Q and A Flashcards
Who is referred to as the “Father of English Tragedy”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) Christopher Marlowe
d) John Dryden
c) Christopher Marlowe
Which poet is known as the “Poet of Nature” and the “High Priest of Nature”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Robert Burns
c) Edmund Spenser
d) John Donne
a) William Wordsworth
Who is credited as the “Father of English Literature” and the “Morning Star of the Renaissance”?
a) John Milton
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) Francis Bacon
d) Edmund Spenser
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
Who is called the “Father of Modern Drama”?
a) Eugene O’Neill
b) Christopher Marlowe
c) Aeschylus
d) W. B. Yeats
a) Eugene O’Neill
Which of the following is NOT a title associated with Edmund Spenser?
a) The Poet’s Poet
b) The Child of the Renaissance
c) The Bard of Avon
d) The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation
c) The Bard of Avon
Who is known as the “Father of American Transcendentalism”?
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Henry David Thoreau
c) Walt Whitman
d) Edgar Allan Poe
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
The “Father of English Essay” and “Father of Modern English Prose” is:
a) John Donne
b) Francis Bacon
c) William Hazlitt
d) Charles Lamb
b) Francis Bacon
Which writer is associated with the “Metaphysical School of Poetry”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) John Donne
c) Robert Browning
d) William Blake
b) John Donne
Who is recognized as the “Founder of the Sonnet”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Edmund Spenser
c) Petrarch
d) Robert Burns
c) Petrarch
The title “The Bard of Ayrshire” refers to which poet?
a) Robert Burns
b) William Shakespeare
c) Thomas Gray
d) Walter Scott
a) Robert Burns
Who among the following is called the “Father of the English Novel”?
a) Henry Fielding
b) Charles Dickens
c) Jane Austen
d) Horace Walpole
a) Henry Fielding
Which of the following titles is associated with John Milton?
a) The Epic Poet
b) The High Priest of Nature
c) The Father of Gothic Novels
d) The Morning Star of the Renaissance
a) The Epic Poet
The “Father of Revenge Tragedy” is:
a) William Shakespeare
b) Thomas Kyd
c) Christopher Marlowe
d) John Milton
b) Thomas Kyd
Who is known as the “Founder of the Graveyard School of Poetry”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Thomas Gray
c) Robert Southey
d) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
b) Thomas Gray
Who is referred to as the “Father of Historical Novel”?
a) Geoffrey Chaucer
b) Walter Scott
c) William Caxton
d) Robert Burns
b) Walter Scott
