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Joyce's Ulysses is divided into _______ episodes
Anonymous Poll
41%
12
32%
18
13%
20
14%
24
Homer's Odyssey is divided into -------books (sections).
Anonymous Poll
12%
20
28%
22
42%
24
18%
18
"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her." Who said this line?
Anonymous Poll
73%
1) William Wordsworth
18%
2) William Shakespeare
6%
3) William Golding
2%
4) William Harvey
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Who is the first person to verify the identity of the ghost?
Anonymous Poll
36%
Hamlet
14%
Gertrude
18%
Marcellus
32%
Horatio
What is Claudius doing while Horatio and Hamlet wait for the return of the ghost?
Anonymous Poll
40%
Making love to Gertrude
30%
Plotting war
19%
Sleeping
11%
Partying
NTA-NET SET English
The word ―Catharsis signifies :
C) purgation
How many books were originally planned to form the work The Faerie Queene?
Anonymous Poll
27%
23
54%
12
9%
8
11%
18
Which one of the following rhyme scheme is the rhyme scheme Spenserian stanza?
Anonymous Poll
13%
ab cb bc cd e
19%
ab bc cd de f
31%
abba bccb d
37%
ab ab bc bc c
In which year did Edmund Spenser publish his poem The Shepheardes Calender?
Anonymous Poll
32%
1579
27%
1597
27%
1567
14%
1578
To whom did Edmund Spenser addresses his sonnet sequence Amoretti?
 
Anonymous Poll
7%
Lisa Boyle
12%
Mary Jane
31%
Queen Elizabeth
50%
Elizabeth Boyle
*Snow*

~ Novel by Orhan Pamuk. ~Published in 2002 in Turkish language .
~Translated into English by Maureen Freely and published in 2004.
~Award:- 2005 Prix Médicis étranger.
~Snow is set in the small Turkish town of Kars, isolated from the rest of the world for three days by a snowstorm. 
~Snow offers an allegory of recent Turkish history while exploring themes of love, art, and religious experience.

Snow Quotes :-
1.Want to Read 
"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world"
2."As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them"

About Author...

~Full name:- Ferit Orhan Pamuk 
~Born 7 June 1952 Istanbul , Turkey
~He is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter and Professor of Comparative Literature and Writing Columbia University.
~He won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Work~
1.Silent House(1983)
2.The White Castle(in Turkish 1985)&( in English 1990)
 3.The Black Book(in Turkish 1990)& (in English 1994)
4. The New Life(in Turkish1994) & (in English 1997)
 5.My Name Is Red(in Turkish 1998)& (in English 2001)
6.The Museum of Innocence(in Turkish 2008) & (in English 2009)
 7.A Strangeness in My Mind.(in Turkish 2014) & (in English 2015 )
D.H.Lawrence called one of his novels Kangaroo as “Thought Adventure".

The phrase ‘religion of the blood' is associated with D.H.Lawrence.

A character in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando changes his sex. Charles II is characterised in this novel.

A woman's search for a fitting mate is the central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

‘Chocolate cream hero' appears in Shaw’s Arms and the Man.

The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shaw’s Man and Superman.

Prostitution is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

Labour and Capital conflict is the central theme of Galsworthy’s Strife.

"The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another." These lines occur in Galsworthy’s Justice.

Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.

Joseph Conrad's novels are generally set in the background of the sea.

Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem “ If”

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

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

Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.

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

The World Within World is an autobiography of Stephen Spender.

G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”.
Aldous Huxley borrowed the title ‘Brave New World’ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

William Morris is the author of The Earthly Paradise.

T S Eliot was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion”.

Virginia Woolf was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England.

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty – Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are prophetic novels.

Plato said, ‘Art is twice removed from reality'.

Plato proposed in his Republic that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.

Five principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus.

In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four speakers representing four different ideologies. Neander expresses Dryden's own views.

Dr. Johnson called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'

Shelley said, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”.

Dr . Johnson preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his Tragedies.

Coleridge said, "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose."

Heroic Couplet is a two-line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic Pentameter.

Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a Heroic couplet.
Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter.
Ottawa Rima is an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
Spenserian stanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of two quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded off with an Alexandrine.

Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.

Simile is a comparison between two things which have at least one point common.

Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the sake of emphasis.

The poem by Chaucer known to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.

Chaucer introduced the Heroic couplet in English verse and invented Rhyme Royal.

The invention of the genre, the Eclogues (pastoral poetry) is attributed to Alexander Barclay.

Mort D' Arthur is the first book in English in poetic prose.

First to use blank verse in English drama Thomas Sackville.

The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in London, 1576.
Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England.

Thomas Nash was the creator of the picaresque novel. ( The Unfortunate Traveler)
Francis Bacon is the first great stylist in English prose.

Marlowe wrote only tragedies.

Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the introductory sonnet
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