* Summarized by: Mirna A. Abu Zaid.

Contents
• Introduction:
1) literary terms.
2)Shakespear's plays.
3) Old and Middle English.
4) The Renaissance ( Elizabethan age) .
5)The Commonwealth and Restoration age.
6) The age of Reason of the Enlightenment.
7) The Romantic age.
8) The Victorian age.
9) Modern age.
10) Famous novels, poems, plays, odes, poetry, Sonnet and
elegy.
11) Previous Exams.
 Literary terms
• protagonist: the central character in a story. The protagonist faces a
problem and must undergo some conflict to solve it.
• limerick: is a five line poem that is often humorous.
• Allegory: simple story has a deeper meaning below the surface. It generally
teaches a lesson by means of an interesting story.
• parody: sth/ someone is imitated so that people will Lough at it.
• lyric: the word of popular songs. Alyric poem is now any short poem that
doesn't have a narrative.
• Ode: a lyric poem with a complex structure in which someone/ sth is praised.
• stream of consciousness (inner monologue): the description of
the flow of inner experience through the mind of the character.
• Blank verse: poetry written in lines which normally have fives
main stresses and which are usually iambic pentameter.
• Types of literature: (Fiction*Nonfiction *Drama*Poetry
*Folktale)
• Onomatopoeia: the formation or use of word whose
meaning is suggested by the sound of the word itself. Such
as:(boom _ buzz).
• Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradictory
words or phrases are combined in a single expressions. Such as:
(wise fool _ cruel kindness).
• Sonnet: a poem of fourteen lines. Sonnets are divided into an
octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines).
• ** The forms of sonnet:
1 ) petrarchan sonnet ( abba abba cdcdcd) .
2 ) Shakespearian sonnet ( abab cdcd efef) .
• Rhyme: is two or more words with the same sound. Such as(go _
though is a rhyme Ryhme scheme/ is a pattern of rhymes.
• Rhythm: the movement of the sound in a poetry or of a piece of
writing.
• Allusion: a reference to sth in literature, history...etc
• setting: the time and place in which the actions of the story
occur.
• Paradox : a statement or a situation containing obvious
contradictions, but is nevertheless true.
• conflict: the struggle between two opposing forces.
• Types of conflict:
1) Internal ( inside the character)
2) External ( outside of the character like society, nature, another
person...)
• Plot: the series or sequence of events of the story.
• Imagery: words and phrases that create vivid experiences or a
picture for the reader.
• Hyperbole: an exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effects.
• Fable: is a story which tries to teach sth. It can be based on myth
or a legend.
• Alliteration: happens when the same letters are repeated in a
pattern of sounds, especially at the beginning in words and in
poems.
• Elegy: a poem in which the death of a hero or of a way of life is
described and it is usually a poem written about great sadness.
• Epic: along narrative poem which describes the actions of gods or
heroes in a society and it can have national purpose.
• Fairy story : a story in which there are supernatural events.
( Fairy stories usually have happy endings ).
• Pun: a form of wit, not necessary funny, involving a play on a word
with two or more meanings.
• Ballad: a song or a simple poem which tells a story and it contains
dialogue and repetition.
• Personification: a figure of speech in which human qualities or
characteristics are given to an animal, object, or concept.
• Enjambment : the carrying of sense and grammatical structure
in a poem beyond the end of one line, couplet, or stanza.
• Style: the way in which a piece of literature is written. Style refers
not what is said, but how it is said.
• Flashback: a scene, or an incident that happened before the
beginning of a story, or at an earlier point in the narrative.
• Antagonist: the character or force that opposes the protagonist.
• Climax: the point at which the conflict of the story begins to be
resolved and begins to reach a turning point.
• soliloquy: a speech in a play in which a character alone on a stage,
tells the audience about his/her thoughts and feelings.
• Metaphor: describes sth by comparing it to sth else without using
( like or as ) (‫ زي مثال‬she is a mouse ) ‫عكس‬metaphor ‫الي هي‬simile
• Simile: describes sth by comparing it to sth else using the words( like
or as ) ‫زي مثال‬He fought like a tiger.
• Analogy: a point by point comparisons between two dissimilar
things for the purpose of clarifying the less familiar of the two things.
• Ambiguity: double or even multiple meaning.
• Euphony: A succession of sweetly melodious sounds.
• Apostrophe: the device, usually in poetry, of calling out to an
imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified
abstraction either to begin a poem or to make a dramatic break in
thoughts somewhere within a poem.
• Suspense: the tension or excitement felt by the reader as he or she
becomes involved in the story.
• Syllogism: a logical argument based on deductive reasoning.
• Satire: a literary technique in which foolish ideas or customs are
ridiculed for the purpose of improving society.
• Rising action: that part of the plot that leads through a series of
events of increasing interest and power to the climax and turning
point.
• Falling action: events that lead to a resolution after the climax.
Resolution: the final unwinding, or resolvingof the conflicts and
complications in the plot.
• Denouement: the final unraveling or outcome of the plot in drama
or fiction during which the complications and conflicts of the plot
are resolved.
• Convention: an accepted way of doing thing.
• Connotation: the association, images, or impressions carried by a
word.
• Cacophony: harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds, often produced
by combinations of words that require a clipped, explosive delivery,
or words that contain a number of plosive consonants such as b, d,
g, k,p, and t. The opposite of Euphony.
• Euphony: A succession of sweetly melodious sounds.
Assonance: the repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds
for a purpose. For example: Mad as a hatter.
• Consonance: the close repetition of identical consonant
sounds before and after differing vowel sounds.
• Figurative language: language that cannot be taken literally
or only literally.
• Foreshadowing: a writer's use of hints or clues to indicate
events that will occur later in the narrative.
• Foil : a character who provides a striking contrast to another
character.
• Personification: a figure of speech in which human qualities
or characteristics are given to an animal, object, or concept.
• Enjambment : the carrying of sense and grammatical
structure in a poem beyond the end of one line, couplet, or
stanza.
• Point of view: the vantage point, or stance from which a
story is told, the eye and the mind through which the action is
perceived .
• Metonymy: a figure of speech that substitutes the name of a
related object, person, or idea for the subject at hand.
• Motif: a unifying element in artistic work, especially any
recurrent image, symbol, theme, character type, subject, or
narrative detail.
• Mood: the feeling or atmosphere, that a writer creates for the
reader.
• Epigram: any witty, pointed saying. Originally an epigram
meant an inscription.
• Epitaph: the inscription on a tombstone or monuments in
memory of the person or people buried there.
• Epigraph: a motto or quotation that appears at the beginning
of the book, play, chapter, or a poem.
• First person point of view: the narrator is a character
in the story, dictating events from their perspective using
"I" or "we." Second person :the reader becomes the main
character, addressed as "you" throughout the story and
being immersed in the narrative.
• Third person : the narrator exists outside of the story
and addresses the characters by name or as "he/she/they"
and "him/her/them.“
• Types of third person//
Third person omniscient: the narrator is all_knowing about
thoughts and feelings of the character .
Third person limited: deal with the writer presenting
events as experienced by only one character. This type of
narrator doesn't have full knowledge of situations, past or
future events.
Third person objective: the story conveys only the
external details of the characters - never their thoughts or
inner motivations.
• Chronological order: In literature, most authors write their
story as a sequence of events—when you use this method,
arranging events in the order in which they occurred in time.
• Melodrama: a play or a story in which events are exaggerated
in order to make it exciting.
• Mosque: a poetic drama in which songs, dance, and music are
combined.
• Absurd : a term describing texts, normally drama texts, which
can leave a reader or audience with a feeling of despair.
• Aestheticism: a new form of art literature in which the art and
the beauty of art exists only for itself.
• Black comedy: a comedy in which serious and sometimes tragic
problems are explored.
Irony: When someone says or does sth, but means a nother thing or
intends for sth else to happen.
• Types of Irony:
{ verbal irony, situational irony, Dramatic irony}.
*Verbal irony: a writer says one thing, but means Sth entirely
different.
*Situational irony: occurs when sth happens that is entirely
different from what is expected.
*Dramatic irony: occurs when the reader knows in formation that
the characters do not.
*Anti_ hero: the opposite of traditional hero whose personal
qualities contrasts with bravery, skill, and strength of the hero.
*Autobiography: is a book about your own [Link]: is a book
about someone's life.
• Trilogy: a group of three plays or novels which are linked by the
same theme or the same characters.
• Exposition: background information at the beginning of the story
such as setting, characters, and conflicts.
• Metre: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse.
• Assonance: the repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds for a
purpose. For example: Mad as a hatter.
• Understatment ( meiosis) : a type of verbal irnoy in which sth is
purposely represented as being for less important than it actually
is.
• Narrative : the story narrator: is someone who tells the story.
• Saga: is a narrative about famous heroes or famous
families or about kings and soldiers.
• Canto: epic poems and long narrative poems are divided
into canto. It can be compared with chapters in a novel.
• Dramatist: a writer of play ( play wright)
• Diction: a language choesn by a writer, usually by poets.
• Existentalism: a modern belief that individuals live in a
world without God and without meaning and are
responsible for thier own actions.
• Caesura: a break or pause in a line of poetry, usually in the
middle of a line.
• Chorus: is a group of performers who sing, dance and at
times take part in the action of a play.
• Couplet: two lines of verse which [Link] novel: a
novel which is based on the experience of a spinster, an
un married woman.
• Compus novel: a novel set in a new university and with
university teachers and students as main characters.
• Tone: the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject.
• Theme: the central idea in a literary work. It is an idea
revealed by the events of the story.
• Symbol: a person, object, idea or action that stands for
sth else. It is usually sth literal that stands for sth
figurative. For example/ Roads can stand for choices.
• Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part of sth
stands for the whole thing.
• poet laureate: is a title which is given to the poet who is
officially appointed by the king or queen to be the
national poet.
• perface : an introduction which comes before a 
book or play.
• prose : contrasts with verse. It describes languge written
in a usual form, not as a poetry.
• Myth: a story which is normally not true and in which
supernatural begins play important parts.
• Monolgue: a speech by one person in a poem , play,
novel.
• Syntax: the sentence structure.
Shakespeare's plays are divided into:

Comedies Tragedies Histories

All’s Well That Ends Well Henry IV Part I
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Coriolanus Henry IV Part II
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Cymbeline Henry V
Measure for Measure Hamlet
Henry VI Part I
The Merchant of Venice Julius Caesar
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Henry VI Part II
King Lear
A Midsummer Night's Dream Macbeth Henry VI Part III
Much Ado About Nothing Henry VIII
Othello
The Taming of the Shrew
Romeo and Juliet King John
The Tempest
Twelfth Night Timon of Athens Richard II
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Titus Andronicus
Richard III
The Winter's Tale Troilus and Cressida
Note:
• PLAYS NOT IN THE FIRST FOLIO// Pericles
• The Two Noble Kinsmen.
* Most of Shakespeare plays are written in
(blank verse).
 Famous works in literature
 Famous poems//
1) On his Blindness by John Milton.
2) The Road Not Taken by Robert Forst.
3) Death, Be Not Proud by John Danne.
4) Sonnets 18 by Shakespeare.
5) If by Rudyard kippling.
 Famous plays //
1) Oedipus ( Sophocles).
2) Death of a Salesman ( Aurther Miller).
3) A Raisin in the sun ( Hansberry).
4) A Doll's House ( Henrik Ibsen) .
5) Waiting for Godot ( Samuel Beckett).
6) Look Back in Anger ( John Osborne).
7) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams).
 Famous novels//
1) The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.
2) Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
3) Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.
4) Emma by Jane Austen.
5) Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock.
6) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
7) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
8) Middlemarch by George Eliot.
9) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
10) Ulysses by James Joyce.
11) The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald.
12) Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
13) True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey.
14) The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
• Narrative poetry //
1) My Last Duchess ( Fra Lipo).
2) Julius Caesar ( Shakespeare).
• Romantic epic//
1) Orlando Furioso ( Ariosto).
2) The Faeri Queen ( Spenser).
• Secondary epic//
1) Paradise lost ( John Milton).
• Famous Odes//
1) To pine hurst (Ben Johnson).
2)The Bard(Thomas Gray).
3) To Autumn (keat).
4) Ode to the Western (Shelly).
* Famous Sonnet//
1) Idea's Mirror (Drayton).
2) The Earl of Surry (Thomas Wyatt).
3) Amoretti (Spenser).
* Heroic poetry//
1) Sohrab and Rustum (Methew Arnold).
* Pastoral elegy//
1) Come live with me (Marlowe).
* Mock heroics//
1) Le lutein (Boileau).
2) The Rape of the lock (Alexander pope).
• Famous poets in this age//
1 ) William wordsworth .
2 ) William Blake.
3 ) John keats.
4 ) Samuel Coleridge .
5 ) George Gordon.
6 ) lord Byron.
7 ) Percy Shelly.
8 ) Mary Shelly.
9 ) Jane Austen.
• Romantic age is sometimes called age of
Revolutions.
* lyrical ballads // is written by William wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge
about simple and common life.

* William wordsworth's works//

1) My heart leaps up. 2) Daffodils.
3) Lucy. 4) The prelude.
5) Westminister Bridge. 6) The leech .
7) The Solitary Reaper. 8) The old Cumberland Beggar.
9) Lines written above Tintern Abbey.
10) Ode on the Intimations of Immortality.

*** William wordsworth writes in simple direct language

which is close to the spoken language of ordinary people.
* William Blake//
• Blake's best_ known collection of poetry is:
{ Songs of innocence , Songs of experience }.
• For example//
• Lamb is a symbol of innocence
• Tyger is a symbol of experience
His poems are simple and symbolic
*BLAKE'S POEMS//
1) Tyger.
2) The lamb.
3) London.
* Samuel Coleridge//
• Coleridge's poetry is about extraordinary and
supernatural world.
• Coleridge's works//
1) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
.‫ { و هاي أشهرهم‬lyrical ballads } ‫• له أربع قصائد بال‬
2) kubla khan.
3)christabel.
4) Dejection (sadness).
5) Forost and Midnight.
6) This lime_ Tree Bower My prison.
 John keats's works //
 The Evil of Saint Agnes.  La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
 To a Nightingale.  Isabella
 Lamia  Ode on a Grecian Urn
 To Autumn
 Percy Shelly's works//
1) Adonis. 2) The widow Bird.
3) Queen Mab. 4) The spirit of solitude.
4) The Necessity of Atheism. 5) To a Skylark.
6) The Mask of Anarchy. 7) Ozymandias.
5) Ode to the West Wind. 9) The Cloud.
• A nember of novelists were women in this age//
1 ) Jane Austen. 2) Walter Scott.
3 ) Fanny Burney. 4) Maria Edgeworth .
5 ) Mary Shelly. 6) Ann Radcliffe.
* Jane Austen//
1) Pride and prejudice. 2) Emma.
3) Mansfield. 4) Northanger Abbey.
5) Persuasion. 6) Sense and sensibility.
* Fanny Burney//
1) Evelina. 2) Camilla.

* Walter Scott//
1) Waverley. 2) The Bride of lammer moor.
• Mary Shelly (Frankenstein)//
➢ it is Gothic novel or novel of terror.
* Famous poets//
1) Cynewulf.
2) King Alfred.
3) Aelfric.
• Religious Poetry in this era//
1) Juliana. 2) The Fates of the Apostles.
3) Christ. 4)Elene.
* prose//
1 ) Anglo_Saxon Chronicle (king Alfred).
2)The Homilies ( Aelfric).
3 ) Lives of Saints ( Aelfric).
• Lyrics//
1) Deor's Complaint. 2) The Husband's Message.
3) The Wanderer. 4)The Wife's Complaint.
Famous poets// •
Cynewulf •
King Alfred •
Aelfric •

*Religious Poetry in this era// •

Juliana •
The Fates of the Apostles •
Christ •
Elene •
*prose// •
1 ) Anglo_Saxon Chronicle ( king Alfred) •
2)The Homilies ( Aelfric) •
3 ) Lives of Saints ( Aelfric) •
Lyrics//
Deor's Complaint
The Husband's Message
The Wanderer
The Wife's Complaint
Poetry ( Middle English literature)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
William langland
The vision of the piers the ploughman
Prose
John Wycliffe
The Translation of the Bible
Sir Thomas Malory
Morte D'Arthur
Poetry
Alexander pope
-The Rape of the Lock
-Essay on Criticism
-Essay on Man
-The Dunciad
-The Translation of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer

_Transitional Poets (appreciate nature)

_ James Thomason
-The Seasons Thomas Gray
-His Elegy Written in Country Churchyard William Blake
-Songs of Innocence-Songs of Experience Robert Burns William Cowper
Prose
Daniel Defoe
-Robinson Crusoe

Jonathan Swift
-Gulliver'c Travels

Dr. Samuel Johnson

-Dictionary

Samuel Richardson
-Pamela
-Clarissa

Henry Fielding
-Joseph Andrew
-Tom Jones
-Jonathan Wild the Great
Oliver Goldsmith
-The Vicar of Wakefield

Tobias Smollet
Roderick Random ( novel)
Humphrey Clinker ( novel)

Ann Radcliffe
The Mysteries of Udolpho ( Gothic novel)

Horace Walpole
The Castle of Otranto

Laurence Sterne
Tristram
Poetry
John Dryden
- Absalom and Achitophel
-MacFleknoe
-Translations

Prose
John Dryden
- Essay on Dramatic Poesie

John Bunyan
- The Pilgrim's Progress

John Locke
-Essay on the Human Understanding
Drama
William Etherege
-The Man of Mode

William Wycherley
-The Country Wife
-The Plain Dealer

William Congreve
-The Old Bachelor
-The Double Dealer
-Love for Love
-The Way of the World

Oliver Goldsmith
-She Stoops to Conquer
Richard Sheridan
-The Rivals
-The School of Scandal
-The Critic

John Dryden
-The Conquest of Granada
- All for Love (The World Well Lost)
Famous poets//
1) Virgina Woolf
2) George Orwell
3) E.M Forster
4) James Joyce
5) W.B yeats
6) T.S. Eliot
7) Samuel Beckett
Novels//
1-Henry Green wrote ( Blindness_ Party Going_ Caught _ loving)
2. Graham Greence wrote ( The power and the Glory_ The Heart of
the Matter)
[Link] Beckett wrote ( Imagination Dead Imagine )
4. Charles Morgan wrote ( The River line )
[Link] Orwell wrote ( Keep the Aspidistra Flying_ Animal Farms_ Homage
to Catalonia_ Nineteen Eighty_ Four)
6. Angus Wilson wrote ( Hemlock and After _ Anglo Saxon Attitudes_ No
loughing Matter _ The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot)

‫بالنسبه لهاد العصر كان عندي فقط شخصيتين نساء ال هما‬

1)Muriel Spark
2) Doris lessing

*Doris's novels //
1) The Colden Notebook
2) Children of Violence
3) Archives
4) Conopus in Argos

*Muriel's novels//
1) Memento Mori
2) The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
3) The Driver's Seat
4) A Far Cry from Kensington
Poetry //
1. T.S Eliot ( Four Quarters _ East Coker_ The Dry Salvages _
little Gidding)

2. Keith Dougals ( vergissmeinnicht _ Alamein to Zem Zem )

3 ) John Betjeman ( Summoned by Bells )

4 ) W.B yeats ( An Irish Airman Foresees His Death)

Prose//
1 ) E. M Forster ( A passage to India )
2 ) James Joyce ( Ulysses)
3 ) Virginia Woolf ( To a light House )
Poetry
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1 ) The ldylls of the kings
2 ) In Memoriam
3 ) Ulysses

Robert Browning
1 ) pippa passes
2 ) The pied Piper of Hamelin

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Mathew Arnold
1 ) Thyrsis
2 ) The Scholar Gipsy
Prose
Charles Dickens
1 ) A Tale of Two Cities
2 ) Oliver Twist
3 ) A Christmas Carol
4) Hard Times
5 ) David Copperfield

William Makepeace
Vanity Fair

Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights

Ocar Wild
The picture of Dorian Gray
Thomas Hardy
1 ) Far from the Madding Crowd
2 ) The Return of the Native
3 ) The Mayor of Casterbridge
4 ) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
5 ) Jude the Obscure

George Eliot
1 ) The Mill on the Floss
2 ) Silas Marner

Her real name was Mary Ann Evans

‫النه في عصرهم كان زي أنه عار تحط اسمها حسب العادات والتقاليد‬
Poetry
Thomas Wyat and Earl of Surrey-Tottelt's Songs and Sonnet (40 poems by Surrey and 96 by Wyatt)
-Thomas Wyatt who first brought the sonnet to England from Italy.
-Earl of Surrey's work is important because he wrote the first blank verse without rhymes

Edmund Spenser
-The Sheoherd's Calendar
-The Farei Queene

Sir Philip Sydney

-Astrophel and Stella

Christopher Marlow
-The Passionat Shephers yo His Love

John Donne
He is the greatest metaphysical poet

Ben Jonson
-To Celia
*SOME WORKS/

1) " Romeo and Juliet " by Shakespeare

2 ) " This is not a pipe" by Rene Magritte
3 ) " Around the world on Egithy Days" by Jules Verne
4 ) " leisure" and " Money" written by William Henry
Davies
5 ) Orientalism, Culture and imperialism, and Novelist
Joseph Conrad written by Edward Said.
6 ) " If" by Rudyard kippling
• Prose //
Sir Thomas North The translation of Plutarch's 'Lives of the Noble
Grecians and Romans.
• John Lyly//
1 ) Euphues Robert Greene Pandosto > It gave Shakespeare the
plot of his play The Winter's Tale.
• Thomas Nash//
The Life of Jacke Wilton ( first picaresque novel)
• Francis Bacon //
Essays
 Ben Jonson (the father of literary criticism)
Timber or Discoveries.
 Drama
Nicholas Udall-
• Ralph Roister Doister ( the first regular English comedy)
• Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville
-1 ) Godboduc (Ferrex & Porrex) (first regular English tragedy)
• Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy
Christopher Marlowe (first great dramatist of the time)
1)Tamburlaine the Great. 2)The Jew of Malta.
3) Dr. Faustus. 4)Edward the Second.
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
• Every Man in his Humour
John Milton "religious subjects"
Milton's Poetry
1) L'Allegro (happy man)
2) LI Pensersoso (thoughtful man)
Milton's Prose
• Areopagitica (A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing)
Milton's Great Epic Poem
• Paradise Lost
• Paradise Regained
Milton's Tragedy
Samson Agonistes
(2001-2019)
1 )The protagonist saved the town from the destruction* A protagonist is
a........(Villain _ stranger_ a leading character )
2) A............... is a type of short, usually humorous poem with five lines.
( couplet _ limerick_ sonnet _ ballad)
3) one of the following is not a type of literature. ( drama _ poetry _ fiction _
prose)
4) Most of Shakespeare plays are written in............ ( sonnets _ blank verse _
stanza_ rhymed verse)
5) The lyric and ode are similar in that they are .... ( personal _ complex _
philosophical _ elevated)
6) The strong regular repeated pattern of sounds or movements in speech
( rhyme _ simile _ rhythm_ stanza)
7) ...... is a statement or situation containing a apparently contradictory or
incompatible elements. ( paradox _ Irony_ Metaphor _ Rhyme)
8) The word that imitates the sound it represents is........ ( imagery _ symbol_
onomatopoeia)
9) A lyric that is written to lament the death of a person is called ..........
( ode _ Epic _ Elegy _ Ballad).
10) which of the following individuals is not a Romantic era poet..... ( William
wordsworth _ Percy Shelly _ lord Byron_ Ann Radcliff)
11) It is a long poem about the deeds of great men and women or a bout a
nation's past history. ( A sonnet _ An epic _ A hymn _ Alyric)
12) which of the following plays is not for William Shakespeare( Othello - As you
like it _ The sullen lovers_ king lear)
13 ) The character that opposes hero in a play, film, or story is called ( protagonist
_ narrator _ heroine_ antagonist)
14) one of these was not written by Shakespeare ( Othello _ the old man and the
sea_ Henry III_ Romeo and Juliet).
15 ) William wrote many tragedies such as ( Romeo And Juliet _ Henry IV_ As you
like it _)
16) Shakespeare's " Twelfth Night " is ( tragedy_ comedy - heroic_ none )
17 ) which of the following is not a Shakespearean tragedy ( Othello _ The
Tempest _ king Lear _ Hamlet)
18 ) An comparison of two unlike things by starting that one is a nother and not
using like or as is called ( simile _ metaphor _ symbol).
19) A fable is ....... ( moral short novel about children _ moral short story about
animals making them seem like human being_ songs about nature. _moral poems
about animals).
20 ) what happens in a short story, novel, or play is the .......( plot _ theme _ setting
_ climax).
21 ) A short story that has animals for character and teaches moral lessons is called
a......( fable _ fairy tales _ short story_ limericks).
22) Simile in literature is : ( A way of describing sth by comparing it to sth else
without using like or as _An expression that describes sth by comparing it to sth
else using like or as _The use of words that sound like the thing that they are
describing).
23) you are my sunshine" This is an example in which of the following literary
devices ( simile _ metontmy_ metaphor _ hyperbole).
24) The Great Gast was written in 1925 by ................
25) A tale of two cities is a novel for...........
26) Anton Chekhov was a …....( Greman writer _ Russian writer _ serbian writer_
Swedish writer).
28) Renaissance means (The decline of art and literature in Europe * The
death of art and literature in Europe * The revival of art and literature in
Europe * The discovery of art and literature in Europe).
29) One of the following is not a femal writer ( George Eliot _ George stand _
Carson Mc culler_ Evelyn waugh)
30) Jane Eyre was written by ...........
31) "Paradise lost" is a great epic written by ...........
32) An idea or belief common to a race e.g Robin Hood and his Band of
outlaws stealing from the rich to help the poor is ( an epic _ a myth_ a
sonnet_ a play).
33) "Robin Crusoe " is a.... ( poem _ sonnet_ novel _ lyric).
34) One of Charles Dicken famous stories is .... ( Tom Sawyer_ Othelo_ Oliver
Twist_ Heidi)
35) Orientalism is a famous book written by ...........
36) Paradise lost is a ........ and it's subject matter makes it the common
theological properly of Jews and Muslims as well as Christians ( religious
epic _ romantic epic _ romantic ballad _ religious lyric ).
37) The poem " war is never over" is written by the poet........" under
seige" is a poem submitted by .........The " Donma people " is a sect of
......( Christian _ Jews_ Muslims _ Buddhism).
38) Waiting for Godot written by..........
39)The poem " if " written by..........
40) The unknotting point in the drama is called( conflict _ solution _
climax_ denouement)
41) The ......... narrator in the story is the one who is telling us about
everything he / she is reliable and objective in the information she / he
communicates.( Omniscient _ first person_ limited_ omniscient I )
42) The ....... movement embodied a philosophy of artistic freedom
from conventional expectations of content and form with a belief in "
art for art sake "( Aesthetic _ Symbolic _ Realistic _ Metaphysical).
43) It is considered the golden age of English literature………… (
Victorian_ Elizabethan _ Middle_ Restoration) .
43) A key writer of the early twentieth century in the English literature he
thought of as " dear, dirty Dublin " ( T.s Eliot_ G. B Show_ James Joyce _
Virginia Woolf)
45) It seems that all Elizabethan poets learned a great deal from........ who
was involved with words, especially thier melodious arrangement and
showed others how to get the maximum musical effects from the simplest
of words. ( Danne_ Spenser_ Shakespeare _ Dryden)
46) An ending in a story or novel that comes as a shock or is completely
unexpected is called ( A striking ending _ surprising ending _ a sudden and
emotional ending_ clear _ cut ending)
47) The writer of " pride and prejudice " is .............
48) Melodrama and tragic comedy have this in common......* both end
unhappily * both are comic plays * tragedy occurs in both* both are prose
narrative)
49) Both tragic and comic plays have …....( happy ending_ sad ending_
temper_ climax)
50) The author of the famous story book " A lias Adventure in Wonderland "
is ........( Rudyard kippling_ John keats _ lewis Corrol_ H G Wells).