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<p>Dark Comedy (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Samuel Daniel (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Duchess of Malfi (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1954 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>T. S. Eliot (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Thomas Hardy (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Terry Eagleton (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

<p>Alliteration (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

<p>T. S. Eliot (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maxim of society (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

<p>Metaphysical (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

<p>Soft copy (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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<p>A Taste Of Honey (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Form Classes (A), Structure classes (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1832 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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<p>Kubla Khan (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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<p>Saint Joan (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To a Skylark (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>The Merchant of Venice (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Two rhyming lines expressing complete thought (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Banquo (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lady Macbeth (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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Coolie explores themes related to the partition of India.

John Osborne is a key figure associated with the Angry Young Men movement.

The Inheritance of Loss won the Booker Award.

G. B. Shaw is not associated with the Angry Young Men group.

An award recognizing excellence in fiction, often given to impactful novels.

A novel by Mulk Raj Anand that discusses the life of marginalized individuals.

The Inheritance of Loss addresses themes related to cultural and personal loss.

An English playwright known as a pioneer of the Angry Young Men movement.

A playwright associated with the Angry Young Men, known for his impactful works.

Literature that reacts to the cultural, political, and social legacies of colonialism.

A complex play often categorized as Dark Comedy.

A businessman involved in everyday enterprises.

Award won by Shashi Deshpande for her novel 'That Long Silence'.

Salman Rushdie, known for his magical realism style.

Often referred to as a Dark Comedy due to its themes.

A novel featuring a husband who is a businessman.

The novel by Shashi Deshpande that won the Sahitya Akademi Award.

A literary style that blends magical elements with realism, prominent in Rushdie's works.

Indian author and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award for significant contributions to literature.

He is a businessman, emphasizing themes of commerce in The Guide.

W. B. Yeats is not classified as a War poet.

The term 'texture' relates primarily to J. C. Ransom's literary theories.

The essay 'Civil Disobedience' was written by H.D. Thoreau.

The Harlem Renaissance flourished in the 1920s.

The lines 'But I have promises to keep...' are by Robert Frost.

Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke are notable War poets.

R. S. Crane contributed significantly to literary criticism.

R.W. Emerson wrote on philosophical themes, unlike Thoreau's activism.

The 1920s marked a significant period of artistic innovation, known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Robert Frost is recognized for his reflective and nature-inspired poetry.

A collection of sonnets by Michael Drayton.

A genre involving themes of revenge, exemplified by The Duchess of Malfi.

William Golding's novel was published in 1954.

T. S. Eliot described himself this way regarding literary style.

A Shakespearean tragedy often associated with ambition and guilt.

Shakespeare's tragedy focusing on kingship, family, and madness.

A revenge tragedy written by John Webster.

A play by Christopher Marlowe exploring themes of ambition and knowledge.

A poet known for his critical and philosophical views on society.

An English poet and dramatist known for his sonnets.

A fanciful expression in poetry, often associated with Metaphysical poets.

Poets who wrote in the Imagist style, focusing on clarity and precision, like Ezra Pound.

A book written by Terry Eagleton that explores poem analysis.

A novel written by Miguel de Cervantes, featuring a delusional nobleman.

Shakespeare is often referred to as the 'poet's poet' for his influence.

A poet who did not write Imagist poems, known for his novels.

A major poet and essayist known for works like 'The Waste Land'.

The author of 'Don Quixote', a pioneering Spanish novelist.

A literary movement focusing on emotion and individualism, not conceits.

A poetic movement emphasizing vivid imagery and clear language.

The past morpheme in 'locked' can be /t/, /d/, /id/, or /s/.

Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial sound in a series of words.

The word 'texts' has four phonemes: /t/, /ɛ/, /k/, /s/.

A simile compares two things using 'like' or 'as'.

A term suggesting a separation of thought and feeling in poetry, introduced by T. S. Eliot.

The way a morpheme is pronounced, such as /t/, /d/, or /id/.

Words that mimic the sounds they describe, such as 'buzz' or 'sizzle'.

A metaphor directly compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.

A figure of speech utilizes stylistic elements, like similes and metaphors, to convey meaning.

A communication framework based on four maxims: quantity, quality, relation, manner.

Communicate as much information as needed, not more or less.

Saussure greatly influenced linguistics through his study of Sanskrit grammar.

Attributing human qualities to non-human entities.

A figure of speech where one term is substituted for another closely related term.

A narrative that uses characters and events to symbolize deeper meanings.

Techniques like paradox, zeugma, and innuendo that add layers to meaning.

The word 'literariness' has four syllables.

In the word 'height', the vowel sound is a diphthong.

'Heart-touching' is not an example of compounding.

There are three basic sentence patterns in English.

Passive is not a characteristic of a basic sentence.

All words except 'heart-touching' are examples of compounding.

The vowel sound in 'height' is a diphthong, made of two sounds.

The word 'literariness' consists of four syllables.

Three basic sentence patterns include simple, compound, and complex.

Basic sentences are simple and assertive, avoiding passivity.

The Romantic poet who distanced himself from politics is Keats.

There are seven voiceless consonants in the English language.

A closed system is not a characteristic of language.

'A Taste of Honey' is not a play by Girish Karnad.

Empty words are also known as structure classes.

Seven voiceless consonants exist in English, such as 'p', 't', and 'k'.

Characteristics of language include arbitrariness, symbolism, and species specificity.

Plays by Girish Karnad include 'Yayati' and 'Hayavadan', but not 'A Taste Of Honey'.

Language is symbolic, arbitrary, and species-specific, meaning it’s unique to humans.

Content words carry meaning, while structure classes are more about syntax and function.

The Reform Act was passed in 1832.

The slogan 'When Adam delved and Eve span' was given by John Milton.

The Restoration in England occurred in 1660.

Lord Byron died by drowning in the sea.

The Restoration significantly increased the influence of Greek culture.

The year 1832 marked significant political reform in England.

John Milton is known for advocating social justice.

1660 is the year the monarchy was restored in England.

Lord Byron, a famous poet, died by drowning.

The Restoration led to a resurgence of Greek influence in arts and literature.

The first edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass was published in 1855.

Kubla Khan is a poem by Coleridge that remains incomplete.

The national song Vande Mataram is found in Bankim's Anandmath.

Santiago finds a fish in the sea after 84 days.

W. H. Auden is not of Irish origin; he was born in England.

Coleridge published Kubla Khan in 1816.

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was an Indian writer and poet known for Anandmath, which includes Vande Mataram.

Santiago is the protagonist of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

Whitman's Leaves of Grass celebrates individualism and nature, emerging in the mid-19th century.

W. B. Yeats and James Joyce are prominent Irish authors, unlike W. H. Auden.

This period is referred to as Colonial American Literature.

A religious movement aimed at reintroducing Catholic traditions in the Anglican Church.

Dr. Johnson called Francis Bacon 'the wisest, the brightest, and the meanest of mankind.'

Ezra Pound reviewed Tagore's Gitanjali in 1913, highlighting its beauty.

The body of written works produced during the colonial period in America.

Movements like the Oxford Movement impacted religious literature and practices.

Tagore's Gitanjali was reviewed during a time of cultural exchange in 1913.

An English philosopher and writer known for his works on empiricism and scientific methodology.

A prominent English literary figure known for his dictionary and criticism of literature.

An influential American poet and critic known for modernist literature.

Sons and Lovers is an autobiographical novel by D. H. Lawrence.

The Golden Threshold was composed by Sarojini Naidu.

Robert Browning is known for his dramatic monologues.

E. M. Forster belonged to the Bloomsbury Group.

The Plumed Serpent is a novel by D. H. Lawrence.

Kangaroo is another novel by D. H. Lawrence.

Women in Love explores complex relationships.

Sarojini Naidu's works reflect Indian themes and freedom.

Browning's dramatic monologues blend psychology and poetry.

The Bloomsbury Group valued intellectual and artistic friendships.

All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and After the Fall are plays by Arthur Miller, but Saint Joan is not.

The lines provided appear in 'To a Skylark', a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Ben Jonson is known for writing comedies of humours.

Saint Joan is not written by Arthur Miller; it is a play by George Bernard Shaw.

'To a Skylark' features nature and celebration of the sky and song.

Ben Jonson is credited with establishing the comedy of humours literary form.

The lines provided do not appear in 'The Cloud'; they are from another poem by Shelley.

Shelley's poetry often celebrates nature, as seen in 'To a Skylark'.

William Congreve is a playwright known for witty comedies but not the comedy of humours.

Among Miller's works, 'All My Sons' and 'Death of a Salesman' are key plays reflecting American life.

Plays written by the American playwright Arthur Miller, excluding one incorrect option.

A poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley containing lines about soaring and singing.

A style of comedy characterized by exaggerated characters, associated with specific playwrights.

A play by Arthur Miller that deals with themes of family and moral responsibility.

A play by Arthur Miller that explores the American Dream and personal failure.

A poem by Shelley, celebrated for its inspiring depiction of a skylark's beauty.

A prominent Romantic poet known for his lyrical poetry and idealism.

A playwright known for developing the comedy of humours and satirical plays.

A poem by Shelley that personifies a cloud with feelings and actions.

A film or play that combines romance and humor.

An essay by Virginia Woolf advocating for women's independence.

A socialist organization that promotes gradual change.

A playwright known for his association with the Fabian Society.

A play by G.B. Shaw that critiques romanticized views of war.

Often classified as a romantic comedy despite serious themes.

A Shakespearean play featuring themes of love and mistaken identities.

A play by Shakespeare that combines elements of magic and reconciliation.

A key modernist writer advocating for women's rights and literature.

Shakespeare's works often blur lines between tragic and comedic themes.

The play that is not a romantic comedy is The Tempest.

A Room of One's Own was written by Virginia Woolf.

G.B. Shaw is the well-known dramatist associated with the Fabian Society.

The subtitle of Shaw's Arms and the Man is An Anti-Romantic Comedy.

As You Like It and Twelfth Night are romantic comedies by Shakespeare.

The slogan 'When Adam delved and Eve span' was given by John Milton.

The Reform Act was passed in 1832, marking significant political reform.

The Restoration in England occurred in 1660, leading to cultural changes.

Whitman's Leaves of Grass was published for the first time in 1855.

Kubla Khan is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that remains incomplete.

A pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter that express a complete thought.

Refers to Macbeth, who is honored by Duncan for his bravery.

Lady Macbeth says 'What is done cannot be undone', reflecting her guilt.

A concept coined by John Keats describing the ability to accept uncertainty and ambiguity.

A common meter in poetry consisting of five iambs per line, creating a rhythmic pattern.

Banquo is honored by Duncan but considered a threat to Macbeth.

Keats described moments of profound feelings without resolution as 'negative capability'.

The restoration of the monarchy in England occurred in 1660, impacting arts and culture.

Macbeth deals with themes of ambition, betrayal, and the supernatural.

Lord Byron, a prominent Romantic poet, drowned while seeking adventure.

A line spoken by Lady Macbeth reflecting on irreversible actions.

A character in Macbeth who serves as a foil to Macbeth's ambition.

Lines of poetry that have a regular rhyme scheme.

Situations in Macbeth where the audience knows more than the characters.

Often uses forms like the sonnet, including heroic couplets and iambic pentameter.

John Keats is noted for his emphasis on sensory experience and emotion in poetry.

Duncan refers to Macbeth as his 'peerless kinsman' in the play.

The phrase 'What is done cannot be undone' is spoken by Lady Macbeth.

A character in Macbeth referred to as a 'peerless kinsman' by King Duncan.

The line 'What is done cannot be undone' highlights themes of guilt.

John Keats introduced the concept of 'negative capability' in literature.

A characteristic of a heroic couplet, where the two lines express a single idea.

Ambition drives Macbeth to commit regicide and leads to his downfall.

A poetic concept where two lines express a fully formed idea or message.

Set in Scotland, it explores themes of ambition, power, and guilt.

Consists of two rhyming lines, typically in iambic pentameter, that express a complete thought.

The Tatler was started in the year 1709.

A Shakespearean sonnet follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.

Rhetorical writing primarily aims to persuade the audience.

Poetic Justice refers to rewarding virtue and punishing evil.

An iambic pentameter line consists of five feet, each with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

The year 1709 is significant for the launch of The Tatler, marking a change in periodicals.

Poetic justice involves narratives where characters receive their fair outcomes, aligning with morality.

Rhetorical writing utilizes various techniques to persuade, such as ethos, pathos, and logos.

Shakespearean sonnets are distinct from Petrarchan with their specific rhyme scheme and structure.

Iambic pentameter is characterized by its rhythmic pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables.