Lesson 2.2 (English)

Question 1

It refers to all works of literature in English produced in the United Kingdom; one of the richest, most developed, and important bodies of literature in the world.

Answer 1

English Literature

Question 2

It is the earliest form of the English language where it is known for its ‘kennings’ (phrases or compound words for indirect naming).

Answer 2

Old English Literature

Question 3

What is the longest epic in Old English?

Answer 3

Beowulf

Question 4

It is the blend of Old English and Norman French

Answer 4

Middle English Literature

Question 5

Who is the father of English Literature?

Answer 5

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 6

What is the famous work of Geoffrey Chaucer?

Answer 6

The Canterbury Tales

Question 7

It is considered as the ‘golden age of English literature.’

Answer 7

Elizabethan Period

Question 8

He is the notable author during Elizabethan and considered as ‘Bard of Avon.’

Answer 8

William Shakespeare

Question 9

What are some of the best plays of William Shakespeare?

Answer 9

Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
The Merchant of Venice

Question 10

This period is considered as the ‘golden age of lyric poetry.’

Answer 10

Romantic Period

Question 11

This period is focuses more on personal feelings and emotions.

Answer 11

Romantic Period

Question 12

Who created the ‘Lyrical Ballads’?

Answer 12

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 13

What is William Blake’s work during Romantic period?

Answer 13

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Question 14

Who is the author of ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’?

Answer 14

John Keats

Question 15

Who wrote the ‘Don Juan’?

Answer 15

Lord Byron

Question 16

Who wrote the ‘Ode to the West Wind’?

Answer 16

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 17

This period is the rise of the novels.

Answer 17

Victorian Period

Question 18

One of the notable authors during Victorian period is __ that is considered as the greatest English novelist of the 19th century.

Answer 18

Charles Dickens

Question 19

What is the notable work of Charles Dickens (greatest English novelist)?

Answer 19

Great Expectations

Question 20

Who wrote the poem ‘In Memoriam A.H.H.’?

Answer 20

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 21

Who wrote ‘My Last Duchess’?

Answer 21

Robert Browningh

Question 22

Who is a notable dramatist during Victorian period and wrote ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’?

Answer 22

Oscar Wilde

Question 23

Who are some poets during Victorian period?

Answer 23

Alfred Lord Tennyson; and
Robert Browning

Question 24

This period is where Yeats and Eliot wrote their masterpieces.

Answer 24

20th Century

Question 25

Who are the notable poets during 20th Century?

Answer 25

William Butler Yeats; and
Thomas Stearns Eliot

Question 26

Some of his works are ‘The Tower,’ ‘The Winding Stair,’ and New Poems.

Answer 26

William Butler Yeats

Question 27

Some of his works are ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,’ and ‘The Waste Land.’

Answer 27

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Question 28

This writer wrote ‘Mrs. Dalloway.’

Answer 28

Virginia Woolf

Question 29

This author wrote ‘Ulysses.’

Answer 29

James Joyce

Question 30

Who are the writers during 20th century used the stream of consciousness technique in their writings?

Answer 30

Virginia Woolf; and
James Joyce