LITERARY PERIODS IN ENGLISH

1. The Anglo Norman Period (1066-1340)                                                                                                        
2. The Age of Chaucer (1340-1400)       
3.                                                                      
4. The Age of Revival (1400-1550)                                                                                                              
5. The Renaissance (1550-1700)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             (i) Elizabethan Age (1558-1603)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        (ii) Jacobean Age (1603-1625)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        (iii)a. Puritan Age (1625-1649)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            b. or Caroline Age (1625-1660)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      (iv) a. The Restoration Age (1649-1669)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       b. The Commonwealth Period (1660-1700)                                                                           
6. The Neo-Classical Period (1660-1798)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (i) The Restoration Age (1660-1700)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 (ii) Augustan or The Age of Pope (1700-1745)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 (iii) The Age of Reason (1745-1798)                                                                                                                       
7. The Romantic Age  (1798-1837)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           (i) The Gothic Period (1785-1820)                                                                                                          
8. The Victorian Age (1837-1901)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            (i) The Pre-Raphelites (1848-1860)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        (ii) Transcendentalism (in America) (1840-1860)                                                                                                                                                                                                                             (iii) The Age of Realism (in America) (1865-1900)                                                                                                                                                 
9. Modern Age (1910-1945)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     (i) a. The Edwardian Period (in Europe) (1901-1914)                                                                                                                                                                                                                              b.  Naturalism (in America) (1901-1914)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       (ii) The Modern Period (1914-1945)                                                             
10. Contemporary English Literature or Post Modernism   (post 1945)                                                                                                                                                                   

Some Links For the Multiple Choice Test

1. http://www.wiziq.com/online-tests/10974-john-galsworthy-1867-1933-ap-english-literature
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galsworthy
3. http://www.online-literature.com/john-galsworthy/

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UGC NET ENGLISH DEC,2010 Solved Paper II

1. Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage attacked among     others.

  (A) John Bunyan  (B) Thomas Rhymer  (C) William Congreve  (D) Henry Fielding

2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the Great Exhibition, was designed by

(A) Charles Darwin  (B) Edward Moxon  (C) Joseph Paxton (D) Richard Owen

3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of

(A) G.B. Shaw (B) Noel Coward  (C) Tom Stoppard  (D) T.S. Eliot

4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver discovered mountain-like beings ?

(A) The land of the Lilliputians  (B) The land of the Brobdingnagians 

(C) The land of the Laputans  (D) The land of the Houyhnhnms

5. Patrick White’s Voss is a novel about

(A) the sea  (B) the capital market  (C) the landscape  (D) the judicial system

6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney writes in English, in voice and subject matter, his poems are

(A) Welsh  (B) Scottish (C) Irish  (D) Polish

7. To whom is Mary Shelley’s famous work Frankenstein dedicated ?

(A) Lord Byron  (B) Claire Clairmont  (C) William Godwin  (D) P.B. Shelley

8. Which among the following poems by Philip Larkin records his impressions while travelling to London by train?

(A) “Aubade”   (B) “Church Going”   (C) “The Whitsun Wedding”  (D) “An Arundel Tomb”

9. The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to attack his victims was

(A) Ben Jonson  (B) John Donne  (C) John Dryden  (D) Samuel Butler

10. One of the most famous movements of direct address to the reader – “Reader, I married

him” – occurs in

(A) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones    (B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre 

(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy  (D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch

11. Langland’s Piers Plowman is a satire on 

(A) Aristocracy   (B) chivalry   (C) peasantry  (D) clergy

12. Which of the following thinker concept pair is correctly matched?

(A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal Criticism 

(B) Christopher Frye – Mysticism

(C) Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction

(D) Terry Eagleton – Psychological Criticism

13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in Shakespeare’s

(A) The Merchant of Venice  (B) The Tempest  (C) Othello  (D) King Lear

14. The title, The New Criticism, published in 1941, was written by

(A) Cleanth Brooks  (B) John Crowe Ransom  (C) Robert Penn Warren (D) Allan Tate

15. Which of the following is not a Revenge Tragedy ?

(A) The White Devil  (B) The Duchess of Malfi  (C) Doctor Faustus  (D) The Spanish Tragedy

16. Who of the following playwrights rejects the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as imitation of reality ?

(A) G.B. Shaw  (B) Arthur Miller  (C) Bertolt Brecht  (D) John Galsworthy

17. The label ‘Diasporic Writer’ can be applied to 

I. Meena Alexander

II. Arundhati Roy

III. Kiran Desai

IV. Shashi Deshpande

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

       (A) I and IV are correct.

       (B) II and III are correct.

       (C) I, II and IV are correct.

       (D) I and III are correct.

18. The letter ‘A’ in The Scarlet Letter stands for

I. Adultery   

II. Able

III. Angel

IV. Appetite

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

     (A) I and II are correct.

     (B) II and III are correct.

     (C) I, II and IV are correct.

      (D) I, II and III are correct.

19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final stressed syllable of two lines of verse is called

(A) monorhyme  (B) feminine rhyme   (C) masculine rhyme  (D) eye rhyme

20. A fatwa was issued in Salman Rushdie’s name following the publication of :

(A) Midnight’s Children   (B) Shame (C) Satanic Verses  (D) Grimus

21. “There is nothing outside the text” is a key statement emanating from

(A) Feminism  (B) New Historicism   (C) Deconstruction   (D) Structuralism

22. The Augustan Age is called so because

(A) King Augustus ruled over England during this period

(B) The English writers imitated the Roman writers during this period

(C) The English King was born in the month of August

(D) This was an age of sensibility

23. One of the important texts of Angry Young Man Movement is

(A) Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis  (B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

(C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis    (D) The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles

24. Whom does Alexander Pope satirize in the portrait of Sporus ?

(A) Lady Wortley Montague  (B) Joseph Addison  (C) Lord Shaftsbury  (D) Lord Harvey

25. The hero of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine was born as a

(A) carpenter   (B) goldsmith   (C) shepherd   (D) fisherman

26. In a letter to his brother George in September 1819, John Keats had this to say about a fellow romantic

poet : “He describes what he sees –I describe what I imagine – Mine is the hardest task.” The poet under reference is

(A) Wordsworth   (B) Coleridge    (C) Byron   (D) Southey

27. A sequence of repeated consonantal sounds in a stretch of language is

(A) alliteration    (B) acrostic   (C) assent    (D) syllable

28. Reformation was predominantly a movement in

(A) politics   (B) literature   (C) religion    (D) education

29. The motto “only connect” is taken from

(A) Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo  (B) Rudyard Kipling’s Kim

(C) H.G. Wells’ The History of Mr. Polly   (D) E.M. Forster’s Howards End

30. English Iambic Pentameter was brought to its first maturity in

(A) sonnet   (B) dramatic verse   (C) lyric   (D) elegy

31. Who among the following was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group ?

(A) Lytton Strachey   (B) Clive Bell   (C) E.M. Forster    (D) Winston Churchill

32. The concept of human mind as tabula rasa or blank tablet was propounded by

(A) Bishop Berkley   (B) David Hume     (C) Francis Bacon (D) John Locke

33. The terms ‘resonance’ and ‘wonder’ are associated with 

(A) Stephen Greenblatt   (B) Terence Hawkes    (C) Terry Eagleton    (D) Ronald Barthes

34. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is

(A) ten-syllabic line   (B) eight-syllabic line    (C) rhyme royal    (D) ottava rima

35. Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species was published in the year

(A) 1859    (B) 1879    (C) 1845    (D) 1866

36. Who of the following is the author of Juno and the Paycock ?

(A) Lady Gregory    (B) W.B. Yeats    (C) Oscar Wilde    (D) Sean O’Casey

37. The title of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is taken from a play by

(A) Christopher Marlowe   (B) William Shakespeare    (C) Ben Jonson    (D) John Webster

38. “Silverman has never read Browning.” This is an example of

(A) chiasmus   (B) conceit    (C) zeugma    (D) metonymy

39. The term ‘Intentional Fallacy’ is first used by

(A) William Empson    (B) Northrop Frye    (C) Wellek and Warren    (D) Wimsatt and Beardsley

40. “Recessional : A Victorian Ode”, Kipling’s well-known poem,

I. laments the end of an Era   

II. marks a new commitment to scientific knowledge

III. expresses the sincerity of his religious devotion

IV. was occasioned by Queen Victoria’s 1897 Jubilee Celebration

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

    (A) I, II and III are correct.

    (B) III and IV are correct.

    (C) I and IV are correct.

    (D) I, III and IV are correct.

41. Who among the following is not a Restoration playwright ?

(A) William Congreve   (B) William Wycherley    (C) Ben Jonson    (D) George Etherege

42. Which famous Romantic poem begins with the line : ‘Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! / Bird thou never wert” ?

(A) “Ode to a Nightingale”  (B) “To the Cuckoo”    (C) “To a Skylark”    (D) “To the Daisy”

43. Who among the following Victorian poets disliked his middle name ?

(A) Arthur Hugh Clough          (B) Dante Gabriel Rossetti    

(C) Gerard Manley Hopkins   (D) Algernon Charles Swinburne

44. Aston is a character in Pinter’s 

(A) The Birthday Party   (B) The Caretaker    (C) The Dumb Waiter    (D) The Homecoming

45. Byron’s English Bards and Scottish Reviewers is about

I. the survey of English poetry   

II. evangelism in English poetry

III. contemporary literary scene

IV. the early English travellers

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is 

     (A) III and IV are correct.

     (B) II, III and IV are correct.

     (C) I and II are correct.

     (D) I and III are correct.

46. Which Eliotian character utters the question – “Do I eat a peach” ?

(A) Marina  (B) Prufrock   (C) Sweeney    (D) Stetson

47. Which among the following works by Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the pillory ?

(A) The True-Born Englishman   (B) Captain Singleton   (C) The Shortest Way with Dissenters

(D) Moll Flanders

48. The arrival of printing in fifteenth century England was engineered by

(A) Sir Thomas Malory   (B) John Gower   (C) John Barbour   (D) William Caxton

49. About which nineteenth century English writer was it said that “He had succeeded as a writer not by conforming to the Spirit of the Age, but in opposition to it” ?

(A) Lord Byron on Coleridge   (B) Coleridge on Keats    (C) Hazlitt on Lamb   (D) De Quincey on Crabbe

50. The Restoration comedy, The Double Dealer was written by

(A) John Dryden   (B) William Wycherley    (C) William Congreve   (D) George Etherege

Answers

1.C      2.C     3.D     4.B    5.C    6.C     7.C     8.C     9.C    10.B    11.D    12.C    13.C   14.B    15.C 
16.C   17.D   18.D   19.C   20.C  21.C   22.B   23.C   24.D  25.C   26.C     27.A    28.C   29.D    30.A 31.D   32.D   33.A   34.A   35.A  36.D   37.B   38.D   39.D   40.B   41.C     42.C   43.B    44.B    45.D 46.B   47.C   48.D   49.C   50.C 

I.A. Richards: A Critic

Life and Works-   

Ivor Armstrong Richards Was born in 1893 and was educated at Clifton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where in 1912 he was also appointed a professor of English Literature. Later he became one of the Pioneers of New Criticism.

His works include-

1. The Foundations of Aesthetics (1922), Co-authored with C. K. Ogden and James Wood.

 2. The Principles of Literary Criticism (London, 1924; New York, 1925)   

3. Science and Poetry (London,   1926).  

4. Practical Criticism (1929).  

5. Coleridge on Imagination (London, 1934; New York, 1935).

 6. Speculative Instruments (London, 1955).

 7. 'So Much Nearer: Essays toward a World English (New York, 1960, 1968), includes the important essay, "The Future of Poetry."