Literary Aptitude 2

The who’s who of literature

1. Father of Literature / Father of Modern English poetry _________
2. Father of English Drama __________
3. Father of English criticism – ________
4. Father of English Novel – ________
5. Father of English Stream of conscious – ___________
6. Father of English romanticism – ______________
7. Father of English tragedy – ______________
8. Father of Epic Poetry – __________
9. Father of gothic literature – ______________
10. father of modern theatre / father of realism - ____________
11. Father of persian poetry – _________
12. Father of hindi literature – ____________
13. Father of modern Indian poetry –____________________
14. TRIO of first Indian English writers - ___________

Man Booker Prize Award Winners

1. Midnight’s Children - ______________
2. God of Small things - _______________
3. The White Tiger - ______________
4. The Inheritance of Loss - _______________

Famous authors of
1. Ramayana - _____________
2. Mahabharat - ___________________
3. Ramcharitra Manas - ______________
4. IIliad and Odyssey - ___________
5. Jungle book - ____________
6. Alice’s adventures in wonderland - _____________
7. Sherlock Holmes - __________
8. Train to Pakistan - ___________
9. Anna Karenina - ___________
10. Sense and Sensibility - __________
11. The Testaments - __________
12. Thousand splendid suns - ___________
13. Crime and Punishment - __________
14. Heart of Darkness - _____________
15. The Scarlet Letter - ____________

Famous lines by poets –

1. I wonder as lonely as a cloud – _____________

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2. Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness – _____________
3. Water water everywhere nor any drop to drink – _____________
4. If I should die, think only this of me – _____________
5. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the road less travelled _____________
6. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams _____________
7. Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all – _____________
8. To be or not to be that is the question – _____________
9. Hope is the thing with feathers – _____________
10. If music be the food of love, play on –_____________
11. Shall I compare thee to a summers day – _____________
12. A thing of beauty is a joy forever – _____________
13. Beauty is truth truth is beauty that is all – _____________
14. And miles to go before I sleep – _____________
15. To err is human to forgive divine – _____________

Facts
1. First novel form in English Language - ______________
2. First Indian woman to win Nobel Laureate - ____________
3. First Indian novel published in English - ____________
4. First Sahitya Akademi Award Winner - _______________
5. Poet receiving Sahitya Akademi Award 2020- _____________
6. First Woman writer in England - _____________
7. First to translate Mahabharat to English -

Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World Dalai Lama

I Witness: Partial Observations Kapil Sibal
The Art of Living - A Guide to Contentment, Joy
Dalai Lama
and Fulfilment
Pax Indica: India and the world of the 21st Century Dr. Shashi Tharoor
The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk Sudha Murthy
A Better India: A Better World NR Narayana Murthy
India - My Beloved Dominique Lapierre
Dare to Do: For the New Generation Kiran Bedi
Azadi: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction Arundhati Roy
The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon Fatima Bhutto
The Oath of the Vayuputras Amish Tripathi

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The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Indian Novel, The new world disorder,
Shashi Tharoor
the battle of belonging
Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee
And Then One Day: a memoir Naseeruddin Shah
Getting India Back on Track Ratan Tata
One Life is Not Enough Natwar Singh
Not Just an Accountant: The diary of the nation's
Vinod Rai (Former CAG)
conscience keeper
Half Lion: How PV Narsimha Rao transformed
Vinay Satpati
India
D. Subba Rao (Former
Who Moved my Interest Rate
RBI governor)
One Arranged Murder Chetan Bhagat
Mrs. Funnybones Twinkle Khanna
The Case that Shook India Prashant Bhushan
Lone Fox Dancing Ruskin Bond
Guns and Thighs Ram Gopal Varma
Karan Johar with Poonam
An Unsuitable Boy
Saxena
Atalji ne kaha Brijendra Rehi
Moving On, Moving Forward Venkaiah Naidu
The Upside Down King Sudha Murthy
Pyjamas are Forgiving Twinkle Khanna
The Paradoxical Prime Minister Shashi Tharoor
The Last Girl: My story of captivity and fight against
Nadia Murad
the Islamic State
I Do What I Do Raghuram Rajan
And Then One Day Naseeruddin Shah
We are Displaced Malala Yousafzai
The Third Pillar Dr. Raghuram Rajan
Quichotte Salman Rushdie
Ramayana Valmiki Sanskrit
Mahabharata Ved Vyas Sanskrit

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Ramcharit Manas Tulsidas Hindi
Illiad Homer Greek
Odyssey Homer Greek
Aeneid Virgil Latin
Divine Comedy Dante Italian
Don Quixote Servantes Spanish
Utopia Thomas More Latin
John Milton, wrote a
Paradise Lost work on his own English
blindness
The Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam Persian
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Lolita Vladimir Nobokov
1984, Animal Farm George Orwell
A Passage to India EM Forster
To Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
Ulysses James Joyce
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
Lady Chatterley's Lover, Sons and lovers, The
D.H. Lawrence
rainbow
The Testaments, The Hand Maids Tale Margaret Atwood
One hundred years of solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Famous Characters and Creators

Mowgli Rudyard Kipling
Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie
Don Quixote, Sancho Panza Cervantes
Swami RK Narayan

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David Copperfield, Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
James Bond Ian Fleming
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, first one to use the typewriter
Amar Chitra Katha Anant Pai
Chacha Choudhary Pran Kumar Sharma
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck Walt Disney
Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne
Garfield Jim Davis
Popeye E.C. Segar
Archie Bob Montana
Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs
Spiderman Stan Lee
Phantom Lee Falk
Tom and Jerry William Hanna and Joseph Barbara
Flintstones William Hanna and Joseph Barbara
Superman Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel
Batman Bob Kane

Nobel Laureates
Rudyard Kipling
TS Eliot
Winston Churchill
Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)
C.V. Raman, Nobel Prize in Physics (1930)
Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1968)
Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize in Physics (1983)
Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1998)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize (2014)
Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2019)

Pseudonyms
Eric Arthur blair – George Orwell

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Mary Anne Evans – George Eliot
Charlotte Bronte – Currer Bell
Stephen King – Richard Bachman (deliberately changed the name for Thinner)
C.S Lewis – Clive Hamilton and N W Clerk (The chronicles of narnia)
Agatha Christie – Mary Westmacott
Samuel Langhorne Clemens – Mark Twain
Sylvia Plath – Victoria Lucas
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson – Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
Joanne Rowlling – JK Rowling, Robert Galbraith (Cormoran Strike series)

Figures of speech
1. The child of cobbler has no shoes –
2. Sleepless nights –
3. The captain commands one hundred sails –
4. I wish he kept his nose out of my life -
5. Life is a climb but the view is great –
6. I died a million deaths –
7. He got scared of the furious storm –
8. She is like a fairy –
9. He is no dullard –
10. Pitter patter rain drops –
11. Visible darkness –
12. I am aware that I am unaware

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