Make note of at least top three rankings from all categories. Very important for Paper 1.
THOMAS HARDY QUOTES.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
Though a good deal is too strange to be
believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
“Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
Fear is the mother of foresight.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
Though a good deal is too strange to be
believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
“Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
Fear is the mother of foresight.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
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Q1: When was Kazuo Ishiguro born?
A. 8 November 1954
B. 10 November 1958
C. 17 November 1960
D. 8 November 1978
Q2: What was the origin of Kazuo Ishiguro?
A. Spanish
B. Chinese
C. Japanese
D. British
Q3: For which novel did he win 'Man Booker Prize' in 1989?
A. The Remains of the Day
B. An Artist of the Floating World
C. Never Let Me Go
D. The Remains of the Day
Q4: In which year 'Never Let Me Go' was named by Time as the best novel of the year?
A. 2002
B. 2003
C. 2004
D. 2005
Q5: In which year the Swedish Academy awarded Ishiguro the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A. 2016
B. 2017
C. 2018
D. 2019
A. 8 November 1954
B. 10 November 1958
C. 17 November 1960
D. 8 November 1978
Q2: What was the origin of Kazuo Ishiguro?
A. Spanish
B. Chinese
C. Japanese
D. British
Q3: For which novel did he win 'Man Booker Prize' in 1989?
A. The Remains of the Day
B. An Artist of the Floating World
C. Never Let Me Go
D. The Remains of the Day
Q4: In which year 'Never Let Me Go' was named by Time as the best novel of the year?
A. 2002
B. 2003
C. 2004
D. 2005
Q5: In which year the Swedish Academy awarded Ishiguro the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A. 2016
B. 2017
C. 2018
D. 2019
Indian English Literature -compressed.pdf
3.3 MB
Some old notes on Indian English Literature. They are incomplete. So add things in them. Major writers are blank because I'd made them online and now I can't find them. This is just something is better than nothing kind of notes.
Here is the whole playlist of "Who wrote That Book"
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1. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?
a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
a. John keats
b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho
3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
d. Nonsense
4. In coleridge's poem 'The rime of the Ancient Mariner'where were the three gallants going?
a. A funeral
b. A wedding
c. Market
d. To the races
5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners'?
a. e. e. Cummings
b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink
7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
d. First World War
8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin
9. Which American writer published 'A brave and startling truth' in 1996
a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer
10. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings
11. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
rhyme scheme
meter
alliteration
12. The repetition of similar ending sounds
alliteration
onomatopoiea
rhyme
13. Applying human qualities to non-human things
personification
onomatopoeia
alliteration
14. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
rhyme
onomatopoeia
alliteration
15. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as
metaphor
simile
personification
16. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as
metaphor
simile
personification
17. Using words or letters to imitate sounds
alliteration
simile
onomatopoeia
18. a description that appeals to one of the five senses
imagery
personification
metaphor
19. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters
lyric
free verse
narrative
20. A poem with no meter or rhyme
lyric
free verse
narrative
21. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme
lyric
free verse
narrative
22. Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
a. Masefield
b. Causley
c. Hughes
d. Larkin
23. Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery?
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll
c. War
d. Innocent childhood
24. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
25. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Marianne Moore
d. Laura Jackson
a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
a. John keats
b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho
3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
d. Nonsense
4. In coleridge's poem 'The rime of the Ancient Mariner'where were the three gallants going?
a. A funeral
b. A wedding
c. Market
d. To the races
5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as 'Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners'?
a. e. e. Cummings
b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink
7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
a. Boer War
b. Second World War
c. Korean War
d. First World War
8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin
9. Which American writer published 'A brave and startling truth' in 1996
a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer
10. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings
11. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
rhyme scheme
meter
alliteration
12. The repetition of similar ending sounds
alliteration
onomatopoiea
rhyme
13. Applying human qualities to non-human things
personification
onomatopoeia
alliteration
14. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds
rhyme
onomatopoeia
alliteration
15. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as
metaphor
simile
personification
16. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as
metaphor
simile
personification
17. Using words or letters to imitate sounds
alliteration
simile
onomatopoeia
18. a description that appeals to one of the five senses
imagery
personification
metaphor
19. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters
lyric
free verse
narrative
20. A poem with no meter or rhyme
lyric
free verse
narrative
21. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme
lyric
free verse
narrative
22. Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
a. Masefield
b. Causley
c. Hughes
d. Larkin
23. Carl Sandburg 'Planked whitefish' contains what kind of imagery?
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll
c. War
d. Innocent childhood
24. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
25. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Marianne Moore
d. Laura Jackson