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(Set 1) Most Important 100 One-Liners for NTA NET English Literature

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  1. Who wrote The Life of Johnson? Boswell

  2. malvolio is a character in: Twelfth Night

  3. In which poem the line occurs: “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought” Ode to Skylark

  4. Who first used the term “metaphysics”? Dr. Johnson.

  5. The writer of Volpone is: Jonson.

  6. Correct sequence: Spenser – Wordsworth – Tennyson – T.s. Eliot.

  7. Pilgrim’s Progress was written by: John Bunyan.

  8. The writer of the line: “Stone walls do not a prison make.” is: Lovelace

  9. “Monkey’s Paw is a: Short story

  10. The writer of “A Pair of Blue Eyes” is: Thomas Hardy.

  11. Ariel is a character in: Tempest

  12.  Which poet is most influenced by German philosophy? Coleridge.

  13. The Peasant’s Bread is a story by: Tolstoy

  14. The Financial Express was written by: R.K. Narayan

  15. Negative Capability is a term associated with: Keats.

  16. The most impressive treatment of “imagination” has been given by: Coleridge.

  17. Maggie is a character in: The Mill on the Floss

  18. Who said about poetry “Emotion recollected in tranquility”? Wordsworth.

  19. Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned because it was considered: obscene.

  20. For Whom The Bell Tolls was written by: Hemingway

  21. Who said “I awoke one morning and found myself famous”? Byron.

  22. Who used the expression “unaging monuments of intellect”? Yeats

  23. Which poet was invited by John F. Kennedy to his inauguration ceremony? Frost

  24. The writer of “A pair of Mustachios” is Anand

  25. Estella is a character in: Great Expectation

  26. The writer of the Scarlet letter is: hawthorne.

  27. In which poem the line occurs: “To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.”? Ulysses.

  28. Rousseau is associated with: French revolution.

  29. Two Nobel prize winners: Hemingway and Churchill

  30. Henchard is the hero of: The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  31. Who is the author of Azadi? Chaman Nahal

  32. “The God of Small things” is written by: Arundhati Roy

  33. Who wrote the poem Listener? Walter de la Mare.

  34. Which poem starts with “behold her single in the field …”? The Solitary Reaper.

  35. Shobha De is: a novelist.

  36. Dunciad was written by: Pope

  37. King Magnum is a character in: Apple Cart

  38. Barnard Shaw got the Nobel Prize for: Saint Joan.

  39. The Victorian period is marked by: great political upheavals.

  40. In which play the hero demanded more food from the authorities? Oliver twist

  41. Swift is known mainly as a satirist.

  42. Who wrote the line: “Slow rises worth by poverty depressed”? Dr. Johnson

  43. Who is the writer of the novel “The village”? Mulk Raj Anand.

  44. The most famous writer of the heroic couplet is: Pope

  45. Who wrote “Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter”? Keats.

  46. Who used the term “Egotistical sublime” for Wordsworth’s poetry? Keats

  47. Into how many acts did Marlowe originally divide his Dr.faustus? One

  48. Macflecknoe is a poem written by: dryden

  49. Who wrote Everyman in His humour? Jonson.

  50. Indian Jugglers is an essay by: Hazlitt.

  51. In which poem did Tennyson say “Ring out the old, ring in the new”? In Memoriam

  52. Who wrote “the Grapes of Wrath”? John Steinbeck.

  53. Who rendered into English the ancient Greek tragedy “Atlanta in calydon”? Swinburne. 

  54. The Deserted Village was written by: Goldsmith

  55. “Savitri” is an epic written by: Aurobindo

  56. The anthem “vande mataram” occurs in: Anandh math

  57. “All Fool’s Day” is an essay written by: Charles lamb.

  58. the drama Tamburlaine is written by: marlowe.

  59. The book Appreciations was written by: Walter Peter.

  60. “Strife” describes the strike by: factory workers.

  61. “The Admirable Crichton” was written by James Barrie.

  62. “The Death of a Salesman” was written by: Arthur Miller.

  63. Which English King was beheaded? Charles I in 1649

  64. The Restoration period is said to have been started: from 1660

  65. Who gave up writing poetry for a long time for the sake of the struggle for democracy? Milton.

  66. Who wrote “The Lady’s Not for Burning”? Christopher Fry

  67. Who wrote the poem “Brahma” Emerson.

  68. The writer of Walden is: Thoreau

  69. In Sons and Lovers lawrence has depicted the life of miners.

  70. Who wrote Kim? Kipling

  71. The Hairy Ape is a famous play by: Eugene O’Neil

  72. Who at the time of his death asked his friend to pay his debt of a cock after his death? Socrates.

  73. Who wrote his own epigraph: “here lies the one whose name is written in water”? keats.

  74. Frost’s lines were written on: the writing pad of Jawaharlal Nehru

  75. Who wrote the “Cries of Children”? Elizabeth Barrett.

  76. Who is called the poet’s poet? Spenser.

  77. Bohemia is a place in the drama: The Winter’s Tale.

  78. Which character in the Merchant of Venice said “the quality of mercy is not strained”? Portia

  79. Adonais is the eulogy written on the death of: Keats.

  80. Oedipus Complex is expressed most strongly in: Sons and Lovers.

  81. Who was addicted to opium taking? Coleridge.

  82. Who wrote Mother? Maxim Gorky

  83. Who is associated with Malgudi? Narayan

  84. Who says “Life, life, eternal life”? Christian

  85. Beatrice was the woman whose love inspired a man to write an immortal poem. Who was that man? Dante.

  86. Alexander Pope died in: 1744

  87. Burns was born in: Scotland.

  88. To a Mountain Daisy is a poem by: Burns.

  89. Who wrote “the Devil’s Disciple”? Shaw

  90. George Eliot believed in: A moral law.

  91. “A foundling” is a part of the name of the novel: Tom Jones

  92. Who wrote “the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”? Edward Gibbon.

  93. Richard Hooker was a prose writer of the Elizabethan period.

  94. Sir Walter Relaigh died in: 1618

  95. D’Artagnan is a character in: The Three Musketeers.

  96. Alexander Dumas was: a french writer. 

  97. Who said about Wordsworth, “he uttered nothing base”? Tennyson.

  98. Lake poets: Southey, Coleridge, Wordsworth

  99. Emma appeared in: 1815.

  100. Mrs. Browning’s book “Sonnets from the Portuguese” is an inspiring book of: love poems.

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