Famous book ;

l) Pilgrim's
Progress.
Literature Lecture —3
Famous Quotation :
"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words
(a) The Restoration Period (1660-1700) without
a heart."
3. John Dryden (1631-1700)
Restoration Period !

(The Age of Dryden) i + 'Metaphysical Poetry'

I John Dryden i
I CO ('Ihe i +
i 'All for love'
Age of Milton) I Milton blank verse blank verse
Restoration Period
(Restoration) i
(i) All f
Restoration Period John Milton i (ii)
(Epic) Paradise Lost (1667), ! 11
Paradise Regained (1671)
IV Abialo Aq oÅhel(1681)
satirical (168b/
(v• The y on matic Poesy (1668)
Neo-ClassicalPeriod : -178
Neo-Classical Que:tions and Answers
Classicaf ri inality
Classical I
1 Who called Dryden 'Glorious John'?
echnical ! O William Congrave @ Francis Bacon
Perfection @ Walter Scott @ John Dryden. Ans : @
2. Who was known as the 'Father of modern English
Neo-ClassrcaIÜZJ_'•' i criticism'?
1 "art for humanity's i @ EdmundWaller John Dryden
"art for art's sake" I @John Milton @ Francis Bacon Ans.•
3. Who wrote 'Absalom and Achitophel'?
@ William Congrave @Francis Bacon
1. Samuel Butler (1612-1680) @ John Milton @John Dryden Ans : @
'All for Love' is a drama written by —
1. Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613—25 • @ John Dryden John Bunyan
September 1680) was a poet and satirist. @ William Congrave @Francis Bacon Ans.• @
2. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical i
poem entitled Hudibars (1663)
(b) The Augustan Period : (1700-1745)
2. John Bunyan (1628-1688) The Daily Courant'
(fettå%) I
John Bunyan (28 November 1628 —31 August 1688) was
an English Christian writer and preacher, who is well- ! Queen Anne, King George (—1) King
known for his book The Pilgrim's Progress. George (-11) I
Seven Year war
 emperor i
IlismclLLnown-yorEas
Augustan Age qtq I l. Gulliver's Travcls (novel)
Alexander Pope- Agc of i 2, A Modest Propo€al
Pope
3, Drapicr's Letters
(Prose) Satire. 4. A Talc of a Tub (essay)
Alcxnndcrrope S, The Battle of the Book (satire)
The Rape of the Lock, Jonathon Swift
Gulliver's Travcl, Daniel Dcroc Robinson i
Crusoe.
Questions and Ancwers
1. Daniel Defoc (1660-1731)
Brief History : He (1660- 1731) was 'A Voyageof Lilliput i is written by
an English trader.
writer, journalist. pamphleteer and spy,
now most famous i @ R. L. Steven•on 0 Thomas Hardy Ans: @
for his novel Robinson Crusoe. @ Jonathan Swift Wilt' sworth
'Gulliver's Travels'
@ Mark Twine sel
+ Daniel Defoe @ H.W.I—ongfJJoc•• 'Jo than w t Ans: @
I
+ Robinson Crusoe Robinson i 3 'Gulli@r'gffravcl.q is yest'atire of the —
Crusoe, Friday. '"Century—
th
0 0th
His wellknown novels : 20t
1. Robinson Crusoe 18th
4. 'hat g rded; the bitterest satire
2. The Farther Adventures of bins rus
3 ccntu!?'.
Captain Singleton
4. Pamela
Colonel Jack
S. Roxana (DThe the Lock
@ Absalom anciAchitophel
Ans: @
Question @ Gulliver's Travels
nd nswer
1. Wh te 'Robinson Cry 3. William Congreve (1670-1729)
@Ala döope He
@ Thom Defoe Ans : @
2. is mos membered{for his famous novel, 1. William Congreve was born in 1670 in England
'Robinson Crusoe'. died in 1729 in England.
@Henry Filding Daniel Defoe He wrote some of the most popular English plays of
@Jonathan Swift @ AlexanderPope Ans : O the Restoration period of the late 17th century.
3. William Congreve
2. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
qfbv The Way of the World
(Masterpiece) I
He was a friend of Jonathan Swift.
He is called the bitterest satirist of 18th century.
He (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, polit- i Dramas :
ical pamphleteer and is less well known for his poetry. 1. The way of the World (G —s)
Jonathan Swift i (S 900),
English author e Satirist. 2. Love for Love, (SESQ),
A tale of a Tub e i 3. The Old Bachelor, (G (s•se)
Gulliver'sTravels (Satire). 4. The Double-Dealer,(G (SES),
Gulliver's Travels Lamuel I The Mourning Bride. (fi
5. (»sq) I
Gulliver, Lilliputians, Laputans, Blefuscndians,
Brobdingnagians, GJumdalclitch, Houyhnhnms, i
Yohoos.
 5) The Duncan
Queetion« and Answers i 6) Epistleto Dr.Arbuthnot
1. Who wrote 'The Old Bachelor'?
• @ Johh Dryden (b William Congreve
@ ü)ornas Hobbes (d)Alexander Pope Ans : Oil) A Little Learning is a dangerous thing.
2. The first daily in English Innguage is-..—
@ The Dally Courant The Voyager To err is human,forgive is divine.( F,
@ The Telegragh @ The Observer Ans . vmu")
3. Who wrote 'The "'ay or the World'? 3) Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
@ Alexander Pope (b Johy Dryden t", (16th BCS)
@ John Bunyan (d)William CongreveAns :
4. The first daily in English language was published ! Questions and Answers
in—
@ 1711 1. 'The Rape of the Lock' by AlexapdefPope is Wan- [4dh
@ 1702 @ 1701 Ans.' O i
@ epic a

4. Richard Steele (1672-1729) @ mock-her Ans : @

Ale nde n n is a —
He has written some dramas. They are comedies. i
The Funeral (1703), The Lying Lover c ort m Ans : @
Tender Husband are remarkable dramas. 9 is called t e 'MocK_ ero c poet'.
@Milt William Congra
s. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Thoms ra O AlexanderPope Ans : @
i Pope's famous work
@The RhP%oqthe Lock
+ Joseph ssa is O Spector
+ Sir Roger E$a) @The Deserted Villag
e O Man Was Made to Mourn Ans : @
Sir Roger at Church IR
clears away the nÅt of th+yhole wee.
+ He is actua!lymneditiöi and an essayist(He as written a ! Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
tragedy. It is-Cato.
Brief History
6. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) i Samuel Richardson was born in 1689 in England and died
i in 1761.He was an English novelist and a publisher. He IS
i best known for his three epistolary novels : 'Pamela',
Alexander Pope is called 'Mock Heroic Poet' ! 'Clarissa' and ' The History of Sir Charles Grandison'.
l)
He wrote the first novel in English literature in 1740. His
2) He used heroic couplet in his poem. is 'Pamela' or 'The Virtue Rewarded' pub-
3) Pope The Rape of the i first novel
i lished in 1740. It is now considered the first modern novel
Lock, Duncan. i in English Literature.
4) The Rape of the Lock Mock epic
Famous Novels : Pamela, Clarissa, The History of Sir Charles
Grandison
l) 'Essay on Criticism', a sparkling performance, which i
is summed up pope's poetical creed. 1• The first English novel, 'Pamela', has been written
2) 'The Rape of the Lock' a serio-comic ($104 @ Daniel Defoe Henry Fielding
epic; suggested to pope by an actual inci-
@ Samuel Richardson @ Sir Walter Scott Ans : @
dent.
2. What is now considered the first modern novel ir
3) The Iliad'of Homer English literature?
4) An Essay on Man ('Q Theme 011: To vindicate the ways !
@ Pamela @The virtue rewarded
of God to man')
@ both a and b O A ModestProposal Ans: @

ORACLE
(c) The 4. 'Tom Jones' by Henry Fielding was first
Age of publish
Sensibility (1745 - 1785/98) i @ 1748 1740
Age of @ 1749 0 1750
Johnsone Ott
I
+ Lyrical Balladsi 3. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
French
+ Revolution (1789)
Voltaire,
Rousseau
-dtb-u-q!Englishwriter who made lasting contributions
1. Literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic,b•
Benjamin
Franklin i rapher,editor and lexicographer.Samuel Johnson
i piled English Dictionary in1755.

i His well knoyn works. ;

1. Early to bed 1. A Voyage to Abyssinia
and early to rise 2. London: A Poem
wealthy and makes a man healthy,i
2. wise.
Honesty is the best 3. The Vanity90111
3. Admiration is the policy. 4. The yrag&dyo purgn
daughterof ignorance. 5. h&Patri6t( Pamp et)
2. Henry PréK o Sha+s
Fielding (1707-1754) a
heFal
•
He (1707-1754)
dramatist known was an Enolish$ÖC'éltstnd ! Questions :
prowess. He is for his rich al
His Pen name considered to twthe therp En lishn The nglish dictionary was compiled by
was 'Captai
ules V ne ah'. @SamuélAJQ!inson O Isaac Walton
i 1 @ Samuel buder O Sir Thomas BrownAns: @
1. An +po 6gy 'Preface to Shakespeare' is written by —
dr ws S mela I @ Francis Bacon OJ. S. Mill
2. @ Robert Green @ Samuel Johnson Ans : O
ew
3. Tom ones (novel) Who was a famous lexicographer in EnglishIan.
4. Top S guage?
@ Dr. Samuel JohnsonO Addison
@ Richard Steele @ Francis Bacon Ans.' @
Questions and Answers
4. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)(b. at)
'Tom Jones' by Henry Fieldingwas first published
in —
@ the 1st half of 19th century
'Elegy Written in a Country
O the 2nd half of 19 century Churchyard' (37th BCS)
'Ode on the Death of a
@ the 1st half of 18th century FavouriteCat.'
O the 2nd half of 18 century Ans: @ 'Elegy Written in a Country
2. 'Tom Jones' by Henry Fielding was first published Churchyard' Tomas Gray
in— (13th BCS)
@ the 1st half of 19 century
@ the 2nd half of 19 century Questions :
@ the I st half of 18th century 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'
O the 2nd half of 18 century Ans.• @ i I Hampden,
3. Who is regarded as the 'father of Englishnovel'? i Milton, Cromwell. Muse
@ Henry Fielding SamuelRichardson i Zeus I
@ Daniel Defoe O AlexanderPope Ans : @
 yorks;
l. The Paths of Glory
2. Celestial Fire Ilis well known works ;
3. Far from the Madding Crowd (novel) (i) On American Taxation (1774)
4. Kindred Spirit (ii) Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
5. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (iii) Reflection on the Revolution in France (1790)

'Full many a flower is bom to blush unseen and waste its l.

7. Lindley Murray (1745-1826)
sv&cetnesson the desert air' The line is from 'Gray's Elegy
in a Country Churchyard.' Father of English Grammar
NVr1tten
8. William Blake (1757-1827)
1. 'Elep Written in a Country Churchyard' is writ- i.
ten by— 136th BCS/
@ WilliamWordsvxorth
(b Thomas Gray (1757 - 1827) was an English poet,
(D i painter, and printmaker. He is both a poet and a painter.
@ John Keats @ W.B. Yeats
2. Who has written the poem 'Elegy Written in a i :
Country Churchyard'? 137thBCS!
i. William Blake
@ Thomas Gray OP.B. Shelley
@ Robert Frost @ Y.B. Yeats ii. •Ili m Blahe- maqJcP t
R ti
s. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) i. t d ist.
iv. ongs of n nce
(i) Oliver Goldsmith Irish novelist, playwrié!iiÄn t. ! Sp gsö( x rienee.
rsor of the Romantic Movement.
Romantic Poet
(ThéNicdr of the Okefield)(sq Romantic Poet@VTtq
(iii)He is thought to ha',s.written th éiassfc chilåren's tal
Histo f i
His known works :
Notable •works ; 1. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
2. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,
(i) The tcarofthe Wakefiél (1766) el) 3. The Four Zoas
(ii) The Citiiemof the W6rldXi759) (Essay) 4. Jerusalem
(iii) The 5. Milton a Poem
(iv) The Deserted Village (1770) (pastoral poem)

Quote : Handsome is that handsome does. Questions and Answers

6. Edmund Burke (12 January 1729-9July1797) i. 1. William Blake was a—
@ poet painter
'Speech on the East Indian Bill' i.
@ philosopher @ poet and a painter Ans :
Who of the following was both a poet and painter—
@ Keats G) Donne
@ Blake O Spenser Ans :
Edmund Burk Parliamentary Member. ! 3. Who wrote 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'
Author, Orator, Political Theorist • @ AlexanderPope Thomas Gray
Philosopher. @ William Blake @John Dryden Ans .
The founding father of modern i 4. Who wrote 'Marriage of Heaven and Hell'?
conservatism philosophy I @ John Keats Lord Byron
Essay Speech on East India Bill, i. @ Mathew Arnold @ William Blake Ans .
Speech on conciliation with America, On American
Taxation.
 vii) Oxford
Literature
Lecture —4 viii)

The
Romantic
Period (1798-1832)
Pnntheigrn j
Golden Age of
lyric :

Lyrical Lyrical Balladsi I Wondcrcd Loncjy aq Cloud

Ballads- Daffodils. (Theme: A thing of beauty
Coleridge- Wordsworth- •fot i •fotq "fd Daffodil
Romantic ble pleasure
I Nature hag a healing power to
subjec-
Romantic
The Solitary Reaper
Wordsworth,
John Keats. S.T Coleridge, Lord Byron. 'Otitarv•
Jane Austen, Sir PB. Shelley, i
Lamb, William waiter Scott, Charles!
Hazlitt, Mrs. Shelley.
Charles RobertI Lirees WrittåfAboVf (
Slogan: Art
for Art's Sake ping power. beyond all other F!6wer.
(fittgq fhM)4 "4f« effrt5cuq Thé.pre•
"fat lioiern Abbey J)
a) Subjectivity The Excursion The Excursion (9

c) Love
language and ommo i zvr:a I)
Supe atüra •smcGq-tfüT9) c.
5 The Prelude Or Growth of a Poet's Mind
k cqt• •r.<tF
The Prelude
Lake poets ar 6. The Recluse (1888) Recluse
Coleridge and Ro illiam._.Words orth, Samuel Taylor i
Bears, the Original Goldilocks Story of the Three i
Story)
1. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 7. (O
Lucy )

Michael
Written in March
i) William Wordsworth died in 1850. 1()• Ode to Duty
•ll. To the Cuckoo
ii) Title of Wordsworthis 'Worshiperof Nature'. i 12. Lyrical Ballads (1798)
iii) Wordsworth is known as 'High Priest of !
'
Nature .[Bang1adesh Bank AD.09J ! Wordsworth f4• Quotations:
iv) William Wordsworth Romantic • Wordsworth Poet of Nature s Poet of
Nature Child Quotations 1
i •
v) The Poet of Nature (36th BCS),a Lake Poet
Poet of Childhood I Nature never did betray the heart that loved
vi) William Wordsworth The French !
Revolution 1 fian•r
(Ttntem Abtey
 Dorothy C.
2)
2. Sir Walter Scott (1771- 1832)
The child father of the man. i
(My Heart Leaps up when I ! He was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and
. BCS) poet.
Wordswotlh altq Daffodils fåtq
Daffodils
He is called the 'Father of both the Regional and
Quotation : Historical Novels.'
3) All at once I saw a crowd. a host of golden daffodils. i
(35th BCS)
Ivanhoeto
Ten thousands saw I at a glance tossing their heads
In sprightly dance. —The daffodils
"is known works :
1. Ivan Hoe (novel)
2. Patriotism (poem)
4) Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. i
3. The Talisman (RJ
4. The Lady of the Lake (novel)
5. Waverley
afi- Intimations of •
Immortality kf4v) I 6. The Heart of Midlot
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feel- i 7. The fih¯Æermotr. (FJ
ings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in I
tranquility." Lyrical Ballads ( i Roy, Y

6) The music in my heart I bore/Long after it r

no more. (The Solitary Reaper Ques}ions nÜAfiswer
1 Which poe ritten by Sir Walter Scott?
@The Patriot
Questions and Answers @ A Froiie ight @All of the above Ans : @
2. 'Ivanhoe' is a ovel written by —
I. The poem 'The olita Reaper'ås writ en by
@ Robert Browning O W. Wordsworth
@ Walter Scott OP. B. Shelley Ans: @
@W.H.AuderiÄ O y. ordsworthSN
@ W.B.Yeats Pound +"AY i
2. Who is known as 'the poet f nature' iro,nglish litera- i
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
ture?
@Lord Tennyson„.rJohn Milton
Coleridge Romantic
@ WilliamWordsworth @ John Keats Ans : @
3. The 'Solitary Reaper' is a —- ! ii. He is called Opium Eater
@ heroic poem (b romantic poem iii. Coleridge C+ The poet of Supernaturalism
@ classical poem O didactic poem Ans .
4. Wordsworth was inspired by — iv. Coleridge Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads
@ The French Revolution
Q)The American Revolution Coleridge q- Biographia
@The Russian Revolution Literaria. (37th BCS)
@The Industrial Revolution Ans . i vi. Efi Wordsworth (Collaborator) i
5. "The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was vii. Coleridge Romantic Poet Lake District
I (36th BCS)
heard no more." These lines are from the poem
@The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth
(b Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
I. The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner (a
@To a Lady With a Guitar by P.B. Shelley Albatross l)
O Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2. Kubla Khan (A Romantic poem;
Ans: @ 1 Éfi
3. Fears in Solitude
 4.

s. Jection:
The An Ode
6. Nightingale:
biographia A Conversation 4. Where do the following lines occur in ?
Literaria Poem alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide, Wide
(Literary criticism) 138th BCS/
(37
@The Rhymc of the Ancient Mariner
(b)Kubla Khan
(The Devil's @ the Nightingale
Though).
Suicide Arguments). @ The Dungeon
i
Wanderings of Cain). i 4. Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
(The Religious Musings.)

known for his Essays of Elia and for the

1.
Alone, alone, i book Tales from Shakespeare.
Alone on all, all alone
a wide,
wide sea. Ilis Kooyynyorks :
Tales from Shakespeare
r-
I

Mariner) 1381k l)(The Rhyme of the Ancient l.

Water, water, BCS) i 2. The AdventurfY9f-Ufy
Nor any everywhere 3. Essays@Elia
drop to drink. 4. s 0 CEI
(G, O, G, i
Rhyme of th Ancient
"The speaker, Jane Austen
ed by salt a sailor on a , SY>q)
water that he becalmed 0 d- i
sion, these cannot dr• . n- i
lines are used VQtJ:
someone is to a •on in Whichi
in the mi
it. (The Rime lentfburéa partak o, ! Jane@us n
o nclent Madne
He prayeth
All thingsbo th be Efi anti-romantic novelist in the
reatan s a . (Cliq Romantic Age.
Pride and Prejudice,Sense and
e Ancie ari Sensibility,Emma.
Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bannet, Jane Bannet, Charles
Bingley, Mr. William Collins, Kitty Bannet, Lydia
Bannet.

i List or works ;
Questions and Answers
Novels :
1. Which of the following writers belongs to the 1. Sense and Sensibility (1811)
romantic period in English literature? [36th BCS]
@ A. Tennyson O AlexanderPope 2. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
@ John Dryden @ S.T.C01eridge Ans:O i 3. Mansfield Park (1814)
2. The romantic age in English literature began with i 4. Emma(1815)
the publication of— . [36th BCS] 5. Northanger Abbey (1818)
@ Preface to Shakespeare
Preface to Lyrical Ballads 6. Persuasion (1818) erOv))
@ Preface to Ancient Mariners
7. Love and Friendship
Ans.' (D i 8. The History of England
O Preface to Dr. Johnson
3. Who wrote 'Biographia Literaria'? [37thBCS]
@ Lord Byron P.B. Shelley
O Charles Lamb Ans :@ i
@ S.T. Coleridge
 Questions and Answers 7. Percy Shelley (1792-1822)

1. Jane .Austcn was a

@ male novelist (b female novelist
Shelley Romantic ai
@ young novelist (d)blind novelist Ans : 0)
Who " rote 'Pride and Prx•judice'? Romantic •fi I
@ John Keats i ii.
0) Jane Austen
C) S.T. Coleridge @ Shelley Ans :
c•tfiß Ate
coat I
c•tfiß
6. George Gordon, Lord Byron
(22 January 1788-19 April 1824) I coq
! iii. Revolutionary poet.
iv. Shelley'q The west Wind Wind
Byron Romantic I P.B.Shelley'q Marysfiellef* Novel
f'fk Cambridge
ILThe'MQüg+nPrometheus.
Hours of Idleness (<QN Juvenilia)
Shelley OxfordUåiyerSitya I
Byron Bridge & i The*fiecessity of Atheism
Byron Bridge

4tG,
*donaisü37tmBcs/

yron I i
Byron dienes
Heaven and Earth.
Done Juan gat-
Don Jaun, Donna Julie on Alfonso, Don Jose, i
Donna Lneze,U
Ode to the west Wind. ('Fm G: Efi
destroyer and preserver )
Quotations :
l. Man's conscience is the oracle of God. )
Ode to a Skylark
2. Sweet is revenge-especially to women. (Don i
4. The Cloud
Juan)
3. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart. Tis i 5' Ozaymandias(a famous sonnet) [Main theme: All thing
woman's whole existence. (Don Juan). 140thBCS]I of great and small will perish.)
4. I loved, love you, for this love have lost, state, sta- The Revolt of Islam (
tion, heaven, mankind's my own esteem. (Don • 7. A Defense of Poetry
Juan)
Question : The Necessity Atheism (fi
1. 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's i
whole existence.'-This is taken from the poem of- 14dh BCS]! efi
@ P.B Shelley (b Lord Byron
@ John Keats O Edmund Spenser 9. Cenci ( Tragedy)
Exp: Inrd Byron Romantic Period Byron i 10. Prometheus Unbound (a four act
Rebelpoet &ßØByron i
Don Juan cqrcv <tvtæ-
f«v, Shelly COM:
wqftMan's love is separate . l. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
from man's life.love is not indispensable in man's life. But • (Ode to the west BCS
love occupies the whole existence of woman.
ORACLE
 Our sweetest songs are those that tell Odc on a Grecian tJrn' (G
of saddest 3. VT41
(n)e speaker refers
to the tnhctent dichotomy of life: to VtXJCold pastoral l)
know joy, we need to
songs contain some know pain. the most beautiful 4. Ode on Melancholy' ft•trofql {'q
clement of anguish. pcthaps not
"We look before and
('To a Skylark')
after, And pine for what is not. 5. 'Endymion'
4. Poets are the 6. 'The Eve of St. Agnes' (
unacknowledged legislators of the world
(A Defense of Poetry World)

Questions and Answers 'Jlypcrion• Ono)

1. Who wrote 'Pmmetheus Ono)
"yr-RI Unbound'? . 10. Ode to Autumn
@ Coleridge ll. Isabella
Keats
@ Byron
2. The phrase 'tnnnkless @Shelley
refers to : legs' in the poem 'Ozymandias'i I. A thing of beautyis a
joy for ever
@hug legs
@Legs without body legs withoutbody 2. Beautyistruth, truth beauty"
3. 'Ode to the West @beautiful lege Ans.• @ ICItsthgcsj2(Oddona Grecian
Wind' is by— 3.'fieard melodiéCareNswéet,but thÅe unheardare sweet-
@ Keats i er. (Pde n a Grecian
(b Shelley Sometimes imagination is better than the
@Coleridge O Words orth\
4. P.B. Shelley's 'Adonais' Ans i experience of the hysical senses.)
(37th BCS)
is an elegy On the death of- i
@ John T.
@JohnKeate ge Questions and Answers
Dvor Byfon Ans.•@
'Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they?
8. John Keats (1795-1821) Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.'-Who
wrotethis?
o @ William Wordsworth Robert Browning
@ John Keats @ Samuel Coleridge Ans: @
Exp: &tÄfW Romantic Period '47famous poet John Keats
i. He (1795-1821) was an English Romanticpoet. Keats • 'To Autumn' 1
at his 26, died of Tuberculosis. ete,
ii. (poet of beauty), i
(poet of Sensuousness') I
iii. Occupation: Poet, Professionally known as a man of i
medicine.
iv. Keats Romantic Young I
2. Who is called the poet of beauty?
Notable works :
l. 'Ode to Psyche' [G 'G tv fifi i @ William Wordsworth @ P.B. Shelley
@ John Keats @ Shakespeare Ans : @
Poet the Sensuousness—
2. 'Ode to a Nightingale' { @ P.B. Shelley Wordsworth
@ John Keats @ Byron. Ans :
The poet of Romantic Age (
@ George well D.H. Lawrence
@ John Milton @ John Keats.
 Literature Lecture —5 i Questions-s
2. Who wrote 'The Three Musketeers'?
The Victorian Period (1832-1901) @ Victor Hugo G.B. Shaw Ans : @
@ Voltaire @ Alexander Dumas

3. John Stuart Mill (1806- 1861)

VictorianPeriod Queen Victoria
1837 1901 1 1) John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, polit-
Charles Darwin On the origin of Species ! ical economist and civil servant.
2) United Kingdom Parliament I
f" Indivisua1jsnft43
Victorian 1848 i 4) fÄVticle) Essay on
Age of the pre-Raphaelites. Economics and
Victorian 1880 1901 !

Age of Decadence.
1833 Fabian Society I George i y—ASyste o Lggie
Bernard Shaw 2) •FTheomoi Libggy
'3)s Colonialisö
Period • 4) Slavery
s
l. Alfred Tennyson. 5) Vo men s Rights
2. Robert Browning w6)tvUtilitarianism
3. Mathew Arnold. 7) Economic Philosophy

VictorianPeriod Novelis 4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Chasles Dickens. [36th BCS] (6 March 1806 - 29 June 1861)
1. is not a Victorian poet? 138th
BC'
@ Mathew Arnold Aleyinder pope ! Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most promine
@ Robert$rowning O.*lfrgd Tennyson Ans. (D English poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was wide
popular in both Britain and the United States during
I. John Henry Cardinal Newman i lifetime.
She is remembered for such poems as "How Do I
John Henry Cardinal Newman was a catholic cardi- ! Thee?" (Sonnet 43, 1845) and Aurora Leigh (1856).
nal and theologian who was an importantfigure in She died in Florence in 1861. A collection of her
the religious history of England in the 19th century. i poems was published by her husband shortly after
2) He was a leader of the 'Oxford Movement' i death.
3) He worte the popular hymns 'Lead, Kindly light'
5. Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809—1892)
Famous books:
1. Loss and Gain(novel)
2. The Idea of University i) Victorian Tennyso
3. The Dream of Gerontius .(1865) ii) Efi RepresentativePoet@wtq
iii) He was a Lyric poet of the Victorian age.
2. Alexander Dumas (1802-1870) iv)
Wordsworth 1850
Poet laureate I (Poet Laureat
l. The Count of Monte Cristo court poet of England),
2. The Three Musketeers
3. Twenty Years After
ORACLE
a.
beath
b.
C

Lotus l) EamoysshortstoriøG
) fktq i
l. The Black Cat
Locksley The Oval Portrait
2.
Tithonus 3. The Tell Tale Heart
Morte 4. The Gold Bug
Excaliber Arthur (vqtb
5. The Light House
In Memorium (a i
h. English elegy) Emnous I'ocm ;
To Jlclcn
Quotations Idyll.
•
errs not
to reason I Edgor Allon roc's Only noycl; of Nantucket (A
why, theirs but I The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Charge of
2.
better to the Light to do and ! classic adventure story with supernatural)
have loved Brigade]
loved at and lost than
3. "Knowledge Memoriam] never to have i 7. Gladstone (1809- 898)
4. am a pan comes. but wisdom li
of all that Hall) ! Grand Old Man olBrita•
"Better not 1 have
6. be at all than Gra d Old Man of
Who are not be noble." [The
wise in love, Princess]
love most, say lease: Mer
7. "The old order
And changeth, yielding Eamous-quQte-QtGladstone-;
God fulfils "Justice delayed, Justicedenied,Justicöhurried,
Himself in man wa
Justice buried."

Questions and Ansyers 8. WilliamMakepeaceThackeray

(1811-1863)
1. Tennyson' 'In
Memoriam' is the death of- • History :
@John.Yilton i He' was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was
@ Arthur O JohryKeats ! famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a
2• @SydneySmith Ans: @ ! panoramicportrait of English society.
'The old or@changeth,
yielding place to new.'-This
line is extracted from
Tennyson's poem- 140thBCS) i His well known works :
@ The Lotos-Eaters
Tithonus l. Catherine
@ Locksley Hall O Morte d' Arthur Ans: O i
3. Who 2. A Shabby Genteel Story
wrote 'Ulysses'?
@ Robert Browning O Alfred TennysonAns.' Q) 3. VanityFair (novel)
@ George Eliot O CharlesDickens i 9. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
4. How many lyrics are found in the poem
Memorium'?
@ 131 0 139 Ans: @
@ 135 0 133 Robert Browning
5. Tennyson wrote — I (37th BCS)
@ Dover Beach O My Last Duchess Ans : @ + The innovator of dramatic monologue/
@The Lotus Eaters @ The Eve of St. Agnes father of dramatic monologue.
Elizabelt Barret Browning,
6. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Browning Men and Women
America cu Blank Verse Dramatic Monologue I
Father of English Short story and Modern l. 'My last Duchess'
Detective Story
 2. The Last Ride
Together'
i vii. A Christmas Carol (short Novel) ["h BCS]
4. 'Andrea Del Sano' i vii. Hard Times
5. 'One Word More' ! ix. The Bleak House
6. the Pied Piper of
Hamelin'
7. 'Rabbi Ben Ezra'
Questions and Answers
s. Vomhyria•s Love' 'A Christmas Carol' is a by Charles Dickens.[34k
9. 'Fra Lippo Lippi' BCS)
+1
10. envo In the Campagna' @ historical novel short novel
ll. 'Love Among The Ruins' @ ballad O sketch story
i. Ans :
12. The Patriot A Christmas Carol, a Ghost-Story
of Christmas, is a
novella.
Questions and Answers Novella (Short novel), fq
Novella
I. The poem 'The Patriot' is written by— i) Heart of Darknessby Jos$ph'€ rad;
@ Alfred Tennyson ii) Seize the Day by Saul'bellow•,
(b Robert Browning Ans:
@ Mathew Arnold i. iii) Animal
(d)John Donne
2. Browning was the composer of — iv) Th"ld Man tfn$ theseh byEfneSt Hemingway;
@Two Voices v) trange"éase of an r Hyde by
Q)The ScholarGypsyAns : @
@ Andrea Del Sarto O Oenone i
David'Fop perfiel(Vis an novel. th BCS)
3. Robert Browning was a —poet. Fill in the ga
with appropriate word. (37th BCS SOblizaÉethan ,4ns: O
(a) Romantic O Modern
(b) Vicgorian Ans fo nd a living being in the works of —
(c) modern (d) Elizabeihan
@ y (b Charles Ans:
10. Charles Dickens (FT+ @ W. Congreve @ D. H Lawrence
'A Tale of Two Cities' is a novel by —
fet«, @ Dickens O Thackeray Ans : @

O @ Scott

11. Charlotte Bronte

O Fielding

Charles DickenéÄtqA Ictorian i Charlotte Bronte was born in 1816 in England anc
died in 1855. She was an English novelist and a poet
'Great Expectation'. She was the eldest of the three Bronte sisters
survived into adulthood. Her novels have becomc
classics of English literature.She first publishedhe
famous novel 'Jane Eyre' under the pen namc
'Currer Bell'.
Great Expectations (att
Her pen-name was 'Currer Bell' and she wrotk
• 'Jane Eyre' under the pen-name, Currer Bell.
ii. The Adventures of Oliver Twist [FTI
[1837-18391 i :
l. Emily Bronte
"M; 2. Charlotte Bronte
iii. The Old Curiosity Shop 3. Ammey Bronte
11849-501
iv. David Copperfield
(autobiography)
1859) Victorian
v. A Tale of Two cities i. Charlotte Bronte.
cq fit!
Jane Eyre.

vi. The Pickwick Papers (1812-1870

ORACLE
 ovels :
Jane
(written Eyre, Villette, own history
before Jane Shirley. 2. Man make thor
Eyre). people.
Religion is opium to the

1. 14. George Eliot (1819-1880)

ose
@Annypen-name was 'Cut-rer
Broute
@Charlotte Emilynoute Victorian
Bronte Ans : @ . + George Eliot
12. Emily @none
Bronte i+ Real Name Mary Ann Evans.
(1818-1848) i+ Pen name •(ieorgc Eliot
Emily B

I. Adam Bede. 1859

I 2. The Mill on the
Wuthering !lcights i. 3. Silas MarncrA9,6J••"

+ Heathcliff 5 Felix the

+ Edgar I
Linton - Catherine
Healthc,liff
+ Cathy
Linton - Catherine
+ Catherine 1868)
Earnshaw- IS. Mathew Arnold(1822-
Edgar Lint
+ Lockwood
—Heathcliff
outsi
Mathew Arnold Victorian
Questio i Poet(O)
l. il. Classical Literature •a
1. Newdigate Prize I
Who is central character o 'Wuthering Heights'
Emily Bronte 9¯O hBcsr' Z by l. iii. the inspector Of School
A
@ Mr. Earnshaw i iv. OxfordUniversity-a e
therine Professor of Poetry fetza
@ Heatchcliff O HindleyEarnshaw Ans. @ i

13. Karl Marx (1818-1883) Mathew'sMajor Poems :

I. The Forsaken Merman
1. (The father of Socialism) 2. The Scholar Gipsy
I fifi i 3. Dover Beach
4. Rugby ChapelThyris
England i 5. His literary criticism: The Study of Poetry

i. 16. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

* DasCapital (ato !

9ffdfbu l) Brief 'listory: He (1828- 1910)was a Rusian writer

i. who primarily wrote novels and short Later in life.
! he also wrote plays and essays.
societies has been the his- !
1. The history of all previous l.
to of class struggles
His well-known works :
l. War and Peace (novel) 2. Desperate Remedies (1872)
2. Anna Karenina (novel) 3. Under the Greenwood Tree [1872)
3. A Confession 4. Far From the Madding crowd

5. The Return of the Native (18781

17. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) 6. The Mayor of Caster bridge (1886)
7. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
l. Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet
2. .f01 8. Jude the Obscure, [ 1895)(V
(Goblin-MarkcLan(.LQ1hCLRoems)
i Qucstion ;
rocms ;
1. An Apple Gathering (An apple gathering ! 1. Which of the followings books is written by
appears to be an allegorical fable similar to • Thomas Hardy? 136th BCS)
Goblin Market. @ Vanity Fair
2. Dream Land (b)The Return of the Nati Ans.
3. Bride Song @ Pride and Prejudi e
4. A Daughter of Eve @Olivy.wisf
5. My Dream
obeit Louis Ste enso 1850 894)
IS. Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

ycasår@lsland (1883)
2. (Iliad) & q ( The *Strany Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-•q (1886)
•dnapfred 1886)
The MaGerQ(Ballantrae (1889)
Notable works :_ Pooks Hill
I. Erewhom ati/g_yveli An Inland Voyage (et«)
2. Thesvay of Alt flesh i
calNovel) 21. Oscar Wilde (1856 - 1900)
Famous
l. Life is not an exact'cience, it is an art.
2. Self preservationis the first law nature.
I
3. God was satisfied with his own work, and that is i
fatal.
Questions;
19. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Who wrote the novel 'The Picture of Dorian
Gray'?
@ SamuelBecketle Thomas Kyd Ans : @
Thomas Hardy Victorian M. Singh @ Oscar Wilde
CO/ G9FTTf*•, e I
Swinburn, Browning Darwin i

22. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930

fifi Darwin's Theory of Evolution !

i He was a Scottish physician and writer who is most not

i for his fictional stories about the detective Sherl
blis major works ; Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in
1. The Poor Man and the lady. [18671 [It was not ! field of crime fiction.
published and later, he destroyed the manuscript.
 l. Sherlock Holmes
2. The I-nst World (novel) Questions and Answers
(novel)
23. Maxim
Gorky (1868-1936) Who was the 'Poet of world democracy'?
@ Walt Whitman Robert Frost
@ T. S. Eliot @ Ezra Pound Ant •
He is the Father
of socialist realism "Q) i 2. Who wrote 'Leaves on Grass'?
@ Walt Whitman Walt Whitman
@ MatthewArnold @T. S. Eliot Ant •
l. Mother
2. My Childhood
Who wrote the poem 'A Passage to India'?
@ Matthew Arnold Walt Whitman
Ana •
24. Victor Hugo @ Robert Frost OT. S. Eliot
(1802-1885)

Les Miserable i 26. Fyodor Dostoyevsßy(i821-i881)

The Hunchback of Notre
Dame (first novel)
Ninety- Three

Poems :
Autumn Leaves
i. Crimeapd Punkhrnen
Songs of the l\vilight.
2/ The Idiot
Inner Voice
Rays and Shadows
-A ttJe'Hero
5. The House of the Dead
Short Story
6. Notes from Underground
Claude Gueu 7. Crime and Punishment theme
'Crime never goes without punishment'
a Grandfather.

28. Ralph Waldo Emersorv

(May 25,1803-apri1 27;"1882)

He was an American essayist, lecturer and poet.

He led the transcendentalistmovementof the mid-
19th century.
Famous book : The American scholar.

25. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

+ Novelist i
(Dark Romanticism) I

Notable novels :
l. The House of the Seven Galeles (Gothic) i
Novel .
2. Twice- Told Tales.
3. The Scarlet Letter.

ORACLE
 iterature Lectur (SbQo) (Catiline)
(Sb9b) (A Doll's House)

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

1. The Modern (1901-1939)and Th
Postmodern (1939....)Periods

He (1856-1950)was an Irish playwright in English.

He is called the father of Modem English Literature
and father of modern English drama.
Queen i+ Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation.
Modern Period I and in 1925 was awarded th
Lileraturg.
Post-modem Period I Shakespeare
Modem Period- i G.B Sbaw:'"
ho'ÉGtz(
t ode amatist.

The First World war 1914-191

The Second World war 1939
l. Irnt!a ty
åßocialist
a tonal Knot
4. Love g the Artists
Streamof c scjousne T e U of
I Caesar and Cleopatra (play)
Psyéhologi 2. Man and Superman (comedy)
3
3. Arms and the Man (play)
4. The Man of Destiny (1895)
5. The Doctor's Dilemma
6. Pygmalion
Individualism Experimentation
7. Mrs. Warren's Profession:
Absurdity Break with tradition
8. Androcles and the Lion (play)
Symbol ism Formalism
9. The Apple Cart
10. The Devil's Disciple
2. Henrik Ibsen ll. You Never Can Tell (play)
(20 March 1828-23 May 1906) 12. Candida (36th BCS)

V, >boE) Questions and Answers

I fifi i
The play 'Candida' is by— (36th BCS)
f«cq i @ James Joyce Shakespeare
@ G.B. Shaw O Arthur Miller Ans : @
The play Arms and the Man is by — (35" BCS)
(>YQO) i. @James Joyce Samuel Beckett
O Arthur Miller O GeorgeBemardShawAns: @

{ ORACLE
 Who %rote problem plays? 1. The Tower (poetry)
@ Samuel Beckctle J. M. Singh 2. The Winding Stair (poetry)
O Thomas Kyd Ans : @
@G.B Shaw 3. The Green Helmet (poetry)
i
Who the greatest modern English Dramatist? 4. The Wild Swans at Colle (poem)
BCS)
5. The Lake Isle of Innisfree(35thBCS
@ Virginia Woolf George Bcmard Shaw
i 6. Easter 1916
@ P. B. Shelley T. Coleridg
7. Sail to Byzantium
8. Leda and The Swan
Joseph Conrad ( 1857. 1924)

Questions and Answers

Joseph Conrad I
Which of the following is not eriGG poet?
Heart of Darkness. 1. BCS)
Heart of Darkness ktqt- Marlow, i @ RobertFrost
Kurtz, the Manager. the Account. @ Emily yok
Heart of Darkness Exp: W. 6t Irish pogahd emati$f. 1923

The ! Dickinson

Lord Jim, Th este

Eyes, Nostromo!
2. '9ftanja11 0 Rabiildranath Tagore was tr nslated
S. Rudyard Kipling (1865
O Robert Frost
@JohnKea O Rudyard Kipling Ans : @
Who of the following writers was not a novelist?
(36th BCS)
His wo of ctio @ Charles Dickens W.B. Yeats
1. Bö0kfii8 ) @James Joyce O Jane Austen Ans :
The poem 'Isle of Innisfree' is written by — (35* BCS)
6. William @ Dylan Thomas Ezra Pound
@ W.H.Auden O W.B Yeats Ans : O

H.G. Wells : (21 September 1866-13 August 1946)

He (1865-1939)was an Irish poet and one of the •
foremost figures of 20th century literature.
In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in i. : Herbert George Wells
Literature as the first Irishman. Famous science fiction:
Yeats wrote the introduction for of Rabindranath• i. The Time Machine
Tagore(36th BCS).
ii. The Invisible Man
W.B Yeats English Poet .
cot Use of i 8.
Symbolism and Mysticism .
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970)
Easter- 1916' All i
Changed. Changed Utterly/ A terrible Beauty is
! + Bertrand Russell British
Philosopher I

ORACLE
 Wotern I•tti)oeopl". of
Roads on Freedom. Home is
l"ltc Nobel Ibe PIN e where. when you have to go fir tr. •rhr•y
works : have to take you •n,
I Road to Freedom (c) 'lome nurtal
2 Political Ideals (d) The Mountmn
(e) After Apple-Pickmg
3 Analysts of Mind
4. Mamageand Morals
13 From MountainInterval a

9. John Millington Synge (1871•1909)

! Quotations :
(a) The Road not Taken a
fRtb
Two roads diver
And so ff6i tr.qe
The Shadow of the Glen (Att.)
The Well of the Saints the one Éss Crav by
Riders to the Sea (One nd m a the iffe
BCS)
The Playboy of the Western W (b Bi h
ght place for love
• Deirdre of the S t.kmow where it's likely to go
• The Aran ands Life is uch like a pathless wood.

Ota
Questions-i are ove y,
Ri to!he But I have promises to keep, on a
I. BCS) And miles to before I slee
@ an ences ma e S
o
@ a nove New Hampshire -
@a one-act p (b) Fire and Ice
O a theatrical adaptationof a poem Ans : @ (c) Stopping by Woods on a Snow Evening

10. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

11. William Somerset Maugham (1874 1965)
%Ttq New England i

the great American

poet of our time. William Somerset Maugham
Nature poet, regional poet etc. Novelist and shottstory writer.
fifi (PulitzerPrizes] i : Cakes and Ale. Tb
Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage. Liza o
Lambeth.
The Ant and th
A Boy's Will Mowing Ii Grasshopper .
2. North of Boston : i. + The Ant and the Grshopper 'ftW
QMI- George tom.
(a) Mending Wall
His wellknown works :
1. 11Lstoryof the Second World W
2. The River War
Novels :
1. Of Ruman Bondage
2. Lim of Lambeth Questions:
3. Christmas Holiday
Who was the first person to be made
4. nie Razor'sEdge citizen of theUnited States by the
S. Luncheon (A shortstory) ment for his outstanding
performancein
politics?
may : @ D. H. Lawrence George Orwell
t. lhe Letter @ Winston Churchill O Betrand Russel
2. Bread-Winner
3. Constant Wife
4. The Sacred Flame 3. Edward Morgån, ForsterN\
(1 Janua 18+9-7

Questions and Answers

1. Who wrote the famous short story, 'The nto cohe i
Grasshopper'?
@ E.M.Forister ONI.KI'Raw g Ans @ i A Passage
Dr. Aziz,
Cyril
2. 'Luncheon' is short o w Cte by— Miss Adela QUested, Ronny Heaslop, Fiel
@ James J? c ats
Godbole, Hamidullah, MahmoudAli,
StellaM
@ oseph(Courad O Gliimspmerseti aubh
3. 'O uman E' ) tten God has put us on earth to love
ournei
@ and to show it
Avoolf erset
We may hate one another, but we
. . Eliot Ans : hateyou
Essay km My wood.
12. Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) i Works :
(i) Where Angles Fear to Tread
(ii) A Passage to India
(iii) Howards End
i (iv) A Room With a View
Sir WinstonChurchill
Nobel Prize I (v) The Longest Journey
Efi The Prime Minister of the United I
Kingdom (UK) . A Pasage to India is written by (36kBCS}
An Honorary Citizen of the i. @ E.M. Forster O Rubyard Kipling
United States (USA) . @ Galls Worthy o A. H. Auden
History of the Second i
World War .
 14. James Joyce (1882-1941) 5. The Voyage Out
6. Night and Day

Virginia Voyage
Virginia Woolf Voyage
James Joyce Irish novelist & poet.
Stream of Consciousness i
Idea of narrative technique.
Questions and Answers
Ulysses .
Who wrote the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'?
His well Known works ;
@ Kipling's Maughan's
I Ulysses (novel)
@ Virginia Woolf @ James Joyce's Ans : @
2. Dubliners
3. A Portrait of the Arist as a Young Man
Who is the writer of the noveE 'To the Light
(novel) house'?
4. Finnegans Wake
O. Virginia Woolf .MaUghan's
Ans : @
Questions : 3. Whcvfg$e.'trhe
I. 'Ulysses' is a novel written by- 140th BCS)
@ Joseph Conrad Ihomas Hardy \ Ans: @
@ Charles Dickens O James Joyce
2. James Joyce's famous novel is
@ Utopia i 16. D H (1885-1930)
O The Wasteland Sohs andLovers. Ans :

Consciousness'* seen iri — writings.

@ James Joyce's Virg@ia WoöJf's•
@ Arnold's @ Both a and b He (1885 -1930) was an English novelist, poet, play-
wright, essayist, literary critic and painter.
15. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) D.H Lawrence Modern Novelist
Sons and Lovers I
Sons and Lovers Autobiographical novel.
The White Peacock,
Virginia Woolf frt+1 I The Rainbow,Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's,
Lovers
fifi Presentationof inner-realities-•qqFJ I
sons and Lovers Paul Morel.
Mrs. ! Gertrude Morel, William Morel, Annie Morel, Arthur
Dalloway. Morel, Walter Morel, Miriam.
Mrs. Dalloway Clarissa, i
Dalloway, Peter, Walsh, Richard Dolloway

I His wetlknown works :

Mrs Dalloway (1925),
2. To the Light house (1927),
3. Orlando (1928), :
4. A Room of One's Own (1929), (essay) (4fr
l. The White Peacock (novel)
2. Sons and Lovers (novel)
:
3. The Rainbow (novel)
:
4. Women in Love (novel)
5. Lady Chatterley's Lover (novel)
6. A Modern Lover
 Plays :
1 Bread and Butter 1918 - Pulitzer Prize.
Questions and Answers 2.
(1920)
Christic. (1920) - Pulitzer Prize. (1922)
1. Which of novels by D. H. Lawrence was banned in l. 3. Anna (1922)
the United States of America Until 1959? 4. "Ihe.Ha.1ß.--B.pe-. (1925)
@ Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 1928) - Pulitzer Prize
O Sons and Lovers 6. Strange Interlude, written (1941),
@ The White Peacock 7. Pulitzer Prize (1957)
1956 -
first performed
O Kangaroo Ans : @
2. 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' is written by—
@ Thomas Hardy i. 20. T.s Eliot (1888-1965)
D.H. Lawrence
@ G. B. Shaw O Charles Dickens Ans :
3. 'The Rainbow' is— (13th BCS)
a poem by Wordsworth Aran@tist.and a critic
O a shortstoryby Somerset Maugham i> T.s Eliot Objeqtive Correlative
Thgory
@ a novel by D. H. LawrenceO a verse by Coleridgeii
Ans:@ i
V/
18. Ezra Pound (1885-1972) ,Noye1
The Love song of*JAlfred

Ezra Pound was born in I Tradition and Individual Talent.

1972 in Venice, Ital
He was an A ericanpoet and historia@

X His well known works :

1. The Waste Land (poem)
2. Four Quartets
3. The Waste Land
Usura, Ku hiselwxn Ma Y
4. The Hollow Men
5. Ash Wednesday
Questions :
6. Murder in the Cathedral
1. Who wrote 'Usura'?
@ H. Q. Well 7. Gerontion (37th bCS)
O T. S. Eliot
@ Ezra Pound O W. B. Yeats Ans : @

1. The Waste Land (G - 1922

2. Purock and other observations
19. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 1917
(October 16.1888 - November 27. 1953)

Eugene O'Neill was an Irish American playwright and i

1. Murder in the Cathedral
Nobel laureate in Literature. Eugene O'Neill won Nobel i.
Prize in 1936. His poetically titled plays were among the ! 2. The Family Reunion (G
first to introduce into American drama techniques of real- 3. The cocktail party -1949
ism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton 4. The elder statesman (G
Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and i 5. The Rock (G q.)
Swedish playwright August Strindberg.

ORACLE
 ucstions and Answers
I. T. S. Eliot was born 23. George Orwell (1903-1950)
. @ Ireland in
(Eric Arthur Blair)
(b England
O Wales
2. Who was famous
ror his theory of
'Objective Co- i + ftM* Police Officer
@ W. B. Yeats Lower Burma
T.s.
Eliot I
OH G. wells
O Ezra Pound Ans .
3. Who wmte 'The Waste
@
Land'
T.S. Eliot l. Homage to Catalonia
(b W. B. Yeats
@ lhomas Hardy 2. Animal Farm (Alle orical Novel)-1945.'4ß
O Walt Whitman
4. 'Gerontion• is a poem by— Ans : @ I
(37thBCS)
@ T.s. Eliot 3. Nineteen
W.B. Yeats
@ Mathew Arnold 4. A Clergyman pa
O Robert Browning
Ans : @ I 5. Burm
21. Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) 6. fo Ai

ho in ph ose)
Pearl S. Buck A ngl
AmeAn writer
teacher
fifi 'NRbel Pri
Questions and Answers
Who is the writer of the famous Essay 'Shooting an
AG%biograph) No Elephant'—
My Several Worlds G dEa @ George Orwell Charles Dickens
A Bridgv Dragon Seed @ Thomas More O Boris Pastemk Ans : @
The Big wave 'Animal Farm' was written by— (28th BCS)
The Rainbow @ GeorgeOrwell Stevenson
Questions: @ Swift O Mark Twain Ans : @
1. Who was the first American female Nobel laure- Who is the author of 'Animal Farm'? (10th, 12th &
ate? BCS)
@ Pearl S. Buck O CharlottleBronte @ Thomas More George Orwell .
@ Jame Austin O Emily Bronte Ans : @ O Boris Pasternak O CharlesDickens Ans :
2. 'The Good Earth' has been written by —
@ Virginia Woolf George Eliot
@ Charles Dickens O Pearls Buck Ans :O

22. Aldous Huxley

(1894-1963)«Ä)
He is a versatile genius. He is mainly an essayist. His i
famous novel is Braye New World.
 iteratur i
eclure— Oneqtionqnod Anower.
Who wroto the
1. Boris
Pasternak ( 1890.1960)
Brier History: Who of rømooe
elist, and (1800
a
uanslator. He
awarded the Nobel i (ii)
(g) Willintn Fnulknrr Ane

Ernest Ilcrningwny ( 1961)

Bons Pasternak
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(William Cuthbert Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1940)

v. The Torrents of Spring ( 1951)

i) 'Indian Camp' (1926) (shortqory)

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(hey) I Questions and Answers
1. Who is author of 'For Whom the Ben
@ Charles Dickens O Homer
@ Lord Tennyson @ Emest :
'The Sun Also Rises' is a novel by—
@ Herman Melville O Ernest Hetmngwav
Soldiers' Pay (1926) @ William Faulkuer @ Saul Bellow
Mosquitoes (1927)
Sartoris[Flags in the Dust (1929/1973) 4. Samuel Barclay Beckett
The Sound and the Fury (1929) (13 April 1906 —22 December 190)
As 1 Lay Dying (1930)
Sanctuary (1931)
Light in August (1932)
Pylon (1935) Samuel Beckett
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) i godot
i Waiting for Godot Absurd Play
The Unvanquished (1938)
l. His work offers a bleak. tragicotük' outlNk
nature, often coupled Ith black cotnedy
 humour. He got
Nobel Prize for
l. Murphy ( literature in 1969.
2. Molloy (
3. Malone ( ) Questions and An«wer.s
•I'hc Unnamable
S. Waiting (I
for Godot ( 1953) l. Who was an Americannmelist born in Canada?
6 Watt @ Ilennan MCI'.illc Pearl S. Buck
7. Endgame ( O William Faulkucr O Saul Bellow Ans : O
8. Krapp•s Last Tape ( Who wrote the novel 'Seim the Day'?
19.68)
@ V. S. Naipaul (b Derek Walcott
@ Grahatn Greene @ Saul Bellow Ans : O
g. R. K. Narayan
(1906-2001)
8. Arthur Asher Miller
Rasipuram Krtshnaswami (1915-2005)
born Madras. India Lycr Narayanaswamiwas
i
1906 and died in 2001 in
Arther Miller was an American playwright, essayist. and
Nambi a story teller and
a vital Character in the i
story Under the Banyan Among his plays are All My sons (1947).Death of a
by R. K. Narayan. i Salesman (1949). The Crucible (1953) and A View from
His (amous novels i the Bridge (1955, revised 1956). He also wrote the screen-
(i) S" ami and Friends play for the film the Misfits (1961).
(ii) The Bachelor of Arts,
The Dark Room l. All My sons (1947).
(iii) The English Teacher,
Mr. Sampth 2. Death of a Salesman (1949)
(iv) Maiting for the Mahatma

6. William Gerald Golding (1911-1993)

! Questions :
l. Who wrote the play, 'Death of a Salesman'?
@ O, Henry O M. K. Rawlings
William Gerald-ih @ Saul Bellow O ArthurAsherMiller Ans : @
Golding I Golding was born io 1911 in
England and died in 1993.
Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
He was awarded Nobel Prize in 1983.
His principal-works are Lord of the Flies (1954),i :
The Inheritors, Free Fall (1959), The Spire (1964), i
The Pyramid (1967), Darkness Visible (1979) and i Harold Pinter English actor, playwright
The Scorpion God (1971 screenwriter and director.
Novel Prize I
7. Saul Bellow (1915-2005) The Birthday Party.
Saul Bellow (h>Q-RooQ) i His wen-knownworks :
Efi I i l. The Birthday Party
2. The Homecoming
I Widely regarded as one of 3. Betrayal
the 20thcentury's greatest authors, Bellow has huge literary i
influence. His best known works are: 0. Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931)
The Adventures of Augie March
2. Henderson the Rain King Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Woff0'
3. Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet February 18, 1931) is an American novelist. edit
4. Seize the Day and professor.
5. Humboldt's Gift and Among her best known novels are
6. RaveJstein Sula. Song of Solomon and Beloved.
 Award in 1988 for
Bclovcd and the
on 29 May
2012. she received Nobel Pri?Cin 1993 1 Questions :
the Presidential
Medal 1. Who translated the 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into
English?
@ '(homas Carlyle Edward Fitzerald'
l. The Bluest O C. D.G. Rossetti @ WilliamThackeray Ans :
Eye
3. Song of Solomon 2. Sula f-yfr
i Exp: EdwarrlFirerald
S. Mercy 4. Beloved The Rubaiyat of Omar

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Momson Mercy
Momson Mercy The short story 'The Diamond Necklace' was written by.
@ Guy de Maupassant (DO Henry
@ Somerset Maugham @George Orwell Ans : @
ll. ! Exp: fivf«nv "The
Arundhuty Roy Necklace orythe Diamond Necklace'
cqfWT) (1961 -
Parure'.
l. Suzanna Arundhati
Roy
Novel- the God of
Small Things FJ
Semi- autobiographical
Literary Terms
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Man Booker Prize(The
Things) - God of små1J i
3. Nuclear weapons,e-lndustrization
(i) Epic means•a lopg narrative poem that tells in grand
Listenigg to style the history and aspirations of a national hero.
Democrocy'. ?qotes ori
(ii)A long narrative poem dealing with heroic theme
and adventure.
There are two types of epic:
l. The God of Smallffhings(1997) (1)Primary or Oral epic:
2. New YorkTimes A Primary epic is a type of epic with which the epic
tradition began. In a primary epic the episodestaker
from the oral tradition are linked with one another
12. make a longer story.
Tahmima Anam (1975 — )
Examples : Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are pnmar
epics.
(2) Secondary or Literary epic:
(The Daily Star' !
TahmimaAnam The Secondary or Literary epic is the one whichimi
cqföl) !
tated the tradition of the primary epic. A primaryepi
displays savage and rude heroism but a secondaryepi
shows a more refined taste.
Examples: Virgil's Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comed
and Milton's Paradise Lost are secondary epics.
l. The Golden age (2007)
2. The Good Muslim (2011) 22 -Simile-; like
As
3. The Bones of Grace(2016) Simile Of I (The comparison ofunlil
things using the words like or as is knownto t
simile) 137th BCS]
i) My heart is like a singing bird
 ii) He is as cunning as
a fox.
iii) I wandered loncly of
as a cloud : The technique
iv) The soul was like personifi-
v) Our soldiers are as
a star dwelt aparl treating non-livjng things as liveiy is called (per-
bra\C as lions cation W. •4
Metaphor ;
Examples :
Metaphor I Metaphor l. Mr. Pneumonia was not a polite old gentleman.
such. like la figure of speech as.
or phrase is applied to an in which a word Pneumonia II
object or action to which it i 2. Death lays his icy hand on kings.
is not literally applicable.l
i) Life is but a walking shadow.[ 3. The fog comes on little cat feet.

Il) My brother was boiling

mad. (This implies he i
was too angry.)
iii) The assignment was a breeze. (Gw;t)
Hyperbole
(This implies that
the assignment was not difficult.)
Note: overstatement Hyperbole (exag-
Metaphor I i geration or in deliberate over-
Nazrul is Shelly-
i statement 'is_made for,emphasis.
Metaphor I Life is a dream- !
life dream I Examples :
Metaphor ktq I thousand at a glance.
'i at a glance Tén thousand\I GÄT
4. Alliteration : The repetition of begrnniog
consonant sound is called Halliteration ii;He is
i havetold• you a million times.
) 137th BCS]
iv. I ate theÄvhöle cow.
i) Birds of the same feaÄherflock-together (gqttq
'F' Repeat Limerick
a better butter makes a (i) A funny poem of five lines called limerick: [37th
ii) She sells • "sea—hells on the épa Shbre; i BCS)

The shells that she sel)Åare sea sure. (ii) Limerick •fivt) : A Form of
iii) Chompa is chewing a chewing gum of cherry by i light verse (*T5 •fiV1/ Limerick
sitting on a charming-Chair.
Alliteration- ktm: It is a humorous verse of three long and two short lines
qcf I I
rhyming aabba. The third and fourth lines are usually
shorter than the other three.
TTft, fit-• I i
Limerick
There was an Old Man with a beard,
•fifi
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
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Climax I Climax i Two Owls and a Hen,
turning point i Four Larks and a Wren,
I climax happens auhe-he.ighL.Qf Have all built their nests in my beard!
a plot. (36thand37thBCS).It is the turning point. In play it !
(From 'There was an Old Man with a Beard' by
is a point of time at which the conflict between oppo- Ans: B
Edward Lear)
sites reaches a point demanding resolution.
(i) "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came; I saw; I conquered")-
'climax' importance of idea i 9.
I This is an example i (i) A dramatic technique of speaking alone to give

of sentence climax. characters own thoughts and feelings. (ü«

(ii) "He sniile.s,he laughs and he roars". The climax
bfiæ
is at the end of the sentence.
ORACLE
 11) A by a chntacter talk •ng to • Spelling Pronunc
ith no Itstenel around. bf010 11• 'Iomonym«
Soliloquy i) You arc right LfHJk at
F.xamplcs: Ilonjonyms st(k•
(1) To be or not to 1k'.That the qucstton your right
(11)"Yet art thou still but Faustus and a man" : A word may
lln the first soliloquy ot•I'octor Faustus) Ilomopbones :
1 18.
anothcr but diffcrcnt In ,wlhng.
sound the sarnc aq called homophones (
is
10. Blank Verse
meaning or origin
I ire
Blank verse Poetry without rhyme at the end. qvr.ö
fSfl or. 'kncw' and 'ncw' are
ca) Blank verse poetty has no fixed
number of lines. Example: •Write'.
homophoncs.
Examples :
Something there is that doesn't love a wall (T'ft%Tfb) :
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, i 19. Monologue Spccch or writing produced and often per-
And spills the upper boulders in the sun; (Mending i
Walls by Robert Frost) formed, by onceperson.

V :
ll. F-ICKY : iI 20. Diction ( t€5T*) The choice of words that a
1
Elegy-c•tT+'11Qt1 (It is a poem of i term for vocabulary or lexis, although
Lamentation and Mourning) makes,Another
less used these day.s.
12. Sonnet : 'OR, fin,
21. Freé verse
fig verse written Withoutanv
or form).
Octave fixed structure(either in meter, rhyme
Sestet. Themeeproblem
'i
MachiavellianCharacter : a scheming person/cun-
ning person/ selfish person.
l. Italian or Petrarchan,sönnet
2. Shakespeareanor Englis sonnet
3. Spenserian sonnet
i 23. Digression : To divert from the main topic. (e«
13. Comedy Play : i
Rt•m i
24. Eulogy : Expressing high praise of somebody.
q•a, I (A play that
shows terrible things in a way that is intended to be
funny that is called comedy play).
i 25. Onomatopoeia : A word that phonetral-
ly imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the
14. Melodrama play : fm sound that it describes. Example-rniaou. roar. cuck•co
e (Violent and Sensational I
etc.
themes) I

A figure of speech in which the sound of uords and

15. Protagonist : I
phrases suggests the sense.
bf«w Protagonist I The leading character in a play. i
For exaunple :
16. Ballad (Mu : Ballad !
(Romantic pop song is called ballad). + "Chug, chug. chug. Puff. puff. pun, Ding-dens'. ding-
(long,The little train rutnbled the tracks
Dirge
Piper' (Arnold Ntunkl. 'I'he Little Engtne That Could)
Dirge/ (A song expressing grief, i
lamentation and jnourning).
 26. Allegory :
A story or a •t' i 4. The Climax of a plot is what happens — and3dhBCS)
Bunyan) narrative. (John i
'The Pilgrim •s @ in the beginning @ at the height
Progrcss• allegory.
@ at the end O in the confrontationAns : @
27. 'The Poet Laureate' is— [15
@ the best poet of the country
A figure of speech which
stands for a pleasantway a winner of the Noble Prize in poetry
referring to something of !
Ytq unpleasant. (c•ttqt qt • O the Court Poet of England
Euphemism O a classical poet. Ans : @
The substitution of i 6. What is Limerick? ,Qrnn
an inofTensiveexpres- i rrrs
sion for one considered
offensively explicit.

Euphemism Exarwles in Everyday @ A formof light verse

Life A form of one-act play
Euphemism is frequently used
in everyday life. @ A kind of short narra
i. You are becoming a little thin on
top (bald). O A kind of lov Ans: @
ii. Our teacher is in the family way
iii. He is always tired and emotional
(pregnant). A poem o u en n s i a ed—
(drunk).
t
28. Paradox : As c de pic Ans :O
where contradictory things come toget n
r. 8. r tig nis '
Examplesof Paradox:
Cowards die many times r r eaths. -Roo$l
Your enemy's friend i o emy th a in a play
I am nobody. @ the character or actor in a play
@ the clown In a play
222 Oxymoron: O the stage-director or a play Ans : @
Y oron i
Elegy
She is @ historical poem figuraive story Ans : O
He is an honest:ngue_,) @ enemy O song of Lamentation
It is a painful pleayre. | 10. What is an epic?
@ a prose composition a romance
@ a sonnet O a long poem Ans.• @
Questions and Answers | 11. 'Blank verse' is kind of verse—
@ having no rhymingend
1. The repetition of beginning consonant sound is • having blanks in the verse
known as----/37thBCS] O having no significance
@personification onomatopoeia O having no rhythmic flow Ans : @
@ alliteration O rhyme Ans : @ | 12. A Fantasy is —
2. What is a funny poem of five lines called? [37thBCS]! @ An imaginarystory@ a funny film
@Quartet Limerick @ A real life event O A funny place Ans : @
@ Sestet O haiku 1 13. A drama is a/an••
Ans :
3. The comparison of unlike things using the words I @ novel retold in dialogue
like or as is known to be— [37thBCS] magical performances on the stag
@ metaphor @ simile @ fairy tale
O story translated into action Ans :
O alliteration O personification Ans : @