Famous Writers and Poets
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Who is known for writing 'Gitanjali'?

  • Matsuo Bashō
  • Chinua Achebe
  • Rabindranath Tagore (correct)
  • Nadine Gordimer

Which poet's hut became known as the Bashō Hut?

  • Charles Dickens
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Matsuo Bashō (correct)
  • John Keats

Who is acclaimed for unsentimental depictions of Africa?

  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Nadine Gordimer
  • Chinua Achebe (correct)

Which writer is known for their controlled and unsentimental technique?

<p>Nadine Gordimer (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'Gulliver's Travels' is a satire on?

<p>Human folly and stupidity (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' was written by?

<p>Thomas Gray (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is known as the 'Father of English literature'?

<p>Geoffrey Chaucer (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which American author refined the short story genre and invented detective fiction?

<p>Edgar Allan Poe (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is known for combining sound and sense in his poems through rhyme and imagery?

<p>Robert Frost (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who wrote 'All of American literature comes from one great book: Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?

<p>Mark Twain (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which author is associated with the novel 'The Old Man and the Sea'?

<p>Ernest Hemingway (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which poet dramatized death and the grave, exploring dark and hidden parts of the mind?

<p>Emily Dickinson (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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