A TO Z Literary Principles from History of English Literature: Note 13
A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers
A. In poetry, a tercet is a unit of three lines that usually contain end
rhyme; a couplet is a two-line unit that usually contains end rhyme. Shelley
wrote the tercets in a verse form called terza rima, invented by Dante
Alighieri. exp: P.B. Shelley ‘s Ode to the West WindRead
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
B. “A man may have many moods; he has but one spirit;
and this spirit he communicates in some subtle, unconscious way to all his
work. It waxes and wanes with the currents of his vitality, but no more alter
than a chestnut changes into an oak.” Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions) FROM The Inn of Tranquility JOHN
GALSWORTHY
C. Macaulay's "History of England" contains
a vast amount of information, but it is not its stores of information which
have attracted to it millions of readers; it is the fascinating style in which
the information is conveyed, making the narrative as pleasing as a novel, and
giving some passages a power of exciting the emotions which not many poems
possess. Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
D. The “Faerie Queen" was intended to have
extended to twelve books, but only six books and two cantos were written at
least that is all which has survived.
E. Coleridge’s Kubla Khan went unfinished
because the call of a friend broke the thread of the reverie in which it was
composed.
F. Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wake-Field, went
straight to the hearts of his readers the moment it was published and has been
a classic ever since. Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
G. One of the best of the metrical romances “Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight” is commonly believed to be written by the same
unknown author who wrote also “The Pearl”
which is a beautiful old elegy, or poem of grief, which immortalizes a father’s
love for his little girl.Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
H. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and “The Pearl” were written not in the King ’s English or speech of London (which became modern English) but in a different dialect.
I. Beowulf, like almost all Anglo-Saxon poetry, is
written with a great deal of alliteration.
J. Kennings, seen in Anglo-Saxon poetry, which
in modern terms is similar to euphemisms, or periphrases. Exp: whale-paths -the
oceans, wave-rider- a boat or ship, ring-giver, folk-friend, or friend to the
people -a king, and a word-hoard -a vocabulary.
K. The year 1453 A.D., when the Eastern Empire the last
relic of the continuous spirit of Rome fell before the Turks, used to be given
as the date, and perhaps the word " Renaissance " itself " a new
birth "is as much as can be accomplished shortly by way of definition.Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
L. Chaucer's personal appearance is well known from the
portrait of him by Occleve.
M. The plan of the "Canterbury
Tales," a series of stories prefixed by a prologue and linked together
by a framework, was probably derived by Chaucer from Boccaccio's “Decamerone." Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
N. Raja Rao’s novel Kanthapura (1938) is
influenced by the ideas of Gandhi.
O. Smith’s White Teeth is a novel about
a changed place and the process of change itself.
P. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward
Gibbon (1737-94), written in Latinate style AND admired for its
eloquence and flashes of wit is probably the best-known historical work in the
English language.Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
Q. In 1709 Steele began to bring out the Tatler,
to which Addison became almost immediately a
contributor: thereafter he (with Steele) started the Spectator, the
first number of which appeared on March
1, 1711.Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
R. Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto ( 1765 ) introduced a highly popular genre:
the Gothic novel.
S. Jane Austen’s characters, though of quite ordinary
types, are drawn with such wonderful firmness and precision, and with such
significant detail as to retain their individuality absolutely intact through
their entire development, and they are never coloured by her own personality. Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
T. “Cieronian” rhetoric (based on the style of Cicero)
was characterized by long, elaborate, periodic
sentences. There is engendered an “anti-Cieronian” reaction too which, in
writers like Bacon and Ben Jonson, led to a fondness for rather brief
sentences without many Latin and Greek words as possible and those who thought
a pure, simple, native vocabulary should be maintained.Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
U. Johnson’s style is “Latinate” as there is well-ordered
Ciceronian structure, grandiose and Latin-derived vocabulary.
V. Famous for: Macauley’s histories, De Quincey’s opium
memoirs, Ruskin’s influential praise of medieval architecture, Carlyle’s
historico-philosophical musings, Pater’s musings on the Renaissance.Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
W. Aristotle in POETICS laid down the principles of
the three dramatic unities—the Unities of Time, Place and Action.
Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
X. G. B. Shaw transformed the Don Juan legend into a play,
and play-within-a-play in Man and Superman (1905).Read
More A to Z (Objective Questions)
Y. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY’S Defence of Poetry was
originally written, as its title suggests, in a polemic vein, as an answer to
Peacock's The Four Ages of Poetry.
Z. Amitav Ghosh 's first novel, The Circle of Reason,
follows the fortune of a young weaver, Alu, who is brought up in a Bengal
village.
Dear Ardhendu De Sir
ReplyDeleteThese objective sets are so much informative and useful for NET as well as SET exams Thanks for these sets. If possible please post more objective sets like these.
Thank you very much
these points are fruitful..
ReplyDeletethanks kiran and sumanika for your comments.
ReplyDelete