A TO Z Literary Principles from History of English Literature: Note 90
A
Set of 26 Objective Questions & Answers
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NET ENGLISH QUESTION BANK
Turning
Points in English Literature
(a)
How many parts, according to Aristotle, are there in a tragedy? (i) Three (ii)
four (iii) five (iv) six
(b) Coleridge belongs to ---- school of
criticism (i) Neo-classica (ii) Classical (iii) romantic (iv) Aesthetic Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)
(c)
Poetry has been defined as ‘criticism of life’ by (i) Aristotle (ii) Dr.
Johnson
(iii) Matthew Arnold (iv)
T.S. Eliot
(d)
Ben Jonson is one of the first significant critics in English.
(a)
Romantic (b) Academic (c)
Neo-classic (d) Classical
(e)
Who called Dryden ‘the father of English Criticism’?
(a)
Alexander Pope (b) Doctor
Johnson (c) Coleridge (d) Hazlitt Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)
(f)
How do you Define of Humanism? What are
its characteristics?
We
may define Humanism as the rejection of a religion in favour of a belief in the
advancement of humanity by its own efforts, a cultural movement of the
Renaissance based on Classical studies. It is the belief that people can live
using their intelligence and reason rather than depending on a god or religion.
Someone who believes in humanism is called a humanist (see Collins English
Dictionary & Thesaurus, 2006 and Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced
Learners, 2007). Read More
A to Z (Objective Questions)
Humanism, whether, it is viewed as a form of
dictate, philosophy, religion, politics, ethics, law, critique, social dictate,
fiction, a system or even as a culture, however, and in this what scope and
rationality, it may be viewed to exist and function. It is human angle, and is
a form of rational and correct behaviour when viewed from the angle of the
members of its school of thought or disciples. Read
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Petrarch (1304-1374), Plato (428-348BC),
Giovanni Boccacclo (1313-1375), Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406), Gasparno
Barzizza (1360-1430), Aristotle (384-822BC), Guarino Veronese (1374-1460),
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), Rudolphus
Agricola (1443-1485), John Colet (1467-1519), Sir Thomas More (1478-1535),
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) and Michael Montaigne (1533-1592), Arnoldus Arlenius
(1510-1582), Nicholas of Cusa, Nicolaus Cusanus, Nicholas Kues (1401-1464),
Thomas Reid, (1586-1624), Roger Bacon (1214-1294), Michael Servetus (1509-1553),
Gian Vittorio Rossi Giano Nico Eritreo
(1577-1647), and David Hume or Home (1558-1629)
(h)
Which of the following represents Dryden?
(i) Neander (ii) Eugenius
(iii) Lisideius
(i)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads was first published in (i) 1798 (ii) 1800 (iii) 1802 (iv) 1815
(j)
. Identify the correct group of
Plato’s work from the following groups
:
(A)
The Lion, Euthyphro, Protaguras, The Crito, Apology, The
Confession, The Republic and The Laws
(B)
The Lion, The Confession, Protaguras, The Crito, Apology, Theaetetus, The
Republic and The Laws
(C) The Lion, Euthyphro,
Protaguras, The Crito, Apology, Theaetetus,
The Republic and The
Laws Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)
(D)
The City of God, Euthyphro, Protaguras, The Crito, Apology, Theaetetus, The
Republic and The Laws
(k).
This is told about Aristotle’s
Poetics:
I. The focus of Aristotle’s Poetics was comedy.
II.
Aristotle identified six elements of
tragedy as plot, character, thought, diction, song, and spectacle; out of which
he says plot is the chief among them all; hence described as the soul of
tragedy, tragic plot thus contains “peripeteia” (a reversal of fortunes),
“anagnorisis” (discovery or exposition). Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)
III.
Aristotle argued that his comparisons in poetry are correct because we cannot
use the similar standard to measure what is correct in reality with that in
poetry.
IV.
Aristotle’s Poetics appears like an attempt to answer the critical
questions raised by his teacher, Plato and indicates the philosopher’s attempt
to answers doubts raised by Plato to justify the existence of poets in any
ideal Republic.
Find
out the correct combination according to the code:
(A)
I, II and III are correct, as IV is true explanation of it
(B)
I, II and IV are correct, but III is false
(C)
I, III and IV are correct, as II is true explanation of it
(D) II, III and IV are correct,
but as I is false
(l).
Match the items from The Canterbury Tales in the List – I with items in
List – II according to the code given below:
List – I
(groups)
|
List – II
(characters)
|
i The Upper Class or nobles in the Age of
Chaucer
|
1 Millen
|
ii
the lower class
|
2 the Wife of Bathe
|
iii characters that dominated the church of
Chaucer’s time
|
3 Prioress
|
Iv
rich woman
|
4
The Knight
|
Codes:
|
i
|
ii
|
iii
|
iv
|
(A)
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
4
|
(B)
|
4
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
(C)
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
1
|
(D)
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
4
|
(m)-
The phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” is associated with (a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Keats
(d) Byron
(n)As soon as Faustus (Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor
Faustus ) time runs to its end, the devil reaches for his soul and drags
him into Hell unappeasably ignoring Faustus plea for mercy.
What
is the time specified in the drama?
(A) The twenty four years
bargain Read More A to Z (Objective Questions)
(B)
The twenty four hours bargain
(C)
The twenty four months bargain
(D)
The twenty four days bargain
(o).
Match the items from the List – I with items in List – II according
to the code given below:
List – I
(authors)
|
List – II
(works)
|
i The Venerable Bede
|
1 Opus Majus
|
ii
Roger Bacon
|
2 Doctor Angelius
|
iii Thomas Aquinas
|
3 On the Reckoning of Time
|
Iv Rabanus Maurus
|
4
De Universo
|
Codes:
|
i
|
ii
|
iii
|
iv
|
(A)
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
4
|
(B)
|
4
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
(C)
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
1
|
(D)
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
4
|
Ref:
1. History of English Literature- Albert
2.
The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
3.
UGC NET OLD QUESTION PAPERS
4.
Baugh, A.C and Cable T (2001). A History of the English Language. 5th
ed. London: Routledge
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