1-100 Flashcards
1). Which of the following begins with these words?
“Good morning to the day; and next, my gold!
Open the shrine that I may see my saint”
Volpone
2). Who could have written The Book of Job?
moses
9). Look Back in Anger was year preformed in year
1956
10). Who is the movement poet
Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, John Wain, D J Enright and Robert Conquest. The Movement can be seen as an aggressive, sceptical, patriotic backlash against the cosmopolitan elites of the 1930s and 1940s
7). Don Juan written by Lord Byron is specimen of
.
Epic Satire
3). The theatres were reopened in 1660. When were they closed last?
1642
4). The “Circulating Libraries” were popular during
The Eighteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century
5). The Closed Heroic Couplet used by pope is unique because…
A). The two lines act as a stanza
B) It makes use of an end stopped first line
C). Every Line contains, a caesura
8). The first Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays was printed in ?
1623
6). Which of the following Chaucers tale is in Prose?
The Parsons tale
11). __________ is not a character in Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’
Catherine Morland
12). Who said A thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his Sensibility
T.S. Eliot
13). The Great Tradition was written by _________
F.R. Leavis
14). Rape of the lock by Pope contains _________ cantes
Five
16). A Reed Shaken by the wind is written by ________
Gavin Maxwell
15). Romeo & Juliet is based on the story by which Italian Author?
Bandello
17). “Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it but moulds it to its purpose” was said by
Oscar Wilde
18). Who said, “I awoke one morning and found myself” famous
Byron
19). Who wrote under pseudonym of ‘y.y’
Robert Lynd.
20). Who said ‘Get Stewed, Books are a load crop’
Philip larkin
21). Who is the Author of ‘Toba Tek Singh’
Saadat Hasan Manto
22). Who was the first recipient of Sahitya Akademi award for English
R.K. Narayan
23). Which among the following gods and goddesses takes sides in the Trojan was in ‘Iliad’?
A). Athena
B). Aphiodite
C). Zeus
D). Hera
24). Who wrote ‘The rising of the moon’
lady Gregory
25). Who is not regarded as the Georgian Poet?
Hopkins
26). ‘Cry the beloved country’ is written by
Alan Paton
27). New Testament has __________ books
27
28). Sean 0’ Casey wrote which work?
Juno and the Paycock
29). The manuscripts of Shakespeare’s play are available?
Certainly no
30). Shakespeare’s sonnets are in the following form:
Three quartrains and a couplet.
31). Who is the heroine in Shakespeare ‘Tempest’
Miranda
32). “France standing on the topo f nature seeming born again.” These lines are from…
The Prelude
33). Which of the following of G.B. Shaw was prescribed because of its protrayal sexual exploitation?
B). Mrs. Warren’s Profession
34). Shelley’s Queen Mab is about..
both Religious persecution
Domestic bondage
35). Who wrote Abasalom Abasalom?
Willaim Faulkner
36). The Quintessence of Ibsenism was written by…
G.B. Shaw
37). What does Arnold’s ‘Scholar Gypsy’ deal with?
About the decay of youth and hope
38). The ‘prefaces’ of Shaw to his own plays are very popular
yes
39). The novel, No name (1862) was written by…
Wilkie Collins
40). Shakaspeare’s Sonnets were printed by…
Thomas Thorpe
41). The year 1776 was associated with
American Independence
42). Who is an 18th century author, essayist and a painter. One of the paintings is still in National Portrait Gallery
Hazlitt
43). Which of Charles Lamb friend said “Lamb was the most delightful, the most provoking and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remarks in the course of evening.”
“Lamb was the most delightful, the most provoking and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remarks in the course of evening.”hazlitt
44). Who among the following introduced sonnets?
Thomas Wyatt
45)The Term ‘Negative Capability’ is associated with
John Keats
46). What is everyman
A Morality Play
47). ‘Light breaks where no sunshines’ is written by
Dylan Thomas
48). Who wrote ‘Daffodils’
Wordsworth
49). When was Johnson’s Dictionary published
1755
50). Orwell’s Animal Farm is about ..
The degeneration of communist ideas
51). John Ruskin dealt with…
Architecture
The style and the society
Clouds, mountains and plants
52). Charls Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities can be considered a …
Historical novel
53). Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies is about
Books and the importance of reading & Education for women
54). The character, Maggie figures in….
The Mill on the Floses
55). The Accession of Queen Victoria was in…
1837
56). “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven” What do these lines of Wordsworth suggest?
About the French-Revolution
57). “I see in Wordsworth the Natural Man rising up against the spiritual man continually a and then he is no poet but a philosopher at Enemity against all true Poetry or Inspiration” Who said this?
“I see in Wordsworth the Natural Man rising up against the spiritual man continually a and then he is no poet but a philosopher at Enemity against all true Poetry or Inspiration” william blake
58). Who said about Wordsworth as follows? “His poetry is the reality his philosophy… is the illusion”?
“His poetry is the reality his philosophy… is the illusion”?Arnold
59). Shelly was expelled from the University College, Oxford because of his…
The Necessity of Atheism
60). Shelley died by…
Drowning himself
61). The above opinion of Victor Hugo is indicative on
A). The low status of women in the 18th Century
B). The immorality prevalent in the 18th Century
C). The coffee house culture of the 18th Century
all three
62). ‘Burlesque’ ‘Parody’ and ‘Travesty’. What is common among these three forms? These terms..
. Are various forms of satire
63). The ‘Coffee house’ culture flourished in…
The early 18th Century
64). “Books were seldom judged on their merits, the praise or blame being generally awarded according to the political principles of their authors”. About which period is John Dennis talking?
18th Century
65). The Heroi Couplet was first use by…
Chaucer
66). Who wrote “When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped of its work, it is constantly amalgamating human experience”?
“When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped of its work, it is constantly amalgamating human experience”? T.S Eliot
67). Hopkins ‘Sprung Rhythm’ is…
One that contains specific number of stressed syllables and varying number of untressed ones.
B). Called so for it runs like a coach of the spring.
68). “The Twentieth Century is still the nineteenth, although it may in time acquired its own character”
“The Twentieth Century is still the nineteenth, although it may in time acquired its own character”T.S. Eliot
69) “The Twentieth Century is still the nineteenth, although it may in time acquired its own character”
Nineteen Eighty Four
70). The following was the editor of The Criterion
T.S. Eliot
71). Who said ‘Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps’
‘Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps’ E.C. Bentlay
72). Who made this observation ‘An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome’
‘An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome’ Austen
73). Who is the most translated author of the World?
Lenin
‘74). ‘The Seige of Krishnapura’ is written by
J.G. Farrell
75) when was the “novel bend of the river” published?
1979
75). Who was the founder of Bharatiya Janapith?
S.P. Jain
77). When was Mulk Raj Anands Novel ‘untouchable’ published
‘untouchable’ 1935
78). Who is the editor of Ten 20th century Indian Poets:
R. Parthasarthy
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79). The Seven Years War (1756-63) is the background of one of the Bertolt Brecht’s plays. Name the play?
Mother Courage
80). ‘Poetry is more Philosophical and of higher value than history’ was said by
‘Poetry is more Philosophical and of higher value than history’ Arsitotle
81). Which novel of E.M. Forster deals with homosexual theme
Maurice-deals with homosexual theme
82). What is the name of G.K. Chesterton’s detective?
B). Father Blown
83). Who wrote ‘Rites of Passage’?
William Golding
84). Who are known as Lake District poets? Tick the odd one out
Wordsworth,Coleridge,Southey
85). A The following lines are from ____ Poem? “Season of mists and melow fruitfulness, close boom friend of the maturing sun.”
“Season of mists and melow fruitfulness, close boom friend of the maturing sun.”ode to autumn
87). When was Sir Walter Scott Novel ‘Waverley’ published anonymously?
waverly novel 1842
88). These lines are found in which poem written by Alfred Tennyson ,’The old order Changeth Yielding place to new, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world’
le monte de arthur
89). Who wrote the book entitled ‘The Mother’
book named the mother “Maxim Gorky & Pearl S. Buck”
90). What do you understand by term Plagiarist.
One who passes off as ones own what has been written by other
86). Who is the heroine in Shakespeare 'Tempest' A). Viola B). Portia C). Miranda D). Beatrice
miranda
“They also serve who stand and wait”
“They also serve who stand and wait”milton
92). What is the name of Eppie’s mother in George Eliot’s Novel ‘Silas Mamer’
Molly
93). What was the Nationality of famous english author Oscar Wilde?
Irish
94). Who wrote Prince and the Pauper?
Mark Twain
95). Who wrote the following lines “The desire of the moth for the star of the night for the morrow. The devotion to something a far. From the sphere of our borrow”?
“The desire of the moth for the star of the night for the morrow. The devotion to something a far. From the sphere of our borrow”? Shelley
96). “Frailty, thy name is women” are from which famous Shakespeare play?
hamlet
97). Which Aristotle poetics’ translation is considered classic?
A). Ingram Bywates
98). Who wrote Agnes Grey?
Anne Bronte
99). The quotation ‘That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet’.
Romeo & Juliet
100). Which one is the play by T.S. Eliot.
family reunion T.S Eliot
