J-3015 Flashcards
Samuel Pepy kept a diary from?
1660 until 1669
The Auden Group or the Auden Generation is a group of British and Irish writers active in the 1930s. name them
W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner.
———- is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
The Book of the Duchess
Geoffrey Chaucer
———– is a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is
meiosis
Silly novels by Lady Novelists
George Eliot
The Celtic Twilight
Book by William Butler Yeats
In which chapter of Poetics does Aristotle use the word “catharsis”
chapter 6
“The Function of Criticism”
T S Eliot
“The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
Matthew Arnold
The Function of 4 Criticism: From ‘The Spectator ‘ to Post-structuralism
Terry Eagleton
“The Function of English at the Present Time”
Richard Ohmann
Utopia by Thomas More is a discussion between Thomas More and?
Utopia is divided into two parts; the first records a conversation between Thomas More and Raphael Hythloday, and the second is Hythloday’s discourse on the institutions and practices of Utopia
Falstaff is a character in …….
Henry IV Part I
The Merry Wives of Windsor
In her essay “Professions for Women” Virginia Woolf finds an analogy between the act of writing and ……
Fishing
The ascension of King James I in …… inaugurated the Jacobean age
1603
Experience
Book by Martin Amis
The opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprise:
one sentence
Who among the following poets compared human tears to “love’s wine”?
John Donne
The Way of All Flesh
Novel by Samuel Butler
Ernest Pontifex is a character in …..
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
“The Man Who Would Be King” is a story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of
Kafiristan
In Gulliver’s Travels Struldbruggs are ……
people exempt from natural death.
Samuel Johnson wrote London in imitation of…………..
juvenal
The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen, Kehinde
Buchi Emecheta
Which playwrights was the son of a gardener?
Joe Orton
Malapropism means?
the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one
Identify the group known as “The Wesker Trilogy”?
Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots, I’m Talking about Jerusalem (all novels by Arnold Wesker)
Dream on the Monkey Mountain?
Derek Walcott’s
Who is the central character of Dream on the Monkey Mountain? by Derek Walcott?
Makak, a charcoal burner
What is common to writers such as Sam Selvon, Timothy Mo (Sour Sweet), and Hanif Kureishi (The Black Album)?
They are diasporic writers who depict postcolonial London very different from its colonial representations.
The Lonely Londoners
Sam Selvon
Sour Sweet
Timothy Mo
The Black Album
Hanif Kureishi
F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis launched a critical journal devoted to the moral centrality of English Studies. Name the Journal.
Scrutiny
