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(Set 3) Most Important 100 One-Liners for NTA NET English Literature 

About the Author: Abirlal Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

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  1. Mayakovsky was the famous poet of: Russia
  2. Marquese originally wrote his “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in: Spanish.
  3. The word ‘Dialogue’ is derived from “dialogos” which is a: greek word.
  4. The word ‘strength’ is derived from ‘strenghu’ which is: An Old English word.
  5. Who said, “Poets are unacknowledged legislators of the world”? Shelley.
  6. In which of Shakespeare’s plays does Lancelott Gobbo appear? The Merchant of Venice.
  7. In which year did Tagore receive the Nobel prize: 1913.
  8. In which year did the Bolshevik Revolution take place? 1917.
  9. From the poem of which the poet did E.M. Forster take the name of his novel “A Passahe to India”? Whitman.
  10. Emily bronte wrote: Wuthering Heights.
  11. First English Tragedy: Gorboduc.
  12. Milton wrote: Paradise lost, II Penseroso, Lycidas.
  13. “Music At Night” is a book of essays by: Aldous Huxley.
  14. The character of Sherlock Holmes was created by: Arthur Conan Doyle.
  15. Who pruned the draft of the “Waste Land” to about one third of its original length? Ezra pound.
  16. Who wrote the preface to the Gitanjali: W.B. Yeats.
  17. What can be said to be the tragic flaw in Hamlet? Indecisiveness.
  18. Who said the line, “There is Providence even in the fall of a sparrow” Keats.
  19. Who wrote “The Spanish tragedy” Thomas Kyd.
  20. name the author of 1984: George Orwell.
  21. Who is the creator of Wessex? Hardy.
  22. Columbus discovered America in: 1492.
  23. Who said of Keats that he was “snuffled out by an article.” Byron.
  24. Who said, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”? Wordsworth.
  25. Who said that democracy was like a balloon? Shaw.
  26. In which poem the line occurs: “Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be.” Rabbi Ben Ezra.
  27. 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
  28. Nobel prize winners: Octavio paz, R.N. tagore, W.B. Yeats.
  29. Who wrote: “The wind disentangles itself from your frenzied body as hurricanes of dreams follow me.” Pritish Nandy.
  30. 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.
  31. Gurdial Singh was born in: 1933
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. When the famous Hindi poet Kumar Vikal was born: 1935.
  35. Whose novel “The Foundation Pit?” was discovered only a few years ago? Andrey Platanov.
  36. The novel “We” was written by: Zamayatin.
  37. name the writer of “What Is To be Done”: Cherneshevysky
  38. Who in “Paradise Lost” tells Adam: “Be lowly wise / Dream not of other worlds.”? Angel Gabriel.
  39. Name the writer of the novel “Les Miserable”? Victor Hugo
  40. Who wrote the lines: “Hurrah for revolution, Let the cannon shoot.” yeats.
  41. 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
  42. R.K. Narayan was a Tamilian.
  43. Civil war in England was fought in the 17th century.
  44. The soldiers of Cromwell were known as: Round heads.
  45. Who is renowned for his outstanding work “Holy Sonnets”? Donne.
  46. When did Frederic Mistral of France and Jose Eizaguirre of Spain jointly win the Noble Prize in Literature: 1904.
  47. Name the Russian who won Nobel Prize for literature in 1933: Ivan Bunin.
  48. In which field did Churchill win the Noble Prize: Literature.
  49. 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.
  50. In which book do the lines occur: “Heaven’s lights forever shine, / Earth’s shadows fly.”? Adonais.
  51. Who wrote the Latin “History of the Britons”: Geoffrey of Monmouth.
  52. When was the final result of the slow transformation of Anglo Saxon into modern English flet? In the 16th century.
  53. Normandy was lost by John Lackland in: 1204.
  54. Until about the middle of the 14th century English literature was mostly: religious and didactic.
  55. the book “Ormulum” comprises forty gospels translated and paraphrased by the monk named: orm.
  56. Thomas Henry Huxley associates: Science with daily life.
  57. Brave New World was published in: 1932.
  58. Victor Hugo wrote: Pictures in the Wall, The Old Boys, the Boarding House.
  59. Cecil Day Lewis’s The Poetic Image” appeared in: 1947.
  60. Ann Jellicoe became famous in 1958: with the production of a play.
  61. Byron was a cricketer.
  62. Keats was a physician
  63. Lamb was a Clerk
  64. Richardson’s Pamela was written in the form of letters.
  65. Work by H.G. Wells: the Invisible Man
  66. Who wrote “The Ideal of Christian Church”? William George Ward.
  67. Off-shoot of Romanticism: Aesthetics Theory, Pre-Raphaelitism, Super-naturalism.
  68. The greatest worshiper of beauty among the Romantic poets was: Keats.
  69. Humanism is mostssance pronounced in: Renaissance
  70. Hazlitt was born in 1778
  71. Odes by Keats: Ode to a Nightingal;e, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn.
  72. Romantic characteristics: An atmosphere of wonder, an impression of strangeness, Spontaneousness.
  73. In which country Romanticism was associated with an innovative aesthetic creed: France.
  74. English Romanticism from 1790 to 1830 being a native development, was partly influenced by: Germany
  75. Crabbe was mainly a Realistic poet.
  76. Which characteristics are contained in “The Monk” by Lewis: Lack of moral depth, a sense of unreality, melodramaticism
  77. Works by David Hume: Treatise of Human Nature, Political discourse, History of Great Britain.
  78. In Tristram Shandy, the hero is born in: the third book
  79. Don Quixote basically presents: the contrasting glory and misery of mankind.
  80. In writing Tristram Shandy, Sterne was mainly influenced by: Cervantes.
  81. Tristram Shandy is primarily a sentimental novel.
  82. In the ‘Vicar of Wakefield’ Goldsmith mainly offers a moral figure.
  83. A.C. Bradley is mainly known for Shakespearean tragedy.
  84. Who is the writer of ‘The School for Scandal’ R.B. Sheriden. 
  85. Raymond Williams is primarily a Critic.
  86. Who is the writer of the poem “the Canonization”? Donne.
  87. Who is the writer of the poem “Adam’s Curse” Yeats.
  88. Who wrote the poem: “Lay Your Sleeping Head” Auden.
  89. The play “The Birthday Party” is written by: Harold Pinter.
  90. Who is believed to be the writer of “Ode to Sublime” Longinus.
  91. Name the author of “An Essay on Dramatic Poesy”? Dryden.
  92. Who is the writer of “Culture and Society”? Raymond Williams.
  93. The writer of the “Mirror and the Lamp” is M.H. Abrams.
  94. The writer of “Provide Provide” is: Frost.
  95. In which essay the idea of the “oversoul” pervades Emerson.
  96. Who wrote “Desire Under the Elms”? Eugene O’Neil.
  97. Who is the writer of “A Severed Head”? Iris Murdoch
  98. “Das Kapital” is written by Marx.
  99. “Waiting for Godot” is written by: Samuel Beckett.
  100. Who is the writer of “A House for Mr.Biswas”? V.S.Naipaul.
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