Titles of poets

1. 1st historian
2. 1st English poet
3. Bard of Avon
4. Morning star of renaissance
5. Morning star of Elizabethan drama
6. The father of printing
7. The father of English learning
8. Sweet swan of Avon
9. Father of poetry
10. The child of renaissance
11. Father of English press
12. The bridge between renaissance and reformation
13. Grandfather of novel
14. The father of English tragedy
15. The poet’s poet
16. The bard
17. Lady of the Christ college
18. Father of tragedy
19. The father of history
20. Morning star of reformation
21. First protestant of England
22. Father of English prose
23. The first English comedy writer
24. First sonneteer in English literature
25. Father of essay
26. Father of English essay
27. Father of English grammar
28. Father of tragedy
29. Father of comedy
30. Poet of love
31. Metaphysical poet
32. Epic poet of England
33. The great master of verse
34. Poet of the devil’s party
35. Father of English drama
36. Master of the grand style
37. The blind poet
38. Father of English criticism
39. Mock heroic poet
40. The worshipper of nature
41. The high priest of nature
42. The poet of nature
43. The lake poet
44. Poet of childhood
45. Egotistical sublime
46. Father of impressionistic criticism
47. The poet of supernaturalism
48. Opium eater
49. The father of romanticism
50. Lake poets
51. The rebel poet
52. The revolutionary poet
53. Poet of hope and regeneration
54. Poet of beauty
55. The mystic poet
56. The father of English novel
57. Father of English stream of conscious novel
58. Anti-romantic in romantic age
59. Father of historical novel
60. Father of detective story
61. Father of picaresque
62. First romantic critic
63. The monarch of wit
64. Priest of nature
65. Indian Shakespeare
66. The great unknown
67. Glorious john
68. Poet’s poet
69. Child of renaissance and reformation
70. Pioneer of modern philosophy
71. The last of romanticists
72. First of women novelist
73. The romantic paradox
74. Founder of English regional Novel
75. The ploughman poet
76. Prince of English essayist
77. Prose Shakespeare
78. Lady of Christ
79. Poetical son of Spenser
80. The great charm of literature
81. The last of the great Victorians
82. Champion of orthodoxy
83. Darwin’s bulldog
84. Writers writer
85. the poet of liberty
86. First great English neoclassicist
87. The Irish patriot
88. Prince of English satirist
89. The last Augustan
90. Prince of the humanists
91. The last great renaissance poet
92. Saint of metaphysical school
93. Old possum
94. The nightingale of Indian song
 Old age (Anglo Saxon period)

1. Old English period started in …………….and ended in ……………

2. Beowulf is a national poem of
3. Hrothger was a king of
4. Heorot is the name of
5. Beowulf is an
6. The battle of Malden is from
7. Who converted the Germanic tribes
8. The upper class of Anglo Saxon was
9. Who converted first in old English
10. Ancient Britain became
11. The part of roman empire in
12. The lower class of Anglo Saxon is
13. Germanic tribes came from
14. Monk Augustan arrived in Kent in
15. The old Saxon word angual or ongual means
16. How many social classes were in Anglo Saxon
17. King Alfred was crowned
18. Alfred ordered to translate classics into
19. Before Christianity poems were composed
20. How many major dialects were there
21. Bone house for body is an example of
22. Metaphorical phrase used especially in old English and poetry is
23. The battle of brunanburh belong to ………….. period
24. The Christ by
25. King Alfred died in
26. Bede wrote his ecclesiastical history in
27. Who is called the father of English learning
28. Who is the author of Beowulf
29. The seafarer is a poem of ………………. Period
30. Bede was born in
31. Julian is written by
32. The fate of apostles is written by
33. King Alfred was born in
34. Who is the father of English prose
35. Who invaded England in Anglo Saxon period
36. Who didn’t invaded England in Anglo Saxon period
37. Much of the Anglo Saxon poetry that has survived is

38. What is another term for Anglo Saxon language

39. What is another word for old English
40. Who introduced Christianity to Britain
41. Anglo Saxon literature survived in the form of
42. In what century angles, Saxon and jute migrated to islands
43. Anglo Saxon culture relied heavily on one’s …………..of the king
44. Anglo Saxon invasion started with……………..area around 450
45. Britina spoke………….language
46. In 43 AD …………………. Became a part of roman empire
47. Angle means
48. Who used word angles………………..
49. Seax or sax means
50. The most significant landmark in Anglo Saxon history is
51. The mission of conversion started in………… and ended in………….
52. ……………….….is the first extended specimen of old English
53. Name of hero in Beowulf
54. Name of monster in Beowulf
55. Beowulf was a king of
56. Beowulf was a son of
57. Lines of Beowulf
58. Dialect of Beowulf
59. Four major manuscripts of old English
60. Vercelli is a ………..form of literature
61. Vercelli contains…………….lines
62. Poems in Vercelli
are…………………………………………………………………………
63. Exeter book is ………………manuscript
64. Form of Exeter
65. Who gave Exeter to Exeter cathedral
66. Exeter contain two forms of poems
67. Shorter poems of Exeter
are……………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………….
68. Longer poems of Exeter are………………………………………………………
69. Widsith is …………………..poem in the language
70. Widsith means
71. The complaint of deor is ………………..form of poem
72. …………………..is the first lyric poem
73. The complaint of Deor have……….lines
74. The complaint of Deor has ……………… sections
75. ……………………………………………………………. These two poems are
example of early stress love of Anglo Saxon
76. …………..is the first native English verse maker
77. …………….is north Umbrian
78. Juliana is a poem of
79. The fate of apostles is a poem of
80. Christ is poem of
81. Elene is poem of
82. The dream of the rood is a poem of
83. Cynewulf master piece
84. What is crusification
85. Battle of brunanburh was fought in
86. Battle of brunanburh fought between
87. King Alfred died in
88. King Alfred born in
89. Father of English prose
90. King Alfred belong to ………… century
91. History of the world is a book of
92. Ecclesiastical history of the English people is a book of
93. Who created prose for the first time
94. …………………………………………………………..is the first vernacular
history of any Teutonic people
95. Venerable Bede born in
96. Bede died in
97. Bede lived in
98. Bede mostly work is in …………………….language
99. Ecclesiastical history of the English people is originally written in
………………….language
100. Ecclesiastical history of the English people by Bede original title
is………………..
Middle English (1066-1400)
Anglo Norman period (1066-1350)
The age of Chaucer (1350-1400)
1. In what year did Norman Conquest took place.
2. Who was the leader of Norman during Norman Conquest.
3. What was the main battle between the English and Normans.
4. What was the popular name for William the duke of Normandy.
5. Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary
around the time of the Norman conquest in 1066
6. Who was the king of England at the time of battle of Norman
conquest at Hashtangs.
7. Which king of England sign magna carta
8. In which year was magna carta signed.
9. During which king’s reign in England did the hundred year war
start
10. When did peasant’s revolt take place in England
11. Who was the leader of Norman during Norman Conquest.
12. What was the main battle between the English and
Normans.
13. What was the popular name for William the duke of
Normandy.
14. The war of the roses took place in
15. Who wrote the ‘’the parliament of fouls’’
16. Under what category should langland’s ‘’ the piers plowman
be placed
17. Chaucer was influenced by……………….while writing the
Canterbury tales
18. When did Chaucer die
19. ……………….period does not belong to Chaucer
20. Which meter has Chaucer used in his Troilus and Criseyde
21. Gower was a contemporary of
22. Who wrote Canterbury tales
23. Magnum opus of chaucer
24. Chaucer’s franklin was guilty of which sin
25. From which language the name Chaucer has been driven
26. Chaucer was imprisoned during
27. How many children Chaucer had
28. Where did Chaucer bury
29. Who would be called the English homer and father of
English poetry
30. What was the occupation of chaucers father
31. Chaucer became a page to which king’s daughter in law
32. One of chaucer’s daughter was a
33. What did Chaucer wife use to do
34. In which year Chaucer was imprisoned by the French
35. Chaucer became a member of parliament in year
36. The first complete version of bible in English language was
made by
37. Where were the pilgrims going in the canetrbury tales
38. Who used heroic couplet first in English
39. Who is the father of English language and literature
40. Who is the morning star of renaissance
41. Who is the father of English poetry
42. Who is grandfather of novel
Renaissance period (1500-1603)
1. During the initial stages of the renaissance the centre of all
changes in Europe was in
2. Renaissance is a………………word
3. Renaissance means
4. Renaissance first came to the
5. Which century is known as dawn of renaissance
6. Who is the child of renaissance
7. Who is the father of humanism
8. When did the fall of Constantinople take place
9. What could be another name for renaissance
10. Who is termed as the morning star of renaissance
11. The true prologue to the renaissance
12. Who invented printing press in 1440
13. Who was guttenburg
14. When was the printing press invented in England
15. Who invented printing press in England
16. Utopia was written by
17. Utopia was originally written in
18. What is meant by utopia
19. Utopia translated into English by
20. It is believed to be the first English tragedy
21. Gorboduc is also known as
22. The Spanish tragedy was written by
23. Gorboduc was written by Thomas Norton and
24. The incident of the great fire took place in
25. The shepherd’s calendar was written by
26. The fairie queen is written by
27. Who is the poet’s poet
28. Spencer was first called the poet’s poet by
29. Spencer wooed elizbeth boyle in his
30. Who wrote epithalamion
31. The shepherd’s calendar was published in
32. Who introduced sonnet into english
33. Who introduced blank verse
34. Who is known as the earl of surry
35. Tottel’s miscellany was published in
36. Who was beheded
37. Thomas wyatt was
38. Sir Thomas wyatt died in
39. Sir Philip Sydney was killed at battle of zutphen in 1586
40. Arcadia was written by
41. Astrophel and stella was written by
42. The defence of poesie is also known as an apologie for
poetrie
43. ………………..is the central sun of university wits
44. Members of university wits

45. Surry was beheaded at the age of

46. How many lines in sonnet
47. The first english comedy is
48. Shakespeare got married at the age of
49. As a writer of sonnet sidney was influenced by
50. Who is known as virgin queen
51. The term university wits was coined by
52. Dickens of elibethan age is
53. The passionate shepherd to his love is written by
54. Marlow died in
55. Marlow went to
56. Shakespeare’s wife was
57. He passed away instead of died is example of
58. Marlow was rumored to be
59. Sapho and phao was written by
60. Thomas kyd belongs to which university
61. Thomas nash belong to which university
62. The arraignment of paris was written by
63. Shakespeare went to which school
64. How many epics were written by Shakespeare
65. Shakespeare died in
66. How many sonnets did shakespear write
67. Shakespear’s longest play
68. Name of shakespear’s son
69. In which year marlow baptized
70. At what age did marlow die
71. In which place of England marlow born
72. How many children shakspeare had
73. The first regular English comedy writer
74. Who wrote mirror for magistrate
75. Astrophel and stella is
76. Shakespear born in
77. The drama tamburlian is written by
78. Shakespear is buried inside the
79. Thomas kyd is known as one of the founders of romantic
comedy…..T/F
80. The bard of avon
81. The bard
82. Who wrote the unfortunate traveller
83. Who wrote euphues
84. What was the occupation of marlow’s father
85. Who wrote david and fair Bathsheba
86. Mamillia was written by
87. Marlow died of
88. Who wrote the history of Orlando furioso
89. Ann Hathaway was……….. years older than Shakespeare
90. ……………..was not a one act play writer
91. …………………….was not a university wit
92. Shakespear’s use of prose is usually limited to comic
scenes….T/F
93. Who said ‘’ nothing can harm a good man, either in life or
after death’’
94. Who said that about shakespear ‘’ he was not of age but of
ages
95. About whom has it been said ‘’ he knew small latin and less
greek
96. Who said ‘’ marlow’s mighty line’’
97. Tambarlain is written by
98. Dr. Faustus is written by
99. The jew of malta is written by

Puritan age (1600-1660)

1. 17th century decline of the renaissance spirit T/F

2. The puritan age is divided into ………..parts. name it
3. The name puritan was at first given to those advocated certain
changes in the form of worship of the reformed English church
under Elizabeth. T/F
4. Jacobean era was ruled by
5. Carolina era was ruled by
6. Who ruled from 1603-1625
7. Who ruled from 1625-1649
8. The puritan movement was opposed by
9. The word Jacobean is derived from…………….
10. Jacobus is ……………….version of james
11. The caroline age is named after king charls 1.caroline is an
adjective of………………
12. Carolus is …………………. Word for Charles.
13. When was the king james’ bible or the authorized version
published
14. 47 scholars were appointed to prepare the authorized
version of bible by
15. The civil war broke out in
16. Who is lord herbert’s brother
17. Robert herrick belongs to
18. The flaming heart is written by
19. The term metaphysics poets used by
20. Cavalier poets are considered the followers of
21. Wordsworth wrote the famous line; ‘’they soul was like a
star, and dwelt apart for
22. Jhon donne was born in
23. Drink to me only with thine eyes is a lyric by
24. Father of classical comedy in England is considered
25. Shakespeare acted in ben jonson’s ‘’every man in his
humor’’ T/F
26. Subtitle of valpone is
27. Who gave up writing poetry for a long period for the sake of
struggle for democracy
28. The progress of the soul is a metaphysical poem by
29. Pseudo martyr is a work by
30. It was dr. jhonson who used the term ‘’metaphysical’’. In his
‘’LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS’’ in the chapter
on Abraham cowley’s biography……T/F
31. Who was called as monarch of wit
32. The mistress is a poem by
33. Milton fought against
34. Donne effects the metaphysics in his love poems said by
35. Ben jhonson was awarded pension by
36. Lamb called whom the last of a great race
37. Who is known for his holy sonnets
38. Lycides is a pastoral elegy and was written for
39. Lovelace belongs to
40. Who is the writer of the poem ‘’the canonization’’
41. Who wrote the following line ‘’death, thou waste once an
uncouth hideous thing’’
42. Lycidas is written by
43. IIPenseroso is written by
44. Who wrote the ode,’’come leave the loathed stage’’
45. Milton wrote paradise lost mainly to
46. The theatres in england were ordered to be closed by the
parliament in
47. The pilgrim’s progress was written by
48. The writer of the line; ‘’stone walls do not a prison make is’’
49. Who was nicknamed ‘’the lady of christ’’
50. Who is the writer of the following line; ‘’go and catch a
falling star’’
51. Writer of areopagitica
52. Who wrote the following lines; ‘’busy old fool, unruly sun’’
53. When was Milton born
54. Donne was cast into prison for marriage, his wife name is
55. What is the meaning of milton’s work Samson agonistes.
56. When did Milton published tenure of kings and magistrates
57. Which famous work of Milton is based on the fall of man
58. Frances bacon is born in
59. He was son of rich iron merchant
60. Which of the following british monarch was executed during
the English civil war
61. What british romantic author was particularly inspired by
the work of jhon Milton
62. Women beware women is written by
63. The athiests tragedie is written by
64. The white devil is written by
65. The duchess of malfi is written by
66. Where was jhon Milton born
67. When did Milton die
68. Which college Milton attended
69. When was paradise lost published
70. Whom did Milton marry at the age of 34
71. How many books were included in the second edition of
paradise lost
72. Paradise lost is ……………..poem
73. Paradise lost id written in ……………verse
74. A king and no king is written by
75. The maides tragedy is written by
76. Novum organum was written by
77. Who described francis bacon as the wisest, brightest,
meanest of mankind
78. Bacon’s essays were first published in
79. Bacon’s essay s are the fine example of
80. Who wrote ‘’ the advancement of learning
81. Of revenge is one of the essays of
82. The wedding is a comedy by
83. The lady of pleasure is a comedy by
84. The little French lawyer is written by
85. The new atlantis is written by
86. Anatomy of melancholy is written by
87. The holy living is written by
88. Region medici is written by
89. The troubles of queen elizbeth is written by
90. The shoemaker’s holiday is written by
91. The honest whore is written by
92. Eastward hoe is a play by
93. The alchemist is a comedy by
94. The silent women is comedy by
95. Sejanus is a tragedy by
96. Pindaric odes is written by
97. Persuasions of love is written by
98. An anatomy of the world is written by
99. When did bacon die
100. Bacons’s essays were influenced by
101. Batter my heart is a sonnet by
102. Comus by milton is

Restoration age
1. The restoration period started and ends in
2. Who became king in 1660
3. The literature of restoration was influenced by
4. The term restoration means the restoration of monarchy T/F
5. It was a restoration not merely of monarchy but also of the
parliament and church of England T/F
6. The restoration marks the birth of our modern English prose
said by
7. The restoration age is also known as
8. Who was the official poet laureate in England
9. Who is the father of English criticism
10. Who called Dryden father of English criticism
11. An essay on dramatic poesy is written by
12. When was Dryden born
13. Celebration of charls II return occurred in which work
14. Dryden was appointed poet laureate in
15. Who appointed Dryden as point laureate
16. King Charles II wife name
17. He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient
poet had the largest and most comprehensive soul said by
Dryden
18. The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to
attack his victims was
19. Who said he found it brick and left it marble for Dryden
20. In which period heroic tragedies generally were written
21. Comedy of manner flourished in
22. In which period Dryden talk about the great fire of London
23. The medal is a satire by
24. Alexander’s feast is an ode by
25. Which ode celebrate saint cecilla’s day
26. Dryden’s Absalom and achitophe is a satirical
27. Dryden’s hind and panther is divided into how many part
28. Jhon dryden’s Absalom and achitophe is a political allegory
29. Dryden was acntemprory of
 30. Mac flecknoe is a poem by
31. Dryden was a poet critic and
32. How did Dryden die
33. Here’s is God’s plenty in this line Dryden refers
34. Dryden’s ‘’ all for love’’ is based on antony and Cleopatra
T/F
35. Conquest of Granada is a play by
36. Aureng zab is a play by
37. The indian emporer is play
38. Oroonoko is a short work of prose fiction by
39. Abdelazer is a ………………by aphra behn
40. The old bachelor is the first play by
41. William congreve’s ‘’a way of the world’’ is the examples for
comedy of manner T/F
42. William congreve’s ‘’a way of the world’’ ends with a dance
party………….T/F
43. The restoration comedy the double dealer is written by
44. The man of mode from restoration period written by
45. Love in a tub is written by
46. Who was the first successful female playwright
47. The forced marriage was first play of
48. Grace abounding is an autobiographical work by
49. Bunyan’s the pilgrim progress is an ………….
50. Christian is the central character of bunyan’s which play

18th century literature

1. The term classics was first applied to the works of the great greek
writers and roman writers like homer and virgil……….T/F
2. The great literary works like illiad and Aeneid are
3. The reign of augustus is the golden age of
4. The generation of …………….is the golden age of Italian literature
5. The age of Louis 14 is golden age of
6. The age of queen ann is the golden age of
7. The 18th century in England is also called

8. The classical age in England is diivded in to ……….distinct period

9. The three distinct periods of the classical age in England are
10. The period from 1660 to 1700 is called
11. 1700 to 1744 belongs to
12. The period from 1744-1784 is called
13. The age of pope is also called
14. Who was the ruler of Britain in the age of pope
15. The age of reason is the most famous book by
16. Which of the following periods in European history is called
the age of reason or the age of enlightment
17. When did the English parliament pass the stamp act
regarding American colonies
18. …………………….is associated with the slogan no taxation
without representation
19. Which year is associated with the boston tea party
20. Who defined novel as comic epic poem in prose
21. Which play of Shakespeare patridge tom and others watch
in tom and jones
22. Smollett is best known by which novel he wrote
23. Sterne’s tristram shandy is known for its
24. Who is the funniest charcter in tristram chandy
25. Gotheic novel is known for its
26. Samuel jhonson wrote …………………….in order to pay for his
mother funeral
27. About which poem of Milton has doctor jhonson remarked
that its diction is harsh the rhymes uncertain and the numbers
unpleasing
28. Life of Samuel jhonson is written y
29. Whose style was praised by dr. jhonson as elegant but not
ostentatious familiar but not ostentatious familiar but not coarse
30. Dr. jhonson started
31. About whom did jhonson say regarding his contribution to
English poetry ‘’ he found it brick and made it marble
32. Who called dr.jhonson the true father of historical criticism
in English
33. Irene by jhonson is a
34. When did dr. jhonson publish dictionary of English language
35. Dr.jhonson wrote London in imitation of
36. Jhonson use of the term metaphysical in a piece of criticism
was
37. Pope was undisputed master of
38. A tale of a tub is written by
39. A tale of a tub is religious…………
40. ……………………………….is the novel considered to the best by
E.M foster
41. Pamela is written by
42. Clarissa harlous is written by
43. Sir Charles grandison is written by
44. Pamla, clarissa and sir Charles grandison is
…………………..novels
45. Whom did olivar goldsmith refers to by saying he has
nothing of the bear but his skin
46. The deserted village by olivar goldmisth is a
47. ………………………………………..is the dr.jhonson’s last work
48. Who helped pitt in forming literary club
49. A book should help us either to enjoy life or to endure it is
said by
50. Oliver goldsmith’s first successful poem was
51. The full title of robinson crusoe is
52. ……………………………… called henry fielding the father of the
English novel
The age of romanticism
1. Reflections on the revolution in france and on the proceeding in
certain societies in London relative to that event published in
1790 was the work of
2. Man is born free but alas he is everywhere in chains these are the
famous words of
3. The phrase fearful symmetry appears in
4. The two April morning is a poem by
5. A thing of beauty is a joy forever is a line from
6. The line poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world is
by
7. Dejection anode is written by
8. Which of the following is not a work by William blake
9. Table talk is a collection of essays by
10. Walter scott is a ………………..novelist
11. The phrase negative capability is associated with
12. Which poem of William wordsworth is considered his
greatest autobiographical epic
13. Lyrical ballads comprises poems by wordsworth and
14. What according to p. b shelly is intellectual beauty
15. The praise of chimney sweeper is
16. The most notable characteristic of keat’s poetry is
17. The author of essay of elia is
18. Who said keats was a greek
19. For which profession jhon keats has license but never
practiced it
20. What caused keat’s death
21. Keats’s endymion is dedicated to
22. The quotation when a man is capable of being in
uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching
after fact and reason is a definition of
23. Ode on the spring was written by
24. The French revolution had a significant impact on
25. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting , lines from
……………..poem
26. The final version of W.W’s the prelude appear in
27. The poetry of wordsworth and Coleridge was notably
influenced by
28. The term egoistical sublime was coined by
29. Contemprory of wordsworth and Coleridge
30. In the wordworth prelude the boy of winander is affected by
31. The most notable characteristic of keats poetry is
32. The question ‘’a repetition in the finit mind of the eternal act
of creation in the infinite I am ‘’ appears in
33. The story of lamia is taken from
34. Who wrote ‘’bliss was it in that dawn tobe alive but to be
young was very heaven
35. In which one Austen’s novel fanny visits her parents home
apartment after an absence of more than 10 years
36. Where does darcy proposed Elizabeth in pride and prejudice
37. In which novel o Austen john dashwood the henpecked
husband appears
 38. Which work of Austen is a satire directed against romance
and stormy passions
39. Which poet was most impressed by the German philosophy
40. Who wrote don Juan
41. Shelly died in
42. Keats died in
43. Where was words worth born

The Victorian age

1. Time period of Victorian age is from 1832/37 to……………….
2. Queen Victoria ascended the throne in
3. Coketown is an imaginary industrial town in the novel
4. Dickens tale of two cities ha an influence of carlyle’s;
5. Dicken tale of two cities begin with the lines
6. Bleak house is a critique of
7. Bleak house is written in
8. A tale of two cities is written in
9. A tale of two cities relates to
10. Sketches of boz was written by
11. Who is commonly known as pip in great expectations
12. Which book by dicken was incomplete when he died in 1870
13. Jane eyre was written by
14. The professor was written by
15. There are…………….. number of bronte sisters. Name them
16. Storymy sisterhood is associated with
17. The name of the only novel of Emily brote
18. Heathcliff is a character from
19. Ellis bell was the pseudonym of
20. James mill is a utilitarian leader in the novel
21. The last novel of hardy was
22. God is in his heaven and all is right with the world who said
this
23. Hardy is far from the madding crowd was first published
serially in
24. What was the name of Robert browning ‘s wife
25. Mary ann evans wrote under the pen name of
26. Literature always anticipate life. It does not copy it but
molds it to its purpose. Who said this
27. What was the nationality of Oscar wild
28. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the
value of nothing. Who said this
29. Which critic made this statement ‘’mr henry james writes,
fiction as if it is a painful duty
30. The term pathetic fallacy was coined by
31. Who is the writer of Prometheus bound
32. Seven pillars of wisdom is written by
33. Carlye’s work on heroes, hero worship and heroic in history
is a course of
34. Who is praised as a hero by carlye in his lecture on the hero
as a king
35. Which novel of R.L Steveson presents a parable of good and
evil
36. What does arnold’s scholar gypsy deal with
37. Darwin’s the origin of species was published in
38. Ruskin complained browning’s poetry of being
39. Hardy’s novels are known as
40. Where was dicken born
41. Poetry is a criticism of life it must answer the questions as to
‘’how to live?’’ who is the exponent of this view
42. The character Maggie appears in
43. Eliot’s romola is a
44. The mill on the floss is written by
45. Adam bede is written by
46. Wives and daughters is written by
47. Silas marner is written by
48. According to FR Leavis the great tradition of English novel
does not include
49. Under the greenwood tree is a novel by
50. In which book of dicken’s we find the character of miss pross
51. Who was tennyson’s friend on whose death in memorium
was composed
52. With which knight did queen Guinevere fell in love in
tennyson’s passing of Arthur
53. Who is poet that spoke of nature as ‘’red in tooth and claw’
which means the nature is no longer kind
54. Browning dedicated his men and women to
55. In which year was Alfred Tennyson appointed poet laureate
56. During whose reign were most of tennyson’s poems
published
57. What was the age of queen Victoria when she rose to the
throne
58. Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after
59. The expression Victorian compromise is first used by
60. What is the name of tess’s illegitimate child in hardy’s
novel
61. The town mentioned in the poem lady of shallot by
Tennyson
62. Who is known as the master of dramatic monologue
63. Who wrote the following about Shakespeare ‘’ others abide
our question thou art free
64. The forsaken merman is written by
65. Dover beach is written by
66. Tristerm and iseult is written by
67. Tennyson’s poetry represent
68. Who coined the phrase ‘’poetry is the criticism of life’
69. Others abide our question. Thou art free, thou stands for
70. …………………novel by dicken attacks the new poor law of
1834 in the opening chapters
71. Who wrote the poem the defence of lucknow
72. Dicken’s works have
73. About which novel of his own hardy remarked a war
between flesh and spirit
74. Who wrote sohrab and rustum
75. Browining’s poetry is
76. Who called Milton ‘God gifted organ voice of england’’
77. ……………………………..is hardy’s first serial novel
78. The woodlander is written by
79. The trumpet is written by
80. When was literature and dogma published
81. What problem has been dealt with in the bleak house of
dicken
82. The subtitle of tess of the D’urbervilles is
83. Mathew Arnold studied at
84. The dynasts is Thomas hardy’s
85. Dicken is the novelist of ……………………age
86. The protagonist of great expectation is
87. Arnold wrote ‘’ with him is born our real poetry’’ the word
him refers……………
88. The old curiosity shop is written by
89. ………………………………………………novel dicken left incomplete
90. Tennyson’s friend Arthur henry hallam died at
91. The novel of hardy are set in
92. Sir bedivere figure is the poem
93. Whose death was commemorated by Arnold in thyrsis
94. In Mathew Arnold’s culture and anarchy the term philistines’
is used for
95. Lady deadlock a character occurs in dickens
96. Who said about keats ‘’ he is with Shakespeare
97. Tennyson wrote
98. Sartor resartus is a thought provoking work of
99. The best poems of Arnold are
100. Arnold as a poet was most influenced from
101. Dover beach is a poem by
102. Michael henchard began his life as a
103. Dicken’s father was
104. Hardy’s novel under the greenwood is also known by the
name
105. Who was the father of Arnold
106. Browning is best known for his
The modern age
1. Who was the editor of an anthology of verse entitled Georgian
poetry
2. What is common amongst Rupert brooke, Julian Grenfell and
siegried Sassoon as poets
3. Who succeeded robert bridges as poet laureate of England
4. Who was the authoer of the famous tragic play riders to the
sea
5. Which of the following poets supported british imperialism in
india
6. Rudyard kipling was born in
7. Oh east is east and west is west, and never the twain can
meet’’ who said that
8. Who is the author of testament of beauty
9. T.s eliot dedicated his the westland to
10. In how many parts is the westland divided
11. Which of the following poems of t.s eliot ends with the lines.
‘’datta, dayadhvam, damyata, shanti, shanti, shanti’’
12. James joyce’s Ulysses is based on the pattern of
13. Hames jaoyce’s initiated
14. Which of joyce’s novels resembles a vast musical
composition
15. Sons and lover is written by
16. Which novel of Lawrence has autobiographical over tones
17. Lawrence called one of his novels thought adventures
18. Lawrence’s lady chatterlely’s lover is generally called an
obscene novel
19. The phrase religion of the blood is associated with
20. Virgina woolf was a daughter of which eminent critic
21. A character in woolf’s novels changes sex , what was the
name
22. In which shaw’s play the chocolate cream hero appears
23. The phrase ‘’don juan in hell’’ occurs in shaw’s novel
24. What is the central theme of mrs. Warren’ profession by
shaw
25. The central theme of glasworthy’s strife is
26. The law is what it is a myjestic edifice sheltering all on
another ‘’ in which play of glasworthy do these lines occure
27. In which year was shaw awarded the nobel prize
28. Conrad’s novels are generally set in the background of
29. Foster’s a passage to india deals with
30. Who is the author of human bondage
31. Who has written the poem if
32. Who was the author of two cheers for democracy
33. Who is the originator of sprung rhythem
34. The term stream of consciousness was first used by
35. The term inscape and intress are associated with
36. One of the shaw’s play was proscribed on the charge of
obscenity . which was it
37. Who called hamlet an artistic failure
38. The world within world is an autobiography of
39. Who said ‘’for art sake alone I would not face the toil of
writing a single sentence
40. Aldous Huxley borrowed the title brave new world from
41. Who was the author of light of asia
42. Who was the author of the earthly paradise
43. The seven types of ambiguity was written by
44. Who was believed to be a classicist in literature, royalist in
politics and anglo catholic in religion
45. Who was the founder of the blooms bury group a literary
club of England
46. How should kipling be rightly called
47. Orwell’s nineteen eighty four is
48. Would you call Aldous huxley’s brave new world
49. Who initiated the term new criticism in English literary
criticism
 50. In which verse form is t.s eliot’s waste land written

American literature

1. Who discovered America

2. When was American civil war fought
3. Who defined ‘’ democracy as a government of the people by the
people for the people’’
4. An American poet is hailed as the representative poet of
American democracy. Who is he
5. ‘’if the red slayer think he slays, or if the slain think he is slain,
they know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn
again’’ which poem is this
6. ‘’ I celebrate myself and sing myself, and what I assume you shall
assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you’’
which poem is this
7. ‘’lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime.
And departing leave behind us, foot prints on the sand of time’’
which poem lines these are
8. ‘’ tell me not in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream, for
the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they
seem’’ which poem is this
9. Mark twain was only a pseudonym what was the author’s real
name
10. Who is the author of rip van winkle
11. Who is the author of scarlet letter
12. Melvill’s moby dick gives us glimpses into the
13. The hero of mellvile’s moby dick is
14. Moby dick is written by
15. Typee is written by
16. Omoo is written by
17. Twice tole tale is written by
18. Tom swayer is written by
19. What is common amongst mark twain’s tom swayer,
huckleberry finn and life on the Mississippi
20. What is the central them of scarlet letters by hawthorn

21. Who is the author of walden

22. Subtitle of walden is
23. Whose lines are these ‘’ success is sweetest to those who
never succeeded, to comprehend nector requires sorest need’’
24. Whose lines are these ‘’a word to the wise is enough , God
helps them that help themselves’’
25. What is common amongst the following American writers ;
sarah Kemble knight, William byrd, jhon woolman
26. Who are known as knickerbockers
27. What is common amongst georage moses Horton, james m
whitefield, frances Watkins harper
28. Whose lines are these ‘’ America is it to thee, thou boasted
land of liberty, it is to thee I raise my song, thou land of blood and
crime and wrong’’
29. The great Gatsby is written y
30. A farewell to arms is written by
31. For whom the bell tolls is written by
32. The old man and the sea is written by
33. Who is the author of the sound and the fury
34. Who has written the portrait of a lady
35. The vacation of the kelwyns is written by
36. The princess caramassima is written by
37. In hemingway’s the old man and the sea , the old man hooks
a huge fish what is the fish called
38. In which year Eugene o’ neill awarded the nobel prize
39. How many times was o’neill awarded the Pulitzer prize
40. Beyond the horizon is written by
41. Anna Christie is written by
42. The happy journey is written by
43. Strange interlude is written by
44. That is common amongst the following plays of o’neill
emperor jones, all Gods chillum got wings and thirst
45. The crucible is written by
46. A view from bridge is written by
47. A memory of two Mondays is written by
48. All my sons is written by
49. Arthur miller received Pulitzer prize for theatre for which
play
50. Who was the first American playwright who received the
noble prize for literature
51. Who is the author of the play the glass menagerie
52. Who is the author of the play, who’s afraid of virgina woolf
53. Who is the author of the play the zoo story

Indian literature
1. Who was the first indian poet who received the nobel prize for
literature
2. Who was the first recipient of bhartya jnanpith award
3. Who was the founder of the bhartiya jnanpith
4. The sahitya kademi awards are given for best writing in how
many indian languages
5. Who was the first recipient of the sahitya kademi award for the
best writing in English
6. A very popular film was made on one of the novels of RK
Naryan
7. Waiting for the mahatma is written by
8. Malgudi days is written by
9. Guid is written by
10. Mr. sampath is written by
11. A very popular tv serial was made on one of the novels of
RK Naryan
12. The bachelor of arts is written by
13. Swami and friends is written by
14. The serpent and the rope is written by
15. On the ganga ghat is written by
16. Kanthapura is written by
17. Who is the latest noble laurate of indian origin for literature
18. A bend in the river is written by
19. Summer in Calcutta is a poetical collection of
20. Who is the author of the sword and the sickle
21. In which year tagore awarded the noble prize for literature
22. A very eminent English poet edited tagore’s gitaanjali
23. Tagore translated some poems of an important indian poet
from hindi into English. Who was he
24. Tagore wrote getangli originally in…………….
25. Who translated gitaangli to English
26. Guerdon is a very popular lyric. Who wrote it
27. Whose lines are these ‘’ into that heaven of freedom. My
father let my country awake’’
28. The last lybrinth is written by
29. The foreigner is written by
30. The apprentice is written by
31. The cow of the barricades is written by
32. The policeman and the rose is written by
33. On the ganga ghat is written by
34. The circle of reason novel is written by
35. Which one is the first published novel by kamala markandya
36. The central theme of JG Farrell’s novel the siege of
krishanpur is
37. What is the central theme of manohar malgonkar’s novel a
bend in the ganges
38. Who is the author of train to Pakistan
39. Who is the author of of the strnge case of billy Biswas
40. Bhabni battacharya’s first published book was
41. Who is the author of a passage to England
42. Untouchable is written by
43. My son’s father is an autobiography of an indo Anglian poet.
Name it
44. Who is the author of the famous stage play tughluq
45. Who is the author of life divine
46. India’s national anthem bande matram is written by
47. Who is known as the Shakespeare of india
48. Nightangle of indian song
Other literature
1. Who was the originator of the theory of limitation in
literature
2. Who was the most illustrious pupil of plato
3. Who collected and compiled the dialogues of Socrates
4. Who was the most illustrious disciple of Socrates
5. Aristotle was a teacher of
6. From where has the term Oedipus complex originated
7. From where has the term electra complex originated
8. Antigone is a play of
9. Oedipus rex is a play of
10. The seven against thebes is written by
11. Electra is written by
12. Alcestis is written by
13. Eumenidies is written by
14. Lysistrata play is written by
15. Metamorphoses is a
16. Amores is a play
17. The first husband of Helen of troys was
18. Homer’s illiad and odyssey were written in
19. Who is the author of philocletes
20. Who is the author of prince
21. Aenied is a work of
22. Inferno is written by
23. Cupid in greek mythology is the god of
24. Atlanta in greek mythology is
25. Frances bacon philosophy of life was influenced by
26. Age cannot wither her, nor custom state her infinite
variety
 27. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
reffered to
28. How many sources of sublimity have been discussed by
longinus in his critical treatise on the sublime
29. Who is the author of ars poetica
30. The theory of poetry is discussed in which book of
plato
31. Goethe was a great philosopher to which country he
belonged
32. Who has written illiad
33. Name of sequal of illiad
34. What is the name of odysseus
35. Who was the mother of Telemachus
36. Which of the following is about Trojan war
37. Who is the author of odyssey
38. The illiad is
39. The odyssey tells the story of
40. The wife of odyssus was
41. The goddess who befriended and helped odysseus
42. Odysseus has been away from home for
43. Who is dante’s beloved
44. The divine comedy focouses on the theme of
45. Who is perarch’s beloved
46. Where was Laius killed

Literary theory and criticism

1. Who was the first literary critic who said that art is twice
removed from reality
2. Who proposed that poets should be banished from the
ideal republic
3. What is the meaning of the term hamartia
4. Who use the term hamartia in his book theory of tragedy
5. Meaning of peripeteia
6. Meaning of anagnorisis
7. What is denouement
8. Ars poetica is the most important critical work of
9. How many principal sources of sublimity are there
according to longinus
10. Author of the school of abuse
11. Some elizbethan puritan critics denounced poets as
‘’fathers of lies and caterpillars of a common wealth’’ who
was he who used these offensive terms
12. Sidney’s apologie for poetrie is a defence of poetry
against the charges bought against it by;
13. What does Sidney say about the observance of the
three dramatic unities in drama
14. It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet, no
more than a long gown maketh an advocate’’ whose
opinion was that
15. What does ben jhonson meant by humorous character
16. Discoveries is a critical work of
17. Interlocution is an essay of dramatic poesy by
18. There four speakers in dryden’s essay of dramatic
poesy who represented dryden’s view
19. What has to Dryden say about observance of the three
classical dramatic unities
20. Is dryden’s essay of dramatic poesy a work of
21. Who called Dryden the father of English criticism
22. Poetry was generally written in poetic diction by
23. The tragi-comedy which is the product of English
theatre is one of the most monstrous invention that ever
entered into a poet’s thought’’ whose view is this
24. Be homer’s works your study and delight. Read the by
day and meditate them by night’’ who gives this advice to
the poets
25. Who preferred shakespear’s comedies to his tragedies
26. Wordsworth’s preface to the lyrical ballads is believed
to be the preamble to romantic criticism. N which year
was it published
27. The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to
instruct by pleasing ‘’ who’s view is this
28. Regarding the observance of the three classical unities
in a play dr.jhonson view is that
29. Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility’’ who’s
has defined poetry in these words
30. There neither is nor can be any essential difference
between the language of prose and metrical
composition’’ who holds this view
31. I write in metre because I am about to use a language
different from that of prose’’ who says it
32. Which critic has most elaborately discussed the
concept of imagination
33. Who defined poetry ‘as a criticism of life under the
conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic
truth and poetic beauty
34. Who says that ‘’ poets are the unacknowledged
legislators of the world
 35. Who has divided literature into two broad divisions
literature of power and literature of knowledge
36. Who gave the concept of art for art’s sake
37. Who gave the concept of art for life’s sake
38. Who said ‘’ for art’s sake alone I would not face the toil
of writing a single sentence
39. In whose opinion ‘’poetry is the most highly organized
form of intellectual activity
40. What is common amongst these three critical
expressions
41. Who is believed to be the pioneer of the so called bew
criticism

Rhetoric and prosody

1. Meow, where’s my milk, cried the cat is an example of
2. Malacanang palace declared its holiday today is an example of
3. What kind of figure of speech is a direct comparison of two unlike
things without using like and as
4. My father brought me new wheels is an example of
5. What kind of figure of speech is an opposite of what you mean
6. A rich man is no richer than a poor man is an example of
7. What kind of figure of speech is used to affirm by negating the
opposite
8. Virtually a sea but dry like a heart is an example of
9. What kind of figure of speech is to represent the sound of what it
is describe
10. Roll on thou dark and deep ocean roll! Is an example of
11. He was as brave as a lion
12. All the world’s a stage and all the men and wome merely
players: they have their exits and entrances is an example of
13. Death lays its icey hand on kings
14. My love is like a red, red rose
15. Death! where is thy sting
16. He is a lion
17. The wind wrapped its icy fingers around my body
18. The boat was tossed like a cork on the waves
19. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day thou art more lovely
and more temperate
20. Blind justice was not on his side
21. Meaning of prosody
22. Meaning of rhetoric
23. Heroic couplet
24. Enjambed couplet
25. Alexandrine
26. Teraza rime
27. Rhyme royal stanza
28. Ottowa rima
29. Spenserian stanza
30. Blank verse
31. Miltonic sonnet octave
32. Simile
33. Metaphor
34. Hyperbole
35. Onomatopoeia
36. Oxymoron
37. pun
38. antithesis
39. transferred epithet
 40. apostrophe

Linguistics
1. According to Hinduism language came from
2. Language might be started by the imitation of sounds which early
men and women heard around them. Which theory is
this…………………
3. The sounds of a person involved in physical effort could be the
source of our language. Which theory is this…………………
4. The biological basis of formation and development of human
language is called
5. Human beings can talk about their present, past and future. This
property of language is called
6. There is no connection between a linguistic form and its meaning.
This property of language is called
7. We can utter new words and sentences but animal can’t. This
property of language is called
8. A little change in the sounds can change the meaning. This
property of language is called
9. The general study of characteristics of speech sounds is called
10. The study of movement of speech organs in articulation of
speech is called
11. The study of how the speech sounds are made is called
12. The study of physical properties of a language is
called……………..
13. The study of perceptions of speech sounds is called
14. The study of sounds involving speaker’s identification and
analysis of recorded utterances is called
15. When the vocal cords are spread apart and the air from
lungs passes between them unimpeded the sound is
called………………..
16. When there is some vibration in vocal cord while producing
sound, the sound will be
17. There are…………… total sounds in English
18. Total number of vowel sounds in English
19. Total number of consonant sounds in English
20. The sounds in the English language are classified as bilabials,
dentals, alveolar etc. it is according to their
21. The sounds which are formed using both upper and lower
lips are
22. /b/ , /w/,/m/ are
23. /f/, /v/ are
24. The sounds formed with tongue tip behind the upper front
teeth are
25. /t/,/d/,/s/,/n/,/z/ are
26. Sounds formed with the front part of the tongue on the
alveolar ridge
27. /k/,/g/ are……………..sounds
28. The sound that is produced without active use of the tongue
and the other parts of the mouth is
29. IPA stands for
30. The consonant sounds resulting from a blocking effect on air
stream is called
31. /p/,/b/,/t/,/d/,/k/,/g/ are
32. There are………plosives
33. The sounds which are pronounced without any obstruction
in air passage and are produced with a free flow of air are called
34. Mark number of monothongs and diphthongs
35. The study of speech patterns is called
36. The smallest unit of speech sound is called
37. The versions of one phone are called
38. A sound pronounced with one puff of air is called( a sound
with one vowel)
39. Syllable consists of
40. Rime consists of
41. The consonants after the nucleus are
42. The syllables having onset and nucleus but not coda
43. The syllables having nucleus and coda but no onset
44. There are one or more consonants before or after nucleus
which describes
45. When two phonemes occurring in a sequence and some
aspect of one phoneme is taken or copied by other phoneme,
process is called
46. The omission or deletion of some sounds from a word is
known as
47. When the name of a company becomes the name of its
product, it is called
48. When one part of a word is joined with other part of the
other word, we get a new word. The process is known as
……………….
49. The linguistic terminology for blending is called
50. A word, phrase and sentence having same sequence of
alphabet from left to right and right to left are called
51. If a word of more than one syllable is reduced to a shorten
from, the process is termed as
52. If a long word is reduced to single syllable and then ‘y’ or ‘ie’
is added to end to make new word, the process is called
53. A change in the function of a word, when a noun is used as
verb or a verb is used as a noun is called
54. NASA, NATO, UNESCO are
55. To form new word by attaching affixes with existing words is
called
56. The study of forms(words) is called
57. Originally morphology is a ………………………. Term
58. A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function or a
minimum unit of word is called
59. A word or a group of word which has one meaning is called
60. The morpheme which are independent to give meaning and
they can stand by as single words are called
61. The dependent morpheme are
62. All the affixes in English are
63. The word to which affixes are attached is technically known
as
64. Lexical and functional morpheme are two types of
65. Nouns, verbs, adjectives come under
66. Articles, pronoun, prepositions come under
67. Which type of morpheme is used to indicate the
grammatical function of a word
68. There are …………… total inflectional morpheme in English
language
69. The study of rules of a language covers
70. Following two languages are considered classical
languages………..
71. English followed ……………….language for making rules of
grammar
72. Which of the following approaches deals with the set of
grammar rules and focuses on the teaching of grammar
rules……………..
73. Mention the approach which discourages the too much
focus on rules of language, according to it how language is used is
important rather than how language should be used
74. Syntax is originally taken from a ……………..word
75. The study of order or arrangements of words is called
76. The study of meaning of forms is called
77. When the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of
another form it is called
78. Horse is………………..of animal
79. When two words have different spellings and have same
pronunciations are called
80. When one word has two or more meaning or two words
have two or more different meaning but same spellings are
called…..
81. When one form have different meanings which are all
related by extension, the term is named
82. Words frequently occurring together are termed as
83. When a part represents a whole entity is known as
84. The study of intended speaker meaning is called
85. The set of words used in the same phrases or sentences is
called linguistic context is also known as
86. Words that cannot be interpreted at all without the physical
context of the speaker are called
87. Any additional information used by the listener to connect
what is said to what must be meant is called
88. A subsequent reference to an already introduced entity is
called
89. Linkage of ideas in a text is called
90. A conventional knowledge structure which exists in memory
is called
91. When we feel extreme difficulty in production of speech
which part of brain is damaged
92. Damage in Wernicke’s area of brain causes difficulty
in………….
93. Which of the following part of the brain controls the
articulatory muscles, jaw, tongue and larynx
94. Which of the following parts forms a crucial connection
between Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area
95. Language ability is located in the ………………..hemisphere
96. The inability to produce or comprehend speech because of
damage to certain parts of brain is called
97. When the baby is three months old, they can produce velar
sounds /k/,/g/ and vowels /i/, /u/. the stage is known as
98. By the six months, a baby can produce nasal and fricative
sounds. The stage is known as
99. Which one is a traditional method of learning a language
100. When you mix L1 and L2 and make another language is
called
101. While speaking one language if we shift to another language
is called
102. In conversion, if we use the words of two languages it is
called
103. English is derived from which major language
104. A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a
specific region or social group
105. Dialect is peculiar to
106. Accent is peculiar to
107. A variety of language developed for some practical purpose
among groups of people who don’t know each other languages is
called
108. A variety of language developed for some practical purpose
goes beyond that purpose and becomes the first language of
social community, is known as
109. The personal dialect of each individual speaker of a
language is called
110. Variations in a language according to use in specific
situations is called
111. Technical vocabulary associated with a specific field or group
is called
112. When we speak two varieties of one language in a society,
one is formal and other is iformal is called
113. The study of language in relation to brain is called
114. The study of language in relation to society is called
115. Scientific study of production, transmission, reception of
speech sounds is called
116. According to Chomsky, the native speakers knowledge of his
language, the system of rules he has mastered, his ability to
produce and understand a vast number of new sentences is
called…….
117. Who gave the concept of competence and
performance……………..
118. The concept of langue and parole is given by
119. The set of all possible grammatical sentences in the
language is called
120. The set of all utterances that have actually been produced in
the language is called
121. The major names related to the theory of behaviorism
are…….
122. Big and small are examples of
123. According to…………………………………we perceive the world as
our language leads us to perceive
124. The forms of verb to be are technically known as
125. The originator of theory of structuralism is
126. Language may be defined as the expression of thought by
the means of speech sounds’’ who defines language in these
words
127. The study of language ignoring its history is called
128. The study of language through different periods of its history
is called
129. A flood of French words came in to English in its
130. English is considered as lingua franca which
means………………..
131. Omission of a word or more from a sentence is called
132. The study and analysis of text in regard to their linguistic and
literary style is called
133. Unhate, unlove are examples of
134. What links literary criticism to linguistics……….
135. Which accent is considered a standard accent of British
English for non-native speakers
136. The information given about the subject in a sentence is
called
137. This, that, these, those are
138. Himself. Herself, themselves are
139. I we you are
140. Which, who are
141. Painting, smoking, fishing are examples of
142. Class team committee are the examples of
143. Ahmad sit down. Ahmad in this sentence is
144. If a noun is the indirect object of verb it will be
145. There are ……………basic skills
146. The productive skills are
147. The entity to which anaphora is referred is called
148. The concept of LAD was given by
149. A set or sentences, each finite in length and constructed out
of a finite set of elements is definition of language by
………………………
150. Who defined language as “” a purely human and non-
instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires
by means of voluntarily produced symbols
151. The theory which is based on the assumption that language
originated as a result of human instinct to imitate
sounds……………….
152. The theory which is based on the assumption that language
originated in the sense of rhythm innate in
man…………………………………..
153. The theory which is based on the assumption that language
is originated as a result of the involuntary exclamations of pain,
surprise, pleasure or wonder
154. The theory which is based upon the assumption that
language has been formed from words uttered by groups of
persons engaged in joint burdensome labour
155. Ding dong theory of the origin of language was advanced
by……
156. The ye-he-ho theory of language was advanced by…………..
157. The musical theory of the origin of language was advanced
by
158. Words like buzz, hisss are examples of
159. …………………is not related to arbitrariness
160. Human language is structured at the levels of phonemes and
at the level of words. This property of language is
called………………..
161. Using a finite set of rules a speaker can produce
innumerable grammatical utterances. This property of language is
called………………..
162. Human beings can talk about experiences, objects and
events. This property of language is
called…………………………………………….
163. It is possible to write down spoken language and read aloud
the written material. This property of language is
called………………..
164. Language is never static. It goes on changing. This property
of language is called………………..
165. There is no positive relationship between a speech and
sound. This property of language is called………………..
166. The type of study of the changes in language over span of
time is called
167. The type of study which focus on the analysis of the
systematic interrelation of the elements of a single language at a
particular time is called………
168. The systematic study of signs is called
169. The term semiotics was introduced by
170. The term semiology was introduced by
171. Who introduced in linguistics the concept of langue and
parole
172. Who introduced the concept of competence and
performance
173. Who introduced concepts similar to saussure’s in
linguistics……..
174. Who introduced concepts similar to chomsky’s in
linguistics……..
175. …………………………………………………………………implies the
underlying rules governing the combination and organization of
the elements of language
176. ………………………………………………………………implies the actual
meaningful utterances of the individual speaking or writing a
given language.
177. ……………..refers to the linguistic norm specific to a
geographical area, social class or status affecting mutual
intelligibility
178. …………….. is the totality of the speech habits of an individual
179. A collection of similar idiolect make up
180. The language variety which has certain feature which are
typical of certain discipline, topics, fields and special roles played
by the speaker is called
181. A person who has the ability to use only one language is
called
182. ………………………….refers to an individual’s equal and native
command of two or more languages.
183. ……………………………………………………………………….. doesn’t
constitute to the scientific nature of linguistics
184. ……………………….doesn’t constitute to the general
methodology of science
185. ……………………………………………………………………is not the aim of
linguistics
186. ………………….is not the branch of linguistics
187. The older term used to designate the study of languages
is…………….
188. The study of elementary speech sounds is called
189. The study ordering of speech sounds into the smallest
meaningful groups is called
190. The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered
into phrases, clauses, and sentences is called
191. The study of meaning is called
192. …………………………………………………………….is the basis of all
sounds in English language and in most of languages in India.
193. ……………….is a monosyllabic vowel combination of a
diphthong and the weak vowel
194. …………………………are words which differs only in one
phoneme
195. …………………………are different concrete variation of the same
phoneme
196. ………………..is a unit of speech which is at a level higher than
speech sound or phoneme.
197. ………………..is the process by which the one speech sound
gets changed to another under the influence of another
198. Sounds articulated by two lips are
199. Sounds articulated by the lower lip and placed against the
upper teeth are
200. Sounds articulated by the tip of the tongue placed against
the upper teeth are called
201. Sounds articulated with the tip of the tongue or the blade of
the tongue against the teeth ridge are called
202. …………………..produced involving the tip of the tongue and
the back part of the teeth ridge
203. ………………..articulated by the tip and the blade of the tongue
against the teeth ridge with raising of the front of the tongue
towards the palate
204. ………………….are articulated by raising the front of the tongue
towards the hard palate
205. ……………………….are articulated by raising the back of the
tongue towards the soft palate
206. ………………………are sounds articulated in the glottis
207. /p/,/b/,/m/,/w/ are
208. /f/,/v/ are
209. /t/,/d/,/n/,/I/,/s/ are
210. Initial words in church, judge are
211. The initial consonant in young is…………………sound
212. /k/,/g/ are examples of
213. /h/ in the word he is a …………………..sound
214. The special feature which affect speech sounds such as
stress, pitch, intonation and juncture.
215. Assimilation is of ……………….types
216. The preceding sound influencing the following sound is an
instance of…………………assimilation
217. The following sound influencing the preceding one is an
instance of …………………………..assimilation
218. The two sounds influencing each other and combine to
produce a third sound is an instance of……………………..assimilation
219. ………………………..patterns of intonation is used in declarative
sentences uttered as ordinary statements
220. ……………………patterns of intonation is used in commands
221. ………………………patterns of intonation is used in tag
questions which imply that the speaker is certain about what is
said
222. ……………………patterns of intonation is used in declarative
sentences uttered as questions.
223. ………………………patterns of intonation is used in polite
requests
224. ……………………intonation is used in W.H questions asked in a
warm and friendly way indicating extra politeness
225. ……………….patterns of intonation is used to indicate that the
speaker implies things which are not explicitly expressed.
226. /p/,/b/,/t/,/d/,/k/,/g/ are
227. The initial sounds in chair, jam are
228. /s/,/z/, /f/,/v/ are
229. The consonant /l/ is
230. The consonant /s/ is
231. /m/,/n/ are
232. How many nasal sounds are in English
233. How many nasal sounds in Malayalam are
234. The /r/ in red is articulated as a
235. Semi-vowels are also known as
236. The consonant/j/ and /w/ are called
237. The different concrete phonetic variation of the same
phoneme are called
238. The term………………….is used to designate words which are
spelt differently but pronounced alike and which are different in
meaning
239. Certain morphemes have more than one meaning and can
be understood in more than one way. They are called
240. ……………..is used to designate words pronounced differently
though identically
241. The words denoting the color red and the past tense of the
verb read is example of
242. The word bank in bank of river and financial bank is called
a……..
243. The present tense read and the past tense read are
examples of
244. Syllables in which the consonant functions as nucleus are
called
245. The final /n/ in the sudden and the mutton are
246. The final /m/ in the prism is instance of
247. ……………………….are called secondary phonemes
248. ………………………………….are called prosodic phonemes
249. …………….is the degree of force with which a sound of
syllable is uttered
250. Stress is used for the sake of
251. How many stress syllables are generally marked
252. ……………………..is the accent on certain words within the
sentence
253. …………………….refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech
254. …………….refers to significant changes of pitch and stress
pertaining to sentences
255. The term……………….. refers to omission of certain sounds,
syllables or even words in continuous speech
256. How many types of phonetic transcriptions are generally
followed
257. ………………..is concerned with the selection and organization
of speech sounds in a language.
258. /m/ is…………………..consonant
259. How many classes of morpheme are there in language
260. A minimal meaningful unit in the grammatical system of a
language is called
261. The ‘ing’ is an example of ……………………..morpheme
262. Dog is……………..morpheme
263. Morpheme alternates are
264. the final consonant /s/, /z/ and/iz/ in the words cats, dogs
and boxes are
265. the final sound /t/, /d/, and /id/ in words packed, bagged
and patted are
266. the –sih in the childish is
267. the –s in the boys is
268. The –s in the john’s is
269. The final /t/ in walked is
270. The –or in actor
271. The –en in strengthen is
272. The –s in she sings well is
273. The shortened form like photo for photograph is
274. …………….is the method of word formation whereby one or
more syllables are removed from longer words
275. ……………….is the process of new words coinage by
combining the segments of two different words
276. …………………………..involve a different analysis of the
structure of the word by attaching a consonant at the end of the
word or a vowel at the beginning of the next word
277. Words which represents the sounds of their referents are
called
278. The two great linguists who have contributed much to frame
the device of immediate constituent analysis
are……………………………………..
279. ………………………………………………………………….is the device used
in modern linguistics for grouping together words and phrases so
as to remove ambiguity of construction
280. The theory of transformational generative grammar is
contained
in……………………………………………………………………………………………………
…
281. In transformational generative grammar , the generative
means
282. What are the main properties of grammar

283. ………………………….denotes the formal agreement between

various constituent elements of a language
284. The clear /l/ and the dark/l/may be considered to be the
………………………..of the same phoneme/l/
285. in kill …………… sound is aspirated
286. the /k/ in kill and skill are
287. the initial /l/ and the final /l/ in the word little are
288. the word examination is …………………………….word
289. a syllabic division is marked with
290. words with more than three syllables are called
291. Is the system of phonetic notion composed of symbols and
letters devised by the international phonetic
association…………………………
292. IPA came into existence in the year
293. IPA was established by a group of
294. The pronunciation of English practiced by the educated
people at the public schools came to be called
295. Phoneme which effect meaning change in the same
linguistic environment are said to be in
296. The phoneme which do not occur in the same linguistic
environment and which when occur so, don’t bring about a
change in meaning are said to be in
297. The substitution of the aspirated /k/ for un-aspirated /k/ in
the word sky does not alter the meaning of the word is example
of
298. Which among the following dimensions can the vowels in
English be classified
299. According to the position of lips vowels can be divided
into…………………………………….
300. According to which part of tongue vowels can be divided
into…………………………………….
301. According to the height to which the tongue is raised,
vowels can be divided into…………………………………….
302. On the basis of the criterion of the state of the tension of
the tongue, vowels can be classified into
303. The classification of the vowels into round and unround
vowels is based on
304. The classification of the vowels into front and back vowels is
based on
305. The classification of the vowels into front , back and center
vowels is based on
306. The classification of the vowels into high and low vowels is
based on
307. The classification of the vowels into tense and lax vowels is
based on
308. The classification of the vowels into half close and half open
vowels is based on
309. The classification of the vowels into half high and half low
vowels is based on
310. /p/, /b/ are……………………plosives
311. /t/,/d/ are ………………plosives
312. /k/,/g/ are……………………………..plosives
313. The /k/ sound in act and picture is a
314. The /p/ in top most is a
315. /t/ in little is
316. /d/ in middle is
317. ………………………………is the process of word formation
wherein two or more existing words are simply combined
318. …………………is the process of a word formation wherein new
words are coined by combining the segments of two different
existing words
319. …………….is a process of word formation by which new words
are formed by attaching prefixes or suffixes to the base form
320. …………….is a process of word formation by which new words
are formed by subtracting a root ,by deleting final syllable which is
misunderstood as a suffix
321. …………….is a process of word formation by which new words
are formed by removing one or more syllables from existing ling
words
322. Smog and motel are
323. Black-leg and flash-light are
324. Edit and house-keep are
325. Phone and photo are
326. UNESCO, RADAR are
327. Words composed of two or more elements that are identical
or slightly different are called
328. Buzz is
 329. ……………………is scientific name of language

Famous writers and works

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3. A midsummer night’s dream is written by
4. All is well that ends well is written by
5. Love’s labour’s lost is written by
6. Measure for measure is written by
7. Merchant of venice is written by
8. Tempest is written by
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10. The winter’s tale is written by
11. The tragedy hamlet is written by
12. The tragedy Julius caesar is written by
13. The tragedy king lear is written by
14. The tragedy Macbeth is written by
15. The tragedy Othello is written by
16. The tragedy romeo Juliet is written by
17. Essay of man written by
18. Rape of the lock is an…….
19. Rape of the lock is written by
20. The dunciad is written by
21. A tale of a tub is written by
22. Battle of the books is written by
23. Gulliver’s travels is written by
24. Lycidas is written by
25. Lyrical ballad is written by
26. The prelude is written by
27. The deffodils is written by
28. Tintern abbey is written by
29. Kubla khan is written by
30. The ancient mariner is written by
31. Bigraphia literaria- critical autobiography is written
32. The long verse Isabella is written by
33. Adonias is written by
34. Ozymandias is a poem written by
35. Ode of the west wind is written by
36. To the skylark is written by
37. A play murder in the cathedral is written by
38. The poem waste land is written by
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40. The mill on the floss is written by
41. Silas marner is written by
42. The bell tolls is written by
43. Old man and the sea is written by
44. Pilgrim’s progress is written by
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46. A woman of no importance is written
47. Anna Karenina is written by
48. War and peace is written by
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50. Crime and punishment is written by
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56. Lady and chatterley’s love is written by
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60. The heart of Midlothian is written by
61. Lady of the lake poem is written by
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64. The invisible man is written by
65. Robinson crusoe is written by
66. Sound and the fury is written by
67. Three musketeers is written by
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76. Man and superman is written by
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80. Vagabond is written by
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82. Travel with a dunkey is written by
83. Sohrab and rustum is written by
84. Scholar gispy is written by
85. In memoriam elegy is written by
86. Idylls of a kind verse is written by
87. Fairie queene is written by
88. La divine comedia or divine comedy verse is written
89. A kiss for cindrella is written by
90. Arms and the man is written by
91. Doctor’s dilemma is written by
92. St.joan is written by
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96. The alchemist is written by
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100. Satanic verse is a written by
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111. Vision of mirzah is written by
112. History of king Richard III is written by
113. The great, Edward II is written by
114. The jew of malts is written by
115. The ruins of time is written by
116. Comedy of error is written by
117. The taming of the shrew is written by
118. To anthea is written by
119. The night piece of Julia is written by
120. Hesperides is written by
121. To daffodils poem is written by
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123. White devil is written by
124. The duchess of malfi is written by
125. Advancement of learning and essays is written by
126. To his coy mistress is written by
127. My vegetable is written by
128. The sun rising is written by
129. The way of the world is written by
130. The double dealer is written by
131. Love for love is written by
132. Flecknoe is written by
133. The medal of john bays is written by
134. All for love is written by
135. The imitation of Horace is written by
136. Dubchiad is written by
137. Joseph Andrew is written by
138. Amelia is written by
139. Tintern abbey is written by
140. The solitary is written by
141. The rime of ancient mariner is written by
142. Kubla khan is written by
143. Christabel is written by
144. Ode on dejection is written by
145. The spirit of age is written by
146. Elizbeth is written by
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148. Ode of the west wind is written by
149. Adonis is written by
150. The revolt of islam is written by
151. Prometheus unbound is written by
152. Ode to skylark is written by
153. Ode to a nightangle is written by
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157. The devil’s work is written by
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159. The lay of last ministrel is written by
160. The lord of the isle is written by
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162. In memoriam is written by
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185. Pike and jaguar is written by
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5. 1925
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7. 1930
8. 1932
9. 1934
10. 1936
11. 1938
12. 1946
13. 1948
14. 1949
15. 1950
16. 1953
17. 1954
18. 1957
19. 1962
20. 1964
21. 1969
22. 1973
23. 1982
24. 1983
25. 1986
26. 1991
27. 1992
28. 1993
29. 1995
30. 1999
31. 2001
32. 2003
33. 2005
34. 2007
35. 2013
36. 2015
37. 2016
38. 2017
39. 2019
40. 2020
41. 2021

Golden mcqs bank

1. Who translated plutarch’s lines from the French version in
1579
2.Who was the writer of the civil wars
3.What type of work is mainly Samuel pepy’s dairy
4.Hopkins was mainly a
5.Maria egdeworth’s novel Belinda is mainly
6.Biographia literaria is critical work by
7.Writer of the absurd plays
8.O henry wrote his stories when
9.Who among was not regarded as one of the war poet is
written by
10. Who was the inventor of spring rhythem
11. Who is the writer of the following line. ‘’ go and catch a
falling star
12. Who wrote ‘’they also serve who only stand and wait
13. In which poem is melancholy presented as a pensive
noun ‘’devout and pure…..with even step and musing gait’’
14. Who speak the following words in paradise lost ‘’what
though the field be lost all is not lost’’
15. Where was shakspear born
16. Uriah heep is a character in
17. Which play is written by shakespear with collaboration
with marlow
18. In …………………play of shakspeare a king is assassinated
19. Louka is a character in
20. In one of whose sonnet does the following lines appear
‘’shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
21. When did kippling die
22. On which flower wordsworth has written a poem
23. In which year did paul heyse receive the nobel prize
24. Who receive nobel prize in literature in 1995
25. Which writer does belong to the theatre of absurd
26. When was wordsworth made the poet laureate of
England
27. Midnight children is written by
28. Midnight children is published in year
29. The essay of elia is written by
30. The essay of elia is published in
31. In which of shaw’s drama a character says ‘’let us sit
and talk comfortably over it like friends
32. In which of shakspear play does the following line
appear ‘’times are out of joint
33. Ophelia, polonius and Gertrude are characters of
shakspeare play
34. When did marx die
35. When did Dylan Thomas die
36. Herbert read, George barker and Dylan Thomas is
associated with the movement
37. Freud died in
38. Ode on Agincourt is written by
39. Where youth grows pale, scepter thin and dies are
lines from
40. Who was the largest contributor to the spectator
41. Marlow is a character in
42. In which novel is major scobie the central figure
43. Uncle tom’s cabin is written by
44. Mrs.dollaway is mainly a …………………………………novel
45. Who according to George B smith is …………………the
shakspeare of novelists
46. Who published shamela anonymously in 1741
47. When was joseph Andrews published
48. Byron was born in
49. Byron was not a
50. In which poem the following lines appear ‘’ but the
triumphs of love are sung in poems of wifehood and
motherhood’’
51. In which work does the character pompilia exist
52. In which poem of keats the following lines exist ‘’and
can I ever bid these joys farewell? Yes I must pass them for a
nobbler life
53. In which poem does the following lines occure ‘’my
whole heart rises upto bless your name in pride and
thankfulness’’
54. In which poem does the following lines occure ;’’for
who would trust the seeming sighs of wife or paramour
55. The first edition of leaves of grass was published in