BCS English Literature Preliminary Questions Analysis

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Type A: Names of Writers of literary Pieces: (Who wrote what)

Poems:

1. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ by Alexander Pope is a- Mock Heroic Poem (40)
2. Who wrote the poem ‘The Good-Morrow’-  John Donne (40)
3. Who wrote an epic-John Milton (38)
4. Gerontion is a poem by- T.S. Eliot  (37)
5. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by- Thomas Gray (37) (36)
6. The poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’ is written by- W. Wordsworth (36)
7. ‘Isle of Innisfree’ is written by- W. B. Yeats (35)

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Plays

1. The play the ‘Spanish Tragedy’ is written by- Thomas Kyd (38)
2. Who is the author of ‘Man and Superman’- G.B. Shaw (38)
3. Tempest is Shakespeare’s last play. (37)
4. Volpone is written by – Ben Johnson (37)
5. Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ is a Comedy. (36)
6. The play ‘Candida’ is by – G.B. Shaw (36)
7. The play ‘Arms and the Man’ is by- G.B. Shaw (35)
8. ‘Riders to the Sea’ is- a one act play (35)

Novels/Prose

1.  ‘Ulysses’ is a novel written by- James Joyce (40)
2. The short story ‘The Diamond Necklace’ is written by- Guy de Maupassant (40)
3. The most famous satirist in English literature is – Jonathan Swift (38)
4. Who wrote ‘Biographia Literaria’’- S.T. Coleridge (37)
5. Thomas Hardy wrote- The Return of the Natives (36)
6. The Sun Also Rises is written by- Ernest Hemingway (37)
7. A Passage to India is written by- E. M. Forster (35)
8. Famous Indian novelist is – R. K. Narayan (38)

Type B: Who/what belongs to which age

1. Who is not an American poet- W. B. Yeats (40)
2. Who is not a Victorian Poet: Alexander Pope (38)
3. Which period is known as ‘The Golden Age of English Literature’ – Elizabethan Period (38)
4. Robert Browning was a Victorian poet. (37)
5. ‘Restoration Period’ in English Literature refers to- 1660 (37)
6.  David Copperfield is a Victorian novel. (36)
7. Romantic Age in English Literature began with the publication of – Preface to Lyrical Ballads (36)
8. Who belongs to the romantic age- S.T. Coleridge (36)
9. Poet of Nature- W. Wordsworth (36)
10. Elizabethan writer- Christopher Marlowe (35)

Type C: Quotations

1. “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” who said this- Lady Macbeth (40)
2. “Sweet Helen makes me immortal with a kiss”. The sentence has been taken from the play-  Doctor Faustus (40)
3. Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, Where are they? Think not of them, thou hast the music too .’ -Who wrote this? – John Keats (40)
4. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Who said this- Juliet (40)
5. “Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ‘Tis woman’s whole existence” – this taken from the poem of – Lord Byron (40)
6. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new” from Tennyson’s poem- Morte d’ Arthur (40)
7. “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea”- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (38)
8. “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love”- John Donne (38)
9. ‘Frailty thy name is woman’ is a dialogue from- W. Shakespeare (36)
10. ‘Child is the father of a man’ is taken from the poem of – W. Wordsworth (36)
11. “All at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils”- Wordsworth (35)
12. “To be, or not to be, that is the question” is a famous dialogue from – Hamlet (35)

Type D: Character Related

1. The central character of ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte is- Heathcliff (40)
2. Othello gave Desdemona a Handkerchief as a token of love. (37)
3. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a Shakespearean play about- a Jew (36)
4. ‘Othello’ is a Shakespearean play about – a moor (35)

Type E: Inter-linked contributions

1. Who translated ‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ into English- Edward Fitzgerald (40)  
2. Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ is an elegy on the death of – Arthure Henry Hellum (40)
3. P.B. Shelley’s ‘Adonais’ is an elegy on the death of- John Kits (37)
4. Gitanjali was translated by- W. B. Yeats (36)
5. The play the ‘Spanish Tragedy’ is written by- Thomas Kyd (38)

Type F: Literary Terms & Figures of speech

1. In literature, Euphemism means- inoffensive expression (38)
2. The comparison of unlike things using words like or as is known to be – simile (37)
3. The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as- alliteration (37)
4. The climax of a plot is what happens- at the height (36) (35)

Type G: Others

1. William Shakespeare was born in – 1564 (40)
2. Class relation and societal conflict is the key understanding of- Marxism (35)
3. Who is not a Nobel Laureate- Graham Greene (35)
4. Jacobean Period in English literature refers to – 1603-1625 (38)

• The poem ‘Ulysses’ is written by –
• James Joyce
• W. B. Yeats
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
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• “All that glitters is not gold- often have you heard that told” is taken from Shakespeare’s play:
• The Merchant of Venice
• Romeo and Juliet
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• King Lear
• The play ‘Pygmalion’ is written by-
• Harold Pinter
• G. B. Shaw
• Samuel Beckett
• William Somerset Maugham
• “O Captain! My Captain!” is a poem written by Walt Whitman about the death of-
• George Washington
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Abraham Lincoln
• Edward VII
• Shakespeare’s Hamlet was the Prince of –
• The British Isles
• Wales & Dublin
• Scotland
• Denmark  
• ‘Sonnet 18‘is written by-
• William Shakespeare
• John Donne
• Emily Dickinson
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt 
• The poem ‘Sands of Dee’ is written by-
• Charles Kingsley
• John Milton
• Rudyard Kipling
• Charlotte Bronte 
• A hyperbole refers to-
• Rhetorical questions
• Exaggerated statements
• Contradictory words describing same thing
• Inverted parallel clauses

List of writers:

Elizabethan Age: 1558-1603

1. William Shakespeare

• Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (Play)  
• Francis Bacon: Father of English prose. Of Truth, Of Death, Of Marriage and Single Life etc. (Essay)  

The Jacobean Age: 1603-1625

1. Ben Jonson: Volpone (Play)
2. John Donne: He is a metaphysical poet. List of poems- Death be not proud, The Good Morrow, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, The Canonization, The Sun Rising etc.

Caroline Age: 1625-1649

1. John Milton: Paradise Lost (Epic), Paradise Regained (Epic), Areopagitica (pamphlet)
2. Robert Herrick: To Daffodils (Poem)

The Restoration Period: 1660-1700

1. William Congreve: Play- The Way of the World 

The Augustan Period: 1700-1745 (also known as The Age of Pope)

1. Alexander Pope: The Rape of The Lock (Mock Heroic Poem, Belinda and Barron, 794 lines)

Some famous quotes from his work are:

1. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
2. To err is human, to forgive divine.
3. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
4. Jonathan Swift :
5. Deniel Defoe

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The Age of Sensibility: 1745-1785

1. Samuel Johnson
2. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Poem)

The Romantic Period: 1798-1832

1. William Wordsworth
2. S. T. Coleridge
3. P. B. Shelley
4. John Keats
5. Lord Byron
6. William Blake
7. Jane Austen
8. Charles Lamb

The Victorian Period: 1832-1901

1. A. L. Tennyson
2. Robert Browning
3. Matthew Arnold
4. Charles Dickens
5. Thomas Hardy
6. Charlotte Bronte
7. Karl Marx
8. C. R. Darwin

The Modern Period: (Up To WWII)

Novelist:

1. Joseph Conrad
2. James Joyce
3. Virginia Woolf
4. D. H. Lawrence
5. Earnest Hemingway

Poets:

1. W. B. Yeats
2. T. S. Eliot
3. Robert Frost

Playwrights:

1. G. B. Shaw
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Harold Pinter

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