- Mayakovsky was the famous poet of: Russia
- Marquese originally wrote his “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in: Spanish.
- The word ‘Dialogue’ is derived from “dialogos” which is a: greek word.
- The word ‘strength’ is derived from ‘strenghu’ which is: An Old English word.
- Who said, “Poets are unacknowledged legislators of the world”? Shelley.
- In which of Shakespeare’s plays does Lancelott Gobbo appear? The Merchant of Venice.
- In which year did Tagore receive the Nobel prize: 1913.
- In which year did the Bolshevik Revolution take place? 1917.
- From the poem of which the poet did E.M. Forster take the name of his novel “A Passahe to India”? Whitman.
- Emily bronte wrote: Wuthering Heights.
- First English Tragedy: Gorboduc.
- Milton wrote: Paradise lost, II Penseroso, Lycidas.
- “Music At Night” is a book of essays by: Aldous Huxley.
- The character of Sherlock Holmes was created by: Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Who pruned the draft of the “Waste Land” to about one third of its original length? Ezra pound.
- Who wrote the preface to the Gitanjali: W.B. Yeats.
- What can be said to be the tragic flaw in Hamlet? Indecisiveness.
- Who said the line, “There is Providence even in the fall of a sparrow” Keats.
- Who wrote “The Spanish tragedy” Thomas Kyd.
- name the author of 1984: George Orwell.
- Who is the creator of Wessex? Hardy.
- Columbus discovered America in: 1492.
- Who said of Keats that he was “snuffled out by an article.” Byron.
- Who said, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”? Wordsworth.
- Who said that democracy was like a balloon? Shaw.
- In which poem the line occurs: “Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be.” Rabbi Ben Ezra.
- Which poem of Browning did Tennyson complain that it was unintelligible to him except for the first and the last lines, both of which were wrong? Sordello
- Nobel prize winners: Octavio paz, R.N. tagore, W.B. Yeats.
- Who wrote: “The wind disentangles itself from your frenzied body as hurricanes of dreams follow me.” Pritish Nandy.
- Gurdial Singh’s novels: Addh Chanini Raat (Night of the Half-Moon)parsmarhi Da deeva (the last Flicker)Who made the sensational pronouncement of “end of ideology” in 1960: david Bell.
- Gurdial Singh was born in: 1933
- Which novel of Saratchandra Chattapadhyaya has caught the imagination of the Indians the most, so much so that even another film bearing this name has been made? Devdas.
- Whose rendering into English are the lines by Tagore, “What voice is that I hear / from the land of dawn, / ‘Fear not! Fear not! / Who will give up his life / Retaining nothing / Will never end, never perish!” Sir Jadunath Sircar.
- When the famous Hindi poet Kumar Vikal was born: 1935.
- Whose novel “The Foundation Pit?” was discovered only a few years ago? Andrey Platanov.
- The novel “We” was written by: Zamayatin.
- name the writer of “What Is To be Done”: Cherneshevysky
- Who in “Paradise Lost” tells Adam: “Be lowly wise / Dream not of other worlds.”? Angel Gabriel.
- Name the writer of the novel “Les Miserable”? Victor Hugo
- Who wrote the lines: “Hurrah for revolution, Let the cannon shoot.” yeats.
- Who was the renowned English novelist who became the first great foreign writer to show a keen interest in R.K. Narayan’s fiction which finally made the latter so famous? Graham Greene
- R.K. Narayan was a Tamilian.
- Civil war in England was fought in the 17th century.
- The soldiers of Cromwell were known as: Round heads.
- Who is renowned for his outstanding work “Holy Sonnets”? Donne.
- When did Frederic Mistral of France and Jose Eizaguirre of Spain jointly win the Noble Prize in Literature: 1904.
- Name the Russian who won Nobel Prize for literature in 1933: Ivan Bunin.
- In which field did Churchill win the Noble Prize: Literature.
- From which book the lines are taken: “And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, …” The Holy Bible.
- In which book do the lines occur: “Heaven’s lights forever shine, / Earth’s shadows fly.”? Adonais.
- Who wrote the Latin “History of the Britons”: Geoffrey of Monmouth.
- When was the final result of the slow transformation of Anglo Saxon into modern English flet? In the 16th century.
- Normandy was lost by John Lackland in: 1204.
- Until about the middle of the 14th century English literature was mostly: religious and didactic.
- the book “Ormulum” comprises forty gospels translated and paraphrased by the monk named: orm.
- Thomas Henry Huxley associates: Science with daily life.
- Brave New World was published in: 1932.
- Victor Hugo wrote: Pictures in the Wall, The Old Boys, the Boarding House.
- Cecil Day Lewis’s The Poetic Image” appeared in: 1947.
- Ann Jellicoe became famous in 1958: with the production of a play.
- Byron was a cricketer.
- Keats was a physician
- Lamb was a Clerk
- Richardson’s Pamela was written in the form of letters.
- Work by H.G. Wells: the Invisible Man
- Who wrote “The Ideal of Christian Church”? William George Ward.
- Off-shoot of Romanticism: Aesthetics Theory, Pre-Raphaelitism, Super-naturalism.
- The greatest worshiper of beauty among the Romantic poets was: Keats.
- Humanism is mostssance pronounced in: Renaissance
- Hazlitt was born in 1778
- Odes by Keats: Ode to a Nightingal;e, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn.
- Romantic characteristics: An atmosphere of wonder, an impression of strangeness, Spontaneousness.
- In which country Romanticism was associated with an innovative aesthetic creed: France.
- English Romanticism from 1790 to 1830 being a native development, was partly influenced by: Germany
- Crabbe was mainly a Realistic poet.
- Which characteristics are contained in “The Monk” by Lewis: Lack of moral depth, a sense of unreality, melodramaticism
- Works by David Hume: Treatise of Human Nature, Political discourse, History of Great Britain.
- In Tristram Shandy, the hero is born in: the third book
- Don Quixote basically presents: the contrasting glory and misery of mankind.
- In writing Tristram Shandy, Sterne was mainly influenced by: Cervantes.
- Tristram Shandy is primarily a sentimental novel.
- In the ‘Vicar of Wakefield’ Goldsmith mainly offers a moral figure.
- A.C. Bradley is mainly known for Shakespearean tragedy.
- Who is the writer of ‘The School for Scandal’ R.B. Sheriden.
- Raymond Williams is primarily a Critic.
- Who is the writer of the poem “the Canonization”? Donne.
- Who is the writer of the poem “Adam’s Curse” Yeats.
- Who wrote the poem: “Lay Your Sleeping Head” Auden.
- The play “The Birthday Party” is written by: Harold Pinter.
- Who is believed to be the writer of “Ode to Sublime” Longinus.
- Name the author of “An Essay on Dramatic Poesy”? Dryden.
- Who is the writer of “Culture and Society”? Raymond Williams.
- The writer of the “Mirror and the Lamp” is M.H. Abrams.
- The writer of “Provide Provide” is: Frost.
- In which essay the idea of the “oversoul” pervades Emerson.
- Who wrote “Desire Under the Elms”? Eugene O’Neil.
- Who is the writer of “A Severed Head”? Iris Murdoch
- “Das Kapital” is written by Marx.
- “Waiting for Godot” is written by: Samuel Beckett.
- Who is the writer of “A House for Mr.Biswas”? V.S.Naipaul.
(Set 3) Most Important 100 One-Liners for NTA NET English Literature
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