Q2 M1 2nd Test about Close Analysis and Critical Interpretation of Literary Texts from the World

Question 1

– is the golden age & golden
age of drama of English Literature

Answer 1

Elizabeth Literature (1558- 1603)

Question 2

Known as the “Bard of Avon”

Answer 2

William Shakespeare

Question 3

William Shakespeare’s best plays include

Answer 3

Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, and the merchant of Venice.

Question 4

He wrote 154 sonnets, many of which are best loved and the most widely-read poems in the
English Literature.

Answer 4

William Shakespeare

Question 5

the golden age of lyric poetry

Answer 5

The Romantic Period

Question 6

The Romantic Period

“Songs of Innocence and of Experience” by

Answer 6

William Blake

Question 7

The Romantic Period

“Lyrical Ballads” by

Answer 7

William
Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 8

The Romantic Period

“The Eve of St. Agnes” and “Other Poems” by

Answer 8

John Keats

Question 9

The Romantic Period

“Don Juan” by

Answer 9

Lord Byron

Question 10

The Romantic Period

“Ode to the West Wind” by

Answer 10

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 11

– is the period when the rise of novel was noticed.

Answer 11

The Victorian Period (1837 – 1900)

Question 12

The Victorian Period

Charles
Dickens, considered to be the?

Answer 12

greatest English novelist of the 19th century

Question 13

The Victorian Period

He wrote the “Great
Expectations”. This novel was published as a serial in a weekly periodical from December 1860
to August 1861.

Answer 13

Charles
Dickens

Question 14

The Victorian Period

Tennyson’s
_________ is a requiem for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam.

Answer 14

“In Memoriam A.H.H.”

Question 15

The Victorian Period

Browning, also known for his dramatic
monologues, wrote the famous ___________. In a dramatic monologue, the poet addresses
an audience through an assumed voice.

Answer 15

“My Last Duchess”

Question 16

The Victorian Period

Oscar Wilde is the dramatist of the period. He wrote the masterpiece _____________

Answer 16

“The Importance of Being
Earnest”.

Question 17

Twentieth Century (1900 – 2000)

William Butler Yeats wrote ________, ____________ and __________

Answer 17

“The Tower”

“The Winding Stair”

“New Poems”

Question 18

Twentieth Century

Eliot’s masterpieces are __________ and “The Waste Land”

Answer 18

“The Love Song
of J. Alfred Prufock”

“The Waste Land”

Question 19

Virginia Woolf in her story ___________ and James Joyce in his work ____________ use stream
of consciousness, a literary technique in which the flow of thoughts of a character is described in
words.

Answer 19

“Mrs. Dalloway”

“Ulysses”

Question 20

Latin Literature

the greatest Roman orator.

Answer 20

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Question 21

Latin Literature

The first
part of the Golden age of Latin Literature (70 BC – AD 18) is named after Marcus Tullius Cicero, the
____________ period (70-43 AD).

Answer 21

Ciceronian

Question 22

Latin Literature

One of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s well-known speeches
is _________.

Answer 22

Pro Cluentio

Question 23

Latin Literature

He is the greatest Roman poet

Answer 23

Virgil (70 BCE-19 BCE)

Question 24

was known for ______ an epic poem

Answer 24

“Aenid”

Question 25

He was known for “Oedipus the
King” which marks the highest level of achievement of Greek drama.

Answer 25

Sophocles (496 BC – 406 BC) was a tragic playwright.

Question 26

Greek Literature

HOMER is known for the __________. These epics are about the heroic
achievements of A_________ and O_________, respectively.

Answer 26

“The Iliad and The Odyssey”