A TO Z Literary Principles from History of English Literature: Note 9
A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers
a. George
Chapman is chiefly remembered as translator of Homer.
b. Between 1562 and 1591 chronicle play dealing with real characters of
history developed with an astonishing rapidity.
c. The
Victorian age is an age of sensibility of large charity and deeper faith is humanity.
d. The marked character of Victorian literature is that it tries to teach
and improve and reform.
e. Andrea Del
Sarto, a poem by Browning describes the strength and weakness of painter.
f. William Langland wrote The Piers Ploughman is an allegory of life. The
poet lies down on the Malvin Hills on a morning and a vision came to him in
his sleep.
g. If The Canterbury tales had been completed according plan, there should have been one
hundred and twenty eight tales. However Chaucer could complete twenty and left
four unfinished.
h. Ralph
Royster Doyster is the first true play in English with a regular plot and acts
and scenes.
i. For several years before Elisabeth I there was no literature.The reason
for this infertility was intense absorption of the intelligentsia in religious
question.
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j. Edmund Spenser is known as the poet’s poet.
k. Castle of Otranto a novel of
mystery and terror was written by Walpole.
l. The common factor found in Thomas More’s Utopia, Bacon’s The New
Altantics , Samuel Butler's Erewhon and W M Mallock’s The New Republic is that
they are all imaginative reconstruction of the world along an ideal.
m. The identity of the characters of The Four P’s are a pardoner, a Palmer,
a pathycary and a peddler.
n. The battle
of the Barks by Swift shows the superman of the ancients over the succeeding
writers.
o. Vanity Fair (1847-48) is a novel
by Thackeray the little of this book has been taken from Pilgrims Progress.
p. The Borderers, a play by William Wordsworth was rejected for not being
stage able.
q. Annus Mirabilis of Dryden means year of miracles.
r. Cura Pastorals was originally written in Latin by Pope Gregory and
translated into English by Alfred the Great.
s. Truth about
an Author is Arnold’s
autobiography.
t. The Golden Treasury, a collection of lyrical poems was brought out by
Frences Turner Palgrave in 1861.
u. The
importance of Being Earnest a play of Wilde has a subtitle A trivial Comedy
For serious people.
v. Confessions
are a fictional autobiography of Rousseau.
w. Oliver Twist by Dickens Portrays the degradations and sufferings of the
poor in English work houses.
x. The picture
of Dorian Gray, a novel by Oscar Wilde is condemned as a poisonous book as a
pursuit of sensual and intellectual delight with no acceptance of moral
responsibility.
y. Praeperita
(1885-89) is an autobiography of Ruskin.
z. Gaskell’s
novel Wives and Daughters (1866) is considered to be her best social comedy.
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