INTRODUCTION
TO
ENGLISH LITERATURE
SYLLABUS
English Literature Syllabus
English 35 Questions REMARK
British English Literature
American English Literature
Indian English Literature
Theories and Criticism
Prosody
Terms and Forms
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British Writers Period Work
William Shakespeare Hamlet
John Milton Paradise Lost
William Wordsworth
Jane Austen
Virginia Wolf
etc etc etc
PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
ERA PERIOD
1 Old English 450–1066
2 Middle English 1066–1500
3 Renaissance 1500–1660
4 Restoration Age 1660–1700
5 Augustan literature 1700–1745
William
Shakespeare 6 Age of Sensibility 1745–1798
7 Romanticism 1798–1837.
8 Victorian literature 1837–1901
9 Modernism 1901–1923
10 Late modernism and post- 1940–2000
modernism
11 Contemporary Period began in 1945 and
continues to the present
William
Shakespeare
3. What is one of Shakespeare's most famous
tragedies?
A. A Midsummer Night's Dream
B. Othello
C. Twelfth Night
D. Much Ado About Nothing Answer: B
1. How many sonnets did Shakespeare
write?
A. 100
B. 154
C. 200
D. 120 Answer: B
3. Which of Milton's works is considered his
magnum opus?
A. "L'Allegro"
B. "Il Penseroso"
C. "Areopagitica"
D. "Paradise Lost"
Answer: D
4. What event led to Milton's blindness?
A. A horse-riding accident
B. Glaucoma
C. Smallpox
D. An infection Answer: B
2. What major publication did Wordsworth
co-author with Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Lyrical Ballads
C. Canterbury Tales
D. Divine Comedy Answer: B
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American Writers Period Works
T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 The Wasteland
Harper Lee 1926-2016 To Kill a Mockingbird
E. Hemingway 1899-1961 A farewell to arms
Ezra Pound 1885-1972 The Cantos
Mark Twain 1835-1910 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
etc etc etc
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Indian Writers Period Works
R. K. Narayan
Mulk Raj Anand
Mahasweta Devi
Arundhati Roy
Nayantara Sehgal
etc etc etc
Q. In which fictional town did Narayan set
many of his stories?
A. Bombay
B. Delhi
C. Malgudi
D. Kolkata Answer: C
Q. Which of Mulk Raj Anand's novels addresses
the issues of caste discrimination?
A. Coolie
B. Two Leaves and a Bud
C. The Village
D. Untouchable
Answer: D
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TERMS NOVELISTS PRIZES, AWARDS
FORMS POETS NOBEL PRIZE
FIGURE OF SPEECH DRAMATISTS PULITZER PRIZE
METER PROSE WRITERS SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARD
Q. Complete the sentence.
Simplicity, sweet music and melody are
remarkable features of………………
A. epic
B. ballad
C. ode
D. satire Answer: B
02). What is soliloquy?
A. An actor‘s secret thought uttered aloud.
B. Secret speech
C. An actor‘s speech not be heard by audience.
D. An actor‘s speech meant for other
characters also
Answer: A
03. Complete the sentence. Dirge means……….
A. a song of wedding
B. a song of pleasure
C. a song of grief
D. a song of unfulfilled desire
Answer: C
04. Find out the correct option.
A sonnet consists…….
A. 14 lines
B. 18 lines
C. 20 lines
D. 12 lines Answer: A
05. What is Euphony?
A. pleasant sound
B. serious sound
C. bitter sound
D. mixed sound Answer: A
EXAM SCHEME
Answer: A
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