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Romantic poet-------------------------------------John Keats, P.B.Shelly, W.Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge.
Pioneer of Romanticism is/are--------------------Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Poet of the ‚Victorian Age‛-----------------------Robert Browning; Mathew Arnold.
Poet of the ‚Modern Age‛-------------------------T.S. Elliot.
Novelist of Victorian age--------------------------Charles Dickens, Thomas Austin, Treasure Elliot.
Novelist of modern age----------------------------Rudyard Kipling, H G Wells, T S Elliot.
Who translated the Bible into English for the 1st time------John Wycliff.
Who translated the New Testament--------------------------John Wycliff.
Who translated ‚Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam‛--------------Edward Fritzgerald.
Who translated ‚Gitanjoli‛ in English?-----------------------W B Yeats.
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Character of Shakespeare play:
o Brutus---------------------Julius Caesar.
o Ophelia--------------------Hamlet.
o Calliban-------------------Tempest.
o Shylock-------------------The Merchant of Venice.
First long poem in English----------------------------------------------Beowulf.
The only medium of literature is------------------------------------------language.
What is the salient feature of all literature?----------------------------artistic quality.
Elizabeth Tragedy is centered on---------------------------------------revenge.
‚Moby Dick‛ কিসের িাকিনী?--------------------------------------------A whale.
Readers who have eclectic tastes in literature--------------------------read books on just one topic.
When a poem has a speaker, what does a novel have?----------------Narrator.
Novel means something new and is derived from--------------------Latin.
A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is --------an epic.
Thennyson’s in Memoriam is --------------------------------------------an elegy.
‘Alice in the wonderland’ belongs to-----------------------------------juvenile literature.
The Wrath of Achilles is the theme of---------------------------------Illiad.
‘In which poem do you find Hindu allusion of philosophy?---------The Waste Land.
‘A Tale of Two Cities’ refers to------------------------------------------London and Paris.
What type of book ‚The Woman‛ is?----------------------------------Novel.
The school of literary writings that is connected with a medical theory----------Comedy of Humors.
‚Tom Jones‛ by Henry Fielding was first published in-------------------1749(the 1st half of 18th century).
The year 1798 is famous for------------------------------------------------Publication of lyrical Ballads.
What is the inner significance of the poem-‘The Arrow and the Song’?---------Cruel deeds and good
deeds have effect upon mind.
At present English is taught to the children through---------------------------------communicative method.
An effective English teacher must have an adequate knowledge of---------The structure of English; the
grammar rules of English; the life and culture of those who speak the language.
The most striking feature of D.H. Lawrence’s character is that----------------the almost portray himself.
Phoenix is a------------------------------------------mythological bird.
Who was the tutor of Alexander the Great?--------Aristotle.
Achilles was--------------------------------------------a great Greek fighter.
Eliot and Pound were--------------------------------literary collaborators.
Helen of Troy was the wife of-----------------------Menelaus.
Who is the only Trojan who did not speak evil of Helen and was gentle and kind to her?----------Priom.
Adeta is a character in a novel written by------------------------E.M. Forster
‘Who doth ambition shun’ means ---------------------------------a person who gives up ambition.
Octogenarian is ------------------------------------------------------a person between the ages of 80-90 years.
Who described the ‘Monalisa’ as older the rocks among which she sit’s?--------------Walter Pater.
Whose dying words were, ‚Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius, will you remember to pay the debt?‛
---------Socrates.
What was the first novel of the Virginia Woolf?-------------------------The voyage out.
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Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about ----------------------2000 years ago.
Into the____of death rode the six hundred. (valley)
They___in never-ending___. (stretched, line)
The last word of the proverb-‚A good husband should be deaf and a good wife__________.‛ will be---
(blind).
___many critics, Mark Twain’s novel Huckelbery Finn is his greatest work and is one of the greatest
American novels ever written. (According to)
Many modern critics of American literature have called Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens,____.
(America’s greatest writer).
Every atlas has its own legend. Which expression best fits the underlined word in the sentence?
------------mythical story.
Literary terms:
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Writers Important works
Shakespeare Tragedy:
Romeo and Juliet; Othello; Macbeth; Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear;
Julius Caesar; Hamlet; Titus Andronicus (1st tragedy).
(Tech: As you like it, let’s go to the tempest of the merchant of venice at
twelfth night to see the comedy of errors and winter’s tale. At the
midsummer night’s dream we will see the taming of the shrew, measure
of measure and love’s labour’s lost (+ all’s well that ends well).
John Milton Paradise Lost (an epic poem; it attempted to justify the ways of
God to man);
Paradise Regained;
Lycidas.
Jonathan Swift o Gulliver’s Travel;
o A Voyage of Lilliputd.
Alexander Pope Rape of the Lock;
An Essay on Man (poem);
An Essay on Criticism.
Sir Walter Scot o Patriotism (poetry);
o Ivan Hoe
P B Shelly The Necessity of Atheism;
A defence of Poetry;
To a Skylark;
Ode to the West Wind;
Ozymandias.
(Tech: Shelly’র গাসে TATOO লাগাল কি? )
John Keats o Ode to Autumn (poem);
o Ode to a Nightingale;
o Ode on a Grecian Urn (poem);
o Endymion (epic poem).
William Wordsworth The Lucky Poems;
Solitary Reaper;
The Daffodils;
Written in March;
Prelude (verse).
(Tech: The lucky poems- solitary reaper and the daffodils were written in
march by William Wordsworth)
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S T Coleridge o The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (poem);
o Kubla Khan (verse).
Robert Browning Rabbi Ben Ezra;
Andrea Del Sarto;
The Patriot.
(Tech: RAT)
Charles Dickens o David Copperfield;
o The Tale of Two Cities;
o Great Expectations;
o James Joyce;
o Thomas Hardy.
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace (an epic tale of Napoleonic invasion)
Earnest Hemingway The Old man and the sea;
A Farewell to Arms;
For Whom the Bell Tolls;
The Sun Also Rises.
(Tech: The old man (and the sea) went to a farewell (to arms) to see for
whom the bell tolls)
George Bernard Shaw o Caesar and Cleopatra;
o Arms and the Man;
o Man and Superman;
o Pygmalion;
o Joan of Arc.
(Tech: CAMP of Joan of Arc)
Bertrand Russel Road to Freedom
T.S. Eliot The Waste Land (poem);
Murder in the Cathedral.
William Smoerset Maugham o The Luncheon (a short story);
o Of Human Bondage.
Sir Winston Churchill History of the II world war
O’Henry The Gift of the Magi (short story)
Perl S Buck The Good Earth
D H Lawrence The Rainbow (novel);
Sons and Lovers (novel);
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (novel).
(Tech: TSL)
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Works Authors
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The End of History and the Last Man M. Francis Fukuyama
The God of Small Things Arundhuty Roy
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
*The Judgement Kuldip Nayer
*The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
*The Lotos Eaters; Ulysses (poem) Tennyson
Three Musketeers (novel) Alexandar Dumas
The Odyssey and the Illiad Homer
The Origin of Species C. Darwin
The Sacred Flame, Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Rape of Bangladesh Anthony Mascarenhas
*The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd
The Time Machine H. G. Wells
*The Trial Franz Kafka
*Time, you Old Gipsy Man Ralph Hodgson
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
To the light house Virginia Woolf
The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus (play), C. Marlowe
You Never Can Tell(drama)
*Ulysses (novel) James Joyce
*Uncle Tom’s Cabin Mrs. Harriet Stowe
*Utopia Sir Thomas More
*Vanity Fair (novel) William Thackery
*Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
*Waiting for Goddot (absurd drama) Samuel Beckett
Nice to know:
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Quotations Author
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Water, water, everywhere; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
Not any drop to drink. S.T. Coleridge
He prayeth well, who loveth well, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
““““““““““““““ S.T. Coleridge
He prayeth best, who loveth best.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislature of the world. A defence of Poetry, Shelly
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. To a Skylark, Shelly
We look before and after and pine for what is not. To a Skylark, Shelly
If winter comes, can spring be far behind. Ode to the West Wind, Shelly
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! Ode to the West Wind, Shelly
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. Wordsworth
The child is father of the man. My heart leaps up when I behold,
Wordsworth
Ten thousand saw at a glance; The Solitary Reaper,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. Wordsworth
Behold her, single in the field, The Solitary Reaper,
You solitary Highland Lass! Wordsworth
Reaping and singing by herself.
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty. Ode to a Grecian Urn, John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Epic poem ‘Endymion’, John keats
The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more. Ode to a Nightingle, John keats
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, Ode to a Nightingle, John keats
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.
মৃত্যু িসে কনছি A short sleep. John Keats
Cowards die many times before their deaths. Julius Caesar, W. Shakespeare
To be or not to be, that is the question. Hamlet, W. Shakespeare
There are many things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Hamlet, W. Shakespeare
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Frailty, Thy name is woman. Hamlet, W. Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit. Hamlet, W. Shakespeare
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Macbeth, W. Shakespeare
Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Macbeth, W. Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity. As You Like It, W. Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely As You Like It, W. Shakespeare
players.
Blow, blow thou winter wind, As You Like It, W. Shakespeare
Thou art not so unkind.
A young man married is a man that’s marred. All’s Well that Ends Well,
W. Shakespeare
Veni, vidi, vici. W. Shakespeare
Come, live with me and be my love. C. Marlowe
I have a dream. Martin Luther King
You may fool some of the people some of the time; you can even Sir Winston Churchill
fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all the
people all the time.
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Less important information:
The central idea of ‘To Daffodils’ is that--------------------life is short, so live to the fullest.
‚Fair daffodils! We weep to see; You haste away so soon‛ who is the writer of these beautiful line?
--------------Robert Herrick.
Which two things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to human beings and daffodils?
------------------- summer’s rain and morning’s dew.
In ‚To Daffodils‛ human life is compared with--------------morning dew.
In the poem ‚To Daffodils‛ the poet weeps over-------------short-lived human life.
‘Hasting day’ in ‘To Daffodils’ means------------------------hurriedly passing day.
Which word seems out of place?------------------------------ Daffodil.
The last line of ‚To Daffodils‛ is------------------------------As quick a growth to meet decay.
» The central idea of ‚I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud‛ is that --------------we can find solace in nature.
» ‘Ten thousand saw at a glance; Tossing their heads in sprightly dance’- what is the poet W.
Wordsworth referring to?------------------------daffodils.
» The speaker of ‚I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud‛ saw------------------------golden daffodils.
» Why were the daffodils in Wordsworth’s ‚I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud‛ dancing? -----------There
was a strong wind.
» In ‚I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud‛ Wordsworth compares the daffodils with------------------the stars
of the milky way.
» In ‚I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud‛ the daffodils gave the poet-------------------a great deal of pleasure.
» Why is the poet so sad to see the daffodils in ‚The daffodils‛?--------------------------Because the flower
remind him of his own death.
Ozymandias (Shelly) :
ʘ The central idea of ‚Ozymandias‛ is that----------------all things, both great and small will perish.
ʘ In the poem ‚Ozymandias‛ who calls ozymandias ‘king of kings’?-----------------Ozymandias himself.
ʘ In Shelly’s ‚Ozymandias‛ the words, ‚My name is Ozymandias, king of kings‛ are inscribed on--------
The visage of the nature/ The pedestal of the statue.
ʘ The statue of ozymandias is------------------------in a desert.
ʘ In ‚Ozymandias‛ who saw the statue of Ozymandias?-------------------a traveler.
ʘ In ‚Ozymandias‛ the poet says, ‚I met a traveler---------an------------land‛. (from, antique)
ʘ The phrase ‘trunkless legs’ in the poem ‚Ozymandias‛ refers to--------------------legs without body.
ʘ Which phrase would best describe ‘the cuckoo’?---------the harbinger of spring.
ʘ What lies half sunk in the sand in Shelly’s ‚Ozymandias‛----------------------broken head of a statue.
ʘ In Shelly’s ‚Ozymandias‛ ‘frown’ and ‘sneer of cold command’ are seen on-------shattered visage.
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Under the Greenwood Tree (W. Shakespeare):
o The central idea of Under the Greenwood Tree‛ is that------we all should live simple life/ life in nature
is simple and free.
o In the lines ‚Here shall he see/ No enemy‛ taken from ‚Under the Greenwood Tree‛ ‘Here’ stands for
----the greenwood tree.
o In ‚Under the Greenwood Tree‛ the ‘Tree’ refers to------------------nature/forest.
o In ‚Under the Greenwood Tree‛ the poet--------------mention two enemies.
o In ‚Under the Greenwood Tree‛ which of the following is mentioned as a ‘enemy’?------Winter.
Others:
The Canterbury Tales is as alive and ___today as it was nearly 600 years ago. (fruitful)
According to the writer of ‘A Mother in Mannville‛ which of the following word best describes the
character of ‘Jerry’?------------------------------Integrity.
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