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1. Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Trollope are: Novelists
2. ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written by: Darwin
3. Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For Arts’ Sake: Walter Pater
4. “Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will”, is a statement by: Shelley
5. ‘A woman of no importance’ is a ______ by Oscarwilde: Comedy
6. George Eliot and T.S. Eliot are: Contemporary writers
7. In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by: Bradley
8. “How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: To hell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
   Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by: Laertes
9. Aspect of the Novel is written by: E.M. Forster
10. ‘The Hollow Men’ is written by: T.S. Eliot
11. William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in: 1949
12. G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in: 1925
13. ‘The Winding Stair’ is written by: W.B. Yeats
14. ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by: T.S. Eliot
15. ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by: D.H. Lawrence
16. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is: Titus Andronicus
17. ‘If music be the food of love, play on,
    give me excess of it, that Surfeiting
    The appetite may sicken and die?
    is a speech from Twelfth Night
18. An elaborate classical form in which one Shepherd – Singer laments the death of another is called: Pastoral Elegy
19. The poets who believe that a hard, clear image was essential to verse are called: Imagists
20. A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called: Hyperbole
21. Rhymed decasyllables, nearly always in iambic Pentameters rhymed in Pairs are called: Heroic Couplet
22. An exhortatory speech, usually delivered to a crowd to incite them to some action is: Harangue
23. ‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is an example of: Synaesthesia
24. Drama which seeks to mirror life with the utmost fidelity is called: Realistic
25. When Leontes discovers the identity of Perdita in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ is an example of: Discovery
26. Ode to West Wind was written by Shelley
27. Keats was born in 1795
28. Dream Children was written by Charles Lamb
29. ‘Picture of Dorian Gray ‘ was written by Oscar Wild
30. Ruskin belonged to (which age) Victorian Age
31. Wordsworth lived from 1770-1850
32. ‘Fair seed time had my soul’ is from The Prelude
33. Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are Essayists
34. ‘My Last Duchess’ was written by Browning
35. Emily Bronte is the writer of Wuthering heights
36. ‘Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ is a definition of poetry by Wordsworth
37. ‘Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter’ is a line from Ode on a Grecian Urn
38. ‘Waverley’ was written by Scott
39. ‘We are Seven’ is written by William Wordsworth
40. ‘Past and Present’ is written by Carlyle
41. ‘Modern Painters’ is written by Ruskin
42. Byron is the writer of Don Juan
43. Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama? Beckett
44. To the Light House” is written by: Virginia Woolf
45. I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by: Hamlet
46.  “Ullyses” is written by: James Joyce
47. Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s: Pride and Prejudice
48. “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by: Tennyson
49. “Thought Fox” is written by: Ted Hughes
50. “Major Barbra” is written by: Shaw
51. Lilliput is a character from: Gulliver’s Travels
52. “Fire and Ice” is written by: Frost
53. Swift belong to: Augustan age
54. The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
55. “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s: King Lear
56. “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by: Keats
57. “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by: Eliot
58. “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s: The Second coming
59. “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’: Mending Wall
60. ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s: The Wasteland
61. “A Farewell to Arms” is written by: Hemmingway
62. “A passage to India” is written by: Forester
63. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of __________ age? Romantic
64. S.T. Coleridge was born in 1772
65. Wordsworth settled in Lake District
66. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written by: Byron
67. Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by: Shelley
68. Hyperion is a/an __________ poem: Epic
69. Romanticism expressed a restlessness of Soul
70. Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are novels written by Jane Austen
71. Shelley is remembered as a _______ poet: Lyric
72. Keats is prominently a man of: Sensations
73. As a moralist J. S. Mill develops the doctrine of: Utilitarianism
74. Charles Dickens was born in 1812
75. C. Dickens is known for being an Idealist
76. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by: C. Bronte
77. Emile Bronte’s verse reveals a conscious Pantheism
78. The Mayor of Caster Bridge was written by: Thomas Hardy
79. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of: Architect
80. The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by: Oscar Wilde
81. Ruskin was born in: 1819
82. __________ is a novel by Miss Burney: Evelina
83. In Greek tragedy irony and ____________ are fused into one. Satire
84. Joseph Andrews was written by Fielding
85. Shakespeare was born in 1564
86. ‘The Wheel of Fire’ a criticism was written by W. Knight
87. Kubla Khan was written by Coleridge
88. G. B. Shaw began his literary career first as: Novelist
89. W. B. Yeats was born in 1865
90. Jane Austen’s Work is transfused with the spirit of Classicism
91. The Waste Land by T. S. Elliot is an Elegy
92. Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was originally written in French
93. The ________ age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art: Romantic
94. Maud and In memoriam were written by Tennyson
95. Tennyson was born in 1809
96. ___________ has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments: Hyperbole
97. Keats’ aestheticism was later turned into Pre-Raphaelitism
98. _________ is the animating force in the work of C. Bronte: Idealism
99. The Wilde Swans at Coole is first great collection of poems of: Yeats
100. T. S. Eliot was born in 1888