বুধবার, ৭ অক্টোবর, ২০১৫

General Knowledge(English Literature)

1. Romantic literature usually refers to the literature of..........
Ans. The 19th century 
2. Which Movement had a direct effect on Romantic Literature? 
Ans. The French Revolution
3. What was the slogan of the French Revolution? 
Ans. Liberty, equality, fraternity 
4. Why did the romantic poets coin “back to nature”? 
Ans. In reaction to growing urbanism  and industrialization  
5. Romantic literature began.........
Ans. With the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads” (1798) 
6. Who wrote “The Lyrical Ballads”? 
Ans. William Wordsworth in Collaboration with S.T. Coleridge 
7. How was the language of the Romantic literature? 
Ans. Lucid  language of everyday life used by the common people 
8. Who is called the precursor of romanticism? 
Ans. William Blake 
9. Who was both a poet and painter? 
Ans. William Blake
10. Who is the exponent  of the slogan “Without contraries there is no progression”? 
Ans. William Blake 
11. Who wrote “The Songs of Innocence and of Experience”? 
Ans. William Blake 
12. Who viewed, “experience destroys our innocence”?
Ans. William Blake
13. What is the antithetical poem of “The Lamb” by William Blake? 
Ans. “The Tiger”
14. What is poetic diction? 
Ans. The linguistic style, the vocabulary and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry
15. Who challenged the traditional theory of ‘Poetic diction’? 
Ans. William Wordsworth 
16. Who introduced a new theory of ‘Poetic diction’? 
Ans. William Wordsworth 
17. Who proposed that a “language near to the language of men” was as appropriate for poetry as it was for prose? 
Ans. William Wordsworth 
18. Who are the first generation of romantic poets? 
Ans. William Blake, William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge
19. Who belong to the second generation of romantic poets? 
Ans. Lord Byron, John Keats and P. B. Shelley
20. Who are known as the Lake Poets? 
Ans. William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge and Robert Southey 
21. Who wrote ‘the Solitary Reaper`? 
Ans. William Wordsworth 
22. ‘The Prelude’ is a romantic poem, who wrote it? 
Ans. William Wordsworth 
23. Who wrote the two brilliant poems ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Kubla Khan’? 
Ans. S. T. Coleridge
24. Who wrote the Poem ‘Michael’? 
Ans. William Wordsworth 
25. Who wrote the poem ‘Don Juan’? 
Ans. Lord Byron
26. What dose “Rime” mean in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by S. T. Coleridge? 
Ans. Rhyme (Qov) 
27. What Type of poem is “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”? 
Ans. A narrative poem 
28. Who Says, He Prayeth best, Who loveth best, All things both great and small; for the dear God who loveth, He made and loveth all” 
Ans. S. T. Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) 
29. Who is known as the “Poet of nature:? 
Ans. William Wordsworth 
30. Who is known as the “poet of beauty or the poet of Sensuousness? 
Ans. John Keats 
31. Who wrote “our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”? 
Ans. P.B. Shelley 
32. Who wrote the poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ 
Ans. John Keats 
33. Who Says, We look before and after, And pine, for what is not 
Ans. P. B. Shelley
34. Who wrote ‘the Revolt of Islam’? 
Ans. P.B. Shelley 
35. Who wrote “Prometheus Unbound”? 
Ans. P.B. Shelley 
36. Who is known as the revolutionary poet? 
Ans. P.B. Shelley 
37. Who is known as the rebel poet in English literature?
Ans. Lord Byron 
38. “The Necessity of Atheism” is an essay. Who wrote it? 
Ans. P.B. Shelley 
39. “Ode to the West Wind” is a brilliant poem. Who wrote it? 
Ans. P.B. Shelley 
40. Who wrote the essay “A Defense of Poetry”? 
Ans. P.B. Shelley 
41. “Pride and Prejudice” is a world famous novel. Who wrote it? 
Ans. Jane Austin 
42. Who wrote the world class novel ‘Ivan Hoe’? 
Ans. Walter Scott 
43. Who wrote the two famous novels A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations? 
Ans. Charles Dickens 
44. Who wrote the novel North and South? 
Ans. Elizabeth Gaskell 
45. Which Poet was a ‘Man of Medicine’? 
Ans. John Keats
46. Who are the famous essayists of the Romantic Period? 
Ans. Thomas De Quincy, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
47. The famous biographer of the romantic period is..........
Ans. Robert Southey 
48. What is the first historical novel in English literature? 
Ans. Waverly by Walter Scott 
49. Who wrote the following lines?
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep”- who 
says?
Ans. Robert Frost (Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening) 
50. “Fear always springs from ignorance”- Who says? 
Ans. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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