AD's English Literature

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK   Elizabethan Age  / Renaissance  (Reworking of learning)           Elizabethan ascended the throne of England in 1558 and ruled over the country till her death in 1603. Read More about Elizabethan Literature   During this period, the English national life took big strides. Recognizing the Elizabethan period as one of the most signified periods, in the literary and social history of England, Hudson has observed, “By Virtue of its wonderful fertility and car city, and splendor of its production, this period ranks as one of the greatest in the annals of word’s literature, and its greatness was the result of many operative forces.” Read More about A to Z (Objective Questions) The renaissance reached its full flowering during this period. Under the impact of renaissance Elizabethan people freed themselves from the church. They ...

( Sir Thomas More, William Tyndale, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Nicholas Udall, Thomas Sackville, Thomas Norton ) Extending from 1500 to 1558, this period is noted for the extensive manuring for the fruitful soil of the Elizabethan Literature.  The fifteenth century produced but one book that is read nowadays, the Morte d’Arthur ; up to the birth of Shakespeare in 1564, the sixteenth century produced but one, the Utopia . Sir Thomas More was one of the young men who were fortunate enough to study under the greatest of that remarkable group of scholars who, in the closing years of the fifteenth century, made Oxford famous by their teaching of Latin and Greek. Read More about History of English Literature (Essay)   He too became a great scholar, early gained prominence as a lawyer, and was eventually made Lord Chancellor; finally, because he adhered courageously to high moral principles, he gave up his life at the executioner's block, a very common ending to a life-story ...

History of English Literature: A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers : The Pre-Raphaelite movement he     little group with Dante Rossetti, William Morris, and Algernon Swinburne, known as the Pre-Raphaelites,     found their inspiration, as did earlier poets who shared in the Romantic Movement, in the Middle Ages. The Pre-Raphaelite movement, which was initiated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the mid nineteenth century, was originally not a literary but an artistic movement. Rossetti , himself a painter   and a poet as well felt that contemporary painting had become a too formal academic and unrealistic . Also read the other set of A to Z (Objective Questions)  He desired to see it taken back to the realism, sensuousness and devotion to detail which characterize the art of the Italian painters before Raphael.   They reacted against Victorian materialism and the neoclassical conventions of academic art by producing earnest, q...

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK (ALL THE ANSWERS ARE COLOURED. I HAVE TRIED TO GIVE LOGIC BEHIND ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS. WITHOUT SYLLOGISTIC FORMAT YOU NEED AN ELFIN TOWER TALL HEAD.)   1. Which of Dickens’ novels opens with the words “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ....”. Read More about A to Z (Objective Questions) (A) A Tale of Two Cities (B) Oliver Twist (C) Pickwick Papers (D) Hard Times ** “ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.”- A Tale of Two Cities** 2. The term “The Fleshly School of Poetry” is associated with the : R...

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK   (ALL THE ANSWERS ARE COLOURED. I HAVE TRIED TO GIVE LOGIC BEHIND ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS. WITHOUT SYLLOGISTIC FORMAT YOU NEED AN ELFIN TOWER TALL HEAD.) 1. The title The Sound and the Fury is taken from: (A) Hamlet (B) Macbeth (C) The Tempest (D) King Lear Read More about A to Z (Objective Questions) ** MACBETH :She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Act V, Sc V ** 2. Pecola is a character in: (A) The Bluest Eye ...

A Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers UGC NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK 1. The epithet “a comic epic in prose” is best applied to (A) Richardson’s Pamela (B) Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey (C) Fielding’s Tom Jones (D) Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe ** Several novels   fall into the category of mock epic, including Joseph Andrews (1742), described by its author, the English novelist Henry Fielding, as “a comic epic ... in prose.” However, his The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) or Tom Jones, is regarded by critics as one of the great English novels. It is in the picaresque tradition, involving the adventures and misadventures of a roguish hero. It tells in rich, realistic detail the many adventures that befall Tom, an engaging young libertine, in his efforts to gain his rightful inheritance. So the best choice is (c) ** Read More about A to Z (Objective Questions)   2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian novel called (A)...

Reading through the diary pages we learn, Philip Henslowe, son of Edmund Henslowe of Sussex was an enterprising man who was permanently settled on the bank side by 1577 and who married his master’s rich widow who had a fair daughter by her first marriage named Joan. In the eighties of the sixteenth century Henslowe is known as a dyer, in the nineties as a pawn-broker and always as a purchaser of southward property. As a businessman of enterprise, Henslowe of quick to mark the prospects of the theatre business; in 1585 he built the Rose Theater. Read More about William Shakespeare By 1594 he possessed another theatre at Newington butts. His step –daughter Joan was married to the famous actor, Edward Alleyn and this marked the beginning of a successful and profitable partnership with the great actor. By the time Henslowe the English theater manager owned the Fortune  and Hope  theaters in London. Read More about Drama      To record first and most interes...