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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English

literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages

and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.

Some scholars consider him as a―prologue‖ to English literature.

While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and

astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten-year-old

son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a

bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. He is best known today for The Canterbury

Tales. Chaucer was a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the

vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in

England were French and Latin. Chaucer wrote in continental accentual-

syllabic meter, a style which had developed since around the 12th century as an

alternative to the alliterative Anglo-Saxon metre. Chaucer is known for metrical

innovation, inventing the rhyme royal, and he was one of the first English poets

to use the five-stress line, a decasyllabic cousin to the iambic pentameter, in

his work, with only a few anonymous short works using it before him. The

arrangement of these five-stress lines into rhyming couplets, first seen in his

TheLegend of Good Women, was used in much of his later work and became one

of the standard poetic forms in English. His early influence as a satirist is also

important, with the common humorous device, the funny accent of a regional

dialect, apparently making its first appearance in The Reeve's Tale.

The rhyme royal (or rime royal) stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic

pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. In practice, the stanza can be

constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or a quatrain

and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c). This allows for variety, especially when the form is

used for longer narrative poems. Along with the couplet, it was the standard

narrative metre in the late Middle Ages. Chaucer first used the rhyme royal stanza

in his long poems Troilus and Criseyde and Parlement of Foules. He also used it

for four of the Canterbury Tales: the Man of Law's Tale, the Prioress' Tale,

the Clerk's Tale, and the Second Nun's Tale, and in a number of shorter lyrics. He

may have adapted the form from a French ballade stanza or from the Italian ottava

rima, with the omission of the fifth line.

Chaucer is sometimes considered the source of the English vernacular

tradition. His achievement for the language can be seen as part of a general

historical trend towards the creation of a vernacular literature, after the example

of Dante, in many parts of Europe. Chaucer's language is much closer to Modern

English than the text of Beowulf, such that (unlike that of Beowulf) a Modern

English-speaker with a large vocabulary of archaic words may understand it. The

poet Thomas Hoccleve, who may have met Chaucer and considered him his role

model, hailed Chaucer as "the firste fyndere of our fair langage." John Lydgate

referred to Chaucer within his own text The Fall of Princes as the "lodesterre …

off our language". Around two centuries later, Sir Philip Sidney greatly praised

Troilus and Criseyde in his own Defence of Poesie. William Caxton, the first

English printer, was responsible for the first two folio editions of The Canterbury

Tales which were published in 1478 and 1483.

Chaucer’s Major works: Translation of Roman de la Rose, possibly extant as

The Romaunt of the Rose, The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, Anelida

and Arcite, Parlement of Foules, Translation of Boethius' Consolation of

Philosophy as Boece, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, The

Canterbury Tales, A Treatise on the Astrolabe.

Short poems: An ABC, Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn, The

Complaint unto Pity, The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse, The Complaint of

Mars, The Complaint of Venus, A Complaint to His Lady, The Former Age,

Fortune, Gentilesse, Lak of Stedfastnesse, Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan, Lenvoy

de Chaucer a Bukton, Proverbs, Balade to Rosemounde, Truth, Womanly

Noblesse.

Poems of dubious authorship: Against Women Unconstant, A Balade of

Complaint, Complaynt D'Amours, Merciles Beaute, The Equatorie of the Planets.

Works presumed lost: Of the Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde, Origenes

upon the Maudeleyne, The Book of the Leoun.

The Book of the Duchess, or The Dream of Chaucer, also known as The Deth of

Blaunche is the earliest of Chaucer's major poems. Most sources put the date of

composition after 12 September 1368 (when Blanche of Lancaster died) and

1372, with many recent studies privileging a date as early as the end of 1368.

Overwhelming (if disputed) evidence suggests that Chaucer wrote the poem to

commemorate the death of Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt. At the

beginning of the poem, the sleepless poet lies in bed, reading a book. A collection

of old stories, the book tells the story of Ceyx and Alcyone. The story tells of

how Ceyx lost his life at sea, and how Alcyone, his wife, mourned his absence.

Unsure of his fate, she prays to the goddess Juno to send her a dream vision. Juno

sends a messenger to Morpheus to bring the body of Ceyx with a message to

Alcyone. The messenger finds Morpheus and relays Juno's orders. Morpheus

finds the drowned Ceyx and bears him to Alcyone three hours before dawn. The

deceased Ceyx instructs Alcyone to bury him and to cease her sorrow, and when

Alcyone opens her eyes Ceyx has gone. The poet stops relaying the story of Ceyx

and Alcyone and reflects that he wished that he had a god such as Juno or

Morpheus so that he could sleep like Alcyone and describes the lavish bed he

would gift to Morpheus should he discover his location. Lost in the book and his

thoughts, the poet suddenly falls asleep with the book in his hands. He states that

his dream is so full of wonder that no man may interpret it correctly. He begins

to relay his dream. The poet dreams that he wakes in a chamber with windows of

stained glass depictions of the tale of Troy and walls painted with the story of The

Romance of the Rose. He hears a hunt, leaves the chamber, and inquires who is

hunting. The hunt is revealed to be that of Octavian. The dogs are released and

the hunt begins, leaving behind the poet and a small dog that the poet follows into

the forest. The poet stumbles upon a clearing and finds a knight dressed in black

composing a song for the death of his lady. The poet asks the knight the nature of

his grief. The knight replies that he had played a game of chess with Fortuna and

lost his queen and was checkmated. The poet takes the message literally and begs

the black knight not to become upset over a game of chess. The knight begins the

story of his life, reporting that for his entire life he had served Love, but that he

had waited to set his heart on a woman for many years until he met one lady who

surpassed all others. The knight speaks of her surpassing beauty and temperament

and reveals that her name was ―good, fair White.‖ The poet, still not

understanding the metaphorical chess game, asks the black knight to finish the

story and explain what was lost. The knight tells the story of his fumbling

declaration of love and the long time it took for the love to be reciprocated and

that they were in perfect harmony for many years. Still the narrator does not

understand, and asks the whereabouts of White. The knight finally blurts out that

White is dead. The poet realises what has occurred as the hunt ends and the poet

awakes with his book still in hand. He reflects on the dream and decides that his

dream is so wonderful that it should be set into rhyme.

The House of Fame (Hous of Fame in the original spelling) is a Middle English

poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably written between 1379 and 1380, making it

one of his earlier works. It was most likely written after The Book of the Duchess,

but its chronological relation to Chaucer's other early poems is uncertain. The

House of Fame is over 2,000 lines long in three books and takes the form of a

dream vision composed in octosyllabic couplets. Upon falling asleep the poet

finds himself in a glass temple adorned with images of the famous and their deeds.

With an eagle as a guide, he meditates on the nature of fame and the

trustworthiness of recorded renown. This allows Geoffrey to contemplate the role

of the poet in reporting the lives of the famous and how much truth there is in

what can be told. The House of Fame is held up by a number of large columns,

and standing atop them are a number of famous poets and scholars, who carry the

fame of their most prominent stories on their shoulders.

Josephus, a scholar of Jewish history, standing on a column of lead and iron and

holding the fame of the Jewish people. He is accompanied by seven others,

unnamed, who help him carry the burden. Chaucer notes that the reason the

column is of lead and iron is because they wrote of battles as well as wonders,

and iron is the metal of Mars and lead is the metal of Saturn.

Statius, on an iron pillar covered in tiger‘s blood, holding up the fame of Thebes

and ‗cruel Achilles‘.

On an iron pillar, holding up the fame of Troy: Homer, Dares, Dictys, Lollius,

Guido delle Colonne, and Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Chaucer notes some ill-will between them. One claims that ―Homer's story was

just a fable, and that he spoke lies, and composed lies in his poems, and that he

favored the Greeks‖. Virgil on a column of brightly tinned iron.

Ovid on a column of copper.

Sir Lucan on a column of stern iron, holding the fame of Julius and Pompey,

accompanied by a number of Roman historians.

Claudian on a pillar of sulfur, holding the fame of Pluto and Proserpine.

The poem contains the earliest known uses in the English language of the terms

galaxy and Milky Way: "See yonder, lo, the Galaxyë Which men clepeth the

Milky Wey, For hit is whyt."

Anelida and Arcite is a 357-line English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. It tells the

story of Anelida, queen of Armenia and her wooing by false Arcite from Thebes,

Greece. Although relatively short, it is a poem with a complex structure, with an

invocation and then the main story. The story is made up of an introduction and

a complaint by Anelida which is in turn made up of a proem, a strophe, antistrophe

and a conclusion. The date of the poem's composition is not known but it is often

placed in the late 1370s. The poem uses some of elements of the Teseida of

Boccaccio, and the Thebaid of the Roman poet Statius.

The Parlement of Foules (also known as the Parliament of Foules, Parlement of

Briddes, Assembly of Fowls, Assemble of Foules, or The Parliament of Birds) is

a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343? –1400) made up of approximately 700 lines.

The poem is in the form of a dream vision in rhyme royal stanza and is the

first reference to the idea that St. Valentine's Day is a special day for lovers.

Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle

English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop

of war during the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime royale and probably

completed during the mid 1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet's

finest work.

Characters: Achilles, a Greek warrior. Antenor, a soldier held captive by the

Greeks, traded for Criseyde's safety, eventually betrays Troy. Calchas, a Trojan

prophet who joins the Greeks. Criseyde, Calchas' daughter. Diomede, woos

Criseyde in the Greek Camp. Helen, wife to Menelaus, lover of Paris. Pandarus,

Criseyde's uncle, who advises Troilus in the wooing of Criseyde. Priam, King of

Troy. Cassandra, Daughter of Priam, a prophetess at the temple of Apollo. Hector,

Prince of Troy, fierce warrior and leader of the Trojan armies. Troilus, Youngest

son of Priam, and wooer of Criseyde. Paris, Prince of Troy, lover of Helen.

Deiphobus, Prince of Troy, aids Troilus in the wooing of Criseyde. This poem is

often considered the source of the phrase: "all good things must come to an end."

The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey

Chaucer. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer‘s works, after The Canterbury

Tales and Troilus and Criseyde and is possibly the first significant work in

English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used

throughout the Canterbury Tales. This form of the heroic couplet would become

a significant part of English literature no doubt inspired by Chaucer.

Statius, on an iron pillar covered in tiger‘s blood, holding up the fame of Thebes

and ‗cruel Achilles‘.

On an iron pillar, holding up the fame of Troy: Homer, Dares, Dictys, Lollius,

Guido delle Colonne, and Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Chaucer notes some ill-will between them. One claims that ―Homer's story was

just a fable, and that he spoke lies, and composed lies in his poems, and that he

favored the Greeks‖. Virgil on a column of brightly tinned iron.

Ovid on a column of copper.

Sir Lucan on a column of stern iron, holding the fame of Julius and Pompey,

accompanied by a number of Roman historians.

Claudian on a pillar of sulfur, holding the fame of Pluto and Proserpine.

The poem contains the earliest known uses in the English language of the terms

galaxy and Milky Way: "See yonder, lo, the Galaxyë Which men clepeth the

Milky Wey, For hit is whyt."

Anelida and Arcite is a 357-line English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. It tells the

story of Anelida, queen of Armenia and her wooing by false Arcite from Thebes,

Greece. Although relatively short, it is a poem with a complex structure, with an

invocation and then the main story. The story is made up of an introduction and

a complaint by Anelida which is in turn made up of a proem, a strophe, antistrophe

and a conclusion. The date of the poem's composition is not known but it is often

placed in the late 1370s. The poem uses some of elements of the Teseida of

Boccaccio, and the Thebaid of the Roman poet Statius.

The Parlement of Foules (also known as the Parliament of Foules, Parlement of

Briddes, Assembly of Fowls, Assemble of Foules, or The Parliament of Birds) is

a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343? –1400) made up of approximately 700 lines.

The poem is in the form of a dream vision in rhyme royal stanza and is the first

reference to the idea that St. Valentine's Day is a special day for lovers.

Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle

English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop

of war during the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime royale and probably

completed during the mid 1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet's

finest work.

Characters: Achilles, a Greek warrior. Antenor, a soldier held captive by the

Greeks, traded for Criseyde's safety, eventually betrays Troy. Calchas, a Trojan

prophet who joins the Greeks. Criseyde, Calchas' daughter. Diomede, woos

Criseyde in the Greek Camp. Helen, wife to Menelaus, lover of Paris. Pandarus,

Criseyde's uncle, who advises Troilus in the wooing of Criseyde. Priam, King of

Troy. Cassandra, Daughter of Priam, a prophetess at the temple of Apollo. Hector,

Prince of Troy, fierce warrior and leader of the Trojan armies. Troilus, Youngest

son of Priam, and wooer of Criseyde. Paris, Prince of Troy, lover of Helen.

Deiphobus, Prince of Troy, aids Troilus in the wooing of Criseyde. This poem is

often considered the source of the phrase: "all good things must come to an end."

The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey

Chaucer. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer‘s works, after The Canterbury

Tales and Troilus and Criseyde and is possibly the first significant work in

English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used

throughout the Canterbury Tales. This form of the heroic couplet would become

a significant part of English literature no doubt inspired by Chaucer.

The prologue describes how Chaucer is reprimanded by the god of love and his

queen, Alceste, for his works—such as Troilus and Criseyde—depicting women

in a poor light. Criseyde is made to seem inconstant in love in that earlier work,

and Alceste demands a poem of Chaucer extolling the virtues of women and their

good deeds.

The poet recounts ten stories of virtuous women in nine sections. The legends

are: Cleopatra, Thisbe, Dido, Hypsipyle, Medea, Lucrece, Ariadne, Philomela,

Phyllis and Hypermnestra. The work is a similar structure to the later Monk's Tale

and like that tale, and many of his other works, seems to be unfinished. Chaucer's

sources for the legends include: Virgil's Aeneid, Vincent of Beauvais, Guido delle

Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae, Gaius Julius Hyginus' Fabula and Ovid's

Metamorphoses and Heroides. Tennyson used the poem as theme for his own

poem A Dream of Fair Women.

A Treatise on the Astrolabe is a medieval instruction manual on the astrolabe by

Geoffrey Chaucer. It is notable for being written in prose, in English and for

describing a scientific instrument.

The Treatise is considered the "oldest work in English written upon an elaborate

scientific instrument.‖ It is admired for its clarity in explaining difficult concepts—

although modern readers lacking an actual astrolabe may find the details of the

astrolabe difficult to understand. Robinson believes that it indicates that had Chaucer

written more freely composed prose it would have been superior to his translations of

Boece and Melibee.

• “Chaucer is perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences” -

JOHN DRYDEN

• “Chaucer is the father of English poetry” - JOHN DRYDEN

• “Chaucer lacks the high seriousness of the great classics” – MATHEW

ARNOLD

• “With him real, poetry is born” - MATHEW ARNOLD

What is chorus??

Ans: In Greek drama of the 5th and 6th century BC , the chorus consisted in groups of

dancers and singers who commented on the action of the play. The modern meaning

can be simply a group of people other than the hero or heroine.

Example:

Sophocle's King Oedipus and T.S. Eliot 's Murder in the Cathedral.

What is Chronicle???

Ans: A history of events year by year...

Example :

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle in Old English.

What does Keats mean by "Negative Capability"?

Ans:

Keats means to say that a poet has no personality of his own; he assumes the

personality of the character he creates. "

The poet has none, no identity he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures.

"

On what basis does Shelley call the poets"unacknowledged legislators of the

world"?

Ans:

Shelley calls the poets legislators of the world on account of the profound wisdom

contained in their poetry."A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the

waters of wisdom and delight an unconceived delight. "

The Greeks called the poets 'Vates'. Why?

Ans: The Greeks called the poets 'Vates', which meant a maker or a creator. The

Greeks believed that after God, the only creator is the Poet. He re-creates an

imaginative and aesthetic world.

What do you know about Langland's The Vision of Piers the Plowman as a

dream allegory?

Ans: Langland's Piers the Plowman is an enormous dream allegory. Under the

conventional device of a dream the poet boldly attacks the greed and hypocrisy of the

clergy and the people sitting in high places.

What are Morality Plays?

Morality Plays are allegorical plays. They present on the stage personified Virtues and

Vices. Everyman is presented as the Hero, Satan personified as Vice, God or Christ as

Virtue, and Death as the Reward of Sin.

What are called Interludes?

The Interludes were generally short entertainments inserted within a longer play or

amidst some other festivities or festivals. Their primary function was to entertain the

audience by humour or even by farce.

What is a Tragedy?

The Tragedy is the tragic story of a good and great man who, on account of a slight

flaw in his character, passes through a harrowing emotional and spiritual crisis, and

finally meets his doom and death.

How does Aristotle define a Tragedy?

Aristotle defines a Tragedy thus:

"Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of a certain

magnitude in the form of action and not of narration; through pity and fear effecting the

proper purgation of these emotions. "

Who are the founders of these theatre?

• Epic theatre; bertolt Brecht(founder) this term was coined by Erwin piscator

• Theatre of cruelty: Antonin Artaud

• Theatre of oppressed: Augusto Boal

• Expressionist theatre: Georg Kaiser

1. Hard Times is a novel by Charles Dickens.

2. Chinua Achebe criticised Heart of Darkness in his 1975 lecture, ―An

Image of Africa: Racism

3. in Conrad‘s Heart of Darkness‖.

4. ―Battle Royal Scene‖ is seen in Ralph Ellison‘s Invisible Man (1952).

5. Jean Rhys‘ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) is a prequel to Charlotte

Bronte‘s Jane Eyre.

6. Cup of Gold (1929) is John Steinback‘s first novel.

7. Joseph Andrew is defined by Fielding as ―comic epic poem in prose‖.

It consists of 4 books.

8. Lolita written by Vladimir Nabakovis described as an ―erotic novel‖.

9. In Canto III of Don Juan, Byron expresses his detestation for poets

such as William Wordsworth and Coleridge.

10. Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem ― If

11. The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by William

James.

12. The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with Hopkins.

13. 'Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.

14. T .S. Eliot called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure.

15. The World within World is an autobiography of Stephen

Spender.

16. G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of

writing a single sentence‖.

17. Spenser died for want of bread – ben jonson

18. Spenser is called as grave moral spenser – Michael drayton

19. Merry londan my most kindly nurse –spenser

Timeline of Socio-political Events.

1485 – Richard III defeated at battle of Bosworth; Accession of Henry VII

and the founding of Tudor Dynasty.

1492 – 1504 – Voyages of Columbus

1509 – Henry VII dies. Accession of Henry VIII

1513 – Battle of Flodden

1517 – Luther publishes 95 theses at Wittenberg

1520 – Field of Cloth of Gold

1521 – Henry VIII given the title of Defender of Faith by the Pope

1525 – Battle of Pavia

1529 – Fall of Wolsey. Raise of Thomas Cromwell. Thomas More becomes

Lord Chancellor

1533-35 – Henry VIII excommunicated. Acts of Succession and Supremacy.

Henry VIII makes himself Supreme Head of the Church, More executed. Henry

VIII divorces Catherine of Aragon and marries Anne Boleyn

1534 – Abolition of Pope‘s authority over Church of England

1536 – 39 – English Bible in every church. Union of England and Wales.

Dissolution of Monsatries

1545 – Council of Trent opens

1547 – Henry VIII dies. Accession of Edward VI

1549 – Book of Common Prayer. Act of Uniformity

1553 – Edward VI dies. Accession of Mary 1554 – Wyatt‘s rebellion

1558 – Mary dies. Accession of Elizabeth I.

1. Auto-Biography: -is the history of one’s life written by one self.

2. Act: - is the major division of a drama.

3. Antithesis: -is contrast or polarity in meaning.

4. Allusion: -is a reference to an idea, place, person or text existing outside the

literary work.

5. Allegory: - is a literary work that has an implied meaning.

6. Alliteration:-the repetition of a consonant in two or more words.

7. Ballad: -is a song which tells a story.

8. Biography: -is the history of a person’s life by one else.

9. Blank Verse: -Verses written in iambic pentameter without any rhyme pattern

are called blank verse.

10. Comedy:-is a play written to entertain its audience, ends happily.

11. Classical:-means any writing that conforms to the rules and modes of old

Greek and Latin writings.

12. Canto:-is a sub-division of an epic or a narrative poem comparable to a

chapter in a novel.

13. Chorus:-is a group of singers who stand alongside the stage in a drama.

14. Catharsis:-is emotional release of pity and fear that the tragic incidences in a

tragedy arouse to an audience.

15. Comic relief:-a humorous scene in a tragedy to eliminate the tragic effect

from audience.

16. Couplet:-To lines of the same material length usually found in

Shakespearean sonnets.

17. Catastrophe:-Catastrophe is the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy.

18. Didactic:-is a literary work which aims at teaching and instructing its

readers.

19. Dirge:-is a short functional term.

20. Diction:-is the selection of words in literary work.

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1. Birth place of William Shakespeare

(a) Stratford-upon-Avon (b) America

(C) Queensland (d) Malabar

2. The dear friend of Shakespeare who is believed to be mentioned in the Sonnet XXX

(a) John Keats (b) Robert Frost

(c) Gabriel Okara (d) Earl of Southampton

3. How many Sonnets are written by Shakespeare?

(a) 154 (b) 38

(c) 12 (d) 4

4. Who wrote the poem “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”?

(a) Kamala Suraiya (b) Nissim Ezekiel

(c) Maya Angelou (d) Gabriel Okara

5. Among the following, who is an African poet?

(a) David Malouf (b) Robert Frost

(c) Gabriel Okara (d) Bertrand Russell

6. Autobiography of Maya Angelou

(a) Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Die

(b) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

(c) And Still I Rise

(d) Poor Girl

7. The first Indian poet to give importance to craft as much as subject matter

(a) Kamala Suraiya

(b) R.K.Narayan

(c) David Malouf

(d) Nissim Ezekiel

8. “Ode to a Nightingale” is about

(a) Mortality and transience

(b) Parody of a farewell speech

(c) Positive influence of the memories of a dear friend

(d) A male-centered world

9. The first book of poems by Kamala Suraiya

(a) The Mask

(b) The Play House and Other Poems

(c) Only the Soul Knows How to Sing

(d) Summer in Calcutta

10. Whose autobiography is the book “My Story”?

(a) Shakespeare (b) Kamala Suraiya

(c) Robert Frost (d) John Keats

11. The poem “Once Upon a Time” is

(a) The positive influence of the memories of a dear friend

(b) Revolves around two neighbours who disagree on the need for a walled boundary

(c) A lament over the lost warmth in human relations

(d) A feeling experienced by a woman who has been betrayed in love

12. The maxim “Good fences make good neighbours” belongs to the poem

(a) Sonnet XXX (b) Poor Girl

(c) Mending Wall (d) The Mask

13. Why does Keats wish for a ‘draught of vintage’?

(a) To cool himself in the summer

(b) To go to Lethe-wards

(c) To leave the world unseen with the wind

(d) To join the bird in its world of happiness

14. Who is the ‘light-winged Dryad of the trees’ in “Ode to a Nightingale”?

(a) Poor Girl (b) cows

(c) Nightingale (d) Miss Pushpa

15. Attitude of the poet towards the bicycle in the poem “Bicycle”

(a) The poet adores the human machine

(b) The poet worships the machine and is fascinated by it

(c) The poet enjoys seeing a bicycle

(d) The bicycle is a powerful machine

16. Why is she called ‘poor girl’ in Maya Angelou’s poem?

(a) She will soon experience rejection

(b) She has no money

(c) She understands everything

(d) She misunderstands everyone

17. The feeling experienced in the beginning of the poem “The Mask” is that of

(a) Love (b) The pain of betrayal

(c) Hatred (d) Agony

18. Why is Pushpa going abroad?

(a) On a visit (b) to study

(c) To improve her prospects (d) on a holiday

19. The title ‘Once Upon a Time’ indicates

(a) This is a fairy tale (b) the poet lives in the past

(c) The nostalgia of a good old bygone time (d) the poet is disgusted with the life

20. Pushpa is a popular person because

(a) She is a good person (b) she is a good spirit

(c) She is emotional (d) her father was a renowned advocate

21. The beauty of the poem “The Mask” lies in

(a) The goodness of the lover

(b) The anger of the lover

(c) The sympathetic nature of the lover

(d) The deep sorrow felt by the lover

22. Who is a stranger in the poem “Bicycle”?

(a) Wall (b) nightingale

(c) Bicycle (d) poor girl

23. ‘Away! Away! For I will fly to thee.’ How does the poet wish to fly with the bird in

the

poem “Ode to a Nightingale?

(a) Charioted by Bacchus and his Pards

(b) On the viewless wings of Poesy

(c) Leaden-eye with despair

(d) With the Queen Moon on her throne

24. What is meant by ‘ vanish’d sight’ in Sonnet XXX ?

(a) worries (b) happiness

(c) loss of all that has been dear to him (d) loss of eye sight

25. Whose poems are a fusion of pleasure and wisdom?

(a) Shakespeare (b) Robert Frost

(c) David Malouf (d) Maya Angelou

1.A 2.D 3.A 4.B 5.C 6.B 7.D 8.A 9.D 10.B 11.C 12.C

13.D 14.C 15.B 16.A 17.B 18.C 19.C 20.B 21.D 22.C 23.B 24.C

25.B

SYLLABUS FOR SET EXAM ( RC’ STUDY NOTES COVERD ALL THE TOPICS)

PAPER --II

1. Chaucer to Shakespeare

2. Jacobean to Restoration Periods

3. Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature

4. Romantic Period

5. Victorian Period

6. Modern Period

7. Contemporary Period

8. American and other non – British Literature’s

9. Literary Theory and Criticism

10. Rhetoric and Prosody

PAPER --III

I: History of English Language, English Language Teaching.

II: European Literature from Classical Age to the 20th Century.

III: Indian writing in English and Indian Literature in English translation.

IV: American and other non – British English Literatures.

V: Literary Theory and Criticism

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Adventure novel. A novel where exciting events are more important than character development and

sometimes theme. Adventure novels are sometimes described as "fiction" rather than "literature" in

order to distinguish books designed for mere entertainment rather than thematic importance.

Examples:

• H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

• Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

• Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

• Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Allegory. A figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic or

metaphorical meaning. In The Faerie Queene, for example, Red Cross Knight is a heroic knight in the

literal narrative, but also a figure representing Everyman in the Christian journey. Many works

contain allegories or are allegorical in part, but not many are entirely allegorical. Some examples of

allegorical works include

• Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

• John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

• Dante, The Divine Comedy

• William Golding, Lord of the Flies (allegorical novel)

• Herman Melville, Moby Dick (allegorical novel)

• George Orwell, Animal Farm (allegorical novel)

Apologue. A moral fable, usually featuring personified animals or inanimate objects which act like

people to allow the author to comment on the human condition. Often, the apologue highlights the

irrationality of mankind. The beast fable, and the fables of Aesop are examples. Some critics have

called Samuel Johnson's Rasselas an apologue rather than a novel because it is more concerned with

moral philosophy than with character or plot. Examples:

• George Orwell, Animal Farm

• Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

Autobiographical novel. A novel based on the author's life experience. More common that a

thoroughly autobiographical novel is the incluision of autobiographical elements among other

elements. Many novelists include in their books people and events from their own lives, often slightly

or even dramatically altered. Nothing beats writing from experience, because remembrance is easier

than creation from scratch and all the details fit together. Examples of autobiographical novels are:

• James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

Blank Verse. Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare's plays are largely blank verse, as are other

Renaissance plays. Blank verse was the most popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in

England.

Novella. A prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. There is no standard

definition of length, but since rules of thumb are sometimes handy, we might say that the short story

ends at about 20,000 words, while the novel begins at about 50,000. Thus, the novella is a fictional

work of about 20,000 to 50,000 words. Examples:

• Henry James, Daisy Miller

• Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

• Henry James, Turn of the Screw

• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Novel of manners. A novel focusing on and describing in detail the social customs and habits of a

particular social group. Usually these conventions function as shaping or even stifling controls over

the behavior of the characters. Examples:

• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

• William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Parody. A satiric imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas,

or work. The parodist exploits the peculiarities of an author's expression--his propensity to use too

many parentheses, certain favorite words, or whatever. The parody may also be focused on, say, an

improbable plot with too many convenient events. Fielding's Shamela is, in large part, a parody of

Richardson's Pamela.

Persona. The person created by the author to tell a story. Whether the story is told by an omniscient

narrator or by a character in it, the actual author of the work often distances himself from what is said

or told by adopting a persona--a personality different from his real one. Thus, the attitudes, beliefs,

and degree of understanding expressed by the narrator may not be the same as those of the actual

author. Some authors, for example, use narrators who are not very bright in order to create irony.

Petrarchan Conceit. The kind of conceit (see above) used by Italian Renaissance poet Petrarch and

popular in Renaissance English sonnets. Eyes like stars or the sun, hair like golden wires, lips like

cherries, etc. are common examples. Oxymorons are also common, such as freezing fire, burning ice,

etc. If you wonder where Shakespeare got the images he criticizes in Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes

are nothing like the sun), take a look at Petrarch's Sonnet 69, which includes the following lines (these

translated by Charles Tomlinson in 1874): "Her golden hair was streaming in the wind," "Her walk

was not the step of mortal thing, / But of angelic form," "her accents clear had in their music more

than human sound."

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