Mansfield Park (1814, novel)
Emma (1816, novel)
Northanger Abbey (1818, novel, posthumous)
Persuasion (1818, novel, posthumous)

Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Born: 16-Dec-1775
Birthplace: Steventon, Hampshire, England
Died: 18-Jul-1817
Location of death: Winchester, Hampshire, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Author
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Pride and Prejudice
English novelist, born on the 16th of December 1775 at the parsonage of Steventon, in Hampshire, a village of
youngest of seven children. Her mother was Cassandra Leigh, niece of Theophilus Leigh, a dry humorist, and f
could have been more uneventful than Miss Austen's. She did not marry, and she never left home except on sho
Steventon, where she began early to trifle with her pen, always jestingly, for family entertainment. In 1801 the
Austen, Jane and her sister Cassandra, to whom she was always deeply attached, to keep up the home; his sons
rank. In 1805 the Austen ladies moved to Southampton, and in 1809 to Chawton, near Alton, in Hampshire, and
as a memorial window in the cathedral testifies.
During her placid life Miss Austen never allowed her literary work to interfere with her domestic duties: sewing
were quiet and her area circumscribed, she saw enough of middle-class provincial society to find a basis on wh
her sympathetic imagination that there are not in English fiction more faithful representations of the life she kne
wide) of ivory" on which she worked "with so fine a brush" -- her own phrases -- was her own invention.
Her best known, if not her best work, Pride and Prejudice, was also her first. It was written between October 17
Sense and Sensibility, which was written, on an old scenario called "Eleanor and Marianne", in 1797 and 1798.
(although it is true that she sold that manuscript in 1803 for £10 to a Bath bookseller, only, however, to see it lo
there is no evidence that between 1798 and 1809 she wrote anything but the fragment called "The Watsons", af
- Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion being written between 1811 and 1816. All her works were initially ano
Although Pride and Prejudice is the novel which in the mind of the public is most intimately associated with M
more elaborate. But the fact that Pride and Prejudice is more single-minded, that the love story of Elizabeth Be
and Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram have parallel streams), has given Pride and Prejudice its popularity abov
character. Entirely satisfactory as is Pride and Prejudice so far as it goes, it is, however, thin beside the nicenes
exhibited in Mansfield Park.
It has been generally agreed by the best critics that Miss Austen has never been approached in her own domain.
the trivial daily comedy of small provincial family life, disdaining equally the assistance offered by passion, cri
she disregarded all alike when she took her pen in hand. Her interest was in life's little perplexities of emotion a
from the Cobb at Lyme Regis, in Persuasion; the most abandoned, Maria's elopement with Crawford, in Mansf
Emma may be said to be her Egoist, or the Egoist his Emma. But irony and fidelity to the fact alone would not h
admirably lucid and flowing prose style which makes her stories the easiest reading.
Recognition came to Miss Austen slowly. It was not until many decades later that to read her became a necessit
(Madame d'Arblay) and Maria Edgeworth, who in her day were the popular women novelists of real life, while
ridicule, are no longer anything but names. Although much delayed in her fame, Miss Austen had always her pa
Disraeli and Archbishop Whately, the last of whom may be said to have been her discoverer. Macaulay, whose
many critics give the palm to Emma. Disraeli read Pride and Prejudice seventeen times. Scott's testimony is oft
ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I have ever met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like an
truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me."
 Father: Rev. George Austen (clergyman, b. 1731, d. Jan-1805)
Mother: Cassandra Leigh (b. 1739, d. 1827)
Brother: Frank
Brother: Charles
Sister: Cassandra
Brother: Edward
Brother: Henry
Boyfriend: Harris Bigg-Wither (broken engagement)
Is the subject of books:
A Portrait of Jane Austen , 1978, BY: David Cecil
Author of books:
Sense and Sensibility (1811, novel)
Pride and Prejudice (1813, novel)
Mansfield Park (1814, novel)
Emma (1816, novel)
Northanger Abbey (1818, novel, posthumous)
Persuasion (1818, novel, posthumous)

Henry Fielding
Born: 22-Apr-1707
Birthplace: Sharpham Park, Somerset, England
Died: 8-Oct-1754
Location of death: Lisbon, Portugal
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, British Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Playwright

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Tom Jones

English novelist and playwright, born at Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, Somerset, on
the 22nd of April 1707. His father was Lieutenant Edmund Fielding, third son of John
Fielding, who was canon of Salisbury and fifth son of the earl of Desmond. The earl of
Desmond belonged to the younger branch of the Denbigh family, who were supposed to be
connected with the Habsburgs. To this claim, now discredited by the researches of J.
Horace Round, is to be attributed the famous passage in Edward Gibbon's Autobiography
which predicts for Tom Jones -- "that exquisite picture of human manners" -- a diuturnity
exceeding that of the house of Austria. Henry Fielding's mother was Sarah Gould, daughter
of Sir Henry Gould, a judge of the king's bench. It is probable that the marriage was not
approved by her father, since, though she remained at Sharpham Park for some time after
that event, his will provided that her husband should have nothing to do with a legacy of
£3000 left her in 1710. About this date the Fieldings moved to East Stour in Dorset. Two
girls, Catherine and Ursula, had apparently been born at Sharpham Park; and three more,
together with a son, Edmund, followed at East Stour. Sarah, the third of the daughters,
born November 1710, and afterwards the author of David Simple and other works,
survived her brother.

Fielding's education up to his mother's death, which took place in April 1718 at East Stour,
seems to have been entrusted to a neighboring clergyman, Mr. Oliver of Motcombe, in
whom tradition traces the uncouth lineaments of "Parson Trulliber" in Joseph Andrews.
But he must have contrived, nevertheless, to prepare his pupil for Eton, to which place
Fielding went about this date, probably as an oppidan. Little is known of his schooldays.
There is no record of his name in the college lists; but, if we may believe his first
biographer, Arthur Murphy, by no means an unimpeachable authority, he left
"uncommonly versed in the Greek authors, and an early master of the Latin classics", -- a
statement which should perhaps be qualified by his own words to Robert Walpole in 1730:
"Tuscan and French are in my head; / Latin I Write, and Greek -- I read." But he certainly
made friends among his class-fellows -- some of whom continued friends for life.
Winnington and Hanbury-Williams were among these. The chief, however, and the most
faithful, was George, afterwards Sir George, and later Baron Lyttelton of Frankley.

When Fielding left Eton is unknown. But in November 1725 we hear of him definitely in
what seems like a characteristic escapade. He was staying at Lyme (in company with a
trusty retainer, ready to "beat, maim or kill" in his young master's behalf), and apparently
bent on carrying off, if necessary by force, a local heiress, Miss Sarah Andrew, whose
fluttered guardians promptly hurried her away, and married her to someone else
(Athenaeum, 2nd June 1883). Her baffled admirer consoled himself by translating part of
Juvenal's sixth satire into verse as "all the Revenge taken by an injured Lover." After this
he must have lived the usual life of a young man about town, and probably at this date
improved the acquaintance of his second cousin, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, to whom he
inscribed his first comedy, Love in Several Masques, produced at Drury Lane in February
1728. The moment was not particularly favorable, since it succeeded Colley Cibber's
Provok'd Husband, and was contemporary with Gay's popular Beggar's Opera. Almost
immediately afterwards (March 16th) Fielding entered himself as "Stud. Lit." at Leiden
University. He was still there in February 1729. But he had apparently left before the
annual registration of February 1730, when his name is absent from the books; and in
January 1730 he brought out a second comedy at the newly-opened theater in Goodman's
Fields. Like its predecessor, the Temple Beau was an essay in the vein of William Congreve
and William Wycherley, though, in a measure, an advance on Love in Several Masques.

With the Temple Beau Fielding's dramatic career definitely begins. His father had married
again; and his Leiden career hnd been interrupted for lack of funds. Nominally, he was
entitled to an allowance of £200 a year; but this (he was accustomed to say) "any body
might pay that would." Young, handsome, ardent and fond of pleasure, he began that
career as a hand-to-mouth playwright around which so much legend has gathered -- and
gathers. Having -- in his own words -- no choice but to be a hackney coachman or a hackney
writer, he chose the pen; and his inclinations, as well as his opportunities, led him to the
stage. From 1730 to 1736 he rapidly brought out a large number of pieces, most of which
had merit enough to secure their being acted, but not sufficient to earn a lasting reputation
for their author. His chief successes, from a critical point of view, the Author's Farce
(1730) and Tom Thumb (1730, 1731), were burlesques; and he also was fortunate in two
translations from Molière, the Mock Doctor (1732) and the Miser (1733). Of the rest (with
one or two exceptions, to be mentioned presently) the names need only be recorded. They
are The Coffee-House Politician, a comedy (1730); The Letter Writers, a farce (1731); The
Grub-Street Opera, a burlesque (1731); The Lottery, a farce (1732); The Modern Husband,
a comedy (1732); The Covent Garden Tragedy, a burlesque (1732); The Old Debauchees, a
comedy (1732); Deborah; or, a Wife for you all, an after-piece (1733); The Intriguing
Chambermaid (from Regnard), a two-act comedy (1734); and Don Quixote in England, a
comedy, which had been partly sketched at Leiden.

Don Quixote was produced in 1734, and the list of plays may be here interrupted by the
event of Fielding's first marriage. This took place on the 28th of November 1734 at St.
Mary, Charlcombe, near Bath, the lady being a Salisbury beauty, Miss Charlotte Cradock,
of whom he had been an admirer, if not a suitor, as far back as 1730. This is a fact which
should be taken into consideration in estimating the exact Bohemianism of his London life,
for there is no doubt that he was devotedly attached to her. After a fresh farce entitled An
Old Man taught Wisdom, and the comparative failure of a new comedy, The Universal
Gallant, both produced early in 1735, he seems for a time to have retired with his bride,
who came into £1500, to his old home at East Stour. Around this rural seclusion fiction has
freely accreted. He is supposed to have lived for three years on the footing of a typical 18th-
century country gentleman; to have kept a pack of hounds; to have put his servants into
impossible yellow liveries; and generally, by profuse hospitality and reckless expenditure,
to have made rapid duck and drake of Mrs. Fielding's modest legacy. Something of this is
demonstrably false; much, grossly exaggerated. In any case, he was in London as late as
February 1735 (the date of the Preface to The Universal Gallant); and early in March 1736
he was back again managing the Haymarket theater with a so-called "Great Mogul's
Company of English Comedians."

Upon this new enterprise fortune, at the outset, seemed to smile. The first piece (produced
on the 5th of March) was Pasquin, a Dramatick Satire on the Times (a piece akin in its
plan to Buckingham's Rehearsal), which contained, in addition to much admirable
burlesque, a good deal of very direct criticism of the shameless political corruption of the
Walpole era. Its success was unmistakable; and when, after bringing out the remarkable
Fatal Curiosity of George Lillo, its author followed up Pasquin by the Historical Register
for the Year 1736, of which the effrontery was even more daring than that of its
predecessor, the ministry began to bethink themselves that matters were going too far.
How they actually effected their object is obscure: but grounds were speedily concocted for
the Licensing Act of 1737, which restricted the number of theaters, rendered the lord
chamberlain's license an indispensable preliminary to stage representation, and -- in a
word -- effectually put an end to Fielding's career as a dramatist.

Whether, had that career been prolonged to its maturity, the result would have enriched
the theatrical repertoire with a new species of burlesque, or reinforced it with fresh
variations on the "wit-traps" of Wycherley and Congreve, is one of those inquiries that are
more academic than profitable. What may be affirmed is, that Fielding's plays, as we have
them, exhibit abundant invention and ingenuity; that they are full of humor and high
spirits; that, though they may have been hastily written, they were by no means
thoughtlessly constructed; and that, in composing them, their author attentively
considered either managerial hints, or the conditions of the market. Against this, one must
set the fact that they are often immodest; and that, whatever their intrinsic merit, they
have failed to rival in permanent popularity the work of inferior men. Fielding's own
conclusion was, "that he left off writing for the stage, when he ought to have begun" --
which can only mean that he himself regarded his plays as the outcome of imitation rather
than experience. They probably taught him how to construct Tom Jones; but whether he
could ever have written a comedy at the level of that novel, can only be established by a
comparison which it is impossible to make, namely, a comparison with Tom Jones of a
comedy written at the same age, and in similar circumstances.

Tumble-Down Dick; or, Phaeton in the Suds, Eurydice and Eurydice hissed are the names
of three occasional pieces which belong to the last months of Fielding's career as a
Haymarket manager. By this date he was thirty, with a wife and daughter. As a means of
support, he reverted to the profession of his maternal grandfather; and, in November 1737,
he entered the Middle Temple, being described in the books of the society as "of East Stour
in Dorset." That he set himself strenuously to master his new profession, is admitted;
though it is unlikely that he had entirely discarded the irregular habits which had grown
upon him in his irresponsible bachelorhood. He also did a good deal of literary work, the
best known of which is contained in the Champion, a "News-Journal" of the Spectator type
undertaken, with James Ralph, whose poem of "Night" is made notorious in the Dunciad.
That the Champion was not without merit is undoubted; but the essay-type was for the
moment out-worn, and neither Fielding nor his coadjutor could lend it fresh vitality.
Fielding contributed papers from the 15th of November 1739 to the 19th of June 1740. On
the 20th of June he was called to the bar, and occupied chambers in Pump Court. It is
further related that, in the diligent pursuit of his calling, he travelled the Western Circuit,
and attended the Wiltshire sessions.

Although, with the Champion, he professed, for the time, to have relinquished periodical
literature, he still wrote at intervals, a fact which, taken in connection with his past
reputation as an effective satirist, probably led to his being "unjustly censured" for much
that he never produced. But he certainly wrote a poem "Of True Greatness" (1741); a first
book of a burlesque epic, the Vernoniad, prompted by Vernon's expedition of 1739; a vision
called the Opposition, and, perhaps, a political sermon entitled the Crisis (1741). Another
piece, now known to have been attributed to him by his contemporaries, is the pamphlet
entitled An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, a clever but coarse attack upon
the prurient side of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, which had been issued in 1740, and was
at the height of its popularity. Shamela followed early in 1741. Richardson, who was well
acquainted with Fielding's four sisters, at that date his neighbors at Hammersmith,
confidently attributed it to Fielding; and there are suggestive points of internal evidence
(such as the transformation of Pamela's "Mr. B." into "Mr. Booby") which tend to connect
it with the future Joseph Andrews. Fielding, however, never acknowledged it, or referred
to it; and a great deal has been laid to his charge that he never deserved (Preface to
Miscellanies, 1743).

But whatever may be decided in regard to the authorship of Shamela, it is quite possible
that it prompted the more memorable Joseph Andrews, which made its appearance in
February 1742, and concerning which there is no question. Professing, on his title page, to
imitate Cervantes, Fielding set out to cover Pamela with Homeric ridicule by transferring
the heroine's embarrassments to a hero, supposed to be her brother. Allied to this purpose
was a colleteral attack upon the slipshod Apology of the playwright Colley Cibber, with
whom, for obscure reasons, Fielding had long been at war. But the avowed object of the
book fell speedily into the background as its author warmed to his theme. His secondary
speedily became his primary characters, and Lady Booby and Joseph Andrews do not
interest us now as much as Mrs. Slipslop and Parson Adams -- the latter an invention that
ranges in literature with Laurence Sterne's "Uncle Toby" and Oliver Goldsmith's "Vicar."
Yet more than these and others equally admirable in their round veracity, is the writer's
penetrating outlook upon the frailties and failures of human nature. By the time he had
reached his second volume, he had convinced himself that he had inaugurated a new
fashion of fiction; and in a Preface of exceptional ability, he announced his discovery.
Postulating that the epic might be "comic" or "tragic", prose or verse, he claimed to have
achieved what he termed the "Comic Epos in Prose", of which the action was "ludicrous"
rather than "sublime", and the personages selected from society at large, rather than the
restricted ranks of conventional high life. His plan, it will be observed, was happily
adapted to his gifts of humor, satire, and above all, irony. That it was matured when it
began may perhaps be doubted, but it was certainly matured when it ended. Indeed, except
for the plot, which, in his picaresque first idea, had not preceded the conception, Joseph
Andrews has all the characteristics of Tom Jones, even (in part) to the initial chapters.

Joseph Andrews had considerable success, and the exact sum paid for it by Andrew Millar,
the publisher, according to the assignment now at South Kensington, was £183 11s., one of
the witnesses being the author's friend, William Young, popularly supposed to be the
original of Parson Adams. It was with Young that Fielding undertook what, with exception
of "a very small share" in the farce of Miss Lucy in Town (1742), constituted his next work,
a translation of the Plutus of Aristophanes, which never seems to have justified any similar
experiments. Another of his minor works was a Vindication of the Dowager Duchess of
Marlborough (1742), then much before the public by reason of the Account of her Life
which she had recently put forth. Later in the same year, David Garrick applied to Fielding
for a play; and a very early effort, The Wedding Day, was hastily patched together, and
produced at Drury Lane in February 1743 with no great success. It was, however, included
in Fielding's next important publication, the three volumes of Miscellanies issued by
subscription in the succeeding April. These also comprised some early poems, some
essays, a Lucianic fragment entitled a Journey from this World to the Next, and, last but
not least, occupying the entire final volume, the remarkable performance entitled the
History of the Life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great.

It is probable that, in its composition, Jonathan Wild preceded Joseph Andrews. At all
events it seems unlikely that Fielding would have followed up a success in a new line by an
effort so entirely different in character. Taking for his ostensible hero a well-known thief-
taker, who had been hanged in 1725, he proceeds to illustrate, by a mock-heroic account of
his progress to Tyburn, the general proposition that greatness without goodness is no
better than badness. He will not go so far as to say that all "Human Nature is Newgate with
the Mask on"; but he evidently regards the description as fairly applicable to a good many
so-called great people. Irony (and especially Irony neat) is not a popular form of rhetoric;
and the remorseless pertinacity with which Fielding pursues his demonstration is to many
readers discomforting and even distasteful. Yet -- in spite of Scott -- Jonathan Wild has its
softer pages; and as a purely intellectual conception it is not surpassed by any of the
author's works.

His actual biography, both before and after Jonathan Wild, is obscure. There are evidences
that he labored diligently at his profession; there are also evidences of sickness and
embarrassment. He had become early a martyr to the malady of his century -- gout, and the
uncertainties of a precarious livelihood told grievously upon his beautiful wife, who
eventually died of fever in his arms, leaving him for the time so stunned and bewildered by
grief that his friends feared for his reason. For some years his published productions were
unimportant. He wrote Prefaces to the David Simple of his sister Sarah in 1744 and 1747;
and, in 1745-46 and 1747-48, produced two newspapers in the ministerial interest, the True
Patriot and the Jacobite's Journal, both of which are connected with, or derive from, the
rebellion of 1745, and were doubtless, when they ceased, the pretext of a pension from the
public service money (Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, Introduction). In November 1747 he
married his wife's maid, Mary Daniel, at St. Bene't's, Paul's Wharf; and in December 1748,
by the interest of his old school-fellow, Lyttelton, he was made a principal justice of peace
for Middlesex and Westminster, an office which put him in possession of a house in Bow
Street, and £300 per annum "of the dirtiest money upon earth", which might have been
more had he condescended to become what was known as a "trading" magistrate.

For some time previously, while at Bath, Salisbury, Twickenham and other temporary
resting places, he had intermittently occupied himself in composing his second great novel,
Tom Jones; or, the History of a Foundling. For this, in June 1748, Millar had paid him
£600, to which he added £100 more in 1749. In the February of the latter year it was
published with a dedication to Lyttelton, to whose pecuniary assistance to the author
during the composition it plainly bears witness. In Tom Jones Fielding systematically
developed the "new Province of Writing" he had discovered incidentally in Joseph
Andrews. He paid closer attention to the construction and evolution of the plot; he
elaborated the initial essays to each book which he had partly employed before, and he
compressed into his work the flower and fruit of his forty years' experience of life. He has,
indeed, no character quite up to the level of Parson Adams, but his Westerns and
Partridges, his Allworthys and Blifils, have the inestimable gift of life. He makes no
pretence to produce "models of perfection", but pictures of ordinary humanity, rather
perhaps in the rough than the polished, the natural than the artificial, and his desire is to
do this with absolute truthfulness, neither extenuating nor disguising defects and
shortcomings. One of the results of this unvarnished naturalism has been to attract more
attention to certain of the episodes than their inventor ever intended. But that, in the
manners of his time, he had chapter and verse for everything he drew is clear. His sincere
purpose was, he declared, "to recommend goodness and innocence", and his obvious
aversions are vanity and hypocrisy. The methods of fiction have grown more sophisticated
since his day, and other forms of literary egotism have taken the place of his once famous
introductory essays, but the traces of Tom Jones are still discernible in most of our manlier
modern fiction.

Meanwhile, its author was showing considerable activity in his magisterial duties. In May
1749, he was chosen chairman of quarter sessions for Westminster; and in June he
delivered himself of a weighty charge to the grand jury. Besides other pamphlets, he
produced a careful and still readable Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of
Robbers, etc. (1751), which, among its other merits, was not ineffectual in helping on the
famous Gin Act of that year, a practical result to which the "Gin Lane" and "Beer Street" of
his friend William Hogarth also materially contributed. These duties and preoccupations
left their mark on his next fiction, Amelia (1752), which is rather more taken up with social
problems and popular grievances than its forerunners. But the leading personage, in
whom, as in the Sophia Western of Tom Jones, he reproduced the traits of his first wife, is
certainly, as even Samuel Johnson admitted, "the most pleasing heroine of all the
romances." The minor characters, too, especially Dr. Harrison and Colonel Bath, are equal
to any in Tom Jones. The book nevertheless shows signs, not of failure but of fatigue,
perhaps of haste -- a circumstance heightened by the absence of those "prolegomenous"
chapters over which the author had lingered so lovingly in Tom Jones. In 1749 he had been
dangerously ill, and his health was visibly breaking. The £1000 which Millar is said to have
given for Amelia must have been painfully earned.

Early in 1752 his still indomitable energy prompted him to start a third newspaper, the
Covent Garden Journal, which ran from the 4th of January to the 25th of November. It is
an interesting contemporary record, and throws a good deal of light on his Bow Street
duties. But it has no great literary value, and it unhappily involved him in harassing and
undignified hostilities with Tobias Smollett, Dr. John Hill, Bonnell Thornton and other of
his contemporaries. To the following year belong pamphlets on "Provision for the Poor",
and the case of the strange impostor, Elizabeth Canning (1734-1773). By 1754 his own case,
as regards health, had grown desperate; and he made matters worse by a gallant and
successful attempt to break up a "gang of villains and cut-throats", who had become the
terror of the metropolis. This accomplished, he resigned his office to his half-brother John
(afterwards Sir John) Fielding. But it was now too late. After fruitless essay both of Dr.
Ward's specifics and the tar-water of Bishop Berkeley, it was felt that his sole chance of
prolonging life lay in removal to a warmer climate. On the 26th of June 1754 he accordingly
left his little country house at Fordhook, Ealing, for Lisbon, in the "Queen of Portugal",
Richard Veal master. The ship, as often, was tediously wind-bound, and the protracted
discomforts of the sick man and his family are narrated at length in the touching
posthumous tract entitled the Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, which, with a fragment of a
comment on Bolingbroke's then recently issued essays, was published in February 1755
"for the Benefit of his [Fielding's] Wife and Children." Reaching Lisbon at last in August
1754, he died there two months later (8th October), and was buried in the English
cemetery, where a monument was erected to him in 1830. Luget Britannia gremio non
dari fovere natum is inscribed upon it.

His estate, including the proceeds of a fair library, only covered his just debts; but his
family, a daughter by his first, and two boys and a girl by his second wife, were faithfully
cared for by his brother John, and by his friend Ralph Allen of Prior Park, Bath, the Squire
Allworthy of Tom Jones. His will (undated) was printed in the Athenaeum for the 1st of
February 1890. There is but one absolutely authentic portrait of him, a familiar outline by
Hogarth, executed from memory for Andrew Millar's edition of his works in 1762. It is the
likeness of a man broken by ill health, and affords but faint indication of the handsome
Harry Fielding who in his salad days "warmed both hands before the fire of life." Far too
much stress, it is now held, has been laid by his first biographers upon the unworshipful
side of his early career. That he was always profuse, sanguine and more or less
improvident, is as probable as that he was always manly, generous and sympathetic. But it
is also plain that, in his later years, he did much, as father, friend and magistrate, to
redeem the errors, real and imputed, of a too-youthful youth.

As a playwright and essayist his rank is not elevated. But as a novelist his place is a definite
one. If the Spectator is to be credited with foreshadowing the characters of the novel,
Daniel Defoe with its earliest form, and Richardson with its first experiments in
sentimental analysis, it is to Henry Fielding that we owe its first accurate delineation of
contemporary manners. Neglecting, or practically neglecting, sentiment as unmanly, and
relying chiefly on humor and ridicule, he set out to draw life precisely as he saw it around
him, without blanks or dashes. He was, it may be, for a judicial moralist, too indulgent to
some of its frailties, but he was merciless to its meaner vices. For reasons which have been
already given, his high-water mark is Tom Jones, which has remained, and remains, a
model in its way of the kind he inaugurated.

Father: Col. Edmund Fielding

Mother: (dau. of Sir Henry Gould)
Sister: Sarah
Wife: Charlotte Cradock (m. 1734)
Wife: Mary Daniel (Fielding's wife's maid, m. 1747, until his death)

High School: Eton College

University: University of Leiden (eighteen months)

Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Gout

Author of books:
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741, satire, anonymous)
Joseph Andrews (1742, novel)
Miscellanies (1743, collection)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749, novel)
Amelia (1751, novel)
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1754, travelogue)
Wrote plays:
Historical Register, For the Year 1736 (1737)

Charles Dickens
AKA Charles John Huffam Dickens
Born: 7-Feb-1812
Birthplace: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Died: 9-Jun-1870
Location of death: Gad's Hill Place, Kent, England
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Buried, Westminster Abbey, London, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens, novelist and humorist, was born at Landport in Hampshire, in
February 1812. His father, John Dickens, was employed for some years in the
Navy Pay Department, but at the conclusion of the war with France was
pensioned, and became a parliamentary reporter. In this pursuit his son was
soon distinguished for uncommon ability; and after a literary engagement -- at
a very early age -- upon The True Sun, he attached himself to the staff of the
Morning Chronicle. In this newspaper he gave the first evidence of his talents in the lively essays, entitled Sketches
by Boz, published in 1836.
Encouraged by their success, he undertook to write the letterpress of Adventures of Mr. Pickwick, the illustrations of
which were to be executed by the then more famous Mr. Seymour, a comic artist. The Pickwick Papers became an
enormous commercial success, commencing an era in English literature. It was the first of a series of fictitious
works exhibiting the life and manners of the middle and lower classes, which up to that time had had scarcely any
exponent. In one respect, however, this book had neither predecessor nor progeny. Neither before nor since has there
ever been such a literary embodiment of healthy animal spirits. There is none like it for unflagging but never unwise
entertainment -- for humor that is very much the reverse of dry.
Since Pickwick, Dickens has given us many works more admirable in other respects. Nicholas Nickleby, his next
effort, was, as a story, greatly in advance of it. It was also the first of those social novels which form so marked a
feature in the literature of the next hundred years. It was aimed at the wrongs and cruelties inflicted upon their
wretched pupils by the cheap schoolmasters of Yorkshire -- and it hit its mark. Since then Dickens has set lance
against many a social monster. He may be sometimes wrong, but he can scarcely be accused of want of honesty of
purpose; while quite as little can partisanship (except that he is always for the poor) be laid to his charge, since at the
very time that the country gentlemen were shaking their heads at him for his lack of reverence for "land", he
incensed the manufacturing interest by the publication of Hard Times. His sarcasm is of a rather peculiar character;
too good-natured to sneer, and with eyes, notwithstanding their indignant fire, that never lose sight of the ludicrous
side of things, his style is mocking argument.
After Nicholas Nickeby came Master Humphrey's Clock, containing the Old Curiousity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. In
the former of these, and in the character of Little Nelly, he first exhibited that power of setting forth child-life and
child-thought which may have been said perhaps, before the publication of George Eliot's works, to be peculiarly
his own. Barnaby Rudge was his first, and, with the exception of his subsequent Tale of Two Cities, his only attempt
to describe the past; and it was a successful one. It is probably, with reference to plot and circumstance, his best
novel, barring David Copperfield. The Old Curiosity Shop began in a curious dreamy manner, which, although
obviously a favorite one with Dickens, he soon perceived was unappreciated, and had the prudence to discontinue.
This disposition of his mind towards the weird and grotesque he subsequently developed with greater success in his
Christmas Stories.
After a voyage across the Atlantic, Dickens published in 1842 his American Notes for General Circulation; but a
much more admirable result of that expedition appeared in his Martin Chuzzlewit. This was certainly the greatest of
his humorous works since the Pickwick Papers, and it may almost be said to have been his last. From this period, his
animal spirits -- a rare gift among even comic authors, and rarely lasting so long as in his own case -- appear to have
deserted him. His humor, except in some rich creations, such as Mr. Micawber, is no longer so apparent, while, on
the other hand, his with and pathos have increased. Dombey and Son was considered a falling off in one who stood
so high; but his death of little Dombey brought tears to the eyes of lawyers.
When men were expecting that he should wane and weaken like other prolific writers before him, he produced a
novel as fresh as the dawn. In this, for the first time he adopted the autobiographical form, and that perhaps offered
him some advantages; but at all events, the result was admirable. David Copperfield is perhaps by far his greatest
work, and will endure -- though for very different reasons -- as long as the Pickwick Papers. Its Agnes is one of the
most charming female characters in the whole range of fiction. Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorritt, the Tale of
Two Cities, and Great Expectations, have since succeeded one another with almost periodic punctuality, and an
audience larger than any English author ever had has awaited each. No prose writer was ever more quotable or
quoted than Dickens, and his works hold a unique place in the canon of English literature. The good characters of
his novels do not exert a wholesome moral tendency, as many of them act from impulse, and not from the influence
of moral or religious motives. In 1845, the Daily News was started under Dickens' auspices, but he soon withdrew
from it. In 1850 he commenced Household Words, which has since been merged into All the Year Round. In 1867 he
again visted the United States, and was cordially received. He died 1870 at Gad's Hill Place in Kent.
Father: John Dickens (pay clerk)
Mother: Elizabeth Barrow
Brother: Charles
Wife: Catherine Hogarth (m. 2-Apr-1836, separated 1858, ten children)
Mistress: Ellen Ternan (actress, his mistress 1860's until his death)
Girlfriend: Maria Beadnell (1830-33)
Sister: Fanny (d. 1848)
Brother: Alfred (d. 1860)
Athenaeum Club (London)
Boston Saturday Club
Royal Society of Arts
Risk Factors: Depression, Epilepsy, Gout
Author of books:
Sketches by "Boz" (1836, sketches)
Pickwick Papers (1836-37, novel)
Oliver Twist (1838, novel)
Nicholas Nickleby (1839, novel)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841, novel)
Barnaby Rudge (1841, novel)
American Notes (1842, travelogue)
A Christmas Carol (1843, novel)
Martin Chuzzlewit (1844, novel)
Dombey and Son (1848, novel)
David Copperfield (1850, novel)
Bleak House (1853, novel)
A Child's History of England (1853, juvenile)
Hard Times (1854, novel)
Little Dorrit (1857, novel)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859, novel)
Reprinted Pieces (1858, essays)
The Uncommercial Traveller (1861, essays)
Great Expectations (1861, novel)
Our Mutual Friend (1865, novel)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870, novel, unfinished)
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1. The poem ‘The Patriot’ is written by - pT^lft VHJ f*W

(a) Alfred Tennyson

(b) Robert Browning

(c) Mathew Arnold

(d) John Donne

2. Who wrote ‘The Tempest’? pT^lft ?TRTf*W

(a) William Wordsworth

(b) Ben Jonson

(c) William Shakespeare

(d) Tennyson

3. Which book is a Tragedy? «fHlf*W '*|R sJ iR -

(a) Hamlet

(b) Measure for Measure

(c) As you like it

(d) She stoops to conquer

4. The ‘Merchant of Venice’ Written by Shakespeare is - 'siRmR -

(a) A novel

(b) a short story

(c) a poem

(d) a drama

5. ‘Faerie Queen’ is a - pT^lft ^Hlf*W 'siRmR -

(a) play
(b) short story

(c) an epic

(d) novel

6. Who among the following is a revolutionary poet? -3 8 9 lRbl s 1P

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(a) John Keats

(b) P.B. Shelly

(c) S.T. Coleridge

(d) William Wordsworth

7. Great Expectations is a novel written by- 3 pfhVSRild

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(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Thomas Hardy

(c) Jane Austen

(d) Henry Fielding

8. Paradise Lost is - [<ltt<TR*R '3 ^fafSCsRT ’iRblMP *0*8]

(a) an epic

(b) a satirical work

(c) a tragedy

(d) a ballad

9. Who wrote ‘Madame Bovary’?

(a) Leo Tolstoy

(b) James Joyce

(c) E.M. Forster

(d) Gustave Flaubert

10. The poem ‘Isle of Innisfree’ is written by ['Sd'TSf RFVTV]

(a) Dylan Thomas

(b) W.H Auden

(c) Ezra Pound

(d) W.B. Yeats

11. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about -

(a) A Jew

(b) A Turk

(c) A Roman

(d) A Moor

12. The play Arms and the Man is by - [vSdW

(a) James Joyce

(b) Arthur Miller

(c) Samuel Beckett

(d) George Bernard Shaw

13. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is written by -

(a) Rudyard Kipling

(b) Ronald Reuel Tolkien

(c) Hobbit

(d) None

14. ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ is an essay by -

(a) Thomas Hardy

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Virginia Woolf

(d) Thomas Carlyle

15. Who of the following is a playwright?

(a) Dickens

(b) Frost

(c) W.B. Yeats

(d) G.B. Shaw

Answer
9 D

10 D

11 D

12 D

13 B

14 B

15 D

16 A

16. ‘To the Lighthouse’ and ‘A Room of one’s Own’ written by -

(a) Virginia Woolf

(b) Charlotte Bronte

(c) J.M. Synage

(d) None
17. Who is a modern author?

(a) C. Marlow

(b) Charles Dickens

(c) Chaucer

(d) Joseph Conrad

18. The poem ‘Second Coming’ is written by -

(a) W.B. Yeats

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Frost

(d) Auden

19. ‘April is the cruelest month’ is written by - 1

(a) W.B. Yeats

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Frost

(d) Auden
20. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ is written by-

(a) Joseph Conrad

(b) James Joyce

(c) E.M. Forster

(d) G.B. Shaw

21. ‘Adela’ is a character in the novel ‘A Passage to India’ written by-

(a) E.M. Forster

(b) William Golding

(c) Joyce

(d) Hardy

22. ‘Man and Superman’ and ‘Arms and The Man’ were written by-

(a) G.B. Shaw

(b) Somerset Maugham

(c) William Golding

(d) None
23. Who wrote ‘The Waste Fand’?

(a) W.B. Yeats

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) E.M. Forster

(d) H.G. Wells

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Answer

17 D

18 A

19 B

20 D

21 A

22 A
23 B

24. Who wrote ‘Heart of Darkness’? 11

(a) Thomas Hardy

(b) Joseph Conrad

(c) Bill Gates

(d) None

25. Who wrote ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’?

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) E. M. Forster

(c) Rudyard Kipling

(d) William Shakespeare

26. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ and ‘The Rainbow’ written by-

(a) Virginia Woolf

(b) Robert Frost

(c) Thomas Moore

(d) D.H. Lawrence

27. ‘Of Human Bondage’ is written by -

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) James Joyce

(c) W.B. Yeats

(d) Philip Sydney

28. James Joyce’s famous novel - 111

(a) Roots

(b) Ulysses

(c) Tom Jones

(d) Rebecca

29. ‘Mending Wall’ and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Walt Whitman

(c) Emily Dickinson

(d) None

30. Nathaniel Hawthorne is the writer of -

(a) The Scarlet Letter

(b) A Farewell to Arms

(c) Great Expectation

(d) none

31. Who is an American author?

(a) R.W. Emerson

(b) H.D. Thoreau

(c) Henry W. Longfellow

(d) All

are two poems written by -

Answer

24 B

25 B

26 D

27 A

28 B

29 A

30 A

31 D

32. “To be, or not to be, that is the question” - Where do you find this quotation?

(a) Macbeth

(b) Hamlet

(c) As You like It

(d) Othello
33. ‘The Road not Taken’ is a famous poem of -

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Walt Whitman

(c) Emily Dickinson

(d) None

34. ‘Leaves of Grass’ is written by-

(a) Shelley

(b) Long Lellow

(c) Frost

(d) Whitman

35. The period from 1649-1660 is known as-

(a) Commonwealth period

(b) Jacobean period

(c) Caroline period

(d) Restoration period

36. Which poem is written by Walt Whitman?

a) Song of myself

b) Song of Innocence

c) Song of Experience

d) none of these

37. Who wrote ‘The Bluest Eyes’?

(a) Arthur Miller

(b) Saul Bellow

(c) Tony Morrison

(d) None

38. Who is the author of ‘Seize the Day’?

(a) Arthur Miller

(b) Saul Bellow

(c) Tony Morrison

(d) None
39. ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ - These two novels were

written by -

(a) O’ Henry

(b) Arthur Miller

(c) Earnest Hemingway

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Answer

32 B

33 A

34 D

35 A

36 A

37 C

38 B
39 C

(d) John Osborn

40. ‘Huckleberry Finn’ is a novel written by -

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Emily Dickinson

(c) Mark Twain

(d) Walt Whitman

41. ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is a poem written by -

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Emily Dickinson

(c) Mark Twain

(d) Walt Whitman

42. ‘Lycidas’ is written by - pT^lft 9 lRi>l 5 14 5 ('5f1 | r e J i la<U

(a) Alexander Pope

(b) Henry Fielding

(c) Thomas Hardy

(d) John Milton

43. ‘Love and Friendship’ is written by -

(a) Francis Bacon

(b) Jane Austen

(c) Jonathan Swift

(d) None

44. Who wrote ‘Sense and Sensibility’?

(a) Emily Dickinson

(b) Virginia Woolf

(c) Jane Austen

(d) None

45. ‘Samson Agonists’ is written by -

(a) A. Pope

(b) Henry Fielding

(c) Thomas Hardy

(d) John Milton

46. Who wrote the book ‘Ivan Hoe’?

(a) O’ Henry

(b) L. Stevenson

(c) Hemingway

(d) Sir Walter Scott

47. ‘Essay on Criticism’ is written by -

(a) Alexander Pope

(b) T.S. Eliot

Answer
40 C

41 D

42 D

43 B

44 C

45 D

46 D

47 A

(c) Jonathan Swift

(d) H. Fielding

48. ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ written by-

(a) Byron

(b) G.B. Shaw

(c) John Buniyan

(d) T.S. Eliot

49. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ is a work by-

(a) Byron

(b) Salman Rushdie

(c) Shelley

(d) G.B. Shaw

50. ‘Prometheus Unbound’ is a lyrical drama by-

(a) Shelley

(b) Shakespeare

(c) Sophocles

(d) Euripedes

5J. Who wrote ‘Don Juan’?

(a) Words worth

(b) Keats

(c) Shelley
(d) Byron

52. ‘Biographia Literaria’ Written by-

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Coleridge

(c) Keats

(d) Shelley

53. ‘Oedipus Rex’ is written by -

(a) Socrates

(b) Shakespeare

(c) Aristotle

(d) Sophocles

54. Who wrote ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’?

(a) Shelley

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Chaucer
(d) Donne

55. ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ is written by -

(a) Shakespeare

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Answer

48 A

49 C

50 A

51 D

52 B

53 D

54 C

55 B
(b) Chaucer

(c) Marlowe

(d) Congreve

56. ‘The Silent Woman’ is a play by - pT^lft 9 lRt>l s 1 < l 5 (^3|J '5T^ c tl®T?I) -
^oop]

(a) G.B. Shaw

(b) Shakespeare

(c) Marlowe

(d) Ben Johnson

57. ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ is written by -

(a) Shakespeare

(b) Marlowe

(c) Ben Johnson

(d) John Webster

58. How many types of epic are there?

(a) 1

(b) 2

(c) 3

(d) 4

59. ‘Orlando’ is a character of Shakespeare’s -

(a) Hamlet

(b) King Lear

(c) Tempest

(d) As You Like ft

60. Samuel Beckett was - 1V

(a) An English dramatist

(b) A Russian dramatist

(c) A French dramatist

(d) A Spanish dramatist

61. Who is famous for his ‘drama of ideas’?

(a) William Shakespeare

(b) Henrik Ibsen

(c) Oscar Wilde

(d) T.S. Eliot

62. ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ is a novel written by -

(a) Thomas Hardy

(b) John Stuart Mill

(c) Charles Dickens

(d) Emily Bronte

Answer

56 D

57 B
58 B

59 D

60 C

61 B

62 A

63. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age?

(a) Charles Lamb

(b) Jane Austen

(c) William Hazlitt

(d) Oliver Goldsmith

64. ‘Paradise Lost’ attempts to - [i8WR1%4PT]

(a) Justify the ways of man to God

(b) Show that the Satan and God have equal power

(c) Explain why good and evil are necessary

(d) Justify the ways of God to man

65. Who was ‘Poet Laureate’?

(a) Alfred Tennyson

(b) Robert Browning

(c) P. B. Shelley

(d) none of them

66. ‘O Lady! We receive but what we give’- has been quoted from

(a) Kubla khan

(b) Don Juan

(c) Tithonus

(d) Dejection: An Ode

67. The period from 1649-J660 is known as -

(a) Commonwealth period

(b) Jacobean period

(c) Caroline period

(d) Restoration period

68. Which poem is written by Walt Whitman?

(a) Song of myself

(b) Song of Innocence

(c) Song of Experience

(d) none of these

69. Who is the writer of ‘The End of History and The Last Man’?

(a) Samuel Huntington

(b) Francis Fukuyama

(c) Robert Frost

(d) David Lynn

70. Who wrote ‘Ulysses’? profit '5T3j 1E N 5 BF) - ^oop]

(a) Thomas Moore

(b) Alfred Tennyson

(c) R.L. Stevenson

(d) S.T. Coleridge

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Answer

63 B

64 D

65 A

66 D

67 A

68 A

69 B

70 B

71. ‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel by -

(a) Dickens

(b) Thackeray

(c) Scott

(d) Fielding

72. Who is the author of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’?

(a) E. Hemingway

(b) Churchill

(c) Wilson

(d) Hardy

73. ‘A Farewell to Arms’ is novel by -

(a) Thomas Hardy

(b) Ernest Hemingway

(c) Jane Austen

(d) Scott

74. Who wrote ‘Crime and Punishment’?

(a) Shelley

(b) Tolstoy

(c) Byron

(d) Dostoyevsky

75. ‘A Passage to India’ is written by -

(a) E.M. Forster

(b) Sadat Hasan Mintu

(c) Gallsworth

(d) Rudyard Kipling

76. ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’ are written by -

(a) P.B. Shelley

(b) John Keats

(c) John Milton

(d) William Blake

77. Who is the author of the novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’?
(a) H.G. Wells

(b) George Orwell

(c) Ernest Hemingway

(d) Thomas Hardy

78. ‘The Rainbow’ is -

(a) A poem by Wordsworth

(b) a short story by Somerset Maugham

(c) a novel by D.H. Lawrence

(d) a verse by Coleridge

79. Who wrote the ‘Odyssey and Iliad’?

(a) Milton

(b) Hoffman

(c) Vergil
(d) Homer

80. Which one of the following is a comedy?

(a) All’s Well that Ends Well

(b) Hamlet

(c) Timon of Athens

(d) Antony and Cleopatra

81. Of the following who is the most translated author of the world?

(a) Leo Tolstoy

(b) Agatha Cristie

(c) V.I. Lenin

(d) Mao Tse Tung

82. Who is the author of ‘The Affluent Society’?

(a) H.G. Wells

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) J.K. Galbrath

(d) David Hume

83. Who is not a novelist of Victorian age mentioned below?

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) George Eliot

(c) Thomas Hardy

(d) James Joyce

84. Which one is the shortest dramatic work?

(a) Not

(b) Footballs

(c) Radio

(d) Breath

85. A.S. Hornsby is famous for -

(a) Writing poems

(b) writing songs

(c) writing text books

(d) writing dictionaries

86. Who is well known for his translation of ‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ into

English?

(a) Rose Macaulay

(b) Edward Fitzgerald

(c) George Bernard Shaw

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Answer

79 D

80 A

81 C

82 C

83 D

84 D
85 D

86 B

(d) D.H. Lawrence

87. O’Henry is famous for -

(a) Drama

(b) short story

(c) novel

(d) poem

88. Goethe is the greatest poet of -

(a) Russia

(b) Germany

(c) England

(d) France

89. Who wrote the book ‘Cancer Ward’?

(a) Alexander Solzhenitsyn

(b) Boris Pasternak

(c) Leo Tolstoy

(d) Alexander Pope

90. A famous short story of Maupassant is -

(a) The Diamond Necklace

(b) Gift of the Magi

(c) Tropic of Cancer

(d) The Prince

91. Who is the author of ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’?

(a) Aldous Huxley

(b) Boris Pasternauk

(c) Oscar Wilde

(d) Fitzerald

92. What type of book ‘The Woman’ is -

(a) Drama

(b) Novel

(c) Story

(d) Essay

93. ‘Calliban’ is a character in -

(a) King Lear

(b) Othello

(c) Man and Superman

(d) Tempest

94. Who was the only Laureate to refuse the Nobel Prize?

(a) Leo Tolstoy

(b) Jea- Paul Sartre

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Answer
87 B

88 B

89 A

90 A

91 C

92 B

93 D

94 B

(c) T.S. Eliot

95. Famous Irish poet and dramatist is -

(a) W.B. Yeats

(b) L. Tolstoy
(c) A. Pope

(d) H.G. Wells

96. Who is the modern philosopher who was rewarded Nobel Prize for literature?

(a) Baker

(b) Kissinger

(c) Lenin

(d) B. Russell

97. Who is the author of ‘India Wins Freedom’?

(a) Ghandhi

(b) Nehru

(c) Jinnah

(d) Abul Kalam Azad

98. ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by -

(a) Harold Pinter

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) G.B. Shaw

(d) Samuel Beckett

99. Who is the author of the drama ‘You never can tell’?

(a) G.B. Shaw

(b) Ben Jonson

(c) Shakespeare

(d) Christopher Marlowe

100. Who is the author of ‘Arabian Nights’?

(a) Sir Richard Burton

(b) Alexander Pope

(c) Smith

(d) None of them

101. Who wrote the book ‘Lord Jim: A Tale?

(a) Oscar Wilde

(b) Joseph Conrad

(c) Thomas Hardy

(d) Rudyard Kipling

102. Tennyson wrote - - io>h>o>]

(a) Dover Beach

(b) My last Duchess

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Answer

95 A

96 D

97 D

98 B

99 A

100 D

101 B
102 D

(c) The Eve of St. Agnes

(d) The Lotus Eaters

103. Who is famous for the theory of ‘Objective Co-relative’?

(a) E.M. Forster

(b) Somerset Maugham

(c) T.S. Eliot

(d) Woolf

104. When did T. S. Eliot win noble prize?

(a) 1948

(b) 1923

(c) 1953

(d) 1935
105. Which one of the following is the first long poem in English?

(a) Beowulf

(b) Dream of the Road

(c) The Seafarer

(d) The Wanderer

106. Who wrote ‘The Spanish Tragedy’?

(a) John Lyly

(b) Thomas Kyd

(c) Robert Green

(d) Christopher Marlowe

107. ‘The Sacred Flame’ is written by -

(a) G.B. Shaw

(b) William Somerset Maugham

(c) Earnest Hemingway

(d) Oscar Wilde

108. Who translated the Bible into English for the first time?

(a) Nicolas Udall

(b) John Wycliffe

(c) Thomas Norton

(d) Edmund Spenser

109. ‘The Return of the Native’ is written by -

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(a) Alexander Dumas

(b) Aldous Huxley

(c) Somerset Maugham

(d) Thomas Hardy

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Answer

103 C
104 A

105 A

106 B

107 B

108 B

109 D

110. ‘Brick Lane’ is written by -

(a) Virginia Woolf

(b) George Eliot

(c) Charles Dickens

(d) Monica Ali

111. The Good Earth has been written by -

(a) Virginia Woolf

(b) George Eliot

(c) Charles Dickens

(d) Pearl S. Buck

112. ‘War and Peace’ an epic tale of Napoleonic invasion is written by -

(a) Leo Tolstoy

(b) George Bernard Shaw

(c) Anne Frank

(d) Earnest Hemingway

113. What was the first novel of Virginia Woolf?

(a) The Waves

(b) To the Light House

(c) lacob’s Room

(d) The Voyage out

114. The first English novel, Pamela, has been written by - "Q <jKR) -

^oog]
(a) Daniel Defoe

(b) Henry Fielding

(c) Sir Walter Scott

(d) Samuel Richardson

115. Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Goddot’ is a-

(a) Morality play

(b) Problem play

(c) Miracle play

(d) Absurd play

116. ‘Satanic Verses’ is written by -

(a) R.K. Narayan

(b) Salman Rushdie

(c) Jhumpa Lahiri

(d) Arundhuti Roy

117. ‘Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven’ has been quoted from-

(a) Paradise Regained

(b) Paradise Lost

(c) Aeneid

(d) None of these

118. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ is written by the author of -

(a) A passage to India

(b) Lord Jim

(c) Rainbow

(d) Ulysses

119. Who was the eminent writer of the Restoration?

a) John Milton

b) John Dryden
c) William Congreve

d) All of them

120. What do you mean by Archaism?

(a) modern mode of words

(b) up-to-date words

(c) literary words

(d) obsolete words

121. What do you mean by Burlesque?

(a) a satiric caricature of the characters

(b) a drama

(c) a satiric person

(d) an allegorical statement

122. Doctor Zivago is written by -

(a) Ana Pasternak

(b) Boris Pasternak

(c) Golding

(d) Conrad

123. What do you mean by Lampoon?

(a) An exaggerated statement

(b) A short significant poem

(c) The poet who writes sonnet

(d) To mock some powerful person

124. What do you mean by the word Personnel?

(a) individual

(b) others

(c) papers

(d) government employee

125. What the term Couplet refers?

(a) two successive lines

(b) first four lines of a poem

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Answer

118 C

119 D

120 D

121 A

122 B

123 D

124 D

125 C

(c) two successive rhyming lines

(d) two lines without rhymes

126. Bathos refers - v

(a) ridiculous in writing or speech

(b) a pathetic description

(c) pathetic events

(d) antiquity of style, manner or use

127. Romanticism is mainly connected with - V1 - i>k>o>o>]

(a) excitement and sensation

(b) love and beauty

(c) job and tiredness

(d) expectation and depression

128. What is an Epic?

(a) a short poem

(b) a long narrative poem

(c) a historical poem

(d) a prose composition

129. What is a Fantasy?

(a) An imaginary story

(b) a funny animation film

(c) a history record

(d) a real life event

130. A person who writes about his own life writes -

(a) A Chronicle

(b) an Autobiographer

(c) a diary

(d) a Biography

131. What is meaning of the word Euphemism? vu

(a) vague idea

(b) inoffensive expression

(c) a verbal play

(d) a wise saying

132. What is the meaning Hymn?

(a) song in praise of poet

(b) a song in praise of country

(c) song in praise of God

(d) a mixture of two language

133. What the term Blank Verse refers -

(a) having no rhyming end

Answer

126 A

127 A

128 B

129 A

130 B
131 B

132 C

133 A

(b) having no rhythmic flow

(c) having no significance

(d) having no blanks in the verse

134. Equivocation means -

(a) two contrary things in same statement

(b) equal opportunity

(c) free expression of opinion

(d) a true statement

135. What is Limerick?

(a) a form of one act play

(b) a kind of novel

(c) a form of short story

(d) a form of light verse

136. What do you mean by Canto?

(a) a stanza of a long poem

(b) a stanza of a short poem

(c) a section or division of a long poem

(d) a kind of sonnet

137. What is the meaning of the word Dirge?

(a) a kind of sonnet sequence

(b) a song expressing patriotism

(c) a long verse about adventure

(d) a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning

138. What do you mean by Minstrel?

(a) a romantic poet

(b) a poet of minister

(c) a budding poet

(d) A medieval European poet

139. What do you mean Ode?

(a) a lyric poem

(b) a short poem

(c) a ballad

(d) a sonnet

140. What is an Effigy?

(a) a poem

(b) a sonnet

(c) an image or dummy

(d) a lamentation

141. What do you mean by Epitaph?

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Answer

134 A

135 D

136 C

137 D

138 D

139 A

140 C

141 A

(a) Inscription on tomb or monument

(b) a sonnet of hero

(c) a ballad of folk hero

(d) a poem of lamentation

142. What do you mean by Epilogue?

(a) a poem comes at beginning

(b) a poem of lamentation

(c) a poem or speech at the end of a play

(d) a figurative story

143. What do you mean by Satire?

(a) an ironical writing

(b) ridiculous writing against vices or follies

(c) mixture of two languages

(d) a regional epic

144. What the term Aesthetic refers -

(a) appreciation for beauty

(b) appreciation for poem

(c) reverence for old

(d) reverence for poems

145. What do you mean by Panegyric or Eulogy? vm

(a) a writing of praising distinguished persons

(b) a kind of satire

(c) A short lyric poem

(d) a poem of praising Gods

146. What do you mean by Parody?

(a) imitation of the great man

(b) following the rules

(c) a short prose

(d) imitation of a poem or a writing

147. What the term Allusion refers -

(a) reference from any person

(b) obeyed the old men

(c) reference of past events or persons

(d) writing in satire

148. What is a Character?

(a) a poet of writing

(b) a joker of the writing

(c) any person in a literary work

(d) a famous man in play

Answer

142 C

143 B

144 A

145 A

146 D

147 C
148 C

149. What do you mean by a Ballad?

(a) a kind of short narrative poem

(b) a poem of patriotism

(c) a poem of love affairs

(d) a kind of condoling poem

150. What do you mean Philology?

(a) Study of Language

(b) science of medicine

(c) science of surgery

(d) science of speech sounds

151. What do you mean by Climax?

(a) a peak of mountain

(b) a disaster of sea

(c) a kind of poem

(d) the moment of highest interest in a play

152. What do you mean by Diction?

(a) choice of words for writing

(b) choice of characters

(c) choice of rhythms

(d) choice of simile and metaphor

153. What do you mean by a Play or Drama?

(a) a literary lyric

(b) a literary work performing on a stage

(c) a literary prose fiction on stage

(d) a poem to the alter of God

154. What do you mean by Fable?

(a) a story of high thoughts

(b) a story about great men

(c) a general story

(d) a short story of animals for moral lesson

155. What is the term Fiction?

(a) a poem

(b) a prose

(c) an imaginative writing

(d) a story

156. What is a Miracle Play?

(a) a play of tragedy

(b) a play of comedy

(c) a play in fiction

(d) a supernatural religious drama

'a.

Answer
149 A

150 A

151 D

152 A

153 B

154 D

155 C

156 D

157. What is a Myth?

(a) a fictitious or imaginative story

(b) a legend of hero

(c) a short narrative poem

(d) a long narrative poem

158. What do you mean by Pathos or Catharsis? 1X

(a) a sorrowful event

(b) a murder in a tragedy

(c) an adventure of hero

(d) arouse of pity and fear

159. What is Novella? x

(a) a short story of drama

(b) a short narrative poem

(c) a short narrative fictional prose

(d) an essay of satire

160. What the term Objectivity refers?

(a) Impersonal expression in literary works

(b) individual

(c) personal expression in works

(d) disinterested person

161. What the term Oxymoron refers?

(a) two same ideas are combined

(b) self-contradictory ideas

(c) two language

(d) two contradictory ideas express one thing

162. Pastoral Poem refers a poem about.... life.

(a) human

(b) poet’s

(c) shepherd or rural

(d) personal

163. What do you mean by Plot?

(a) a drama of comedy

(b) a disposal of characters

(c) a short novel

(d) arrangement of incidents in a writing

164. What the term Renaissance refers?

(a) revival or rebirth

(b) representation

(c) presentation

(d) rebel

Answer

157 A

158 D

159 A

160 A

161 D

162 C

163 D
164 A

165. What do you mean by Protagonist?

(a) the character against main character i.e. Antagonist

(b) the villain of drama

(c) the minor character

(d) the main character in a literary work

166. What do you mean by Prose?

(a) a writing without rhyme

(b) a writing with rhyme

(c) a writing of verse

(d) a writing of rhythms

167. What do you mean by Quatrain?

(a) a poem of fourteen lines

(b) a stanza of fourteen lines

(c) a stanza of six lines

(d) a stanza of four lines

168. A sub-division of a poem is called -

(a) meter

(b) foot

(c) mythology

(d) none of these

169. Simile is the direct comparison between two -

(a) similar things

(b) dissimilar things

(c) elaborate comparison

(d) contradictory things

170. What the term Comedy refers?

(a) a play ends unhappily

(b) a play ends with murder

(c) a play ends tragedy

(d) a play ends happily

171. What do you mean by Synecdoche?

(a) a figurative story

(b) a story by animal characters

(c) a figure of speech stands for whole thing

(d) none

172. Dramatic Monologue stands for -

(a) comparison between dissimilar things

(b) a kind of fable

(c) single

(d) single speaker speak but audience remain silent

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Answer
165 D

166 A

167 D

168 D

169 B

170 D

171 C

172 D

173. What the term Short Story stands for?

(a) a long prose fiction

(b) a story of figurative language

(c) a story of many characters

(d) a short prose fiction

174. What do you mean by Novel?

(a) short prose

(b) a long fictional prose with many characters

(c) a short narrative prose

(d) a literary work on the stage

175. What do you mean by Phonetics?

(a) study of speech sounds

(b) study of language and rules

(c) study of insects

(d) study of meaning and syntax

176. What do you mean by Syntax?

(a) study of speech sounds

(b) study of meaning of words

(c) study of constructing sentence

(d) constructing passage

177. The another name of Revenge tragedy or producer is -

(a) Sophocles

(b) Euripides

(c) Homer

(d) Senecan tragedy

178. What do you mean by Prologue?

(a) the last part of any drama

(b) the first chapter of play

(c) the preface or introduction of any writing

(d) surface

179. What do you mean by Romance?

(a) any work of fiction or imagination

(b) a real life story

(c) any work of literature

(d) a play or a drama

180. What do you mean by Irony?

(a) a satiric imitation

(b) a burlesque imitation

(c) a kind of parody

(d) difference between reality and appearance

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Answer

173 D

174 B

175 A

176 C

177 D

178 C

179 A
180 D

181. What the term Mock Epic refers? Xl

(a) a satiric writing of drama

(b) a long narrative poem

(c) a literary work comically imitates the style of epic

(d) none

182. What do you mean by Linguistics?

(a) study of languages and its rules

(b) study of sounds

(c) study of speech sounds

(d) study of meaning

183. What do you mean by Imagery?

(a) language perceived through senses

(b) jargoned writing

(c) language of literature

(d) drawing pictures

184. What do you mean by Plagiarism?

(a) a story builder

(b) a short story

(c) a literary theft

(d) a criticism of literature

185. What is Quinzaine? ™

(a) a fourteen line stanza

(b) a twenty line stanza

(c) a thirteen line stanza

(d) a fifteen line stanza

186. What do you mean by Deus ex Machina? X1 "

(a) process of analyzing literature

(b) literary theft

(c) process of solving problem abruptly

(d) choice of words

187. What do you mean by Hyperbole? XIV

(a) a long verse

(b) a long narrative poem

(c) an overriding view

(d) an overstatement about something

188. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet? xv

(a) a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter

(b) a two line stanza

(c) a poem of lamentation

(d) a song for mourning

Answer
181 C

182 A

183 A

184 C

185 D

186 C

187 D

188 A

189. What do you mean by Romanticism?

(a) movement of daily life affairs

(b) movement for classics

(c) movement of poem

(d) movement for imagination over reason

190. What do you mean by Beast Fable?

(a) a fictional story of animal characters

(b) a short story

(c) a long narrative prose

(d) a soft style epic

191. Short Story differs from a Novel by the figures of -

(a) Length and Characters

(b) prose and fiction

(c) verse and rhymes

(d) rhythms and prosody

192. Objectivity stands for -

(a) personal expression

(b) impersonal expression

(c) immature communication

(d) matured notion

193. Prosody signifies the systematic study of -

(a) drama

(b) novel

(c) short story

(d) versification

194. Compatriot means -

(a) comrade

(b) classmate

(c) fellow country man

(d) friend

195. The arrangement of events in the order of their occurrence is -

(a) Chronometer

(b) Chorology

(c) Chronicle

(d) Choreography
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Answer

189 D

190 A

191 A

192 B

193 D

194 C

195 C

196. What do you mean by an Elegy?

(a) a poem of happy ending

(b) a poem of unhappy ending

(c) a song of praising God

(d) a song of Mourning the dead

197. What do you mean by Tragicomedy?

(a) a kind of verse play

(b) a play with unhappy ending

(c) blending of tragic and comic elements

(d) mixture of dramas

198. What is Epistolary Novel?

(a) a novel of short length

(b) a novel personal feelings

(c) a Novella

(d) a novel of correspondence among the characters

199. What the term Humor refers?

(a) anything causes laughter

(b) amazing
(c) wonder

(d) rapture

200. “Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.” - W
ho told it?

(a) Shakespeare

(b) Chaucer

(c) Spenser

(d) Bacon

201. Which of the following is an essayist?

(a) Chaucer

(b) John Wycliffe

(c) Charles Lamb

(d) Spenser

202. “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts” is a quotation from
-

(a) Wordsworth
(b) Shelly

(c) John Keats

(d) Blake

203. Dryden and Alexander Pope are poets.

(a) Neo-classical

(b) Elizabethan

(c) Victorian

(d) Modern

204. Who is known as the poet of Nature?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Shelly

(c) Keats

(d) All of them

205. Who of the following was both a poet and painter?

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Coleridge

(c) Blake

(d) Keats

206. Emile Zola is a famous -

(a) English novelist

(b) American Novelist

(c) Irish novelist

(d) French Novelist

207. O’Henry was known as -

(a) American short story writer

(b) British short story writer

(c) Irish dramatist

(d) Roman Short story writer

208. A famous Mock Epic poet in English Literature is -

(a) Alexander Pope

(b) Tennyson

(c) Browning

(d) Shelley

209. Arthur Clarke is known as -

(a) a science fiction writer

(b) a modern dramatist

(c) a famous English Novelist

(d) A short story writer

210. Bertrand Russell was a British -

(a) novelist

(b) essayist

(c) poet

(d) philosopher
211. Who is the most satirist in English Literature?

(a) Alexander Pope

(b) Jonathon swift

(c) Dryden

(d) Spenser

'a.

Answer

204 A

205 C

206 D

207 A

208 A

209 A

210 D
211 B

212. A famous essayist in Renaissance is -

(a) Charles Lamb

(b) Tomas Moore

(c) Thomas Carlyle

(d) John Wycliffe

213. A famous Playwright in Modern English Literature is -

(a) Oscar Wild

(b) Bacon

(c) Lamb

(d) T.S. Eliot

214. John Galsworthy is a dram a tist.

(a) Victorian
(b) Elizabethan

(c) Romantic

(d) Modern

215. Which Century belongs to Victorian Period?

(a) 19th.

(b) 20th

(c) 17th

(d) 18th

216. Who is the famous woman novelist in Victorian Age?

(a) E.B. Browning

(b) George Eliot

(c) T.S Eliot

(d) Austen

217. Which of the following is a 19th century woman novelist?

(a) Emily Dickinson

(b) Ezra Pound

(c) Virginia Woolf

(d) George Eliot

218. Alexander Dumas was a famous.... novelist.

(a) American

(b) English

(c) Irish

(d) French

219. Karl Marx was born in -

(a) Germany

(b) India

(c) Russia

(d) England

Answer
212 D

213 A

214 D

215 A

216 B

217 D

218 D

219 A

220. The Poet Laureate is -

(a) the best poet of the country

(b) a winner of Noble Prize in Poetry

(c) the court poet of England

(d) a classical poet

221. The first English Dictionary was compiled by - [idW, ifAa'sj G fafVTV]

(a) Isaac Walton

(b) Samuel Johnson

(c) Samuel Butler

(d) Sir Thomas Browne

222. Shakespeare is known mostly for his -

(a) poetry

(b) an autobiography

(c) a diary

(d) plays

223. What is the full name of the great American short story writer O’Henry?

(a) William Sidney Porter

(b) Walt Whitman

(c) Marjorie Kennan Rowling

(d) Samuel Butler

224. ‘Hamlet’ by Shakespeare is -

(a) a comedy

(b) a tragic comedy

(c) an epic

(d) a tragedy

225. Who is of the following both a poet and a novelist?

(a) George Eliot

(b) Thomas Hardy

(c) Karl Mark

(d) R. L. Stevenson

226. Which is the shortest period of English literature?

(a) Romantic period

(b) Victorian age

(c) Restoration period

(d) none of the above

227. Who was American poet?

(a) Robert Frost

(b) John Keats

(c) John Milton

(d) Robert Herrick

'a.

Answer

220 C

221 B

222 D

223 A

224 D

225 B
226 C

227 A

228. English poet addicted to Opium was -

(a) Lord Byron

(b) Charles Kingsley

(c) S.T. Coleridge

(d) P.B. Shelly

229. What does ‘Canto’ means?

(a) a division of a play

(b) an act of a play

(c) a sub division of an epic

(d) none of the above

230. What is ‘Linguistics’?

(a) the study of literature

(b) the study of history

(c) the scientific study of language

(d) none of the above

231. What is ‘Catastrophe’?

(a) the comedic end of dramatic events

(b) the tragic end of dramatic events

(c) the comic and tragic end of the play

(d) none of the above

232. ‘Three score’ means -

(a) thirty t imes

(b) three hundred t imes

(c) three times twenty

(d) more than three

233. What is ‘Parable’?

(a) an allegorical story usually containing a moral lesson

(b) the basic unit of a composition

(c) a sense of distress

(d) none of the above

234. ‘Melodrama’ is a kind of play -

(a) of violent and sensational themes

(b) of pathetic themes

(c) of historical themes

(d) of philosophical themes

235. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” occurs in -

(a) Eliot’s ‘The waste land’

(b) Keats’s ‘Endymion’

(c) Shelly’s ‘The Cloud’

(d) none of the above

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Answer

228 C

229 C

230 C

231 B

232 C

233 A

234 A

235 B

236. “Justice delayed is justice denied” was stated by -

(a) Shakespeare

(b) Emerson

(c) Gladstone
(d) Disraeli

237. “To err is human; to forgive is divine” is said by -

(a) Alexander Pope

(b) John Dryden

(c) John Benson

(d) None

238. “Our sweetest songs are those of the tale of....”

(a) patriotic feeling

(b) heroic tales

(c) saddest thought

(d) romantic love

239. “Mortality is a private and costly luxury” is said by -

(a) Cowper

(b) Henry Adams

(c) John Milton

(d) Blake

240. Which of the following poet was not awarded the Nobel Prize?

(a) Eliot

(b) Yeats

(c) Rabindranath Tagore

(d) Milton

24J. In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is -

(a) an ordinary man

(b) a high ranking man

(c) a sacrilegious man

(d) none of these

242. ‘Couplet’ can occur in -

(a) short story

(b) essay

(c) poem
(d) novel

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Answer

236 C

237 A

238 C

239 B

240 D

24J B

242 C

243. Who wrote ‘The preface for Tagore’s Gitanjali’?

(a) T.S. Eliot

(b) W.B. Yeats

(c) Byron

(d) Keats

244. Who got the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007?

(a) Becket

(b) Pinter

(c) Stoppard

(d) Lessing

245. Which of the following age in literary history is the latest?

(a) The Augustan Period

(b) The Victorian Age

(c) The Georgian Age

(d) The Restoration Age

246. Find the Odd one.

(a) Treasure Island

(b) The return of the Native

(c) Das Capital

(d) Adam Bede

247. Who is the author of the book ‘Waste land’?

(a) T.S. Eliot

(b) Shelly

(c) Earnest Hemingway

(d) Charles Dickens

248. Which one is the correct form below?

(a) Emma - Goethe

(b) Freedom - Shakespeare

(c) War and Peace - Tolstoy

(d) all the above

249. Who is the father of modern English Drama?

(a) G.B. Shaw

(b) John Milton

(c) Shakespeare

(d) Thomas Walt

250. Who is familiar as a poet of beauty?

(a) Lord Byron

(b) John Dryden

(c) John Keats

(d) None

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Answer

243 B

244 D

245 C

246 C
247 A

248 C

249 A

250 C

251. Who was not the famous poet of the age of Romanticism?

(a) Coleridge

(b) Byron

(c) Shelley

(d) Shakespeare

252. Who is the greatest modern English dramatist?

(a) John Milton

(b) Homer

(c) G.B. Shaw

(d) Eliot
253. What is literature?

(a) writing about society

(b) reflection of society

(c) literary works

(d) different customs

254. What the term Elegy refers?

(a) a song of lamentation

(b) a song of pleasure

(c) a hymn

(d) a praiseworthy song

255. What is paradox?

(a) a self -pleasant statement

(b) personal song

(c) a self-contradictory statement

(d) none
256. Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans?

(a) Jane Austen

(b) Charlotte Bronte

(c) George Eliot

(d) Joseph Conrad

257. ‘Hold your tongue and let me love’ is said by -

(a) John Donne

(b) Shakespeare

(c) T. S. Eliot

(d) Christopher Marlowe

258. What is verse?

(a) lines of poem

(b) a song of lamentation

(c) a rhythmic measurement

(d) pentameter
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Answer

251 D

252 C

253 B

254 A

255 C

256 C

257 A

258 A

259. What is Iambic Pentameter? XV1

(a) a six foot line verse

(b) a three foot line verse

(c) a four foot line verse

(d) a five foot line verse

260. Which is the rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnet?

(a) abab cdcd efef gg

(b) abba cdcd efg efg

(c) abab cde cde efg efg

(d) abba cde cde e egg

261. What is soliloquy?

(a) a speech to the audience

(b) self speech

(c) talk to others

(d) expression of anger

262. Allusion refers the following -

(a) a reference of past person or thing

(b) false

(c) doubtful speech

(d) historical documents

263. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is an example of -

a) Metaphor

b) Epigram

c) Satire

d) Simile

264. Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry?

(a) John Keats

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) William Blake

(d) Thomas Gray

265. The full name of W.B. Yeats is -

(a) Winstern Barret Yeats

(b) William Bill Yeats

(c) William Butler Yeats

(d) William Bernard Yeats

266. Short story is not. . ..than story.

(a) shorter

(b) longer

(c) smaller

(d) huger

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Answer

259 D

260 A

261 B
262 A

263 D

264 B

265 C

266 A

267. The Study of Poetry is written by -

(a) Dr. Johnson

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) S. T. Coleridge

(d) Matthew Arnold

268. Beowulf is a/an - xvii pERtf (^Tlt *tfN 5 t - *o*\S]

(a) an epic poem

(b) an elegy

(c) a novel
(d) a burlesque

269. As Act is to Drama; so Canto is to -

(a) Epic

(b) Tragedy

(c) Comedy

(d) Sonnet

270. What is a ballad?

(a) a folk song

(b) a song of hymn

(c) a song of lamentation

(d) a lyric song

271. What is a fable?

(a) a story about animals

(b) a story of human being

(c) a story of chronology

(d) a song of pleasure

272. What is a plot?

(a) an idea about writing

(b) the choice of words

(c) choice of poem

(d) arrangement of the incidents

273. The description of incidents in sequence is called -

(a) archive

(b) chronology

(c) anthology

(d) antenna

274. What is anthology?

(a) collection of poems

(b) collection of insects

(c) fish cultivation

(d) study of poetry

Answer

267 D

268 A

269 A

270 A

271 A

272 D

273 B

274 A

275. What do you mean by classicism?

(a) reverence for beauty

(b) reverence for English

(c) reverence for Greek and Roman/Grecian works

(d) none

276. What the term Allegory refers?

(a) a kind short story

(b) a long narrative poem

(c) a figurative story

(d) a comic play

277. What is an Epigram?

(a) a terse and witty statement

(b) a short fiction

(c) a long poem

(d) a wise man

278. Prologue refers -

(a) conclusion of writing

(b) end of the writing

(c) preface to writing

(d) praise song of a person

279. What is a myth?

(a) a fictitious story

(b) a real human story

(c) an animal story

(d) short poem

280. Which of the following is exceptional?

(a) William Blake

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) William Butler Yeats

(d) Thomas Gray

281. Which is called the Golden Period of English Literature?

(a) Elizabethan Age

(b) Victorian Age

(c) Restoration Period

(d) Augustan Age

282. Moby Dick is a -

(a) Novel

(b) Play

(c) Theory

(d) Short story

Answer

275 C

276 A

277 A
278 C

279 A

280 D

281 A

282 B

283. Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy written by -

(a) G.B. Shaw

(b) Shakespeare

(c) Marlowe

(d) Ibsen

284. Earnest Hemingway got Nobel Prize for -

(a) Old Man and the Sea

(b) A Farewell to Arms

(c) Man and Superman

(d) Life of Pea (Ryan Martel)

285. Utopia is an ideal state written by -

(a) Thomas Gray

(b) William Shakespeare

(c) George Bernard Shaw

(d) Thomas More

286. What is the Masterpiece of T.S. Eliot?

(a) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

(b) Prelude

(c) The Waste Land

(d) Tradition and Ind. Talent

287. What is the real name of O’Henry?

(a) Mary Anne Evan

(b) George Gordon

(c) Lord Byron

(d) William Sydney Porter

288. Which one is not written by Robert Browning?

a) Adonais

b) The Patriot

c) Andrea del Sarto

d) My Last Duchess

289. Catharsis refers to the term -

(a) characters in play

(b) animals in play

(c) sympathy to others

(d) arouse of pity and fear

290. Synecdoche refers to the term -

(a) a thing stands for whole thing

(b) pity and fear

(c) Self-contradictory speech

(d) long speech

'3c

Answer

283 B

284 A

285 D

286 C

287 D

288 A

289 D

290 A

291. Asian Drama is written by -

(a) G.B. Shaw

(b) W.B Yeats

(c) Albert Camue

(d) Gunner Myrdal

292. Tin Drum is written by -

(a) Gunter Grass

(b) Gunner Myrdal

(c) William Shakespeare

(d) Wordsworth

293. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in - xvm

(a) 1998

(b) 1997

(c) 1999

(d) 2000

294. Midnight Children is written by -

(a) Arundhoti Roy

(b) Anita Deshai

(c) R.K. Narayan

(d) Salman Rusdhi

295. Who is the Writer of The White Tiger?

(a) Arobinda Adigha

(b) Salman Rushdie

(c) Arundhoti Roy

(d) Kiron Dishai

296. “Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful Feeling” is said by -

(a) S.T Coleridge

(b) William Blake

(c) William Wordsworth

(d) Tomas Eliot

297. Lyrical Ballads is written by Wordsworth with the Collaboration of -

(a) S.T Coleridge

(b) William Blake

(c) Dorothy

(d) Alfred Tennyson

298. What is Sestet?

(a) Last six line of a sonnet

(b) First six lines of sonnet

(c) first eight line of a sonnet

(d) last eight lines

Answer

291 D

292 A

293 C
294 D

295 A

296 C

297 A

298 A

299. What is Diction?

(a) the choice of words

(b) the choice of characters

(c) choice of incidents

(d) choice of heroine

300. Lingua Franca refers to the term -

(a) first language

(b) second language

(c) official language

(d) common language

301. Firdausi was the poet of -

(a) Persian

(b) English

(c) French

(d) Italy

302. Oedipus is written by the dramatist -

(a) Aristophanes

(b) Homer

(c) Ovid

(d) Sophocles

303. A Machiavellian character is a -

(a) honest person

(b) wise person

(c) romantic person

(d) cunning person

304. Which philosopher got Nobel Prize in literature?

(a) Winston Churchill

(b) Abraham Lincoln

(c) T.S. Eliot

(d) Bertrand Russell

305. An Apology for Poetry is written by -

(a) Mathew Arnold

(b) Philip Sydney

(c) Dr. Johnson

(d) Tomas Stern Eliot

306. Francis Bacon was an English -

(a) essayist

(b) novelist

(c) dramatist
(d) poet

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Answer

299 A

300 D

301 A

302 D

303 D

304 D

305 B

306 A

307. Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ is a -

(a) tragedy

(b) comedy

(c) tragicomedy

(d) sonnet

308. The Faire Queen is written by -

(a) Tennyson

(b) Chaucer

(c) Browning

(d) Spenser

309. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a/an - [^1 35 s (ft 9 ddt>l s 1<I 5 (*p tSjjlM - ik>k>k>]

(a) comedy

(b) melodrama

(c) play

(d) tragedy

310. Which of following is written by Shakespeare?

(a) Dr. Faustus

(b) Pilgrim’s Progress

(c) The preface to Fable

(d) Twelfth Night

311. Jonne Donne is famous for his -

(a) Sonnet

(b) ballad

(c) novel

(d) metaphysical poem

312. In Poem Daffodils ‘Sprightly Dance’ means -

(a) ugly dance

(b) nonsense dance

(c) lively dance

(d) nice dance

313. Who is called the father of English Prose? pT^tft (<r(°«TlW c f ShT-Stri) -
^ooo]

(a) Henry Fielding

(b) William Shakespeare

(c) William Wordsworth

(d) John Wycliffe

314. Which is the first successful English Novel? *“

(a) Gorboduc

(b) Pamela

(c) Iliad

Answer

307 B

308 D

309 D
310 D

311 D

312 C

313 D

314 D

(d) Robinson Crusoe

315. Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ is a /an -

(a) elegy

(b) sonnet

(c) ballad

(d) lyric

316. Who is the poet of the ‘Victorian Age’? [iiW

(a) Robert Browning

(b) William Shakespeare

(c) William Wordsworth

(d) William Blake

317. The novel David Copperfield is written by - [TRl'SETJdT (TVfV<VTJT*J PafTtffTI)

-

^oio]

(a) Hardy

(b) Shakespeare

(c) Marlowe

(d) Dickens

318. “The Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” Wh
o is the poet

of these lines? ‘ 5 T?f 9 tfN J T -

(a) P.B. Shelley

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) John Keats

(d) Robert Browning

319. The youngest Nobel Prize winner in Literature is

(a) George Orwell

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Thomas Hardy

(d) Rudyard Kipling

320. The Battle of Book is written by -

(a) Jonathon Swift

(b) William Thackeray

(c) Thomas Stern Eliot

(d) Daniel Dafoe

321. ‘Mirabell’, ‘Milllamant’, ‘Lady Wishfort’ are the characters found in -

(a) The Portrait of a Lady

(b) The way of the World

(c) All for Love

(d) The Rape of the Lock

322. G. B. Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma is a/an -

(a) novel

(b) drama

(c) poem

(d) short story

323. For which one Toni Morrison won Nobel Prize?

(a) Beloved

(b) Song of Solomon

(c) The Bluest Eye

(d) Tar Baby

324. Which of the following is a Victorian novelist?

(a) Thomas Carlyle

(b) Francis Bacon

(c) John Done

(d) Mathew Arnold

325. “She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed ci
ties And ships

upon untamed seas.” - these lines are the starting of?

(a) Lullaby

(b) The Shield Of Achilles

(c) The Waste Land

(d) Sailing to Byzantium

326. Oliver Goldsmith is a/an.... novelist.

(a) American

(b) Irish

(c) English

(d) French

327. William Golding got Nobel Prize for his -

(a) Merchant of Venice

(b) Measure for Measure

(c) The Lord of the Flies

(d) Heart of the Matter

328. ‘The Poetry Aenied’ is written by -

(a) Ovid

(b) Dante

(c) Boccaccio

(d) Virgil

329. ‘Death of A Salesman’ is a Tragedy written by -

(a) Edward Albee

(b) Saul Bellow

(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne

2s.
Answer

322 B

323 A

324 D

325 B

326 B

327 C

328 D

329 D
(d) Arthur Miller

330. Who is the author of ‘The Dark Room’?

(a) R K Narayan

(b) James Osborn

(c) Toni Morrison

(d) Saul Bellow

331. ‘Things Fall Apart’ is written by -

(a) Chino Achebe

(b) Nom Chomosky

(c) Wole Soyanka

(d) Doris Lessing

332. ‘Waiting for Godot’ is written by -

(a) Samuel Beckett

(b) Edward Albee

(c) Samuel Butler

(d) Samuel Heaney

333. Yann Martel is a/an.... novelist.

(a) English

(b) American

(c) Irish

(d) Canadian

334. ‘The Brief History of Time’ is written by -

(a) Stephen Hawking

(b) Marx Plank

(c) Yan Martel

(d) Chinu Achebe

335. ‘Living History’ is written by -

(a) Bill Clinton

(b) Hilary Clinton

(c) Achebe

(d) Barak Obama

336. Naguib Mahfouz is a/an.... writer who got Nobel Prize.

(a) Egyptian

(b) English

(c) Irish

(d) American

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Answer

330 A

331 A

332 A

333 D

334 A
335 B

336 A

337. Which of the following writer rejected Nobel Prize?

(a) Samuel Becket

(b) Heaney

(c) Leo Tolstoy

(d) Ja Paul Satre

338. “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet” - these lines wer
e written by?

(a) Rudyard Kipling

(b) G. B. Shaw

(c) Toni Morrison

(d) Salmon Rushdie

339. “There are two tragedies in life one is not to get your heart’s desire. The othe
r is get it.” - these

lines were written by?

(a) Jean Paul Sartre

(b) James Osborn

(c) G. B. Shaw

(d) H. G. Wells

340. Orhan Pamuk got Nobel Prize in -

(a) 2006

(b) 2007

(c) 2008

(d) 2000

34 1. Harold Pinter was a / an -

(a) poet

(b) novelist

(c) absurd dramatist

(d) Lyric poet

342. Riders to the Sea is written by an Irish dramatist -

(a) G. B. Shaw

(b) W.B Yeats

(c) J.M Synge

(d) Oliver Goldsmith

343. Which English poet was a Diplomat?

(a) Geoffrey Chaucer

(b) Shakespeare

(c) Spenser

(d) Dante

344. She is like a rose. It is an example of -

(a) Simile

(b) Metaphor
(c) Synecdoche

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Answer

337 D

338 A

339 C

340 A

34J A

342 C

343 A

344 A

(d) Metonymy
345. ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ is a poem written by -

(a) William Wordsworth

(b) Blake

(c) Lord Byron

(d) Coleridge

346. What do you mean by Stream of Consciousness?

(a) sense of beauty

(b) sense of good and bad

(c) amalgamation of present, past and future

(d) aestheticism

347. What do you mean by Stanza?

(a) a division of drama

(b) a division of novel

(c) a division of story

(d) a subdivision of a poem

348. What is Stress?

(a) emphasis on words

(b) emphasis on the sentence

(c) emphasis of literature

(d) emphasis on the novel

349. What is Synecdoche?

(a) a short stanza poem

(b) a long narrative speech

(c) a theory

(d) a figure of speech stands for whole thing

350. What the term Trilogy refers?

(a) three stanza poem

(b) a three series of poems

(c) a triangular drama

(d) a series of three drama

351. What is the term Utopia? **

(a) a hat of a king

(b) a day dreamer

(c) a lotus eater

(d) an ideal state which does not exist in real

352. What is Anatomy?

(a) study of limbs of body

(b) study of insects

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Answer

345 A

346 C

347 D

348 A
349 D

350 D

351 D

352 A

(c) study of homo sapience

(d) study of piants

353. The novel Sons and Lovers is written by -

(a) D.H. Lawrence

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Hardy

(d) Joseph Conrad

354. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ a novel written by - pT^lft - ^ood]

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Lawrence
(c) Shakespeare

(d) Hardy

355. We find Subjective Elements in?

(a) Keats

(b) Shelley

(c) Wordsworth

(d) All

356. ‘Lyrical Ballad’ was published in?

(a) 1789

(b) 1798

(c) 1800

(d) 1785

357. “If they be two, they are two so A stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the f
ixed foot, makes

no show To move, but doth, if th’ other do” - example of?

(a) Conceit
(b) Ode

(c) Allusion

(d) Simile

358. Who is Neo-Classic?

(a) Tennyson

(b) Alexander Pope

(c) Robert Browning

(d) a and c

359. Which one is Golden Age in English Literature?

(a) Elizabethan

(b) Classic

(c) Modern

(d) Jacobean
360. First English Tragedy?

(a) Oedipus

(b) Gorboduc

(c) Aeschylus

(d) None of these

361. Who is called ‘The bard of Avon’?

(a) Christopher Marlowe

(b) William Shakespeare

(c) John Milton

(d) Homer

362. ‘The pilgrim’s Progress’ is written by?

(a) William Shakespeare

(b) John Bunyan

(c) John Dryden

(d) John Locke

363. “We die As hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer’s rain;” is stated by -

(a) John keats

(b) Wordsworth

(c) Shelley

(d) Milton

364. ‘The Alchemist’ is written by-

(a) Ben Johnson

(b) Samuel Johnson

(c) Marlowe

(d) None of them

365. Romantic Age starts from?

(a) 1789

(b) 1880

(c) 1889

(d) 1750
366. Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare?

(a) Christopher Marlowe

(b) Lord Tennyson

(c) John Milton

(d) All of them

367. The famous poem ‘Ulysses’ is written by?

(a) Homer

(b) Tennyson

(c) Popem

(d) Alex Haley

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Answer

360 B
361 B

362 B

363 B

364 A

365 A

366 A

367 B

368. ‘A poison Tree’ is written by?

(a) John Keats

(b) Robert Herrick

(c) William Wordsworth

(d) William Blake

369. Who is English Poet?

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Emily Dickinson

(c) John Keats

(d) Toni Morrison

370. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is written by?

(a) Charles Lamb

(b) Virginia Woolf

(c) Emily Bronte

(d) Jane Austen

371. ‘Don Juan’ is a/an?

(a) Poem

(b) epic

(c) Ode

(d) novel

372. Chaucer is the representative poet of - pTK-Cdf'St/ljfa 9 fC p f VdPTf -

(a) 17 th century
(b) 14 th century

(c) 16 th century

(d) 18 th century

373. Feature of Romantic Period?

(a) Subjectivity

(b) Naturalism

(c) Use of common language

(d) all of these

374. Romantic Period starts from?

(a) 1989

(b) 1798

(c) 1998

(d) None of these

375. “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water,

everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” - from which poem?

(a) Intimation of Immortality

(b) Tintern Abbey

(c) Don Juan

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Answer

368 D

369 C

370 D

371 B

372 B

373 D

374 B

375 D
(d) Rime of the Ancient Mariner

376. “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” is stated by -

(a) Keats

(b) Shelley

(c) Jane Austine

(d) Charles Lamb

377. Who believes in Pantheism?

(a) Lord Byron

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) John Keats

(d) All of them

378. “If winter come can spring be far behind” - quoted from?

(a) Shelley

(b) Wordsworth
(c) Keats

(d) Coleridge

379. ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballad’ is written by?

(a) S.T. Coleridge

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) Both of them

(d) None of them

380. “Ten Thousands saw I at a glance” - example of?

(a) Conceit

(b) Hyperbole

(c) Simile

(d) Metaphor

381. Jane Austen was a/an?

(a) Poet

(b) Dramatist
(c) Novelist

(d) Essayist

382. “He smiles, he laughs and he roars” - this quotation is an example of?

(a) Conceit

(b) Allusion

(c) Climax

(d) Satire

383. “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That starts and frets his hour upon
the

stage and then is heard no more” - quoted from?

(a) King Lear

Answer

376 A

377 B
378 A

379 B

380 B

381 C

382 C

383 B

(b) Macbeth

(c) Dr. Faustus

(d) Othello

384. ‘Limerick’ is one kind of?

(a) Song

(b) Narrative Poem

(c) Satire

(d) long poem

385. The most important element of a Tragedy?

(a) Plot

(b) Character

(c) Spectacles

(d) Diction

386. ‘The Jew of Malta’ is written by?

(a) William Shakespeare

(b) Christopher Marlowe

(c) Ben Johnson

(d) William Congreve

387. ‘The Way of the World’ is written by?

(a) William Shakespeare

(b) Christopher Marlowe

(c) Ben Johnson

(d) William Congreve

388. Who was the King or Queen in early Renaissance Period?

(a) Elizabeth J

(b) Charles 2

(c) Charles 1

(d) Victoria J

389. Renaissance Period was dominated by?

(a) Tragedy

(b) Comedy

(c) Translation

(d) Prose

390. “Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self -place; for where we are
is

hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be.” - this famous quotation is cited fro
m?

(a) Dr. Faustus

(b) Paradise Lost

(c) Tempest

(d) Macbeth

'a.

Answer

384 B

385 A

386 B

387 D

388 A

389 A

390 A

391. Who was often been called The Father of English Tragedy?
(a) William Shakespeare

(b) Christopher Marlowe

(c) John Wycherley

(d) John Lyly

392. “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; ft is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock
The meat it

feeds on.” - quoted from?

(a) Dr. Faustus

(b) Macbeth

(c) Hamlet

(d) Othello

393. Who is the author of ‘Interpretation of Drama’?

(a) Saul Bellow

(b) Sigmund Freud

(c) Samuel Butler

(d) Samuel Beckett

394. What is 1 st decade part of modern age?

(a) Edwardian

(b) Georgian

(c) Pope

(d) Augusta

395. The most important element of a Tragedy?

(a) Plot

(b) Character

(c) Spectacles

(d) Diction

396. ‘The Jew of Malta’ is written by?

(a) William Shakespeare

(b) Christopher Marlowe

(c) Ben Johnson

(d) William Congreve

397. Who is the author of ‘Endgame’?

(a) G. B. Shaw

(b) Samuel Beckett

(c) R. K. Narayan

(d) Earnest Hemingway

398. ‘The Duchess of Mulfi’ is written by?

(a) William Congreve

(b) John Wycherley

(c) Ben Johnson

'a.

Answer

39J B

392 D
393 B

394 A

395 A

396 B

397 B

398 D

(d) John Webster

399. Nobel Prize winner in literature Harold Pinter is from?

(a) USA

(b) Australia

(c) UK

(d) Canada

400. Ulysses is a. . ..by James Joyce.

(a) novel

(b) poetry

(c) verse

(d) play

40J. The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written by -

(a) R. K. Narayan

(b) Edin Blyton

(c) Rudyard Kipling

(d) H. G. Wells

402. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”- quoted from?

(a) Macbeth

(b) As you like ft

(c) Tempest

(d) Othello

403. “The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows him s elf to be a fool”
quoted from?

(a) Hamlet

(b) As you like ft

(c) Othello

(d) Henry 8

404. Shakespeare was born in?

(a) 1616

(b) 1564

(c) 1566

(d) 1604

405. “Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind.” - Example of?

(a) Simile

(b) Conceit

(c) Metaphor

(d) Couplet
- this quotation is

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Answer

399 C

400 A

401 C

402 A

403 B

404 B

405 D

406. “All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players” - quoted from
?
(a) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(b) Much Ado About Nothing

(c) A Pericles Prince of Tyre

(d) None of these

407. How many plays did Shakespeare compose?

(a) 154

(b) 38

(c) 29

(d) 26

408. Early plays of Shakespeare’s are?

(a) Tragedy

(b) Tragicomedy

(c) Romantic

(d) Comedy

409. “not of an age, but for all time”- was told about Shakespeare by whom?
(a) Marlowe

(b) Ben Johnson

(c) King Henry

(d) John Milton

410. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a -

(a) Comedy

(b) Tragedy

(c) Historical

(d) Tragicomedy

411. Which one is a Tragedy?

(a) Antony and Cleopatra

(b) The Tempest

(c) King John

(d) Richard 2

412. Which quotation is by Shakespeare?

(a) Cowards die many times before their deaths.

(b) To err is human; to forgive is divine.

(c) Brevity is the soul of wit.

(d) a and c

413. Which one is not by Shakespeare?

(a) Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

(b) True is it that we have seen betting days.

(c) Knowledge is power.

(d) None of these.

Answer

406 D

407 B

408 D
409 B

410 D

411 A

412 D

413 C

414. Shakespeare was died?

(a) 1592

(b) 1616

(c) 1638

(d) 1632

415. How many Sonnets did Shakespeare compose?

(a) 151

(b) 148
(c) 128

(d) 154

416. Character ‘King Duncan’ is found in -

(a) Othello

(b) Macbeth

(c) Julius Caesar

(d) Henry 8

417. Which one is 19th century English Literature from above?

(a) 1601-1699

(b) 1701-1799

(c) 1801-1899

(d) 1901-1999

418. Who is writer of the poem ‘Sailing To Byzantium’?

(a) James Joyece

(b) D. H. Lawrence
(c) William Butler Yeats

(d) E. M. Lorster

419. G. B. Shaw got Nobel Prize in 1925 for the book?

(a) Arms and the man

(b) The doctor’s dilemma

(c) Man of destiny

(d) Philanderer

420. ‘In Memoriam’ is written by?

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Tennyson

(c) Robert Browning

(d) Thackeray

421. Representative Poet of Victorian Age -

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Robert Browning

(c) Alfred Tennyson

(d) None of them

Answer

414 B

415 D

416 B

417 C

418 C

419 A

420 B

421 C

422. Literature of Victorian Age reflects?

(a) Instability

(b) Stability

(c) Doubtless

(d) Immorality

423. Who is the Creator of ‘Dramatic Monologue’?

(a) Robert browning

(b) Alfred Tennyson

(c) George Eliot

(d) Thomas Hardy

424. Victorian Age starts from?

(a) 1801

(b) 1901

(c) 1885

(d) 1832

425. “Who trusted God was love indeed And love creation’s final law”
taken from?

(a) Ulysses

(b) In Memoriam

(c) Men and Women

(d) Vanity Fair

426. ‘Lord of the flies’ is written by?

(a) E. M. Forster

(b) Robert Frost

(c) George Orwell

(d) William Golding

427. ‘Animal Farm’ is written by?

(a) William Golding

(b) George Orwell

(c) Virginia Woolf

(d) Joseph Conrad

428. ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ is written by?

(a) Joseph Conrad

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Virginia Woolf

(d) Dylan Thomas

429. ‘The Waste Land’ is a/an?

(a) Epic

(b) Poem

(c) Novel

- this famous quotation is

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Answer

422 B
423 A

424 D

425 B

426 D

427 B

428 C

429 B

(d) Drama

430. W. B. Yeats got Nobel Prize in?

(a) 1913

(b) 1923

(c) 1937

(d) 1919
431. W. B. Yeats was a/an?

(a) Irish Poet

(b) English Poet

(c) Swedish Poet

(d) None of them

432. The poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is composed by?

(a) Dylan Thomas

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) W. B. Yeats

(d) Ezra Pound

433. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by - pTfa-Gd Brails “dll *44 -

(a) Shakespeare

(b) Milton

(c) Coleridge

(d) Keats
434. ‘Essays of Elia’ was written by -

(a) William Hazlitt

(b) Emily Dickinson

(c) Emily Bronte

(d) Charles Lamb

435. Who wrote the ‘Birthday Party’?

(a) James Joyce

(b) G.B. Shaw

(c) Harold Pinter

(d) Jane Austen

436. Who is the author of ‘Heaven and Earth’?

(a) Lord Tennyson

(b) William Wordsworth

(c) John Keats

(d) Lord Byron

437. Who wrote ‘The Kite Runner’?

(a) Selman Rushdie

(b) Khalid Hussein

Answer

430 B

431 A

432 B

433 B

434 D

435 C

436 D

437 B
(c) Orhan Pamuk

(d) none

438. Which is the author of the drama ‘Joan of Arc’?

(a) Lord Byron

(b) Charles Dickens

(c) G. B. Shaw

(d) P.B. Shelley

439. ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a famous story by - ^RTf ‘bfpTf -

(a) Pearl S. Buck

(b) Jonathan Swift

(c) Ben Johnson

(d) D.H. Lawrence

440. Who is the author of the book ‘The Sense of an Ending’?

(a) Julian Barnes

(b) Henry Fielding

(c) Rudyard Kipling

(d) Tomas Transtromer

441. ‘My Experiments with Truth’ is written by -

(a) Winston Churchill

(b) George Washington

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) James Morris

442. Who is the author of the famous book ‘The Judgment’ is -

(a) Anthony Mascarenhas

(b) Amartya Sen

(c) Kuldip Nayer

(d) Nelson Mandela

443. Who is the author of ‘Sherlock Holmes’?

(a) John Gay

(b) Sir Arthur Canon Doyle

(c) Dylan Thomas

(d) Somerset Maugham

444. ‘A Doll’s House’ is written by -

(a) Francis Bacon

(b) E.M. Forster

(c) R.K. Narayan

(d) Henrick Ibsen

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Answer

438 C

439 B

440 A

441 C
442 C

443 B

444 D

445. Who among the following is not a novelist?

(a) Hardy

(b) Blake

(c) Joyce

(d) Thackeray

446. The author of ‘Songs of Innocence’ and ‘Songs of Experience’ is -

(a) John Lennon

(b) Richard Mark

(c) John Keats

(d) William Blake

447. The poem ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ is written by -

(a) William Wordsworth

(b) William Shakespeare

(c) Robert Browning

(d) Ralph Hodgson

448. ‘The Rape of Bangladesh’ is written by -

(a) Viggo Olsen

(b) Alamgir Kabir

(c) Rehman Sobahan

(d) Anthony Mascarenhas

449. ‘The Origin of Species’ is written by -

(a) Newton

(b) Charles Darwin

(c) Galileo

(d) Mary Curie

450. ‘Wuthering Heights’ is - pT^lft ‘'iRbhp ('5H^<pJa<p

(a) a novel by Charlotte Bronte

(b) a novel by Anne Bronte

(c) a novel by Thomas Hardy

(d) a novel by Emily Bronte

451. Kazi Nazrul Islam is the... .poet of Bangladesh.

(a) Romantic

(b) national

(c) love

(d) mystic

452. Who is the author of the novel ‘The Golden Age’?

(a) Tahmima Anam

(b) Pearl S. Bark

(c) Virginia Woolf

(d) Jane Austen

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Answer

445 B

446 D

447 B

448 D

449 B

450 D

451 B

452 A

453. John Keats is a - [<FM (^Ttg fern ’tfNj - ipiO]

(a) poet

(b) dramatist
(c) artist

(d) none

454. Any one of the following pairs are literary collaborators -

(a) Eliot and Pound

(b) Yeats and Eliot

(c) Pope and Dryden

(d) Shelley and Keats

455. One of the following was a Romantic Poet - letCh <11 (TYfoEMrEl VafVbTb) f*KdM -

^oio]

(a) Tennyson

(b) Arnold

(c) Shelley

(d) Browning

456. ‘Ode to Autumn’ is written by - - ^oio]

(a) Shelley
(b) Keats

(c) Byron

(d) Blake

457. The ‘Solitary Reaper’ is a - *4HT f*W

(a) heroic poem

(b) romantic poem

(c) classical poem

(d) didactic poem

458. Browning was the composer of - f^f^PT]

(a) Two Voices

(b) The Scholar Gypsy

(c) Andrea Del Sarto

(d) Adonais

459. Who is the father of English Novel? pT^lft ^^I'Vsjl^ (YhVEKN CdV-SiTI) - ^ooo]
(a) Shakespeare

(b) Henry Fielding

(c) G.B. Shaw

(d) R. L. Stevenson

Answer

453 A

454 D

455 C

456 B

457 B

458 C

459 B
460. ‘Twelfth Night’ is a - (^<rig wffal) ’lINf - i>oiO]

(a) A Comedy

(b) an Elegy

(c) a Novel

(d) a Tragedy

461. ‘Ophelia’ is an important character in the Shakespeare play - wjRsftW (TVOl

%?im - *oio]

(a) Hamlet

(b) Macbeth

(c) The Tempest

(d) King Lear

462. ‘Macbeth’ is a - (^tl WfNTRI tain *\%W\ - ^oio]

(a) play

(b) novel

(c) essay
(d) poem

463. Who is the author of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’? pTK-Cdler^fa - ^ooi]

(a) Shaw

(b) Shakespeare

(c) Ibsen

(d) Jonson

464. What was the name of Isabella’s brother in the ‘Measure for Measure’?

(a) Angelo

(b) Cladio

(c) Vincentio

(d) Viola

465. Which character is from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ -

(a) Brutus

(b) Ophelia

(c) Benvolio
(d) Olivia

466. ‘Adela’ is a character from -

(a) A Passage to India

(b) Paradise Lost

(c) Hamlet

(d) Doctor Faustus

467. “Brevity is the soul of wit” the quotation is from -

(a) Macbeth

(b) Hamlet

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Answer

460 A

461 A
462 A

463 B

464 B

465 C

466 A

467 B

(c) The Tempest

(d) Julius Caesar

468. ‘Appearances are often deceiving’ is quoted by -

(a) Plato

(b) Aristotle

(c) Hobbes

(d) Aesop
469. The poet of ‘Romantic Age’ is - 9 lRt>l 5 14 5 9 lfN 5 t - ^ooo]

(a) George Orwell

(b) D.H. Lawrence

(c) John Milton

(d) John Keats

470. The literary work of ‘Kubla Khan’ is - [i>PT>X MPl^]

(a) a history by Vincent Smith

(b) a verse by Coleridge

(c) a drama by Oscar Wilde

(d) a short story by Somerset Maugham

471. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” is a quotation by -

(a) William Shakespeare

(b) Alexander Pope

(c) Gladstone

(d) Aesop
472. A Protagonist is the. . ..character in a play or novel.

(a) villain

(b) leading

(c) important

(d) comedy

473. The following characteristics are of Oscar Wild’s EXCEPT :

(a) a poet

(b) a novelist

(c) an essayist

(d) a dramatist

474. Who used to write problem plays -

(a) Bertrand Russell

(b) W. B. Yeats

(c) G. B. Shaw

(d) James Joyce

475. The novel ‘The Big Four’ is written by -

(a) Virginia Wolf

(b) Agatha Christie

(c) Sigmund Freud

(d) Joseph Conrad

476. Virginia Wolf : To the Light House ::

(a) James Joyce : Flush

(b) T. S. Eliot : Road to Freedom

(c) Bertrand Russel : Ash Wednesday

(d) William Golding: Lord of the Flies

477. Modern age is an age of -

(a) Pessimism and Cynicism

(b) Conflicts and Controversies

(c) Subjectivity

(d) All of the above

478. Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work - pT^lft ‘ 5 lRt>l s 14 5 '5T^ C H=TT1) - ^ooo
]

(a) Spectator

(b) The Rape of the Lock

(c) The Deserted Village

(d) Man Was Made to Mourn

479. Edmund Spenser is a - PPM (V?Tl$ WtHlSRf wffaJ)

(a) poet

(b) dramatist

(c) artist

(d) scientist

480. Eric Hugh Blair is known as -

(a) E.M. Forster

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) George Orwell

(d) William Golding

48J. Which of the following is a ‘comedy’ written by Shakespeare? pT^tft ‘dTdVfVA

wfi^ra) - ^ooo]

(a) As You Like It

(b) King Lear

(c) Macbeth

(d) Hamlet

482. Shakespeare wrote brilliant - [^KSrsJT ftdlM - ^ 008 ]

(a) poems

(b) essays

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Answer
475 B

476 D

477 B

478 B

479 A

480 C

48 J A

482 D

(c) novels

(d) dramas

483. Find the Odd man out?

(a) Ulysses : James Joyce

(b) A Full Moon in March : W. B. Yeats

(c) Drama of Ideas : T. S. Eliot

(d) Riders to the Sea : John Millington Synge

484. James Joyce’s narrative technique is known as -

(a) stream of consciousness

(b) psycho-analysis

(c) Objective Co-relative

(d) Symbolism and Mysticism

485. Who is of the following is not a Nobel Laureate?

(a) W. B. Yeats

(b) T. S. Eliot

(c) William Golding

(d) E. M. Forster

486. The characteristics of the poem of William Wordsworth are EXEPT :

(a) Nature

(b) glorification of childhood

(c) Hope and regeneration

(d) all of them

487. P. B. Shelly wrote his elegy named ‘Adonais’ mourning over whose death.

(a) Wordsworth

(b) Jane Austen

(c) John Keats

(d) Walter Scott

488. The Novel ‘Ivanhoe’ is written by -

(a) Charles Lambs

(b) John Keats

(c) Sir Walter Scott

(d) Jane Austen

489. Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly?

(a) To a skylark

(b) The Daffo d ils

(c) Pride and Prejudice

(d) Culture and Anarchy

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Answer

483 C

484 A

485 D

486 C

487 C

488 C

489 A

490. John Keats died of - pT^lft (^rtWS^T fTO3«t wRpf^?) -

(a) accident

(b) tuberculosis
(c) drowned in the sea

(d) plane crash

491. Find the Odd man out?

(a) Ulysses

(b) The Falcon

(c) The Virginians

(d) On Liberty

492. Which one is the Tennyson’s First work?

(a) Dora

(b) Ulysses

(c) Two Brothers

(d) In Memorium

493. Who is called the ‘Rebel Poet’?

(a) P. B. Shelly

(b) John Keats

(c) S. T. Coleridge

(d) Lord Byron

494. Who is known as the ‘Father of Modern English Criticism’.

(a) Edmund Walter

(b) John Locke

(c) Thomas Hobbes

(d) John Dryden

495. ‘The Medal’ by John Dryden is a/an -

(a) play

(b) satire

(c) prose

(d) translation

496. Samson Agonists: Play ::

(a) The Conquest of Granada : Satire

(b) The Rivals : Play

(c) Clarissa : Play

(d) Paradise Regained: Play

497. Who is the father of English Novel?

(a) Shakespeare

(b) Henry Fielding

(c) G. B. Shaw

(d) Dr. Samuel Johnson

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Answer

490 B

491 B

492 C

493 D
494 D

495 B

496 B

497 B

498. “The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

- pTt?-<sf®r , 3jl3 *tW

(a) The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth

(b) Ode to a Nightmare by John Keats

(c) To a lady with a guitar by P.B. Shelley

(d) Elegy written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray

499. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about -

(a) 1000 years ago

(b) 1500 years ago

(c) 2000 years ago

(d) 3000 years ago

500. The first theatre in England was established in -

(a) 1556

(b) 1566

(c) 1576

(d) 1586

501. Find the Odd man out?

(a) Tom Jones : Henry Fielding

(b) Roxana: Daniel Defoe

(c) The Good-nature man: Oliver Goldsmith

(d) All for Love: John Milton

502. Who wrote ‘Preface to Shakespeare’?

(a) Dr. Samuel Johnson

(b) Henry Fielding

(c) Daniel Defoe

(d) Thomas Hobbes

503. Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’?

(a) Edmund Walter

(b) Jonathan Swift

(c) Alexander Pope

(d) Dr. Samuel Johnson

504. ‘The Age of Chaucer’ ranges from -

(a) 1340-1385

(b) 1240-1300

(c) 1340-1400

(d) 1340-1399

These lines are from the poem

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Answer
498 A

499 C

500 C

501 D

502 A

503 C

504 C

505. In which age is ‘The Puritan Period’ included?

(a) The Renaissance

(b) The Non-classical

(c) The Romantic

(d) The Modern

506. Age of Johnson is also known as -

(a) Age of Criticism

(b) Age of Love

(c) Age of Sensibility

(d) Age of Pope

507. What type of work ‘Tottle’s Miscellany’ is?

(a) Epic

(b) Sonnet

(c) Drama

(d) Comedy

508. Find the Odd man out?

(a) Iliad : Novel

(b) The Tempest : Comedy

(c) The Temple : Poem

(d) The Dunciad: Poem

509. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ is a/an -

(a) Epic

(b) Comedy

(c) Poem

(d) Novel

510. The novel ‘Talisman’ is written by -

(a) Jane Austen

(b) Charles Dickens

(c) Sir Walter Scott

(d) Oliver Goldsmith

511. ‘Delusion and Dream’ is by -

(a) H.G. Wells

(b) Sigmund Freud

(c) G.B. Shaw

(d) James Osborn

512. James Joyce’s narrative technique is known as -

(a) stream of consciousness

(b) psycho-analysis

(c) Objective Co-relative

(d) Symbolism and Mysticism

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Answer

505 A

506 C

507 B

508 A

509 A

510 C

511 B
512 A

513. The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written by -

(a) Toni Morrison

(b) Earnest Hemingway

(c) Rudyard Kipling

(d) Jean Paul Sartre

514. ‘Exiles’ is a -

(a) Short Story

(b) Novel

(c) Play

(d) Poem

515. Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one of the following - pT^lft (^TS®rTOT“
l

- ^ooo]
(a) A Tale of Two Cities

(b) Treasure Island

(c) David Copperfield

(d) Great Expectations

516. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first published in - RlATT]

(a) the 1 st half of 19 th Century

(b) the 2 nd half of 19 th Century

(c) the 1 st half of 18 th Century

(d) the 2 nd half of 18 th Century

517. Who wrote ‘The Adventures of Augie March’?

(a) Saul Bellow

(b) James Osborn

(c) Toni Morrison

(d) Jean Paul Sartre

518. Find the Odd one.

(a) G. B. Shaw : Man and Superman

(b) Rudyard Kipling : Kim

(c) H. G. Wells : The Time Machine

(d) Toni Morrison : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

519. Who is known for his theory of psycho-analysis?

(a) Sigmund Freud

(b) James Joyce

(c) Arthur Miller

(d) James Osborn

520. Find the Odd One?

(a) H. G. Wells : Great science fiction writer

(b) G. B. Shaw : great modern dramatist

(c) Samuel Beckett : great Irish novelist

Answer

513 C

514 C

515 B

516 C

517 A

518 D

519 A

520 C

(d) Arthur Miller : Known playwright

521. ‘On Liberty’ is by -

(a) Charles Darwin

(b) John Mill

(c) Karl Mark

(d) Thomas Hardy

522. The Descent of Man is by Charles Darwin, The Confidence-Man : his Masquerade is
by -

(a) Karl Mark

(b) Herman Melville

(c) Stuart Mill

(d) Thomas Hardy

523. Das Capital was published in the year -

(a) 1867

(b) 1876

(c) 1887

(d) 1878

524. Who wrote ‘The New Arabian Night’?

(a) Thomas Hardy

(b) W. M. Thackery

(c) Charles Dickens

(d) R. L. Stevenson

525. Who wrote ‘Romola’?

(a) Thomas Hardy

(b) W. M. Thackery

(c) George Eliot

(d) R. L. Stevenson

Endnotes

i) First line of The Waste land by T. S. Eliot.

ii) The plot is in Congo.

iii) Ulysses is famous for stream of consciousness. Stream of consciousness is a writ

ing technique where we
find flow of our smallest imagination turns a riots of picturesque scenes, what is en
ormously used is this

novel.

iv) By birth he was an Irish but wrote in English and French. So answer depends on th
e question.

v) Associated with anti-climax.

vi) Opinion can be different man to man for this theoretical matter.

vii) It can be offensive also.

viii) A writing of praising distinguished persons who have recently died.

ix) These two terms are different. The given answer is applicable to Catharsis.

x) Novella is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.

xi) Mock Epic refers to Parody of epic.

xii) Quinzaine is a fifteen line stanza in fifteen syllables.

xiii) God appears in play.

xiv) Flyperbole means praise excessively.

xv) Iambic pentameter contains five metres in a line. One metre contains two syllable
s.

xvi) One syllable is called Foot.

xvii) Beowulf is supposed to be first English Epic.

xviii) Gunter Grass, in frill Gunter Wilhelm Grass (born October 16, 1927, Danzig [no
w Gdansk, Poland] died

April 13, 2015, Liibeck, Germany), German poet, novelist, playwright, sculptor, and p
rintmaker who, with

his extraordinary first novel Die Blechtrommel (1959; The Tin Drum), became the liter
ary spokesman for

the German generation that grew up in the Nazi era and survived the war. In 1999, he
was awarded the

Nobel Prize for Literature. Notable works of Gunter grass The Tin Drum (1959) Cat and
Mouse (1961) Dog

Years (1963) Crabwalk (2002) What Must Be Said (2012).

xix) Robinson Crusoe was first published in 1719 and that of Pamela in 1747.

xx) Plato’s theory was about to make utopia.

Some Literary Works of Modern Age

Works

Authors

Waiting For Godot (Absurd Drama), Murphy, Molloy

Samuel Beckett
Dubliners, Finnegans Wake, Ulysses

James Joyce

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs

Howl (Epic poem)

Allen Ginsberg

One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The birthday Party, The Homecoming

Harold Pinter

Omeros

Derek Walcott

The Bluest Eye, Songs of Solomon

Toni Morrison

A personal matter, The Silent Cry

Kenzaburo Oe

The sound and the fury, As I lay dying

William Falkner

The Hairy Ape, Now I ask you, Bread and Butter

Eugene O’Neill

Life and death are wearing me out

Mo Yan

Dark and light, The White Castle, The Black Book

Orhan Pamuk

The Tin Drum, Can and Mouse, What must be said

Gunter Grass

The Adventures of Augie March, Seize the day

Saul Bellow

Memorial de Isle Negra, Full Woman, Flesly Apple, Hot Moon,

Twenty Love poems and songs of Despair, Words End

Pablo Neruda

Life of Pie

Yann Martel

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The Lowland

Jhumpa Lahidi
Some Resemblance in English Literature

Ulysses (Novel) : James Joyece

Ulysses (Poem) : Lord Alfred Tennyson

The death of the salesman (Play) : Arthur Miller

The death of the hired man (Poem) : Robert Frost

Daffodils (Poem) : William Wordsworth

To Daffodils (Poem) : Robert Herrick

Caesar and Cleopatra (Play) : George Bernard Shaw

Antony and Cleopatra (Tragedy) : William Shakespeare

Prometheus Unbound (Play) : Greek Playwright Aeschylus

Prometheus Unbound (Play) : Romantic Poet P.B. Shelley

Under the Greenwood Tree (Novel) : Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree (A poem found in the Dialogue of “As You Like It”) : William

Shakespeare

Troilus and Creseyde (Poem) : Geoffrey Chaucer

Troilus and Cressida (Tragedy) : William Shakespeare

The Old Man and the Sea (Novel) : Earnest Hemingway

The Old Man at the Zoo (Novel) : Angus Wilson

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