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1 - "A Far Cry from Kenningston" is a novel by ------------..

Murial Spark

2 - "A Patriot for Me" (1965) is a play by ------------

John Osborne

3 - "A Room of One's Own" is published in ------------.

1929

4 - "A Room of One's Own" is written by ------------.

Virginia Woolf

5 - "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy" is written by?

Sterne

6 - "A Start in Life" is written by ------------.

Anita Brookner

7 - "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" is a line composed by John Keats in his poem ------------..

Endymion

8 - "A Vindication of the Rights of Man" was published in------------..

1790

9 - "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" was published in------------..

1792

10 - "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" was written by------------..

Mary Wollstonecraft

11 - "Agamemnon", "The Libation Bearers" and "The Eumenides" is a trilogy written by------------. .

Aeschylus

12 - "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" is a line from ------------.

Animal Farm

13 - "All love is sweet, given or returned" is composed by ------------.

P.B Shelley

14 - "All The Year Round" remained in publication from 1859 to

1895

15 - "All The Year Round" was a weekly journal by

Charles Dickens

16 - "All's Well That Ends well" is a ------------comedy by Shakespeare.

Problem

17 - "Alpha of the Plough" is the title of ------------

Gardiner

18 - "Arcadia" was written by

Philip Sydney

19 - "Areopagitica" was against

Censorship

20 - "Arraignment of Paris" was famous for

All of these

21 - "Astrophel and Stella" by Philip Sydney is a

Sonnet Series

22 - "Bartholomew Fair" was written by Ben Johnson in

1614

23 - "Basilikon Daron" is written by

King James I

24 - "Basilikon Daron" was written in

1599

25 - "Battle of Brunanburh" and "The Battle of Maldon" are old English ------------.poems.

Heroic

26 - "Becket" is a book by

Tennyson

27 - "Beowulf" is an old English poem which describes------------.?

The adventures of Beowulf

28 - "Beowulf" is an/a ------------.?

Epic

29 - "Brunanburh" celebrates the victory of Aethelstan, the King of------------------------?

Wessex

30 - "But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose" is taken from ------------

A Farewell to Arms

31 - "Compaspe" and "Love's Metamorphoses" are the plays by

John Lyly

32 - "Complaint of Deor" describes ------------?

Disappointment of a lover

33 - "Complaint of Deor" is a poem from ------------.. Age.

Old

34 - "Conquest of Happiness" is by ------------..

George Orwell

35 - "Coriolanus" was a play by ------------.

Bertolt Brecht

36 - "Culture and Anarchy" is a prose work written by ------------.

Mattew Arnold

37 - "Curriculum Vitae" by Murial Spark was published in ------------..

1992

38 - "Curriculum Vitae" is a/an ------------..of Murial Spark.

Autobiography

39 - "Daniel", "Judith", Genesis" and "Exodus" are written by------------------------..?

Caedmon

40 - "Death of a Naturlaist" was written by ------------..

Seamus Heaney

41 - "Decameron" was the first attempted

Prose Adventure

42 - "Desperate Remedies" was written on the advice of George Meredith in ------------

1871

43 - "Dido, Queen of Carthage" was composed in

1585-87

44 - "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" is a line from T.S Eliot's ------------..

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

45 - "Doomsday Book" is the manuscript record of ------------------------..?

Great Survey

46 - "Doomsday Book" was originally written in ------------------------..?

Latin

47 - "Dost thou not see my baby at my breast/That sucks the nurse asleep" is from "Antony Cleopatra" spoken by

Cleopatra

48 - "Easter 1916" was published in 1921 by ------------

WB Yeats

49 - "Edward II" and "Dido, Queen of Crathage" are written by

Christopher Marlowe

50 - "Endymion, The Man on the Moon" is written by?

John Lyly

51 - "Essays of Dramatic Poesy" was written by------------..

John Dryden

52 - "Ethics" is writte by------------ .

Aristotle

53 - "Eupheus: and His England (1580) is by

John Lyly

54 - "Eupheus: The Anatomy of Wit" (1578) is by

John Lyly

55 - "Every Man in His Humour" was published in 1598 by

Ben Johnson

56 - "Everyman in His Humour" is a drama by

Ben Johnson

57 - "Everyman in His Humour" is a drama by Ben Johnson, published in

1598

58 - "Familiar in his mouth as household words" is a line from Henry V by Sahkespeare. The name of which magazine was taken from this line?

Household Words

59 - "Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell" is a quotation from ------------

Dr. Faustus

60 - "For lack of bread" was stated on the death of Spenser by

Ben Johnson

61 - "Frailty, thy name is woman" is from the play ------------...

Hamlet

62 - "Frogs" and "Festival" are famous comdies of ------------.. .

Aristophnes

63 - "Gammer Gurton's Needle" is

All of these

64 - "Get Wallace" was written by ------------

Alexander Wilson

65 - "Gorboduc" was the first English

Tragedy

66 - "Gorboduc" was written by

Both B & C

67 - "Gorboduc" was written in

Blank Verse

68 - "He is the voice of Anglo-Saxon." Who said this about Browning?

W.J Long

69 - "Henry VIII" by Shakespeare was published in

1613

70 - "Hero and Leander" and "Tamburlaine" are written by

Marlowe

71 - "Hippolytus" and "Electra" are plays by------------ .

Euripides

72 - "Homibic" is written by------------..?

Wulfeven

73 - "Hotel du Lac" was pubished in ------------.

1984

74 - "Hyperion" was published in ------------.

1820

75 - "I celebrate myself, and sing myself." is a line from ------------...

Leaves of Grass

76 - "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" occurs in ------------by Shelley.

Ode to the West Wind

77 - "Il Cortigiano (The Courtier)" provides subtle guidance on

Self-discipline

78 - "Iliad" contains . lines.

15693

79 - "I'm not brave anymore darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me" is from ------------.

To Have and Have Not

80 - "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" is the line in the beginning of ------------..

Pride and Prejudice

81 - "Jane Eyre" a novel is witten by ------------..

Charlotte Bronte

82 - "Jew of Malta" was written by

Marlowe

83 - "Journeys end in lover's meeting." is from shakespeare's ------------

Twelfth Night

84 - "Laissez-Faire" means ------------

Free trade

85 - "Late Comers" and "A Friend from England" were written by ------------

Anita Brookner

86 - "Laws" and "Gorgias" are written by ------------. .

Plato

87 - "Leadres should do whatever is necessary to achieve their goals." Who suggested this?

Machiaveli

88 - "Life of Donne" is John Donne's biography authored by

Izaak Walton

89 - "Look Back in Anger" is a play written by ------------

John Osborne

90 - "Lord of Flies" was published in --------

1954

91 - "Master Humphrey Clock" remained in publication from April 4, 1840 to December 4,..

1841

92 - "Medea" and "Bacchae" are the plays by------------.. .

Euripides

93 - "Memento Mori" was published in 1959 by ------------

Murial Spark

94 - "Moll Flanders" by  Daniel Defoe tells the story of a ------------rogue.

Female

95 - "Money" and "Time's Arrow" are the novels of ------------..

Martin Amis

96 - "Mrs. Dalloway" is the novel by Virginia Woolf published in ------------..

1925

97 - "Mysteries of Udolpho" was published in------------

1794

98 - "Night Train"and "Experience" are written by ------------..

Martin Amis

99 - "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell is an attack on ------------.

Totalitarianism

100 - "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a novel by ------------..

George Orwell

101 - "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was published in ------------.

1949

102 - "Order of the Grater" was founded by Edward III in ------------------------?

1344

103 - "Orlando", "The Waves" and "The Years" are written by ------------.

Virginia Woolf

104 - "Pamela or Virtue Rewarded" is written by------------..

Samuel Richardson

105 - "Patient Grissil" was published in

1603

106 - "Patient Grissil" was written by

From all of these in collaboration

107 - "Philoctetes", "Ajax" and "Electra" are written by------------.. .

Sophocles

108 - "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" was published in

1687

109 - "Pincher Martin" and "The Spire" are the works of ------------..

William Golding

110 - "Politics" and "Poetics" are written by------------. .

Aristotle

111 - "Principles of Political Economy" is written by ------------

John Stuart Mill

112 - "Principles of Political Economy" was written in ------------

1848

113 - "Prometheus Bound" is attributed to Aeschylus but its authorship is?

Disputed

114 - "Ralph Roister Doister" is a

Comedy

115 - "Ralph Roister Doister" was published in

1556

116 - "Rape of Lucrece" is a narrative poem by

Shakespeare

117 - "Reality and Dreams" by Murial Spark was published in ------------.

1996

118 - "Romola" and "Silas Marner" are written by ------------

George Eliot

119 - "Sandra Belloni" is a novel written by ------------.

George Meredith

120 - "Sapho and Phao" is written by

John Lyly

121 - "Sard Harker" is a novel published in 1924 by ------------.

John Masefield

122 - "Sensuousness is a paramount bias of his genius" is said for?

John Keats

123 - "Seven Against Thebes" is a tragedy by ------------.

Aeschylus

124 - "She Stoops to Conquer" is a play by------------

Oliver Goldsmith

125 - "Songs and sonnets" are written by

John Donne

126 - "Still-vexed Bermoothes" was used by Shakespeare for the immortal pages of

Hakluyt

127 - "Strike the Father Dead" (1962) is a novel written by ------------

John Waine

128 - "The Adventures of Roderick Random" is a famous novel of------------

Tobias Smollet

129 - "The Alchemist" is by

Ben Johnson

130 - "The Ambassadors" is a novel by ------------..

Henry James

131 - "The Ambassadors" was published in ------------..

1903

132 - "The Battle of Alcazar" and "The Troublesome Reign of King John" are by

George Peele

133 - "The Birds", "The Clouds" and "The Wasps" are famous comedies of ..

Aristophnes

134 - "The Castaway" is the poem by ------------.

William Cowper

135 - "The Defense of Poesie" was written by Sydney? It was published in

1595

136 - "The Driver's Seat" and "Not to Disturb" are the novels by ------------

Murial Spark

137 - "The Duchess of Malfi" is written by

Webster

138 - "The Fairie Queene" best expresses the spirit of

Renaissance

139 - "The Falcon" is based on a story from ------------.

Boccaccio

140 - "The False Alarm" is written by ------------------------

Dr. Johnson

141 - "The False Alarm" was written in------------------------

1770

142 - "The Famous Chronicle of King Edward I" is by

George Peele

143 - "The Fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,/But in ourselves, that we are underlings" is said by Casius in

Julius Caesar

144 - "The Fifth Child" was written by ------------..

Doris Lessing

145 - "The Finishing School" is published in 2004. It was written by ------------..

Murial Spark

146 - "The Girls of Slender Means" and "The Ballad of Peckham Rye" were written by Murial Spark. These novels chracterize ------------..

Human Fantasy

147 - "The Good Terrorist" was written by Doris Lessing in ---------

1985

148 - "The History of John Bull" ridicules the

War policy of the Whigs

149 - "The Inheritors" (1955) is a novel by ------------

William Golding

150 - "The Italian" is written in 1797 by------------.

Anne Radcliffe

151 - "The Mandelbaum Gate" was written by ------------

Murial Spark

152 - "The Matter of England" and "The Matter of Britain" are the Romances. To which period do they belong?

Middle English Period

153 - "The Matter of Rome the Great" is a Middle English Period ------------------------.?

Romance

154 - "The Midnight Folk" is a novel by ------------.

John Masefield

155 - "The Monk" by Gregory Lewis is a ------------.

Gothic Novel

156 - "The most accomplished technician now writing poetry in English" is said for Auden by ------------.

Spender

157 - "The Mother" and "Baal" were written by ------------.

Bertolt Brecht

158 - "The Mystery of Tunnel 51" was written by ------------..

Alexander Wilson

159 - "The Noise of Time" was published in ------------.by Julian Barnes.

2016

160 - "The Old Devils" is a novel written by ------------..

Kingsley Amis

161 - "The Paper Men" (1984) is written by ------------.

William Golding

162 - "The Peaceable Kingdom" was written by ------------

Jon Silkin

163 - "The Persians" and "The suppliants" are written by------------.. .

Aeschylus

164 - "The Poet As Hero" was published by ------------..in 1916.

Sigfried Sassoon

165 - "The Portrait of a Lady" is written by ------------

Henry James

166 - "The Prince" by Michavelli was written to get favour of------------..

Inquisition

167 - "The Procupine" is written by ------------..

Julian Barnes

168 - "The Profligate" and "The Magistrate" are the plays by ------------..

Arthur Wing Pinero

169 - "The Recuyell of the Historeys of Troye" was------------------------.

First published book by Caxton

170 - "The Revenger's Tragedy" is written by

Thomas Middleton

171 - "The Ring and the Book" by Browning was published in

1869

172 - "The Road to Wigan Pier" and "Burmese Days" are written by ------------.

George Orwell

173 - "The Saint's Tragedy" by Charles Kingsley is a

Political Drama

174 - "The Seven Lamps of Architecture" was published in

1849

175 - "The Silent Woman" was first performed in

1609

176 - "The Spanish Tragedy" was written in 1587 by

Thomas Kyd

177 - "The Spectator" was closed on------------.

December 6, 1712

178 - "The Spectator" was published------------.

Daily

179 - "The Spectator" was started ------------

On 1st march, 1711

180 - "The Spectator" was started by------------

Both A & B

181 - "The Symposium" is written by------------. .

Plato

182 - "The Tatler" was published ------------times weekly.

Three

183 - "The Tatler" was started in

April 1709

184 - "The Triumph of Love" is a poem by ------------

Geoffrey Hill

185 - "The Trojan Women" is a play by------------.. .

Euripides

186 - "The White Devil" is a tragedy by John Webster published in

1612

187 - "The Woman in the Moon" was published in

1597

188 - "The Women at the Thesmophoria" and "Lysistrata" are the comedies by------------ .

Aristophnes

189 - "Theogony" was composed somewhere between?

730-700 B.C

190 - "This physic but prolongs thy sickly days" is a line from ------------..

Hamlet

191 - "Thou this be madness, yet there is method in it" is a line from "Hamlet" spoken by ------------.

Claudius

192 - "Through the Tunnel" (1955) was written by ------------.

Doris Lessing

193 - "Timaeus" and "Crito" are written by ------------. .

Plato

194 - "To the Lighthouse" was published in 1927 by ------------.

Virginia Woolf

195 - "Tomorrow ia always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet" is a line from ------------

Anne of Great Gables

196 - "Trachiniae" and "Antigone" are written by------------.. .

Sophocles

197 - "Tragedie of Goboduc" was published in

1561

198 - "Tragedy" is a Greek word which means ------------ .

Goat song

199 - "Ultramarine" was written by ------------.in 1933.

Malcolm Lowry

200 - "Under the Volcano" is by ------------

Malcolm Lowry

201 - "Venice Preserved" was published in

1682

202 - "Venus and Adonais" was written by Shakspeare in

1593

203 - "Villette" is written by ------------.

Charlotte Bronte

204 - "Vittoria" is sequel to the novel ------------..

Sandra Belloni

205 - "Vittoria" is written by ------------.

George Meredith

206 - "Watersmeet" is a poetic collection by ------------

Jon Silkin

207 - "What are men to rocks and mountains?" is a line from ------------

Pride and Prejudice

208 - "Widower's Houses" is a play written in collaboration by William Archer and ------------.

GB Shaw

209 - "Widsith" is a poem from ------------.?

Anglo-Saxon period

210 - ------------..is a character in Shakewpeare's "Othello".

Cassio

211 - ------------------------..is a frequently recurring idea, concept, incident or character in literature.

Motif

212 - ------------..is a vllain or an enemy.

Nemesis

213 - ------------..is an extended fictional prose narrative in which extraordinary characters perform improbable adventures.

Romance

214 - ------------..is the first known poet of old English.

Caedmon

215 - ------------..is the pioneer of New Romanticism?

Dylan Thomas

216 - ------------..is the pioneer of realistic novel in Modern Age?

Galsworthy

217 - ------------..is the youngest daughter of King Lear, in the play "King Lear".

Cordelia

218 - ------------..supported the Hanoverian succession.

Whigs

219 - ------------..was the most celebrated writer between the two World Wars.

DH Lawrence

220 - ------------------------.emphasizes interior characterization to explore the mental or emotional lives of charcters.

Psychological Novel

221 - ------------------------.is a term which is used to characterize a thing, person or idea.

Epithet

222 - ------------.is more a versifier than poet.

G.K Chesterton

223 - ------------------------.is not the literal meaning of a word, rather it is the implied meanig of a word.

Connotation

224 - ------------.is the originator of Comedy of Manners.

William Congreve

225 - ------------.is the pioneer of the modern impressionism?

Laurence Sterne

226 - ------------.'s novels have little invention and based on his personal accounts and experiences.

Smollet

227 - ------------.won Man Booker Prize in 2011.

Julian Barnes

228 - 14th century was turbulent because of ------------------------..?

All of these

229 - A book which explores riddles by an unknown writer is known as ------------------------?

Exeter Book

230 - A breaking point in a story when someone or something must change------------

Climax

231 - A brief and simple narrative bearing a religious/moral lesson..

Parable

232 - A character drawn in a way to impress or surprise a reader------------.

Round character

233 - A character that is based on a single quality or idea is called ------------------------.?

Flat Character

234 - A comparison of two dissimilar things without using the words "like", "as", "than" or "such", is called ------------------------..?

Metaphor

235 - A conventional character that recurs repeatedly in different literary genres is called ------------------------.?

Stock Character

236 - A crude, coarse and bitter satire ridiculing a character------------.

Lampoon

237 - A device through which the writer raises and irrelevant issue to draw the attention away from the real issue is called------------..?

Red Herring

238 - A difference between reality and expectation

Irony

239 - A dragon Grendel and his mother are the main characters in ------------------------..?

Beowulf

240 - A dramatic tradition in which an actor speaks something that is heard by the audience but not by the other actors on the stage is called------------.?

Aside

241 - A favourite rhetoric device used in Old English period is------------------------.?

Litote

242 - A fictitious narrative that emphasizes the influence of social and economic conditions on events and characters is called ------------------------.?

Sociological Novel

243 - A fictitious narrative that tells its story or events through letters is called ------------------------.?

Epistolary Novel

244 - A form of narrative poetry that has a musical quality------------..

Ballad

245 - A formal poem of lamenting someone's death is called ------------------------?

An elegy

246 - A genre of literature which aims to create terror or fear in the writer/audience------------

Horror

247 - A lenghthy spoken attack or a lengthy speech for attacking someone------------.

Harangue

248 - A line that has a natural stop at its end is called------------.

End-stopped

249 - A literary genre in which language is used for its aesthetic quality is called------------..

Poetry

250 - A literary genre that is meant to be performed------------.

Play

251 - A little learning is a dangerous thing' appears in Pope's------------.

Essay on Criticism

252 - A long fiction narrative in which a brilliant detective solves an ambiguous problem------------

Detective Novel

253 - A minor collection of events, which is connected to a larger collection of events in a literary work------------.

Sub-plot

254 - A narrative fiction that captures continuous flow of character's mental process------------

Stream of consciousness

255 - A novel about the adventures of a rogue or common person is called ------------------------..novel.

Picaresque

256 - A novel in which character development has little importance and exciting events are more important------------...

Adventure Novel

257 - A novel in which everything goes wrong in order to create a perfect society------------.

Dystopian Novel

258 - A novel that is based on author's own life------------

Auto-biographical novel

259 - A novel that is set in pseudo-medieval setting and has an environment of mystery and horror is called------------------------..?

Gothic Novel

260 - A novel that presents the life of people of some specific region outside a metroploitan city is called ------------------------novel.

Regional

261 - A novel that represents feeling, emotional idealism or sensibility rather than reason or thought is called------------------------..?

Sentimental Novel

262 - A part of something that stands for the whole?

Synechdoche

263 - A person in a literary work who is responsible for the action and thoughts of the story------------..

Character

264 - A poem that presents a long or short story------------

Narrative Poem

265 - A process of reasoning for parallel cases is called ------------------------?

Analogy

266 - A prospective from which a story of a fiction or non-fiction is told?

Point of View

267 - A question that is asked to emphasize a point and answer is not expected is called a------------------------.. question.

Rhetorical

268 - A reprsentation of a serious action that results in a calamity is called ------------------------.?

Tragedy

269 - A role or character that is adopted by an author or an actor is called------------..?

Persona

270 - A Romance presents the deeds of the ------------------------.of the bygone days.

Heroes

271 - A run on line is called------------..

Enjambed

272 - A satirical portrayal of the behaviour of the people of certain social group------------.

Comedy of Manners

273 - A second or hidden life of a person/character------------..

Alter Ego

274 - A sentence structure in which something is left out in the second half------------

Elliptical

275 - A sentence that begins with stating an untrue thing and ends by stating what is true------------.

Negative-Positive

276 - A sentence that uses 'and' or any other conjunction to separate items in a series, without using commas------------.

Polysyndeton

277 - A sentence which begins with the central idea and expands on that idea with details is called------------------------.?

Cumulative

278 - A series of words with no conjugation, separated by commas?

Asyndeton

279 - A short story from which a moral can be drawn is called------------------------.?

Parable

280 - A short verse or poem that ridicules an event or idea------------..

Epigram

281 - A situation or event that can be interpreted in more than two ways?

Ambiguity

282 - A song like poem that express the feelings and emotions of a particular person------------

Lyric

283 - A song of religious devotion, joy or exultation is called------------------------?

Carol

284 - A speaker or voice of a literary work------------.

Narrator

285 - A story that explains or attempts to explain how the world was created------------.

Myth

286 - A story within a story------------.

A frame story

287 - A strong argument against something or some person------------.

Polemic

288 - A term that is used in existential criticism to show both the individual and collective anguish and anxiety of the period after the Second world War is called ------------------------..?

Angst

289 - A thing, idea or person that stands for another thing, idea or person is called a ------------------------..?

Symbol

290 - A type of wordplay in which a word or a phrase spelled forward is the same word or phrase spelled backward..

Palindrome

291 - A typical example of a certain person, idea or thing------------.

Archetype

292 - A word or phrase that can be interpreted in two ways------------..

Double Entendre

293 - A word puzzle in which one character asks a puzzling question------------..

Riddle

294 - A word that is used incorrectly, especially in place of one that sounds like the correct one------------

Malapropism

295 - A word which is opposite in meaning to another word------------.

Antonym

296 - A word which is similar in meaning to another word------------.

Synonym

297 - A word with a negative connotation to insult someone------------.

Pejorative

298 - A work of literature that treats a serious subject frivolously------------..

Travesty

299 - A/an ------------------------..is a term used to describe an address to the dead as if living.

Apsotrophe

300 - ------------ devoted himself completely to literature in the first half of 18th century.

Alexander Pope

301 - ------------------------.. discovered America in 1492.

Columbus

302 - ------------..was the first periodical, a manuscript newspaper in Europe.

Gazetta

303 - ...translated The New Testament from Greek into English.

William Tyndale

304 - ..deaths occurred in Hamlet.

Eight

305 - ..is known as the pioneer of modern psychological novel.

George Eliot

306 - ------------..is trying to establish that something is true because everyone considers it true.

Bandwagon

307 - ..made first complete translation of the Bible from Tyndale's version.

Miles Coverdale

308 - ..was/were fond of the great figures like Muhammaed and Tamburlaine for heroic themes.

The University Wits

309 - .did not contribute to the dramatic development among the Univrsity Wits.

Both A & B

310 - .had firm faith in God.

Browning

311 - ------------. was written in the memory of Arthur Henry Hallam.

In Memorium

312 - ------------------------..is a persitent feeling of boredom, weariness and tiredness that often torments existential man.

Ennui

313 - ------------------------..is considered the "Father of English prose".

Alfred

314 - ------------------------..is the first writer to sign his work.

Cynewulf

315 - ------------------------..is the formantion of words from the sound associated with what is named.

Onomatopoeia

316 - ------------------------..is the Latin term in which the widespread occurrence of something is taken to make it true.

Ad populum

317 - ------------------------..is the repitition of a word or a phrase used two or more times in close proximity.

Repitition

318 - ------------------------..is the repitition of a word, phrase or a clause at the beginning of two or more sentences.

Anaphora

319 - ------------.by John Milton assimilate and critique the epic tradition.

Paradise Lost

320 - ------------------------.discovered America in the Renaissance period.

Columbus

321 - ------------------------.has history of Christ's life.

New Testament

322 - ------------------------.is a deliberate representing something as much less than it really is.

Understatement

323 - ------------------------.is an unusual rather a surprising comparison between two dissimilar objects.

Conceit

324 - ------------introduced art of printing into England.

William Caxton

325 - ------------started the tradition of Revenge Tragedy.

Thomas Kyd

326 - ------------was Protector under England's first written constitution.

Oliver Cromwell

327 - ------------was the title of Thomas Hobbe's defense of absolute sovereignty based on the theory of social contract.

Leviathan

328 - ------------implies greater perception of beauty and polish to Greek and Latin scholars.

Renaissance

329 - ------------is satiric imitation of an artist's work in order to ridicule the author, his work or ideas.

Parody

330 - ------------was dominating in the Middle English period.

Poetry

331 - ------------century is the golden age of prose.

Eighteenth

332 - ------------gave sentimentality to English novel.

Richardson

333 - ------------is the source of modern English.

Beowulf

334 - According to Renaissance thinkers, women should be educated only for------------..

All of these

335 - Adam Bede is the hero of the novel "Adam Bede" by ------------.

George Eliot

336 - Adela Quested and Mrs.Moore are Characters in ------------.

A Passage to India

337 - Aelfric was a priest and wrote sermons in ------------..form.

Poetic

338 - Aelfric wrote sermons to spread learning and instruct the------------..?

Monks

339 - Aeschylus died in------------. .

456/455 B.C

340 - Aeschylus' first dramatic victory was achieved in ------------. B.C.

484

341 - Aeschylus was born in------------. .

525/524 B.C

342 - After James II's death ------------became the ruler/rulers.

Both A & B

343 - After Shakespeare and Johnson, English drama

Declined

344 - After the emergence of Renaissance------------.became the basis of literature.

Homocentric

345 - Against which thing was the Transitional Poetry a reaction?

Conventional rules

346 - Age of Transitions is the change from Pseudo-classicism to------------..

Romanticism

347 - Alexander Wilson was an English writer and ------------.

Spy

348 - Alexander Wilson was born in 1893 and died in ------------.

1963

349 - Alonso is the King of Naples in ------------.

The Tempest

350 - An alias (false name) used by a writer in stead of his real name------------..

Pseudonym

351 - An amateur dramatic performance in which masked players sing and dance is called------------------------?

Masque

352 - An environment created by the writer's use of deails and word choice is called------------------------.?

Mood

353 - An imitation of a more serious work for humour------------..

Pardoy

354 - An ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary is called ------------------------..?

Litotes

355 - An overused idea/saying that has lost its fervour------------..

Cliché

356 - An unjustifed connection between cause and effect------------.

Post hoc Fallacy

357 - An/a ------------------------.is a word or a phrase used to describe a sensory experience (an object perceived by the senses).

Image

358 - Angles went to east and ------------------------..?

North

359 - Angles, Saxons and ------------.came to England.

Jutes

360 - Angles, Saxons and Jutes were ------------------------..?

Nomadic tribes

361 - Anglo-French remained legal official language till ------------------------.?

1731

362 - Anglo-Saxon Chronicle probably began under the supervision of ------------------------..?

King Alfred

363 - Anglo-Saxon language resembles ------------------------..?

Modern German

364 - Anglo-Saxons' love of nature is usually tinged with------------------------?

Melancholy or sadness

365 - Angus Wilson was born in ------------.and died in 1991.

1913

366 - Anita Brookner was a/an ------------..novelist.

English

367 - Antonio is a character in ------------

Merchant of Venice

368 - Aphorism is ------------------------.?

A short pithy statement

369 - Are lai and Romance similar?

Yes

370 - Arrangement of ideas in a sequence from past to present or from present to past------------..

Chronological Ordering

371 - Arrangement of objects according to class is called ------------------------..?

Classification

372 - Arthur Conan Doyle's life span is ------------

1859-1930

373 - Assigning something to a time when it was not invented or was not in existence?

Anachronism

374 - Astrophel and Stella was published in 1591. It was written by

Sir Philip Sydney

375 - At the end of the Middle English period ------------------------.plays were also famous along with Mystery and Miracle plays?

Morality

376 - At what age did Sophocle win the tragedy competition in his first entry?

Twenty eight

377 - Authorized version of Bible was published in

1611

378 - Aziz and Ronney Heaslop are Characters of the novel "A Passage to India" by ------------

E.M Forster

379 - Background information provided by the writer to make the reader or audience aware of the context of the story?

Exposition

380 - Balancing of two contradicting ideas, words, phrases or clauses is called------------------------?

Antithesis

381 - Basically ------------------------..tribes lived in Britain.

Celtic

382 - Battle of Hastings was fought on ------------------------.?

October 14, 1066

383 - Becky Sharp is a character in ------------

Vanity Fair

384 - Bede died in ------------------------..?

735 A.D

385 - Bede was the greatest scholar of ------------.period.

Anglo-Saxon

386 - Before the construction of theatres, which short plays were performed by playing companies which had dialogues, moral, religious and political themes?

Interludes

387 - Ben Johnson died in 1637 in

London

388 - Ben Johnson was an English poet and

Playwright

389 - Ben Johnson was born in London in

1572

390 - Ben Johnson was contemporary of

Shakespeare

391 - Ben Johnson, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Dekker are dramatists of

Elizabethan Age

392 - Ben Johnson's full name was

Benjamin Johnson

393 - Beowulf belongs to ------------------------century.

6th

394 - Beowulf died by getting injured in fight with ------------------------?

Dragon

395 - Beowulf died in fight with ------------------------to defend his country.

Both A & B

396 - Beowulf is about Hrothgar, the King of ------------------------.?

Danes

397 - Beowulf was a ------------------------------------..?

Geat or Goth

398 - Bernardo and Marcellus are soldiers in ------------

Hamlet

399 - Betsy Trotwood is the character in ------------..

David Copperfield

400 - Black Death (Great Plague) of London------------.

1665

401 - Blame of society's problems was placed on the society itself by------------..

Thomas Moore's Utopia

402 - Blank Verse is

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

403 - Boccacio belonged to

Italy

404 - Book 7 of Faerie Queene was published

After the death of Spenser

405 - Briton was divided into Angles, Saxons and ------------------------?

Jutes

406 - Brutus is the husband of Portia in Shakespeare's play ------------.

Julius Caesar

407 - ------------by George Orwell is an anti-Communist satire.

Animal Farm

408 - Caedmon and Cynewulf are the ------------------------.poets.

Old English

409 - Caedmon is the father of English------------..

Song

410 - Caedmon was a cowherd and ------------------------.poet.

Unlearned

411 - Caedmon's works is avaiable------------------------?

No

412 - Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" was published in ------------.

1832

413 - Caroline Age ended in 1649 with the execution of------------..

Charles I

414 - Caroline Age is named after

Charles I

415 - Carols, Masques and Ballads were important in ------------------------..?

16th

416 - Change of the usual order of the words in poetry------------..

Inversion

417 - Character or Sketch Writing was begun in------------..

Puritan Age

418 - Characteristic/characteristics of the University Wits

All of these

419 - Charles II dug up Cromwell, beheaded him and then------------

Reburied him

420 - Charles II ruled

With deference to the Parliament

421 - Choler, black bile, yellow bile and ------------..are four bodily humours.

Phlegm

422 - Choose a poem written by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King

423 - Chose the writer/writers which was/were active under both Elizabeth I and James I

All of these

424 - Christopher Marlowe and George Peele were included in

University wits

425 - Christopher Marlowe was killed at the age of

29

426 - Christopher Smart wrote songs to------------..

David

427 - Classical writers of 18th century were against ------------..of Elizabethans and Puritans.

Exaggerated style

428 - Coffee House Literature was introduced in ------------..

Restoration Age

429 - Coleridge presented ------------.life in his poems in Lyrical Balllads.

Supernatural

430 - Constantinople fell to Turks in

1453

431 - Crimean War was fought in ------------..

1854

432 - Cromwell died in ------------.

September 3, 1658

433 - Cynewulf was a religious poet who wrote ------------------------?

All

434 - Damon Wildeve is a character in ------------..

Return of the Native

435 - Dan Kavanagh was pseudonym of ------------.

Julian Barnes

436 - Declaration of the Rights of Man was implemented in ------------

August 4, 1789

437 - Defoe's writnigs extended to more than ------------

500

438 - Desdemona, Bianca, Lodovico and Brabantio are characters in ------------

Othello

439 - Detect the novel/novels of Kingsley Amis from the following options.

All of these

440 - Dickens' earliest work "Sketches by Boz" was written in ------------..

1832

441 - Did Romantic poets prefer Heroic Couplet?

No, they hated it

442 - Doris Lessing died in London in ------------

2013

443 - Doris Lessing was born in 1919 in ------------

Iran

444 - Dr. Johnson died in------------.

1784

445 - Drama started in Athens about ------------..B.C.

600

446 - Drama was flourished in ------------ .

Classical Period

447 - During Norman period English lost its old words and ------------------------..?

Grammar became simple

448 - Dylan Thomas Died in ------------...

New York, USA

449 - Early Victorian Period Ranges from 1832 to ------------.

1870

450 - Early Victorian Periodis is also known as ------------.

Laissez-Faire

451 - Ecclesiastical History of English people was written in ------------------------..?

731 A.D

452 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in

1861

453 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ..of Robert Browning.

Wife

454 - Elizabeth is a character appeared in ------------.

Pride and Prejudice

455 - Elizabeth Jenning and Elaine Feinstein are the famous ------------.after World War II.

Poets

456 - Emily St. Aubert appeared in ------------.

Mysteries of Udolpho

457 - Emma Woodhouse is the heroine of the novel "Emma" by ------------

Jane Austen

458 - English literature of the Middle Ages was mostly oral and ------------..?

Didactic

459 - English Renaissance coincided with rule/rules of------------.

All of these

460 - English was introduced in the court in ------------------------ A.D?

1362

461 - English was introduced in the parliament in ------------------------ A.D?

1363

462 - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot is a poem by------------

Alexander Pope

463 - Essentially modern temprament started in

Puritan Age

464 - Estella was an adopted daughter of Miss Havisham in ------------.by Charles Dickens.

Great Expectations

465 - Euripides died in Athens in ------------. .

406 B.C

466 - Euripides was born in Athens in ------------. .

480 B.C

467 - Explanatory notse added to a text?

Annotation

468 - Fabian is a character in "Twelfth Night", who was a ------------

Servant

469 - Faerie Queene is an Epic. It is also known as a/an

Allegory

470 - Faerie Queene was republished in 1596 with books

4 to 6

471 - First Britain to introduce Bible in England------------..

Caedmon

472 - First edition of Paradise Lost had ------------..books.

Ten

473 - First edition of Paradise Lost was issued in

1667

474 - First half of ------------.century was one of the most devestating eras of English literature.

20th

475 - Following is/are the court poet/poets of 16th century

All of these

476 - Following traditional techniques of writing------------

Conventional

477 - For literature, Puritan Age was a gloomy age because

Theatres were banned by the King

478 - For which early poem was Tennyson awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge?

In Memorium

479 - For which the University Wits wrote plays?

All of these

480 - For which thing was Churchyard of St. Paul's Cathedral famous?

Bookshops

481 - For which work was Christopher Smart famous?

Songs written on the walls of mad house

482 - For whom "Poetry is the expression of imagination"?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

483 - For whom the "External world is dead" in Romantic Age?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

484 - For whom the "External world is living with its own soul" in Romantic Age?

William Wordsworth

485 - Fourth edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in ------------.

1805

486 - From where did the Greek scholars came to all Europe?

Constantinople

487 - From which church did Henry VIII break ties?

Roman Catholic

488 - From which sources were the Romances borrowed?

Both B and C

489 - From which war the poets of New-Romanticism influenced?

World War II

490 - From whom did Shakespeare borrow the idea of romantic comedy?

Robert Greene

491 - G.K Chesterton was born in ------------..

1874

492 - Geoffrey Hill was an English poet after ------------

World War II

493 - George Bernard Shaw died in ------------..

1950

494 - George Bernard Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in ------------..

1925

495 - George Chapman was a poet, a translator and

A dramatist

496 - George Peele was born in 1556 in London and died in

1596

497 - George Peele was born in London in

1556

498 - George Peele, Thomas Kyd and Sakespeare are ..of Elizabethan Age.

Dramatists

499 - George V served in navy till ------------

1892

500 - George V was the ------------son of King Edward VII.

Second

501 - Goldsmith's play------------

The Good Natur'd Man

502 - Goneril's husband in King Lear ------------

Duke of Albany

503 - Gosson's "The School of Abuse" is a/an ..book of Elizabethan Age.

Anti-dramatic

504 - Great Exhibition was held in 1851 in ------------...

Hyde Park, London

505 - Gunpowder plot is also known as

Gunpowder Treason Plot

506 - Gunpowder plot was a failed assasination attempt against King/Queen

James I

507 - Hamlet is the protagonist of the play "Hamlet" by ------------..

Shakespeare

508 - Henry Fielding was born in 1707 and died in ------------...

1754

509 - Henry Fielding was born in United Kingdom but died in ------------...

Portugal

510 - Henry I ruled England from 1100 A.D to ------------------------..?

1135 A.D

511 - Henry II ruled England from ------------..to 1189.

1154

512 - Henry Mackenzie was a ------------.writrer.

Scottish

513 - Henry VI remained the King of England and Lord of Ireland ------------------------..?

From 1422 to 1461

514 - Hero of Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book" is ------------..

Mowgli

515 - Homocentric means------------.

Man is the centre of the universe

516 - Household Words was a weekly magazine edited by

Charles Dickens

517 - How is the versification of Beowulf?

Highly stressed

518 - How many books does "Iliad" contain?

24

519 - How many dialects did English of Middle Ages have?

Five

520 - How many kingdoms did Saxons form?

Seven

521 - How many lines does Beowulf have?

3182

522 - How many lines does the "Theogony" have?

1022

523 - How many lines does the "Works and Days" have?

828

524 - How many people were killed in Petrloo Massacre?

Fifteen

525 - How many plays of Euripides have survived?

18 or 19

526 - How many plays of Sophocles have survived?

Only 7

527 - How many plays were written by Euripides?

95 or 92

528 - How many plays were written by Sophocles?

More than 120

529 - How many poems were composed by Coleridge, in First Edition of Lyrical Ballads?

Four

530 - How many poems were composed by Wordsworth, in First Edition of Lyrical Ballads?

19

531 - How many poems were there in Lyrical Ballads?

23

532 - How many poetic collections did Jon Silkin write?

Over 30

533 - How many sons did Charles II have?

No

534 - How many tragedies attributed to Aeschylus have survived?

Seven

535 - How was the movement of Cult of Chivalry born?

Out of the military culture of 11th century

536 - How was the satire of the Age of 18th century?

Destructive

537 - How were Renaissance and Protestant Reformation similar?

Spirit of inquiry

538 - Hrothgar's great hall "Herot" was visited by a terrible creature ------------------------.?

Grendel

539 - Hundred Years War began in ------------------------?

1337 A.D

540 - Idea's Mirror is a sonnet sequence by Michael Drayton written on

Both A & B

541 - If a character speaks his thoughts aloud by him or herself in a play, we call it ------------------------.?

Soliloquy

542 - If all the parts of a fiction or non-fiction work are related to the central idea, it is called ------------------------?

Unity

543 - If both halves of a sentence has same importance and length, it is called------------

Balance

544 - If repeated thoughts are arranged in the pattern of X Y Y X, it is called------------

Chiasmus

545 - Imitation of an action that is serious, has magnitude and is complete in itself------------..

Tragedy

546 - In "The Battle of Maldon" in 993, English were defeated by ------------------------..?

Danes

547 - In 1336, .began war to enforce his claims to the throne of France.

Edward III

548 - In 1385 King Richard II abandoned ------------------------.?

French

549 - In 1399, ------------------------was chosen as the king by the Parliament.

Henry IV

550 - In 18th century, ------------beacme dominant in poetry.

Heroic Couplet

551 - In 18th century, who owned the rights to a theatrical script?

Acting company

552 - In 2nd edition of Paradise Lost, which two books were split into two parts each.

Book 7 & Book 10

553 - In 800s Anglo-Saxons began to dominate from ------------------------?

Wessex

554 - In a literary writing, a reference to something with which the reader or spectator is expected to be familiar is called ------------------------..?

Allusion

555 - In a literary writing, the reversal in hero's fortune is called------------.------------..?

Peripety

556 - In  Augustan writers, head controlled the heart; but in Romantics ------------.

Heart controlled the heart

557 - In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail in performing sacred duty?

Everlasting shame

558 - In Anglo-Saxon Period a council of elders which chose king for tribal unit was called------------------------.?

Witan

559 - In early 16th century, the only acknowledged religion in England was

Catholicism

560 - In how many groups were the Classical Comedies distributed?

Three

561 - In how many years did the Greek Coalition Forces conquer the city of Troy?

10 years

562 - In poetry, pattern of words which contains similar sounds------------

Rhyme

563 - In puritan Age, King's followers were called------------

Both A & B

564 - In the first century A.D Briton was a ------------------------..province.

Roman

565 - In the first part of the poem, Beowulf fights with------------------------.?

Grendel

566 - In the resolution of War of Roses, which Royal Dynasty was established?

Tudor

567 - In which age English language was used as the vehicle of storing and conveying facts?

Puritan Age

568 - In which age the classical rules were followed?

Age of Pope

569 - In which century were the pageants added to drama?

14th century

570 - In which edition of 'Lyrical Ballads' did Wordsworth explain his theories of poetic imagination?

Second

571 - In which edition of 'Lyrical Ballads' did Wordsworth explained the implicity and naturalness of his diction?

First

572 - In which era Britain changed from a provincial nation to a worldwide empire?

Victorian Era

573 - In which era did English prose begin?

Anglo-Saxon

574 - In which literary form was 18th century deficient?

Drama

575 - In whose hands drama got perfection in Elizabethan Age?

William Shakespeare

576 - In whose novels sex has an important place?

DH Lawrence

577 - Inanimate things, ideas and animals are given human characteristics------------

Personification

578 - Intensifying an idea by stating the opposite or by understatement?

Litotes

579 - Interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text?

Explication

580 - ------------------------is a literary production of writer's imagination by using theme, charcters, plot, setting and point of view.

Fiction

581 - ------------------------is a quotation used at the beginnig of a lierary work which suggests its theme.

Epigraph

582 - ------------is called the father of Modern Biography?

Lytton Stretchy

583 - It describes things, people and places as they actually are; not ideas------------...

Concrete Language

584 - It involves several points of comparison between two things------------

Extended Metaphor

585 - It is a syllogism in which one of the arguments is unstated but considered to be understood------------.

Enthymeme

586 - It is expressed in Elizabethan poetry and in court rituals and events, a cult of .formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and the court.

Love

587 - It is the product of dramatic development during early 16th century

Interlude

588 - Ithamore and Barabas are the characters in ------------

The Jew of Malta

589 - James II died in ------------

1701 in France

590 - James II fled to ------------.in 1688.

France

591 - James II was ------------

Catholic

592 - James Joyce was ------------..writer.

An Irish

593 - James Joyce was born in 1882 and died in ------------...

1941

594 - John Dryden died in------------

1700

595 - John Dryden was born in------------

1631

596 - John Fletcher and shakepeare's "The Two Noble Kinsmen" retells the story of Chaucer's

Knight's Tale

597 - John Fletcher was died in

1625

598 - John Gutenberg and his companions published Bible in Geramany in ------------------------.

1455

599 - John Lyly was born in 1553/1554 in Kent, United Kingdom and died in London in

1606

600 - John Marstan and George Chapman are ------------writers.

Renaissance

601 - John Osborne was born in UK in ------------

1929

602 - John Shakespeare was ------------.of Shakespeare.

Father

603 - John Waine died in ------------.

1994

604 - John Waine was born in 1925 in ------------.

UK

605 - John Webster is the contemporary of

Shakespeare

606 - Johnson was moralist, classicist and

Reformer of Drama

607 - Jon Silkin, Charles Tomlinson and R.S Thomas are the poets after ------------..

World War II

608 - Jonathan Swift was a/an

Irish patriot

609 - Jonathan Wild is written by------------..

Henry Fielding

610 - Joseph Andrews a novel by Henry Fielding, was written to ridicule------------...

Pamela by Richardson

611 - Journals, Magazines and Pamphlets became common in ------------------------.

18th century

612 - Julian Barnes was born in 1946 in ------------..

United Kingdom

613 - Jumbling of two metaphors together illogically------------...

Mixed Metaphor

614 - King Alfred also translated Bible from ------------...into English.

Latin

615 - King Alfred died in ------------------------.?

899 A.D

616 - King Alfred translated many Latin chronicles into ------------------------...?

English

617 - King Arthur was a ------------------------..king.

Celtic

618 - King James' Bible has ------------------------.books.

66

619 - King of Wessex that defeated the Danes ------------------------..?

Alfred

620 - Kingsley Amis was born in ------------.

1922

621 - Kitely and Captain Bodbail are characters in

Every Man in His Humour

622 - Lady Booby is the famous character of Henry Fileding's------------..

Joseph Andrews

623 - Lady Capulet, Montague and Lady Montague are characters in ------------..

Romeo and Juliet

624 - Last work of Milton in Blank Verse

Samson Agonistes

625 - Later Victorian Period starts from 1870 and ends in ------------.

1901

626 - Laurence Sterne was born in Ireland in------------.

1713

627 - Lawrence Sterne died in 1768 in ------------

London

628 - Layman's "Brut, a British History" was written in ------------------------..?

1200

629 - Lemuel Gulliver was the hero of Swift's ------------

Gulliver Travels

630 - Life-span of Jon Silkin is ------------

1930-1997

631 - Life-span of Roger Ascham

1515-1568

632 - Life-span of Samuel Richardson------------.

1689-1761

633 - Literary years from 1820 to 1832 are called ------------.

Barren

634 - Little Nell is a character from ------------.by Charles Dickens.

Old Curiosity shop

635 - Lord Alfred Tennyson and his elder brother Charles jointly published a collection of poems ------------.

Poems by Two Brothers

636 - Lydia and Kitty are characters in ------------

Pride and Prejudice

637 - Machiavelli had a great influence on

University Wits

638 - Madame Defarge is a character in ------------..

A Tale of Two Cities

639 - Magna Carta was signed in 1215. When was the first English Parliament was established?

Also in 1215

640 - Malcolm Lowry was an English ------------.

Poet

641 - Man Friday is a character in Defoe's ------------.

Robinson Crusoe

642 - Man's boundless urge to become supreme without the aid of God, but failing and ending in spiritual crisis is the theme of

Dr. Faustus

643 - Marlowe died in

1593

644 - Marlowe was born in

1564

645 - Marlowe wrote ------------plays in six years.

Six

646 - Marstan and Webster died in

1634

647 - Martin Chuzzelwit is a character of the novel "Martin Chuzzelwit" by ------------.

Charles Dickens

648 - Martin Luther translated the New Testament into ------------for the first time.

German

649 - Martin Luther was a priest.

German

650 - Mary Ann Evans was the real name of ------------.

George Eliot

651 - Medievalism changed into Renaissance exactly from ------------..

1485

652 - Melancholy was an important aspect of ------------

Romanticism

653 - Mgna Carta was a document of ------------------------?

Human's personal rights

654 - Milly Theale is the main character in the novel ------------..

The Wings of the Dove

655 - Miracle and Mystery plays were famous from 1154 to ------------------------?

To the end of Elizabethan period 1603

656 - Miracle and Mystery were the earliest forms of ------------------------..?

Drama

657 - Miss Havisham is the character in ------------.

Great Expectations

658 - Modern spirit was

All of these

659 - Moll Flander was written in------------.

1722

660 - Morality plays personify------------------------?

Virtues and vices

661 - Morose and Dauphine are the characters in

The Silent Woman

662 - Most significant novelist after World War II was ------------

William Golding

663 - Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley appear in ------------..

Pride and Prejudice

664 - Mrs. Malaprop is a character in ------------

The Rival

665 - Mrs. Slipslope and Peter Pounce are the charcters in------------..

Joseph Andrews

666 - Murial spark belonged to ------------

Scotland

667 - Murial Spark was ------------..

All of these

668 - Murial Spark was born in 1918 in UK and died in ...

2006 in Italy

669 - Name the daily newspaper that began in 1702.

The Daily Courant

670 - Name the narrative poem written by Shakespeare

Venus and Adonais

671 - Neo-Classical/Classical writers followed

Exact rules

672 - New Testament has ------------------------books.

27

673 - Nicholas Udall died in 1556. He was born in

1504

674 - Nicholas Udall translated a part of ------------by Erasmus.

Apophthegms

675 - Nicholas Udall was a writer and a

Schoolmaster

676 - Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's ------------

A Midsummer Night's Dream

677 - Northumbria, Mercia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, East Anglia and Wessex are------------------------?

The names of seven kingdoms

678 - Novel began properly in the ------------..century.

18th

679 - Old Age is also known as------------------------..?

All three are correct

680 - Old English Period started in ------------------------..?

450 A.D

681 - Old Testament has ------------------------books.

39

682 - Old Testament tells the history of

Jews

683 - Oliver Goldsmith was born in 1728 and died in------------..

1774

684 - Oliver Goldsmith wrote------------..

The Traveller

685 - Olivia, Maria and Malvolio are the characters in Shakespeare's ------------.

Twelfth Night

686 - On which the Roman Plays of Shakespeare based on?

North's translation of Plutarch's Lives

687 - Only nine lines of the first poem of ------------.survived.

Caedmon

688 - Opening of a story narrating the background detail and setting------------..

Prologue

689 - Optimism' was the most striking feature of ------------------------..

18th century

690 - Orlando is a character in ------------

As You Like It

691 - Other name of "Gorboduc" is

Ferrex and Porrex

692 - Overall the Middle English Period was the period of ------------------------..?

Transition

693 - Oxford Movement was also known as

Both A & B

694 - P.B Shelley was ------------.in his poetry and politcal views.

Radical

695 - Pamela is the virtuous heroine in the novel "Pamela" by ------------

Richardson

696 - Pamela was written in 1740 by ------------

Samuel Richardson

697 - Paradise Lost was written by------------.

John Milton

698 - Paradise Regained was written by------------.

John Milton

699 - Parson Adams a famous character appeared in Henry Fielding's'------------

Joseph Andrews

700 - Parson Adams is a virtuous and simple character in ------------...

Joseph Andrews

701 - Peloponessian War was fought between ------------ B.C.

431-405 B.C

702 - Pen name of a writer is called------------.

Both of these

703 - Persusion through reasoning is called ------------------------..

Argumentation

704 - Philip Sydney and John Lyly are ------------of Elizabethan era.

Prose writers

705 - Pindar was the famous lyrical poet of ------------..age.

Classical

706 - Play on words which are similar in sound but have sharply different manings is called ------------------------?

Pun

707 - Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter------------.

Blank Verse

708 - Polonius appears in ------------..

Hamlet

709 - Portia is female character in ------------..

The Merchant of Venice

710 - Precise, Elegant and Formal style of Restoration Age was called------------.

Classical

711 - Pulp fiction is------------.

Novels which are produced for the mass market

712 - Puritan Age is also known as------------.

Age of criticism

713 - Purtan's followers were called------------.

Ironsides

714 - Queen Anne's accession to the throne------------

1702

715 - Queen Mary died in------------.

1714

716 - Reasoning that begins with generalization and applies generalization to a specific case------------..

Deduction

717 - Rebecca is a Jewess in ------------.

Ivanhoe

718 - Reformation Movement was against

Catholics

719 - Regan is a character in ------------..

King Lear

720 - Renaissance had little importance for------------------------

Ordinary women

721 - Renaissance revolted against ------------

Both of these

722 - Renaissance spirit of Elizabethan Age began to decline in

Puritan Age

723 - Repitition of a consonant sound within two or more than two words in close proximity is called ------------------------.?

Consnance

724 - Richard Froud, William Palmer and Isaac Williams belonged to

Oxford Movement

725 - Richard III was the King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1483 to ------------------------..?

1485

726 - Rights of Man was published in ------------

1791

727 - Robert Browning was born in 1812. He died in

1889

728 - Robert Browning was influenced by

All of these

729 - Robert Browning was married to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in

1846

730 - Robert Greene was deeply influenced by

Italian writers

731 - Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe and Marlowe were educated from

Cambridge

732 - Robert Walpole remain Prime Minister from 1721 to------------..

1742

733 - Robinson Crusoe was written by Daniel Defoe in------------.

1719

734 - Roderick Random is the hero of the novel "Roderick Random" written by ------------..

Smollet

735 - Roger Ascham remianed tutor of Elizabeth I from 1548 to

1550

736 - Roger Ascham was

A didactic writer

737 - Roger Formal and Mr. Stephen are characters in

Every Man in His Humour

738 - Romances were famous during ------------------------Age.

Middle

739 - Romantic Age was characterized by ------------.

Intense emotions

740 - Romantic critics say that in Shakespeare

All came from within

741 - Rules of exactness and precision were followed in ------------.in Augustan Age.

Poetry

742 - Running over of a sentence or thought into the next line without the pasue is called------------..

Enjambed

743 - Samson Agonistes by Milton was published in

1671

744 - Samuel Beckett died in France in ------------.

1989

745 - Samuel Beckett was born in 1906 in ------------.

Ireland

746 - Samuel Richardson belonged to ------------..

United Kingdom

747 - Samuel Richardson's "Pamela or Virtue Rewarded" is known as the first ------------

Epistolary novel

748 - Sarah Gamp is a character in ------------.

Martin Chuzzelwit

749 - Saxons came to England in ------------------------.?

450 A.D

750 - Saxons went to ------------------------.?

South

751 - Scientific spirit was popularized by

All of these

752 - Seamus Heaney was a/an ------------.

Poet

753 - Second edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in ------------..

1800

754 - Second edition of Paradise Lost had ------------..books.

Twelve

755 - Second edition of Paradise Lost was issued in------------...

1674

756 - Senecan influence gave rise to

Renenge tragedy

757 - Sermons in a sort of poetic prose was written by ------------------------?

Aelfric

758 - Shakespeare published ------------..sonnets.

154

759 - Shakespeare wrote ..narrative poems.

Two

760 - Shelley, Byron and Keats were ------------..generation Romantic poets.

Second

761 - Sigfried Sassoon died in 1967, wrote ------------

Suicide in Trenches

762 - Sigfried Sassoon was an English War Poet, born in ------------

1886

763 - Silas Marner is the protagonist of the novel "Silas Marner" by ------------.

George Eliot

764 - Sir Arthur Wing Pinero belonged to ------------..

England

765 - Sir Lancelot Greaves was an imitation of Cervante's------------

Don Quixote

766 - Sir Toby Belch is Olivia's uncle in the play ------------.

Twelfth night

767 - Smollet is considered as the first novelist who gave detailed account of------------.

All of these

768 - Socrates died in in ------------ B.C.

399

769 - Socrates was born in classical Athens in ------------ B.C.

470

770 - Sophocles and Euripides were the ------------.. writers.

Tragedy

771 - Sophocles died in ------------ B.C

406

772 - Sophocles was born in ------------ .

Colonus

773 - Sophocles was born in------------.. B.C.

496

774 - South Saxons landed in Britain in the year ------------------------?

477 A.D

775 - St. Augustine established Benedictine Abbey as the seat of his diocese at------------?

Canterbury

776 - Story-tellers of Old English who were actually poets, called ------------------------?

Scop

777 - Struggle found in a literary work ------------

Conflict

778 - Substituting one term to another that is associated with the term------------

Metonymy

779 - Successful in the analysis of the unconscious------------.

DH Lawrence

780 - Surrey introduced blank verse in

Aenied

781 - Sydney attribute ..to poetry in his "In the Defense of Poesy"?

Both A & B

782 - Sydney Carton is a character in ------------

A Tale of Two Cities

783 - Systematic representation of events in a dramatic or narrative work is called ------------------------?

Plot

784 - Tennyson was born in

1809

785 - Tenyyson died in

1892

786 - The "Iliad" is written by?

Homer

787 - The "Republic" is written by------------. .

Plato

788 - The adventures of Ulysses are narrated in..?

Odyssey

789 - The age of Queen Victoria at the time of succession was ------------..

18 years

790 - The Age of Transition is characterized by------------.

Renaissance of learning

791 - The arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship is called------------------------?

Syntax

792 - The art of Biography and Autobiography emerged in

Puritan Age

793 - The art of effective communication and persuasive discourse is called ------------------------..?

Rhetoric

794 - The authorized version of the Bible was known as

Both A & B

795 - The Bible was printed in about 1455 in Germany by ------------and his partners.

John Guttenberg

796 - The Canterbury Tales was first published in

In 1476

797 - The character of Manfred appeared in

The Castle of Otranto

798 - The chief character in a narrative or dramatic work is called ------------------------?

Protagonist

799 - The chief exponent of Symbolism in England ------------..

W.B Yeats

800 - The Classic writers are called

Humanists

801 - The conclusion of the story is called------------

Both A & B

802 - The condition of education during Renaissance can be best described as

All of these

803 - The Critical Review was a ------------.periodical.

Tory

804 - The death of Medieval scholasticism------------.

Renaissance

805 - The dictionary or literal meaning of a word is called ------------------------..?

Denotation

806 - The drama of the age of James I is known as

Jacobean Drama

807 - The dramatic work produced in the age of Shakespeare is known as

Romantic

808 - The English are the composite race of Danes, Celts, ------------------------?

Both A & B

809 - The era from 1066 to 1350 is sometimes called as Anglo-Norman period because ------------------------.?

The French dialect was dominant

810 - The famous literary figure of the last quarter of 17th century was

John Dryden

811 - The far-traveller wandering over the Germanic land is a poem ------------------------..?

Widsith

812 - The finest example of Morality Play is ------------------------?

Everyman

813 - The first English Christian King was------------------------.?

Ethelbert

814 - The First English Civil War was fought between 1642 and 1646 in------------.

Both A & B

815 - The first English Tragedy on Senecan grounds was

Gorboduc

816 - The first generation of Romantic poets was impressed by------------..

Both of these

817 - The first king who was born in church------------...

Charles I

818 - The following is/are the novel/novels of George Eliot.

Both A & B

819 - The greatest work of Sophocles is ------------ .

Oedipus Rex

820 - The group/groups of comedies of Classical Period was/were.. .

All three

821 - The hero of Beowulf is from ------------------------.?

Southern Sweden

822 - The Hundred Years War ended in ------------------------..?

1453

823 - The incomplete poem describing the human sufferings is ------------------------..?

The Ruin

824 - The King James Bible was made by ------------------------scholars.

47

825 - The language which is used to represent qualities and ideas rather than people or things is called ------------------------.?

Abstract Language

826 - The last play by Shakespeare

Henry VIII

827 - The leader of University Wits was

Christopher Marlowe

828 - The line "Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation" occurs in ------------

A Farewell to Arms

829 - The line "Exit pursued by a bear" appears in Shakespeare's ------------

The Winter's Tale

830 - The line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" is from ------------.

A Tale of Two Cities

831 - The line "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" is from ------------

Jane Eyre

832 - The line "To be or not to be --- that is the question" is said in Hamlet by ------------

Hamlet

833 - The Mad Hatter is a character in ------------

Alice in Wonderland

834 - The Man of Feeling is written by------------

Henry Mackenzie

835 - The method used by a writer to develop a character------------

Characterization

836 - The most important poem of Cynewulf is------------------------?

Christ

837 - The nature of relationship between Church and individual was changed by------------.

Reformation

838 - The nobles who owned land and reported king during Anglo-Saxon period were called------------?

Thanes

839 - The Norsemen (Northmen) are also known as------------------------..?

Vikings

840 - The novel "Desperate Remedies" is written by ------------..

Thomas Hardy

841 - The Novel of Terror is also termed as

The gothic romance

842 - The novel 'Voyage to Lisbon' is written by------------.

Henry Fielding

843 - The Old English "Martyrology" is a Merican collection of ------------------------..?

Hagiographies

844 - The Old English period ended wth the Norman conquest of ------------------------------------?

1066 A.D

845 - The oldest version of Bible was

The Septugint

846 - The only surviving play of Thomas Lodge

The Wounds of Civil War

847 - The period from January 30, 1649 to May 29, 1660 is called------------.

Interregnum

848 - The period of Marlowe's dramatic activity is from 1587 to

1593

849 - The play "The Old Wives' Tale" was printed in

1595

850 - The plays of Ben Johnson was written on the pattern of

Both A & B

851 - The poem "Iliad" is about?

Trojan War

852 - The poetry of which age is devoid of imagination and emotions?

Age of Pope

853 - The Principles of Human Knowledge was published in 1710 by...

George Berkeley

854 - The process by which an unhealthy emotion created by an imbalance of feelings is corrected and emotional health is restored is called------------------------.?

Catharsis

855 - The quality of a fiction or non-fiction that evoke pity and sorrow?

Pathos

856 - The reality that we feel in the characters and actions in a literary piece------------..

Verisimilitude

857 - The repitition of a consonant or vowel sound at close intervals is called ------------------------.?

Alliteration

858 - The repitition of a vowel sound within two or more than two words in close proxinity is called ------------------------.?

Assonance

859 - The Review was a------------..

Periodical

860 - The Review was published from 1704 to 1713 by------------.

Daniel Defoe

861 - The Royal Society adopted------------

Mathematical plainness

862 - The Royal Society was established in------------

1662

863 - The Saxons came to England from ------------------------..?

North Germany

864 - The scholars of Norman Period spoke ------------------------..?

Latin

865 - The second crusade was fought in ------------------------..?

1147 A.D

866 - The Second English Civil War was fought in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales in

1648-49

867 - The society of Middle Ages was ------------------------.?

Feudal

868 - The Spaniard is a character in ------------.

Robinson Crusoe

869 - The steam engine, Spinning jenny, spinning frame and the power loom were invented in ...

18th century

870 - The stories of the Romances were based on King Arthur, ------------------------------------..?

All of these

871 - The style of the Restoration was

All of these

872 - The subject of the poem "Christ" by Cynewulf is------------.?

Religion

873 - The surviving manuscripts of Old English/Anglo-Saxon poetry is/are------------------------?

All

874 - The target of Gunpowder plot was

House of Parliament

875 - The techniques of perspective, realism and ------------were used in Renaissance art.

Individualism

876 - The term "Stigma of print" refers to

Court poets thought that printed verse was less exclusive

877 - The term 'comic epic in prose' is related to------------

Henry Fielding

878 - The Theatre Act of 1968 ------------..the censorship.

Abolished

879 - The theme of a medieval romance was ------------------------..?

A knight goes on an adventure to save a maiden

880 - The theme/themes of the "Wanderer" is/are------------------------?

Exile and solitude

881 - The Third English Civil War is also known as ------------

Anglo-Scottish War

882 - The Third English Civil War was fought between England and Scotland in------------

1650-52

883 - The university of Oxford was established in 12th century. When was the university of Cambridge established?

Also in 12th century

884 - The use of a word in a new grmmatical form------------.

Both A & B

885 - The use of a word or phrase that is less offensive, less distasteful and less direct is called ------------------------..?

Euphemism

886 - The words which are recently created or coinage of new words.

Neologism

887 - The words which are used to belittle an idea or person by arising contemptous laughter------------

Ridicule

888 - The writer of Beowulf is ------------------------?

Unknown

889 - The writer's choice of diction, syntax and tone is called ------------------------..?

Style

890 - The writers of 18th century used------------

Both A & B

891 - The writers of Classical Age followed their own intellect and reason, so the age was known as------------..

Age of Reason and Good Sense

892 - The year of Gunpowder plot

1605

893 - Theatre of Absurd was pioneered by ------------.

Samuel Beckett

894 - Theatres were closed by Puritans in

1642

895 - Theatres were reopened in------------

1660

896 - Theocentric means------------------------...

God is the centre of the universe

897 - This form of poetry refrains from any musical pattern, rhyme or meter------------.

Free Verse

898 - This line "The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike" is from ------------.

Dr. Faustus

899 - Thomas Kyd was born in 1558 in

London

900 - Thomas Lodge died in 1625. He was born in East London in

1558

901 - Thomas Lodge, George Peele and John Lyly were graduated from

Oxford

902 - Thomas More's Utopia first published in ..and then translated into English in 16th century.

Latin

903 - Thomas Otway was born in 1652 and died in

1685

904 - Thoms Overbury was a famous ------------of Puritan Age.

Sketch Writer

905 - Through .., writers received financial rewards for their writings in 16th century.

Patronage

906 - To counter the feudal power structure by a central authority began in the reign of ------------.and continued afterward.

Henry VII

907 - To enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with morality' is the aim of ------------.according to Addison.

The Spectator

908 - To present past events during current events for providing background details------------.

Flashback

909 - To ridicule a style or subject matter of a literary form by treating the exalted in a trivial way or vice versa...

Burlesque

910 - To which class of people was Sentimental comedy fits the best?

Middle

911 - To which group does Anglo-Saxon language belong?

Aryan/Indo-European family

912 - To which writers was the term Classical used for the first time?

Greek and Roman writers, like Homer and Virgil

913 - To whom can we call "The Last of the Great Victorians"

Thomas Hardy

914 - Tom Tulliver and Maggie Tulliver are the charcaters in ------------

The Mill on the Floss

915 - Tories supportted the succession of------------..

Jacobites

916 - Tories were conservatives and followed------------.

Old traditions

917 - Transitional Period is a fusion of aristocracy and ------------

Middle Class

918 - Treatment of a frivolous subject seriously------------..

Mock Epic

919 - Tristram Shandy is a picaresque novel by..

Laurence Sterne

920 - Tristram Shandy was published in..

1759

921 - True or concocted collection of events that tells a story------------..

Narrative

922 - True tragedy is concerned with ------------ .

Sufferings and sorrows of heroes or historical personages

923 - Tudor courtiers had learned the art of intrigue and keys to gaining power from an Italian book

Prince by Machiavelli

924 - Tudor dynasty lasted till the end of Queen Elizabeth's rule in

1603

925 - Two or more words having the same pronunciation and different meanings, origins and spellings------------...

Homophone

926 - Two or more words having the same spellings/pronunciation and different meanings------------...

Homonym

927 - Under guise of praise, a bitter expression of strong disapproval is given------------.

Sarcasm

928 - Unified group of lines in a poem/poetry------------...

Stanza

929 - Use of hints to fore-tel what will happen later in literary work------------.

Foreshadowing

930 - Variation of regular word order (Subject + Verb + Object) is called ------------------------?

Inversion

931 - Victorian Period is divided into ------------.parts.

Two

932 - Victorians had faith in religion and permanence of values while modern men wanted to ------------.

All of these

933 - Virginia Woolf was born in ------------.

1882

934 - Virtual founder of British Novel

Daniel Defoe

935 - Vittoria, Zanche, Lodovico and Brachiano are characters in

The White Devil

936 - Volpone by Johnson was pubished in

1606

937 - Volpone is Johnson's

Comedy

938 - Wallace Stevens and Mary Oliver are ------------..

Modern Poets

939 - Walter Pater was born in 1839 and died in ------------.

1894

940 - War of Roses continued from 1455 to ------------------------.?

1487

941 - War of Roses ended in 1485 on ------------.

Bosworth Field

942 - ------------------------was a historical religious poet.

Caedmon

943 - Was George Chapman a University Wit?

No

944 - Was George Puttenham a courtier poet of 16th century?

No

945 - WB Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize in literature in ------------.

1923

946 - WB Yeats was born in England in ------------..

1865

947 - We can call the Victorian Age ------------

Age of peace

948 - What accounts for the rise of translations from Greek writers in 16th century?

Both A & B

949 - What did Dr. Johnson represent?

Old order of classicism

950 - What did Matthew Arnold call the 18th century?

The Age of Prose

951 - What did Walter Scott contribute to the literature of the Romantic Age?

Love for the past

952 - What do we call to a "seemingly contradictory statement that is actually true"?

Paradox

953 - What do we call to a basic unit of meter that has two or three syllables?

Foot

954 - What do we call to a form of expression in which words are used out of the regular meaning to make the effect specific?

Figure of Speech

955 - What do we call to a heavily didactic story?

Moral

956 - What do we call to a lesson drawn from a fictional or non-fictional story?

Moral

957 - What do we call to a literary form or type?

Genre

958 - What do we call to a temporary departure from the main subject in writing or speaking?

Digression

959 - What do we call to a time or locale in which the action of a story takes place?

Setting

960 - What do we call to a writer's attitude toward his subject matter that is revealed through the use of figurative language, diction, organization of the sentences?

Tone

961 - What do we call to an action of proving a theory or idea false by giving opposing arguments?

Refutation

962 - What do we call to an overwhelming insolence or pride that results in the misfortune of the hero of a tragedy?

Both A & B

963 - What do we call to the cultural legacy of Colonialism?

Post Colonialism

964 - What do we call to the designation of one thing with something very closely related to it?

Metonymy

965 - What do you know about mystical literature?

It encouraged women to write romantic and religious literature

966 - What do you mean by Didactic?

A term that we use to describe a fiction or non fiction that teaches a moral lesson.

967 - What happened in England in 1688-89?

Glorious Revolution took place

968 - What is "Juxtaposing two contradictory things, terms or ideas like 'silencing roar' called?

Oxymoron

969 - What is "Oenone"?

A poem by Tennyson

970 - What is Anecdote?

A brief recounting of a single relevant episode

971 - What is Hamartia?

Tragic Flaw in a character

972 - What is heroic couplet?

Two rhyming lines of iambic pentameters

973 - What is induction?

A reasoning or form that works from a body of facts to the formation of generalization.

974 - What is meant by the lai?

A story based on the theme of courtly love

975 - What is Panegyric?

All of these

976 - What is the first extended written specimen of Old English Period?

Code of Law by King Ethelbert

977 - What is the life-span of Christopher Smart?

1722-1771

978 - What is the name of short poem that deals with the beginning of the world and fall of Angels?

Genesis A (1)

979 - What is the other name of Anglo-Saxon Period?

Old English Period

980 - What is the theme of "Gorboduc" in play's own words?

Blood asketh blood, death must require death

981 - What is the theme of the poem "The Fight at Finnesburg"?

Battle against fearful odds

982 - What is the work of Alcuin?

He revived Latin scripts under Charlemagne

983 - What kind of ideas did French Revolution present?

Revoltionary

984 - What kind of language old English was?

Highly Inflectional

985 - What kind of poem "Works and Days" is?

Didactic

986 - What kind of verse was the old English poetry?

Alliterative

987 - What legend is famous about Caedmon's inspiration?

Vision for the gift of poetic song

988 - What relation did James II had with Charles II?

Brother

989 - What served as a vehicle to spread literature everywhere?

The invention of printing press

990 - What was Romantic Slogan?

Return to Nature

991 - What was the age of William Pitt when he became the Prime Minister?

24 Years

992 - What was the Augustans' belief about reasoning power of all men?

Reasoning power of all men is equal.

993 - What was the belief of Cromwell?

Puritan

994 - What was the cause of Socrates death?

Forced suicide by poisoning

995 - What was the distinguishing mark of Moral (Morality) Plays?

Allegory

996 - What was the emphasis of the Renaissance?

Individual

997 - What was the essence of Renaissance?

Man discovered himself and the univrse.

998 - What was the important trait of Renaissance?

Humanism

999 - What was the important vehicle of verse in Restoration Age?

Heroic Couplet

1000 - What was the main charactristic of the early Victorian period?

Faith in reality of progress

1001 - What was the name of the festival for which the plays were produced in Classical Greek?

Dionysia

1002 - What was the population of London between 1520 and 1550?

120000

1003 - What was the profession of Dr. Johnson's father?

Book-seller

1004 - What was the purpose of Oxford/Tractarian Movement?

To bring spiritual changes in Church of England

1005 - What was the real name of Saxons?

Sassenach

1006 - What was the result of the Cult of Chivalry?

Both A and B

1007 - What was the theme of literature in Neo-Classical Age?

Town and city

1008 - What was the theme of the poem "London" by Johnson?

Dark and miserable condition of London

1009 - What was the theme of the poem, "Vanity of Human Wishes"?

Futility of human struggle

1010 - When a comment does not logically relate to another, we call it ------------------------?

Non-sequiter

1011 - When a writer attacks his/her opponents personally in spite of attacking their arguments is called ------------------------..?

Ad homonym

1012 - When did a great plague break in Athens?

In 430 B.C

1013 - When did Alfred became the king of Wessex?

871 A.D

1014 - When did Angles settle in Northumbria?

547 A.D

1015 - When did Anglo-Saxon begin the conquest of South-eastern Britain?

450 A.D

1016 - When did Anglo-Saxons Chronicle begin?

In 860

1017 - When did Anglo-Saxons embrace Christianity?

In 597 A.D

1018 - When did Aristotle die?

322 B.C

1019 - When did Athens conquer the island of Melos and excuted its all adult men?

In 416

1020 - When did Chaucer fight in Hundred Years War?

In 1359

1021 - When did Classical Period end?

323 B.C

1022 - When did Classical Period start?

500 B.C

1023 - When did Danes conquer Northumbria?

867 A.D

1024 - When did England become the extension of Northern France under the accession of King John?

In 1199

1025 - When did hostility between France and England end?

In 1815

1026 - When did hostility between France and England start?

In 1793

1027 - When did Joseph Addison start The Spectator again for 80 numbers?

In 1714

1028 - When did King Charles II die?

In 1685

1029 - When did Mngna Carta signed by King John?

In 1215

1030 - When did Peasants' Revolt happen in Middle Ages?

1381

1031 - When did Plato die?

348/347 B.C

1032 - When did Romantic Period end officially?

1832

1033 - When did St. Augustine came and convert King Ethelbert into Christianity?

597 A.D

1034 - When did the "Poems by Two Brothers" appear ------------

1827

1035 - When did the Black Death occur in Middle Ages?

1348

1036 - When did The Fall of Bastille take place during French Revolution?

July 14, 1789

1037 - When did the Greek scholars leave Constantinople?

At the fall of Constantinople

1038 - When did the incident of Great Fire happen in London?

1666

1039 - When did the Lollards beigin Reformation in England?

In 1377

1040 - When did the trial of Warren Hastings take place?

1788

1041 - When did the" Doomsday Book (Domesday Book)" completed?

In 1086

1042 - When did William Caxton print "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Malory?

1485

1043 - When did William Cowper write "The Castaway"?

In 1800 shortly before his death

1044 - When the reader or the audience is aware of the contradiction between the real meaning of the situation and the literal meaning of the writer's words is called------------.?

Verbal Irony

1045 - When two statements are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them is called------------..

Syllogism

1046 - When was "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy" published?

1768

1047 - When was "Gorboduc" published?

1561

1048 - When was "On the Origin of Species" by Darwin published?

1859

1049 - When was "Principia" published in English?

1728

1050 - When was "The Recuyell of the Historeys of Troye" published?

In 1475

1051 - When was "The Tatler" closed?

January 1711

1052 - When was 'A Dictionary of the English Language' published?

1755

1053 - When was Aeschylus defeated by Sophocles in the drama competition held in Athens?

468 B.C

1054 - When was Aristotle born?

384 B.C

1055 - When was Battle of Edington fought?

878 A.D

1056 - When was Chaucer's Canterbury Tales publish?

1478

1057 - When was Constantinople conquered by Turks?

In 1453

1058 - When was Doris Lessing awarded Nobel Prize?

In 2007

1059 - When was Dr. Johnson born?

1709

1060 - When was England completely conquered by the Roman King Claudius?

43 A.D

1061 - When was first Coffee-house was built in Oxford?

1652

1062 - When was 'Lyrical Ballads' planned?

In 1797

1063 - When was Napolean defeated at Waterloo?

1815

1064 - When was Oxford Mvement started?

In early 1830s

1065 - When was Plato born?

Both A and B are speculated as true

1066 - When was printing from movable plates invented?

Around 1450

1067 - When was Queen Victoria born?

In 1819

1068 - When was Renaissance in full bloom in England?

During Elizabeth Age

1069 - When was Richard II deposed?

In 1399

1070 - When was Seamus Heaney awarded Nobel Prize in Literature?

1995

1071 - When was Seamus Heaney born?

1939

1072 - When was T.S Eliot awarded Nobel Prize in Literature?

1948

1073 - When was Tennyson raised to the peerage as Lord?

In 1884

1074 - When was the committee for abolishing the slave trade established by Evangelical English Protestans?

1787

1075 - When was the dialogue between individual members of the choir added to the drama?

On feast days

1076 - When was the Dream of the Rood written with the theme of Crucification of Christ?

In 9th century

1077 - When was the first complete Bible was published?

1477

1078 - When was the first Crusade fought?

In 1096

1079 - When was the first Miracle Play recorded in England?

1110 A.D

1080 - When was the Second Reform Act implemented fully?

January 1, 1869

1081 - When was the Slave Trade Abolition Act introduced?

1807

1082 - When was the term Agnostic coined by Thomas Huxley?

1869

1083 - When was the Theatre Act passed in Post Modern Age?

1968

1084 - When was the third edition of Lyrical Ballads published?

1802

1085 - When was Utopia published in Latin?

1516

1086 - When was Warren Hastings found not guilty?

1795

1087 - When was William Pitt made the Prime Minister of Britain?

1783

1088 - When were Britons pushed back to western borders of England?

In 6th century

1089 - When were the actresses (female actors) introduced in the theatre?

In Restoration Age

1090 - When were the books 1 to 3 of "Faerie Queene" published?

1590

1091 - When were the theatres closed in Puritan Age?

1642

1092 - Where did all tribes of Britain joined one another?

In south east area

1093 - Where did Goidets go and disappear?

Scotland

1094 - Where did the story of "Beowulf" take place?

England

1095 - Where does this line occur, "Silence, ye wolves! White Ralph to Cynthia howls"?

The Dunciad (Pope)

1096 - Where was Aristotle born?

Euboea (Greece)

1097 - Where was Dylan Thomas born in 1914?

Uplands, UK

1098 - Where was Marlowe stabbed to death?

In a tavern brawl

1099 - Which Act changed the British electoral system?

First Refrm Act 1832

1100 - Which age was controversial in the field of literature, society and religion?

Both A & B

1101 - Which age was the age of common sense, tolerance and moderation?

Age of Pope

1102 - Which Christian sect flourished in England after breaking ties with Roman Catholics?

Protestant

1103 - Which city's whole population disappeared due to Black Death?

Bristols

1104 - Which class of people rose during Age of Reason?

Middle

1105 - Which colonial venture/ventures took place in the reign of James I?

Both A & B

1106 - Which dialect did King Alfred adopt?

West Saxon

1107 - Which English dialect began to be used in literary writings?

Middle English

1108 - Which English King was victorious in Hundred Years War in 1415?

Henry V

1109 - Which English writer presented the doctrine of "Art for art's sake"?

Walter Pater

1110 - Which entity lost its power in the Renaissance?

Roman Catholic

1111 - Which era combined with French Revolution to give birth to democracy?

Transitional

1112 - Which famous writer mentioned Bible in his works only once?

Shakespeare

1113 - Which French ruler was executed in 1792 during French Revolution?

Louis XVI

1114 - Which institutions were overthrown by Renaissance?

Feudal & Orthodox

1115 - Which is a striking feature of Middle English literature?

Anonymity

1116 - Which is the representative poem of the Old English Period?

Beowulf

1117 - Which kind of novel takes its setting and characters from history?

Historical Novel

1118 - Which literary genre prevailed in 18th century?

Prose

1119 - Which maojr new prose genre was emerged during Jacobean era?

Familiar essay

1120 - Which of the following is Smolette's novel?

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

1121 - Which of the following is the novel of George Orwell?

Animal Farm

1122 - Which of the following is the novel of John Waine?

Young Shoulders

1123 - Which of the following is the novel of Richardson?

The History of Sir Charles Grandison

1124 - Which of the following is true about Elizabethan theater?

All of these

1125 - Which of the following poets showed romantic tendency towards the middle of 18th century?

Both A & B

1126 - Which poem describes continental courts visited by a far-wandering poet?

Widsith

1127 - Which poem describes how Israelites left Egypt and Daniel?

Exodus

1128 - Which poem has nostalgic elements?

The Seafarer

1129 - Which poem is about the origins and genealogies of the greek Gods?

Theogony

1130 - Which poem is called the national epic of England?

Beowulf

1131 - Which poem is the blend of Paganism and Christianity?

Beowulf

1132 - Which poem of Alfred Tennyson is a cycle of twelve books?

Idylls of the King

1133 - Which poem of Geffrei Gaimer shows the mythical history of Britons?

Estoirie des Engleis (The History of the English)

1134 - Which publication made Samuel Johnson famous and independent?

His dictionary

1135 - Which religious poet was mostly mythical?

Caedmon

1136 - Which social class got power in Romantic Age?

Middle class

1137 - Which technique was popular in Old English Poetry?

Kenning

1138 - Which term was followed by literature before the Renaissance?

Theocentric

1139 - Which theory says that reigning monarch is God's deputy who has absolute authority?

Royal Absolutism

1140 - Which theory was presented by Charles Darwin?

Theory of Evolution

1141 - Which thing contributed most to the beginning of Renaissance movement?

Well-to-do people supported art

1142 - Which thing was the leading thing to Romanticism?

Emergence of Middle Class

1143 - Which tragic event took place in 1348-49?

Black Death

1144 - Which two parties came into being in Restoration Period?

Tory & Whig

1145 - Which type of novel presents a social world conveying the values and customs of a complex or highly developed society?

Novel of manners

1146 - Which war was fought between Athens and allies and Sparta and allies?

Peloponessian War

1147 - Which was the best novel of Angus Wilson?

Hemlock and After

1148 - Which was the dominant literary genre in Modern Age?

Novel

1149 - Which was the first novel of William Golding?

Lord of Flies

1150 - Which was the language of religion/clergy during Norman Era?

Latin

1151 - Which was the only possible form for serious work in poetry in Augustan Age?

Heroic Couplet

1152 - Which was the satire on the popular drama of Elizabethan days?

The Old Wive's Tale

1153 - Which was/were the objection/objections raised against the theaters of Elizabethan era?

All of these

1154 - Which was/were the objective/objectives of Long Parliament when it convened in 1640?

All of these

1155 - Which writers are called "Child of democracy and individualism, industrialism, materialism, doubt, pessimism, science and evolution."?

Victorian writers

1156 - Which years were suspendid animation in poilitcs in England?

From 1820 to 1832

1157 - Whigs had financial interests and were called------------

Liberals

1158 - Who ascended to the throne in 1685?

James II

1159 - Who attacked the Quakers?

John Bunyan

1160 - Who became king after Harold II?

William

1161 - Who became The Poet Laureate in 1850?

Tennyson

1162 - Who began conquest of India in 1757?

General Clive

1163 - Who brought church and the state together in 1530s?

Henry VIII

1164 - Who brought the aspects of humanity to the poetry of Romantic Period?

Robert Southey

1165 - Who called Henry Feilding 'The father of English novel.'?

Walter Scott

1166 - Who cirumnavigated the earth?

Vascoda Gama

1167 - Who composed the "Odyssey"?

Homer

1168 - Who composed the line "Love is my religion - I could die for it."?

John Keats

1169 - Who converted Anglo-Saxons to Christianity?

St. Augustine

1170 - Who created "True Tragedy"?

Aeschylus

1171 - Who created women characters most successfully?

GB Shaw

1172 - Who defeated Byrhtnoth at Battle of Maldon in 991 A.D?

Danes

1173 - Who developed a regular plot in drama expressing deep human feelings?

Robert Greene

1174 - Who established Cmmonwealth in England in 1649?

Cromwell

1175 - Who forced King John to sign Magna Carta?

Barons

1176 - Who found the solar system?

Copernicus

1177 - Who gave impressionism to English Novel?

Laurence Stern

1178 - Who gave the model of Blank Verse in drama?

Marlowe

1179 - Who imagined himself as the modern version of Augustas Caesar?

James I

1180 - Who imposed dictatorship in 1653 on England?

Cromwell

1181 - Who initiated the Reformation Movement in 1517?

Martin Luther

1182 - Who introduced English Navy?

King Alfred

1183 - Who introduced the system of measurement of earth in Old English Period?

King Alfred

1184 - Who is a "Churl"?

All of these

1185 - Who is a villain?

A bad guy opposing the protagonist

1186 - Who is called the 'father of English dramatic poetry' by critics?

Christopher Marlowe

1187 - Who is called the father of English learning?

Bede

1188 - Who is called the great genius of Elizabethan Age?

William shakespeare

1189 - Who is called the poet of wedded love?

Browning

1190 - Who is considered as the first English poet?

Caedmon

1191 - Who is considered as the model in Renaissance?

Both A & B

1192 - Who is considered the first prose writer in English?

Alfred

1193 - Who is Dionysus?

Greek god of fertility and wine

1194 - Who is given the credit of originating the phrase "Pandora's box"?

Erasmus

1195 - Who is represented/addressed in pastrol poetry?

Both A & B

1196 - Who is said to have died after an ogry in a London alehouse?

Robert Greene

1197 - Who is the eldest son of King Duncan in "Macbeth"?

Malcolm

1198 - Who is the father of religious poetry?

Caedmon

1199 - Who is the hero of Charles Dickens' novel "The Return of the Native"?

Clym Yeobright

1200 - Who is the heroine of "The Rape of the Lock" by Pope?

Belinda

1201 - Who is the heroine of the Shakespeare's play "Hamlet?

Ophelia

1202 - Who is the heroine of the Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet"?

Juliet

1203 - Who is the most stern follower of the Senecan Revenge Tradition?

John Webster

1204 - Who is the pioneer of science fiction?

HG Wells

1205 - Who is the villian in the play "The Revenger's Tragedy"?

Vindice

1206 - Who is the young lover in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare?

Romeo

1207 - Who is Ursula in "Much Ado About Nothing"?

A maid

1208 - Who killed Marlowe?

Ingram Frizer

1209 - Who of the following is/are the female writer/writers of Jacobean Era?

Both A & B

1210 - Who presented the expression "Broad Church"?

Arthur Hough Clough

1211 - Who published "Rites of Passage" in 1980?

William Golding

1212 - Who refined drama and brought it out of the alehouse into the courtly chamber?

John Lyly

1213 - Who remained the King of England from 1485 to 1509?

Henry VII

1214 - Who said "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"?

John Keats

1215 - Who said "Browning is preeminently a poet of the world."?

Compton Rickett

1216 - Who said "He (Browning) did to English poetry what Steele did to English essay. He informalised into,often lacking a formal beauty"?

Compton Rickett

1217 - Who said "Human body is consisted of four humours_ Blood, Phlegm, Cholera and Melancholy."?

Ben Johnson

1218 - Who said "Shakespeare works as with the clay of human action; Browning as with the clay of human thoughts"?

Sharp

1219 - Who says "Romanticism is addition of strangeness to beauty"?

Walter Pater

1220 - Who speaks these lines in Hamlet? "Doubt that the stars are fire/Doubt that the sun doth move/Doubt truth to be a liar/But never doubt that I love".

Hamlet

1221 - Who speaks these lines? "Though in the trade of war I have slain men/Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience/To do no contrived murder".

Iago

1222 - Who started persecutions of Protestants in 1550s to condemn them?

Mary Tudor

1223 - Who started psychological novels in Victorian Age?

George Eliot

1224 - Who suceeded Elizabeth I in 1603?

James VI of Scotland

1225 - Who translated Latin books into English for the first time?

Alfred

1226 - Who translated Utopia into English in 1551?

Ralph Robinson

1227 - Who warned Alexander Pope on the publication of The Dunciad, "Take care that the bad poets do not outwit you?

Jonathan Swift

1228 - Who was a boy disguised as a woman in "The Silent Woman"?

Epicoene

1229 - Who was a foolish knight in "Twelfth Night"?

Sir Andrew Aguecheek

1230 - Who was a passionate lover of external visible world?

John Keats

1231 - Who was Alcuin?

Second Learned man of old English period

1232 - Who was an old wounded soldier in Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"?

Uncle Toby

1233 - Who was Angus Wilson?

Both A & B

1234 - Who was Aristotle?

Greek Philospher

1235 - Who was Augustan?

A Roman King

1236 - Who was called "Our English Seneca"?

Joseph Hall

1237 - Who was called the father of Greek Tragedy?

Aeschylus

1238 - Who was Christopher Smart?

He was an English poet.

1239 - Who was father of Humanism?

Petrarch

1240 - Who was Horatio in "Hamlet" by Shakespeare?

Hamlet's best friend

1241 - Who was Iago's wife in "Othello"?

Emilia

1242 - Who was known as "England's National Homer"?

Richard Hakluyt

1243 - Who was Laurence Sterne?

An Anglo-Irish Novelist

1244 - Who was Manfred in The Castle of Otranto?

A villain-hero

1245 - Who was Oliver Goldsmith?

Anglo-Irish writer

1246 - Who was Plato?

Philosopher

1247 - Who was Queen Elizabeth I's tutor?

Roger Ascham

1248 - Who was representative poet of Victorian Age?

Tennyson

1249 - Who was Samuel Pepys?

Both A & B

1250 - Who was Socrates?

Greek philosopher

1251 - Who was th editor of the "Critical Review" from 1756 to 1763?

Smollet

1252 - Who was the author of "Il Cortigiano"?

Castiglione

1253 - Who was the daughter of Prospero in "The Tempest" by Shakespeare?

Miranda

1254 - Who was the editor and the writer of weekly "Master Humphrey's Clock"?

Charles Dickens

1255 - Who was the father of Martin Amis?

Kingsley

1256 - Who was the first master of Comedy?

Aristophnes

1257 - Who was the first Prime Minister of England?

Sir Robert Walpole

1258 - Who was the great genius of the Renaissance?

Shakespeare

1259 - Who was the hero of the poem "Waldhere"?

Walter of Aquitaine

1260 - Who was the heroine of "Peter Pan"?

Wendy

1261 - Who was the Jew in "Merchant of Venice"?

Shylock

1262 - Who was the King of England from 1189 t0 1199?

Richard I

1263 - Who was the king of England from 1199 to 1216?

King John

1264 - Who was the king of England from 1216 t0 1272?

Henry III

1265 - Who was the king of England from 1272 t0 1307?

Edward I

1266 - Who was the king of England from 1307 t0 1327?

Edward II

1267 - Who was the king of England from 1327 t0 1377?

Edward III

1268 - Who was the king of England from 1361 t0 1383?

Edwad IV

1269 - Who was the king of England from 1377 t0 1399?

Richard II

1270 - Who was the king of England from 1413 t0 1422?

Henry V

1271 - Who was the leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt?

Wat Tyler

1272 - Who was the merchant in the "Merchant of Venice"?

Antonio

1273 - Who was the pioneer in the use of Stream of Consciousness as a narrative device?

Virginia Woolf

1274 - Who was the prolific 10th century writer of Hagiographies and Homilies?

Eynsham

1275 - Who was the villain in "Othello" by Shakespeare?

Iago

1276 - Who was the writer of "A Vindication of the Rights of Man"?

Mary Wollstonecraft

1277 - Who was the youngest Prime Miister of Great Britain?

William Pitt

1278 - Who was Titus' daughter in "Titus Adronicus"?

Lavinia

1279 - Who was Tobias Smollet?

A Scottish poet and author

1280 - Who was Warren Hastings?

Governor General of India

1281 - Who was/were beheaded in 1649?

Both A & B

1282 - Who was/were prominent Tractarian/Tractarians?

All of these

1283 - Who was/were the pioneers of the Coffee-house Literature?

Both A & B

1284 - Who was/were the pupil/pupils of Socrates?

Both A and B

1285 - Who were Aubery and Fuller?

Biographers of Puritan Age

1286 - Who were bards?

Poets

1287 - Who were Lollards?

Followers of John Wycliff

1288 - Who wrote "Alphonsus King of Aragon"?

Robert Greene

1289 - Who wrote "Apology"?

Plato

1290 - Who wrote "Areopagitica"?

John Milton

1291 - Who wrote "Arraignment of Paris"?

Georg Peele

1292 - Who wrote "Calloquian"?

Aelfric

1293 - Who wrote "Champion of Virtue"?

Miss Clara Reeve

1294 - Who wrote "Clarissa or The History of a Young Lady"?

Samuel Richardson

1295 - Who wrote "Decameron"?

Boccacio

1296 - Who wrote "Flaubert's Parrots" in 1984?

Julian Barnes

1297 - Who wrote "Gammer Gurton's Needle"?

William Stevenson

1298 - Who wrote "Gorboduc"?

Both A & B

1299 - Who wrote "Historia Ecclesiastca Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People)"?

Bede

1300 - Who wrote "Hotel du Lac"?

Anita Brookner

1301 - Who wrote "Hudibras"?

Samuel Butler

1302 - Who wrote "Hurry on Down"?

John Waine

1303 - Who Wrote "Ideas Mirror" (1594)?

Michael Drayton

1304 - Who wrote "Martha Quest"?

Doris Lessing

1305 - Who wrote "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica"?

Sir Isaac Newton

1306 - Who wrote "Prayers and Meditations"?

Samuel Johnson

1307 - Who wrote "Ralph Roister Doister"?

Nicholas Udall

1308 - Who wrote "Robinson Crusoe"?

Daniel Defoe

1309 - Who wrote "Shakespearen Tragedy" in 1904?

A.C Bradley

1310 - Who wrote "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"?

Smollet

1311 - Who wrote "The Crown of Life", a book on Shakespeare?

Wilson Knight

1312 - Who wrote "The Entertainer"?

John Osborne

1313 - Who wrote "The Falcon"?

Lord Alfred Tennyson

1314 - Who wrote "The History of John Bull"?

John Arbuthnot

1315 - Who wrote "The Mysteries of Udolpho"?

Anne Radcliffe

1316 - Who wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress"?

John Bunyan

1317 - Who wrote "The Rape of the Lock"?

Alexander Pope

1318 - Who wrote "The Saint's Tragedy"?

Charles Kingsley

1319 - Who wrote "The Second Coming"?

None of these

1320 - Who wrote "The Seven Lamps of Architecture"?

John Ruskin

1321 - Who wrote "The White Devil"?

John Webster

1322 - Who wrote "The Woman in the Moon"?

John Lyly

1323 - Who wrote "The Wrong Set"?

Angus Wilson

1324 - Who wrote "The Wuthering Heights"?

Emile Bronte

1325 - Who wrote "Universal History of Orosius"?

King Alfred

1326 - Who wrote 'A Dictionary of the English Language'?

Dr. Samuel Johnson

1327 - Who wrote dark characters?

Theophrastus

1328 - Who wrote Jubilate Agno?

Christopher Smart

1329 - Who wrote Sherlock Holmes stories?

Arthur Conan Doyle

1330 - Who wrote the "Deserted Village" a collection of poems?

Oliver Goldsmith

1331 - Who wrote the "History of the Kings of Britain"?

Geoffrey of Monmouth

1332 - Who wrote the "Odyssey"?

Homer

1333 - Who wrote the "The Four-Gated City"?

Doris Lessing

1334 - Who wrote the "The Love of King David"?

George Peele

1335 - Who wrote the "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"?

Murial Spark

1336 - Who wrote the "Theogony"?

Hesiod

1337 - Who wrote the "Works and Days"?

Hesiod

1338 - Who wrote the biography of Samuel Johnson "Life of johnson"?

James Boswell

1339 - Who wrote the book "Rights of Man "?

Thomas Paine

1340 - Who wrote The Castle of Otranto?

Horace Walpole

1341 - Who wrote the characters of virtue and vice?

Joseph Hall

1342 - Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes"?

John Keats

1343 - Who wrote the novel "The Vicar of Wakefield"?

Oliver Goldsmith

1344 - Who wrote the novel "The Wings of Dove"?

Henry James

1345 - Who wrote the periodical "The Tatler"?

Richard Steele

1346 - Who wrote the play "Atalanta in Calydon"?

A.C Swinburne

1347 - Who wrote the play "Foresters" (1892)?

Tennyson

1348 - Who wrote the play "Oedipus at Colonus"?

Sophocles

1349 - Who wrote the play "The Old Wives' Tale"?

George Peele

1350 - Who wrote the play "The Silent woman"?

Ben Johnson

1351 - Who wrote the play "Venice Preserved"?

Thomas Otway

1352 - Who wrote the poem "Pauline"?

Robert Browning

1353 - Who wrote the poem, "Hyperion"?

John Keats

1354 - Who wrote the poem, "London"?

Samuel Johnson

1355 - Who wrote this line "124 was spiteful"?

Tonni Morrison

1356 - Who wrote Utopia?

Thomas Moore

1357 - Whom did Milton serve as Latin Secretary?

Cromwell

1358 - Whose journals were famous during Puritan Age?

John Fox's

1359 - Whose works are famous for obscurity?

Browning

1360 - Whose works consist of Exeter Book?

Cynewulf

1361 - Why is the 18th century known as the Augustan Age?

Writers considered themselves parallel to brilliant writers of Rome during Augustan Age.

1362 - Why was the drama festival Dionysia held in Greek Era?

To honour god Dionysus

1363 - Why were Classical writers of 18th century called Pseudo-classical?

All of these

1364 - Why were the certain writers of 16th century called university wits?

They were educated at universities

1365 - Widsith describes the visits of------------.in imagination by a wandering poet.

Continental courts

1366 - William Butler Yeats died in 1939 in ------------

France

1367 - William Caxton brought printing press to England in------------

In 1476

1368 - William Dobbin is a character in ------------..by Thackeray.

Vanity Fair

1369 - William Shakespeare died in 1616. When was he born?

1564

1370 - William Stevenson was a

Clergyman

1371 - William Wordswoth died in ------------

1850

1372 - With whom was the Middle English drama associated?

Church

1373 - Wordsworth called majority of his poems in Lyrical Balladsas ------------.

Experimental

1374 - Wordsworth presented ------------.life in his poems in Lyrical Balllads.

Everyday

1375 - Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge are called------------.

First generation Romantic poets

1376 - Works and Days" is written around?

700 B.C

1377 - Wycliff used ------------------------. version of Bible for translation into English.

Latin

1378 - Wycliff's translation of Bible appeared from 1382 to ------------------------?

1395

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