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(Set 4) 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. Marlowe’s works: Tambarlaine, The Jew of Malta, Dr. Faustus.
  2. Name the writer of the poem: The Weary Blues” Langston Hughes.
  3. Poem written by Robert Lowell: In the Cage, Dolphin, The Old Flame.
  4. Sunday Morning is a poem by: Wallace Stevens.
  5. Art Grass, Sad Steps, Church Going are some poems by: Philip Larkin.
  6. Oedipus Rex was written by: Sphocles
  7. Flaubert’s famous work is Madame Bovary
  8. Northrop Fry is basically a Critic
  9. The writer of “The Beauty is a State” is: Ananda Coomaraswamy.
  10. The most important work of K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar is: Indian Writing in English.
  11. The writer of the book “Introducing Applied Linguistics” is S.Pittcoder
  12. Danglars is a character in: Monte Cristo.
  13. “A sleepless hour or more has its strange value only in the middle.” name the writer of the lines: Nissim Ezekiel
  14. Who said about Virginia Woolf “She had no taste for rough diamonds”? H.V. Routh
  15. The name of Virginia Woolf’s father was Stephen Woolf.
  16. “Her sympathy seemed to fly back into her face like a bramble spring.” This line is taken from: To The Lighthouse.
  17. What is the last line of Whitman’s “Passage to India”? O father, father, father sail!
  18. The generally accepted date of the death of Plato is: 348 BC
  19. It is generally accepted that Aristotle was born in: 384 BC.
  20. Aristotle was the tutor of: Alexander the great.
  21. What was the most revolutionary deed done by Aristotle regarding human rights and freedom, what he did before his death? He liberated all his slaves throgh his will
  22. Matthew Arnold is associated with: the view that “Poetry is criticism of life.”
  23. What did Byron die of: fever.
  24. Which poet made a fortune by translating Homer? Pope.
  25. Who said, “ That which does not concern the common man, is of no significance.”? Rousseau.
  26. Who said, “Criticism is the art of interpreting art.”? Walter Pater.
  27. Who wrote the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”? Yeats.
  28. Who is primarily associated with the term “Objective Correlative”? Eliot.
  29. Who is said to have said “What criticism undertakes is the profitable discussion of literature.”? F.R. Leavis.
  30. Who wrote: “The Lives of the Poets”: Dr. Johnson
  31. Who is said to have used the term “high seriousness”? M.Arnold
  32. Who used the term “high disdain” Milton.
  33. Who wrote “the Interpretation of Dream”? Freud.
  34. Who wrote “Principles of Literary Criticism (1924)”? I.A.Richards.
  35. Who said “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion”? T.S.Eliot.
  36. Who said “Language may be defined as the expression of thought by means of speech sounds”Henry Sweet
  37. In which respect do human beings and animals have at least partly identical stations in the matter of language as a means of communication? behavioral.
  38. Who said “So, Here I am … / Twenty years largely wasted … / Trying to use the word …”? T.S. Eliot.
  39. Who said “Style is the skin and the mere coat.”? Carlyle.
  40. When did Trubetzkoy’s “Principles of Phonology” appear? 1939
  41. Which book “Language” (1933) is considered “The Bible of American Linguistics”? Bloomfield.
  42. Who said Language is “Primarily an auditory system of symbols.” Sapir
  43. Frost’s poems: Design, Birches, Reluctance.
  44. What does the term “Deus ex Machina” mean? God out of the machine
  45. The famous soliloquy “To be or not to be” occurs in: Hamlet.
  46. Who wrote: “ Flower in the crammied well … / Little flower but if I could understand what you are … / I should know God and Man is.”: Tennyson
  47. Which is the “odd man out’ : Essay on Man
  48. Which Italian poet is most famous for his sonnets:? Petrarch
  49. Who wrote “Blow, blow, thou winter wind”? Shakespeare.
  50. Tetra metre compares a line with four iambus.
  51. What figure of speech is udes in the line: “Milton! thou shouldnt be living with us at this hour”? Apostrophe.
  52. Mac Flecknoe of Dydren is a satire.
  53. Which figure of Speech is used in the term “immortal elms”? Alliteration.
  54. Who wrote the line “Busy old fool, unruly sun”? John Donne.
  55. What is the name of the central figure in Tagore’s play “Muktadhara”? Prince Abhijit.
  56. In which episode of “The Merchant of Venice” did the Prince of Arragon make the choice of the the silver casket”? The Casket Episode.
  57. Demand of the Christists in the 19th Century in England: annual parliaments, vote by ballot, universal manhood suffrage.
  58. Mrs Gaskell is a humanitarian novel
  59. G.B.Shaw, Galsworthy, Harley Granville-Barker are writers of: Problem Play
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