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(Set 2) Most Important 100 One-Liners for NTA NET English Literature 

  1. D.g. Rossetti was the son of an Italian painter.
  2. The translation of Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister” appeared in 1824.
  3. In The Doctor’s Dilemma Shaw makes fun of physicians.
  4. Who wrote “in Defence of Poetry”? Shelley.
  5. The Playboy of the Western World is a play by: Synge.
  6. for the best condensation of a novel Arnold Bennet won a prize of: 20 Euro.
  7. Who wrote: “The year’s at the spring. / And day’s at the morn.” : Robert Browning.
  8. The Ring at the Book contains how many more lines than Iliad? 2000
  9. In which poem the line occurs: “” … Do not all charms fly, / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?” Lamia.
  10. Boswell was born in: 1735
  11. “Silent Woman” is a play by: Ben Jonson.
  12. the Duchess of Malfi was published in: 1623
  13. Pap is a character in: Huckleberry Finn
  14. A Mad Tea-party takes place in: Alice in Wonderland.
  15. What was the name of the girl whom Kalidas loved? Kamini
  16. “Kidnapped” was written by: R.L. Stevenson.
  17. Mr. Collins is a character in: Pride and Prejudice.
  18. The Prisoner of Zenda was written by:  Anthony Hope
  19. What is the full name of Carvantes? Miguel de Cervantes.
  20. The letter referred to in the Scarlet Letter is: A.
  21. Robert Frost lived sometimes in: England.
  22. Besides being a poet Chaucer was a: diplomat.
  23. Bacon’s essays were influenced by: Montaigne.
  24. Charles Lamb worked as: a Clerk.
  25. Who wrote “Keep right on to the end of the road.” Sir Harry Lauder.
  26. Who said: “Two men look out through the same bars: / One sees the mud, and the one the star”?Frederick Langbridge.
  27. In which poem the line appears, “What a falling off was there”? Hamlet.
  28. The meaning of “widsith” in old English is: wanderer
  29. The name of William Golding’s first novel is: Lord of the Flies.
  30. In his “Progress and Poverty”, Henry George is influenced by: The Marxian System.
  31. The author of Erewhon is: Samuel bartler
  32. Which is a Comedy of Manner? The Way of the World.
  33. Which are pessimists? Gissing, Hardy, Thomson.
  34. Charles Reade’s drama “Drink” was adapted from the work of Zola.
  35. James Mill was born in: Scotland.
  36. The classical theory of rent was advocated by: Ricardo
  37. Who was not an utilitarian? Rousseau.
  38. Kipling was born in: 1865.
  39. The monk Augustine came to England in 597.
  40. The Battle of Maldon was fought in: 993.
  41. To whom are the lines written: “When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?” John Ball.
  42. “The Praise of Folly” was written by: Thomas moore
  43. Who wrote: “In Praise of Idleness”? Bertrand Russel.
  44. Which comprises one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable”? A trochee.
  45. In which work the line occurs, “That with no middle flight intends to soar.” Paradise Lost.
  46. The trial scene in “The Merchant of Venice” was presided over by: The Duke.
  47. The real name of Saki is: H.H. Munro.
  48. Who started “The Tatler”? Steele.
  49. The poem ‘The Song of the Shirt’ was written by: Thomas Hood.
  50. Sir Roger was originally the creation of: Steele.
  51. Who wrote: “Areopagitica”? Milton.
  52. Mary lamb killed her: mother.
  53. “The Selfish Giant is a story by: Oscar Wild.
  54. Three Unities: Unity of Time, Place and Action.
  55. Which letter is not often pronounced before a consonant? T
  56. The setting of Walpole’s novel “The Castle of Otranto” is: medieval Italy.
  57. Who wrote: “Four Quarter”? T.S. Eliot.
  58. Who wrote: “Look Back in Anger”? John Osborne.
  59. Who wrote: “the Devils of Loundun”? Aldous Huxley.
  60. Iris Murdoch was born in: 1919
  61. In the “Heart of Darkness” Conrad has explored: Congo.
  62. Virginia Woolf died in: 1941.
  63. Who wrote “Principles of Human Knowledge”: George Berkeley.
  64. Who wrote “Liber Amoris”? Hazlett
  65. Fielding wrote Joseph Andrews in reaction against: Pamela.
  66. Fielding was a: Realist
  67. “A Railway Clerk” is a poem by:Nissim Ezekiel.
  68. Raju is the hero of: the Guide
  69. The Indian novelist who won the Booker prize in 1997 was: Arundhati Roy.
  70. Who won the Booker of Bookers? Salman Rushdie.
  71. Pre-romantic poets: William Mason, Beattie, Bowles.
  72. Disraeli was influenced by: Burke
  73. Dickens died in: 1870
  74. Who is not a novelist besides being a poet: Jayanta Mahapatra.
  75. The favourite writer of Jawaharlal nehru: Frost. 
  76. Who wrote The Battle of the Books? Swift.
  77. Which sounds are guttural: k,g,ng.
  78. Which are redundant? c, q, x.
  79. In which metre is Shelley’s Ode to West Wind written? Terza Rima.
  80. Who wrote the line: “‘tis sweet to hear the watch dog’s honest bark, / Bay deep mouthed welcome as we near our home.”? Byron.
  81. Who wrote, “The cock’s shrill clarion, and the echoing horn, / No more shall rouse than from their lowly bed.”? Gray.
  82. In which class should we place Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar? pastoral.
  83. In which book the lines occur: “here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, the lowliest, and the lost.”? The Gitanjali.
  84. Contemporaries of Tennyson: Auden, Cowper, Day Lewis.
  85. Chronology: Faerie Queene – Paradise Lost – Lamia – Prospice.
  86. Who wrote “Nectar in a Sieve”? Kamala Markandaya.
  87. “The Good Earth” was written by: Pearl S. Buck.
  88. The writer of “The Dove Found No Rest” is Dennis Stoll.
  89. Who wrote: “So Many Hungers”? Bhabani Bhattacharya.
  90. The main theme of “So many Hunger” is: degradation of Humanity.
  91. Who said about Shaw: “he studied every known theory of socialism”? Henderson.
  92. Who is the writer of “the Middleman and Other Stories”? Bharati Mukherjee.
  93. Example of NOT a “fine writer” according to  Prof. Terry Eagleton of St. Catherine College, University of oxford? Darwin
  94. Early Indian writers: Henry Derozio, toru Dutta, Manmohan Ghosh
  95. Who declared that he would “sing the song” of his “experience”? Nissim Ezekiel.
  96. Who said, “I only know how to work on one poem at a time, stitch by stitch”? A.K. Ramanujan.
  97. Cicero was a Roman: Orator.
  98. Who is the writer of “Gita Rahasya”? B.G. Tilak 
  99. In Arnold’s ‘The Scholar Gipsy’, the great modern melancholy is spiritualised into a symbol of: mystery and dreams.
  100. “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” was translated into English by: Fitz Gerald
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