Part-A▸ Shortest Questions
01. When did the old English period begin?
Ans. The old English period began 450.
02. What type of writing is Beowulf?
Ans. ‘Beowulf is an epic.
03. Which poem is considered as the first English epic?
Ans. ‘Beowulf is considered as the first English epic.
04. What is ‘The Canterbury Tales’?
Ans. The Canterbury Tales’ is the best English work of Chaucer.
05. When did the age of Chaucer begin?
Ans. The approximate duration of the age of Chaucer is from 1340 to 1400.
06. Who is called “The father of English poetry”?
Ans. Geoffrey Chaucer is called the faher of English poetry.
07. Who was the first translator of the Bible into English?
Ans. John Wycliffe is the first person to translate the Holy Bible into English language..
08. Who wrote ‘Morte d’ Arther”?
Ans. Sir Thomas Malory wrote ‘Morte d’ Arther.
09. What is the Black Death?
Ans. The Black Death is one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.
10. What is the Reformation?
Ans. The Anti-clerical Revolution in England against the high privileges and unlimited freedom of the medieval church is called the Reformation.
11. Which play is considered the first English comedy?
Ans, Ralph Roister Doister is a sixteenth-century play by Nicholas Udall,
which was once regarded as the first English comedy.
15. Who wrote ‘The Spectator’?
Ans. Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele wrote The Spectator’.
12. Which age is known as the age of decadence?
Ans. Caroline age is known as the age of decadence.
13. Who are the ‘University Wits’?
Ans. Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, and Thomas Nash are in the group of
‘University Wits’.
14. Who popularized the comedies of Manners?
Ans. William Congreve popularized the comedies of manners.
16. In which year did the glorious revolution occur?
Ans. The glorious revolution occured in 1688.
17. Name two writers of the ‘Augustan Age’.
Ans. Alexander Pope and Edward Young are the two writers of the ‘Augustan Age’.
18. Which historical movement influenced romantic poetry?
Ans. The French Revolution influenced the English romanic poetry.
19. Why is 1798 a landmark in the history of English Literature?
Ans. Komantic era started in 1798 with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by S.T. Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
20. When did the “French Revolution” take place?
Ans. The French Revolution take place in 1789 in France.
21. What is Victorian conflict?
Ans. During this period, there is a marked conflict between religion and science and between moralists and scientists. This conflict is called Victorian conflict
22. What is meant by ‘Victorian Compromise’?
Ans. Victorian compromise is a tendency that motivates the belief in parallelism between science and religion, rationalism and belief,
democracy and monarchism, classicism and romanticism, feudalism and modernism, eraployer and employee.
23. When did the Oxford Movement begin?
Ans. The Oxford movement was religious movement of the Victorian era this movement began in 1833 under the leadership of John Henry Carninal Newman.
24. What was the nationality’ of G. B. Shaw?
Ans. The nationality of G. B. Shaw was both Irish and British.
25. Who are the dominant poets of modern age?
Ans. T.S. Eliot. W.B. Yeats, Auden are the dominant poets modern age.
Part-B Short Questions
01. Write a short note on Beowulf. 100%
Or, What picture of the Anglo-Saxon life do you get in ‘Beowulf?
02. Write a short note on the Canterbury Tales.100%
03. What do you know about the Oxford Movement? 100%
04. What do you know about ‘The Origin of Species’? 100%
05. Write a short note the University Wits. 100%
06. Who is Sir Roger in The Coverley Papers? 100%
Or, Who is Sir Roger de Coverly?
07. What was the Restoration Period? 100%
08. What do you know about Hundred Years War? 99%
09. Why did reformation happen in England? 99%
10. What do you know about Lyrical Ballads? 99%
11. Which period is called ‘The Romantic Revival’ and why? 99%
12. What is Pantheism? 99%
13. What is Victorian Compromise? 99%
14. Describe the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. 99%
15. What do you know about King Alfred? 99%
Part-C Broad Questions
01. Explain the influence of Renaissance on English Literature. 100%
Or, Write a short note on ‘English Renaissance’.
02. Discuss the salient features of Modern drama with reference to G.B. 100%
03. Discuss the important characteristics of English Romanticism with reference to Wordsworth and Keats. 100%
Or, Describe the major Romantic poets and their contribution to English poetry.
04. Examine the influence of the French Revolution on Romantic poetry. 100%
05. Evaluate Tennyson’s contribution to Victorian poetry. 100%
Or, What spirits of Victorian Age do you notices in the Tennyson?
06. Discuss Chaucer as a representative poet of his age. 100%
07. Write a brief essay on Shakespeare’s contribution to English drama. 99%
08. Trace the characteristics of English literature during the Elizabaethan period. 99%
09. Why is Bacon’s prose style significant? 99%
10. What are the chief characteristics of Restoration Literature. 99%
11. What do you know about Renaissance drama?99%
12. Give a brief account of satire in the eighteenth century with reference to
Pope and Dryden.98%
13. How would you portray the 18th-Century as the Age of Satire?99%
14. Write a note on Pope’s works and contribution to the neo-classical age.99%
15. Evaluate Wordsworth as a romantic poet.98%
16. Discuss the conflict between Science and Religion of the Victorian Period.99%
17. Write a note on the social and political condition of the Restoration Age? / Write a note on the Restoration Period.
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