Important points English Literature

1)  Chaucer lived during the reigns of – Edward III, Richard II and  Henry IV

2)  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was written in _ 1385 onwards.

3)  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales belongs to- 3rd Period of Chaucer’s Literary

career.

4)  Norman Conquest took the place in the year of -  1066 (11th century).

5)  William Langland’s The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman

was Written belongs the year of__ Ans:  1362-90.

6)  Wyclif’s Bible was published in- 1380.

7)  The Travel of Sir John Maundeville was published in – 1400.

8)  The Hundred years’ war was began in – 1338 (14th century).

9)  The Hundred years’ war was fought between- England and France.

10)        Wat Tyler’s Rebellion took place in – 1381.

11)        The War of Roses was fought between- The House of York and the
House of Lancaster.

12)        The War of Roses was fought during the Period of- 1455-86

13)        Thomas Marlory’s Morte De Arthur was written in – 1470 and it was

published in 1485.
14)        Caxton’s Printing Press was set up in – 1476.

15)        Thomas More’s Utopia was published in- 1516 (Latin) and in English

1551.

16)        The First English Comedy is – Ralph Roister Doister was written

in 1550.

17)        Ralph Roister Doister which was written by_ Nicholas Udall.

18)        The First English Tragedy- Gorboduc , it was written in 1561.

19)        Gorboduc was written by- Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton.

20)        Gorboduc the play has a another name of- Ferrex and Porrex.

21)        Tottel’s Miscellancy was Published in- 1557

22)        Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne of England in- 1558.

23)        Globe Theatre was built in – 1599.

24)        The Elizabethan Age covers the Period of- 1558 -1602.

25)        The Leader of University Wits was- Christopher Marlowe.

26)        Marlowe’s First tragedy was- Tamburlaine the Great in 1587.

27)        Shakespeare wrote- 37 plays and 154 sonnets, 10 tragedies, above

100 short stories.

28)        Dryden’s All for Love is based on- Shakespeare’s Antony and

Cleopatra.

29)        Shakespeare’s sonnets were published in- 1609.

30)        Spenser’s Faerie Queen is dedicated to- Queen Elizabeth.

31)        Spenser dedicated his Shepherd’s Calendar for- Philip Sydney.

32)        Ben Jonson is known as – Comedy of Humours.

33)        William Congrewe known as- Comedy of Manners.

34)        Oliver Goldsmith known as – Sentimental Comedy.

35)        Who coined the term De-construction- Derrida

36)        Who coined the term of Structuralism- Ferinand De Saussuara.

37)        Bacon’s Essay are written in the style of-  Aphoristic style.

38)        How many essay were Bacon Wrote-  106 essays.

39)        The leader in Metaphysical School of Poet was- Henry Vaughan.

40)        The term of Augustan was first applied by - Dr. Johnson

41)        The intellectual father of French Revolution is- Rousseau.

42)        The Lyrical Ballads was published in -1798.

43)        The leader of the Pre-Raphaelite in England was- D.G. Rossetti.

44)        The founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England

was- William Holman.

45)        The Originator of the Oxford Movement was- John Keble.

46)         The Phrase Stream of Consciousness which is associated

with- James Joyce.
47)        Pope’s Rape of the Lock contains- Five Cantos.

48)        A Balled Stanza generally contains- Four Lines.

49)        Adonais which is a pastoral Elegy written by P.B. Shelley about the

death of - John Keats.

50)        Everyman is a famous play of 15th century and that is a- Morality Play.

51)        Dryden plays are generally called as- Heroic Play

52)        Which is the last play of Shakespeare- The Tempest.

53)        The intellectual Father of French Revolution is- Roussaeu.

54)        The Leader of the Pre-Raphaelite in England was- D.G. Rossetti.

55)        Rabbi Ben Ezra was a – Real Jewish Scholar

56)        Caxton was the first to set up a printing press dialect in England and it
was in the year of- 1476

57)        Tottle’s Mischellany is a famous anthology of Song’s and Sonnets

by Wyatt and Surrey.

58)        Amoretti contained 88 sonnets of Spenser.

59)        Spenser described Chaucer as- The Well of English undefiled”.

60)        For Sidney Spenser wrote the Elegy that is, Astrophel.

61)        Spenser’s Epithalamion is a wedding Hymn.

62)        Sidney’s Apology for poetry is a reply to Gosson’s School for Abuse.

63)        In Sidney’s Apology for poetry defends the Three Dramatic Unites.

64)        Christopher Marlow wrote only Tragedies and he first used Blank

Verse in his work of- Jew of Malto.

65)        Ben Jonson used the phrase Marlowe’s Mighty line” for

Marlowe’s Blank Verse.

66)        Ruskin said ‘Shakespeare has only Heroines and No Heroes’.

67)        The Phrase The Mousetrap used by Shakespeare in his play

of Hamlet and Hamlet described as Play within a play.

68)        Spenser dedicated the Preface to The Faerie Queen to Sir Walter

Raleigh.

69)        The Faerie Queen is an Allegory and Spenser first used the

Spenserian stanza in Faerie Queen.

70)        Charles Lamb called Spenser as The Poet’s Poet.

71)        Twelve Cantos are there in Book I of the Faerie Queen.

72)        Spenser divided his Shepherd’s calendar into twelve eulogies.

73)        Bacon Essays are modeled on the Essays of Montaigne.

74)         Couplet is a stanza lines of- two lines ; Heroic couplet is a stanza

form of- 2 iambic pentameter.

75)        The Terset is the stanza lines of – three lines.

76)        Terza Rime is a series of Interlocking the Terset and it have a rhyming

schemes of ABA; BCB; CDC.
77)        Dante’s Divine Comedy adapted the rhyme of Terza.

78)        Thomas Gray’s work of Elegy written in a country Church Yard which

is a Ode and it has a Quatrain form of rhyme.

79)        Chaucer’s Rhyme Royal which was used in the Canterbury Tales’

of Monk’s story.

80)         Spenserian stanza which contain 9 lines , Spenser creates the Verse

form and he used in his work of Faerie Queen. It have 9 iambic lines and the
1st eight lines are Pentameter and the Last lines is a Hexameter (Alexandrian
Form).

81)        Thalia was the muse of Comedy.

82)        Melpomene was the muse of Tragedy.

83)        Dionysia is a Religious Festival, and it dedicated to Dionysus,

Dionysus was a The God Of Wine.

84)        Poetry is the Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful said by Wordsworth.

85)        Faerie Queen is a Spenser’s Moral and Religious Concern and it a

model of Aristo’s Orlando Furiose.

86)        Historical Ballads talks about The Exploits of King’s Battle.

87)        Francis Bacon Hold the Title of - Lord Verulam Viscount Saint Albus”.

88)        The Logican term of Semiotics was coined by Charles Sanders

Peirce.

89)        Charles Sander Peirce who is a American Philosopher.

90)        The Founder of Modern Linguistics is Ferdinand de Saussure.

91)        The Father of Semiotics- Ferdinand de Saussure and he is a swish
linguistic.

92)        The first Scientific Critic , theorist – Aristotle.

93)        Mathew Arnold called as Chaucer as a Perpectual Guy.

94)        The Father of Short Story- Edgar Allen Poe.

95)        The Father of Novel- Henry Fielding.

96)        The Stream of Consciousness which was used by Virginia Woolf.

97)        The Father of Dictionary- Dr. Johnson.

98)        The Touch Stone method was coined by Mathew Arnold.

99)        Queen Elizabeth I is called as The Virgin Queen.

100)  Stream of Consciousness which was coined by William James.

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