#Quiz

1⃣ Which book gives excellent description of the qualities of humors?

A. Volpone
B. Anatomy of Melancholy
C. Every Man in His Humour
D. Every Man Out of His Humour

2⃣ Hypallage is also known as

A. Hypothesis
B. Anticlasis
C. Transferred Epithet
D. Aposiopesis

3⃣ The term 'simulacra' was coined by

A. Bakhtin
B. Derrida
C. Baudrillard
D. Saussure

4⃣ Society of Authors (1884) was founded by

A. Sir Walter Scott
B. Elizabeth Heywood
C. Sir Walter Besant
D. T.S. Eliot

5⃣ The first major sonnet cycle was

A. Astrophel and Stella
B. Amoretti
C. Tottel's Miscellany
D. Morte D' Arthur

Answers

1. B
2. C
3. C
4. C
5. A

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#Quiz
Difficulty level:▫️▫️◾️◾️◾️

1️⃣ Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play?
(A) Twelfth Night
(B) Hamlet
(C) The Tempest
(D) Henry IV,Pt I

2️⃣"Under the green wood tree" is a song in:
a) As you like it
b) Love's labour's lost
c) A mid Summer night's dream
d) Much ado about nothing

3️⃣Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
a) King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John

4️⃣Edmund Spenser dedicated his Shepherd's Calendar to his friend describing him as "the distinguished and virtuous gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and chiv-alry." Who was this friend?
(a) Sir Walter Raleigh
(b) Leicester
(c) Harvey
(d) Sir Philip Sidney

5️⃣Which of Ben Jonson's work is a seething satire on false poets of the age?
(a) Poetaster
(b) Vulpine, The Fox
(c) Cynthia's Revel
(d) Epicene or The Silent Woman , Who among the following was a friend of

6️⃣In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or
(A) rhymed
(B) broken
(C) accented
(D) run-on

7️⃣ What is a neologism?
(A) A word with roots in a native language
(B) A word whose meaning changes with every
renewed use
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense
(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

8️⃣ “You have seen how a man was made a slave;
you shall see how a slave was made a man” is
an example of
(A) Chiasmus
(B) Epistrophe
(C) Bathos
(D) Anti-climax

9️⃣ “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”. This is an important statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by
(A)Toni Morrison
(B) Zora Neale Hurston
(C) Alice Walker
(D) Bell Hooks

🔟 The term invective refers to
(A) the abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing.
(B) an insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving caricature and ridicule.
(C) a written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.
(D) the chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.

Answers:

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

Macbeth's Characters' Mind Map

📊 Which of the following was the first picaresque novel in English?

A) Lazarillo de Tormes [10-15]

B) The Unfortunate Traveller [20-30]

C) Moll Flanders [30-50]

D) Simplicius Simplicissimus [3]

👥 50-100 people have voted so far

📊 The literary group ‘Areopagus’ comprised of which of the following poets?
I) Edmund Spenser & Earl of Leicester
II) Philip Sidney & Edward Dryer
III) Fulke Greville
IV) Thomas Sackvill

A) I, II & III [30-50]

B) II & IV [10-15]

C) Only I [2]

D) I, II, III & IV [7]

👥 50-100 people have voted so far

📊 Whom did Sidney dedicate his work Arcadia to?

A) Penelope Devereux [50-100]

B) Edmund Spenser [30-50]

C) Himself [10-15]

D) Mary Herbert [30-50]

👥 100-200 people have voted so far

Answers.
1. The Unfortunate Traveler
2. A
3. Mary Herbert

Prague School Also known as the Prague Linguistic Circle. It was founded in 1926 and remained active in the 1920s and the early 1930s. Leading figures were Roman Jakobson, Boris Eikenbaum, Trubetskoy, Viktor Shklovsky and Mukařovský. They were influenced by Russian Formalism and by futurism, and developed the theory of phonology, in which sounds are analysed in sets of oppositions.

#LiteraryTerms

Propaganda

Term ‘lifted’ from the title Congregatio de propaganda fide (now the APF – Association for the Propagation of the Faith), a committee of the Roman Church responsible for foreign missions and the dissemination of the faith. It was set up in 1622. When literature is propaganda and when it is not is a much debated issue.
If an author sets out to make a case for a particular religious, social or political point of view, through the medium of a play or a novel, for example, and he is seen to be doing this, and perhaps in the process he sacrifices verisimilitude by contriving character and situation to suit his thesis, then it might be said that the result is a work of propaganda. If what he has to say is worth reading or listening to long after the issue which provoked the propaganda is dead, then his art has transcended the contingent needs of the
propagandist.

Basically propaganda is devoted to the spreading of a particular idea or belief. Much pamphlet literature and journalism has precisely this
purpose. It is partial. Pamphleteering in the 18th c., for instance, was openly propagandist. Later, notable polemicists like H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw,
Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton wrote a lot of propaganda to support and promulgate their political, social and religious beliefs. Though proselyt-
izing is forbidden to the layman, Belloc and Chesterton came very near it at times. Ibsen might fairly be described as propagandist in some of his plays;
so might Galsworthy. And Brecht certainly was. There have also been a number of plays presented to spread the doctrines of Moral Re-Armament.
Many writers in the Communist bloc have been overtly propagandist in aid of socialism, in novels, as well as in plays and verse.

#Quiz

1. The Norman Conquest of England in the battle of Hastings is an important landmark in the history of English literature. It occurred in the year
(a) 1066 (b) 1076
(b) 1065 (d) 1075

2. Beowulf, the only important piece of litera¬ture surviving since the old English period is a/an
(a) lyrical ballad (b) prose narrative
(c) Anglo-Saxon epic (d) classical epic

3. Out of the four chief dialects that flourished in the pre-Chaucerian period, the one that became the standard English in Chaucer's time is
(a) the Northern
(b) the East-Midland
(c) the West-Midland
(d) the Southern

4. Which of the following is not one of the fea¬tures of French literature that the Normans imported to England?
(a) Clarity of expression
(b) Varied verification
(c) Gloom and other-worldly attitude
(d) Varied moods and themes

5. Which of the following was a characteristic feature of Medieval literature?
(a) A large body of personal literature
(b) Realism in representation of time and space
( c) Absence of alliteration in poetry
(d) The popular genre of the bird and the beast fable

6. Which of the following statements is incor¬rect regarding medieval literature?
(a) Allegory was frequent and usual
(b) The dream-vision convention was preva¬lent
(c) Chaucer exploited the dream-vision con¬vention in The Canterbury Tales.
(d) There was often an undercurrent of moral and dialectic strain.

7. The poet who was born in the reign of Ed¬ward III, lived through that of Richard II and died in the reign of Henry IV was
(a) Trevelyan (b) Chaucer
(c) Boccaccio (d) Langland

8. The Black Death that swept over England when Chaucer was about nine years old is another name for
(a) the Great Plague
(b) the Great Flood
(c) the Great Drought
(d) the Great Revolt

9. There were three important medieval institu¬tions. Which of the following was not one of them?
(a) Feudalism
(b) Chivalry or Knight-errantry
(c) The church (d) Slavery

10. In Chaucer's times the Peasant Revolt re¬sulted in the
(a) dethronement of the King
(b) demolition of church as an institution
(c) end of serfdom
(d) rise of nationalism

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

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#LiteraryTerms

écriture_féminine (F ‘feminine writing’)

A concept proposed by the French feminist #Hélène_Cixous.
It denotes writing which is typically, characteristically feminine in style, language, tone and feeling, and completely different from (and opposed to) male language and discourse – though she does say in The Laugh of the Medusa (1976) that this is not to do with biological determinism; women often write in male discourse and men can write in a feminine way.

She cites the ‘source’ of écriture féminine in the mother and in the mother–child relationship before the child acquires ‘conventional’ language.

She proposes that this potential language when eventually used in writing (by men or women) subverts logic and the rational and any element which mayconstrain the free play of meaning.

On the other hand, Luce Irigaray posits a ‘woman’s language’, which is multiple, fluid, diverse and heterogeneous and which evades male phallocentric monopoly. This theory has a morphological basis associated with the structure and shape of the genital organs.

A third and related point of view is proposed by Julia_Kristeva: a ‘language’ which is pre-Oedipal and pre-linguistic and is fundamentally semiotic(associated with the chora – Greek for ‘womb’) as opposed to male controlled language which she describes as symbolic

All of these writers revaluate the significance of the maternal, viewing this as empowering rather than as oppressed. Other feminists, however, such as Christine Fauré, Catherine Clément and Monique Wittig, have challenged this emphasis on the body as biologically reductive, fetishistic and politically impotent. Monique Wittig wishes to do away with the linguistic categories of sex and gender

Four Levels of Meaning 

The origins of the four levels of meaning are not certain, but an awareness of them is manifest in the Middle Ages. It was Dante who explained most clearly (in the Epistle to his patron Can Grande della Scala) what they consisted of. He was introducing the matter of the Divina Commedia and he distinguished:

(a) the literal or historical meaning;
(b) the moral meaning;
(c) the allegorical meaning;
(d) the anagogical meaning.

Such criteria applied to, for instance, Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945), might suggest the following:
(a) the story is about the revolt of the animals against their human overlords, and the outcome of that revolt;
(b) ‘power tends to corrupt’;
(c) Major = Lenin; Napoleon = Stalin; Snowball = Trotsky; Jones = corrupt capitalist landowners – and so forth;
(d) human (and animal) nature
does not change.

#Quiz

1. What does ‘conceit’ refer to in concern to metaphysical poetry?
a) Far-fetched similes and metaphors
b) Showing off of learning
c) Sincerity to one theme
d) Use of same similes and metaphors at multiple points in a poem

2. One of Donne's 'Meditations' inspired the title of a famous novel set during the Spanish Civil War, written by which 20th century author?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Jack London
c) Herman Melville
d) William Somerset Maugham

3. Who claimed, “Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging”?
a) Ben Jonson
b) S. Eliot
c) Samuel Johnson
d) John Dryden

4. Who said about Donne, “He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love”?
a) John Dryden
b) Ben Jonson
c) S. Eliot
d) Samuel Johnson

5. What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?
a) The Massacre at Paris
b) The Massacre at Berlin
c) The Massacre at Rome
d) The Massacre at Copenhagen

6. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?
a) King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John