Suggestion of History of English Literature for 2nd Year Final Exam 2019
2nd Year
Suggestion-2019
History of
English Literature
Part-A
Anglo-Saxon Age
1. Which poem is considered as the first English epic?
2. Why is the year
1066 important in the study of English literary History?
3. What do you know about Anglo-Saxon?
4. Which period is called the dawn of English literature?
5. What is Beowulf?
6. What is “Wife’s Lamentation”?
7. What do you know about Ceadmon?
8. What are the Basic languages in the world?
9. Who was the father of English learning?
10. Who was the pioneer of Anglo-Saxon prose writers?
11. Who was Alfred?
What was his contribution to Old English literature?
12. What are the literary features of the Old English Period?
13. What is the duration of the Middle Ages?
14. What is Dark Ages?
15. What is the
duration or extension of the Early English Period?
16. When did the Old English Period begin?
17. When was England captured by the Romans again?
18. When did Christianity reach Britain?
19. What are the basic languages in the world?
20. How many languages are there in the world?
21. Who was the first historian?
22. Who was King Alfred, the Great?
23. Who wrote The
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?
24. What was “Crusade”?
25. What was “Magna Charta”?
26. When was Oxford University established?
The Age of Chaucer
(1340-1400)
1. What is the masterpiece of Geoffrey Chaucer?
2. What is Black Death?
3. How many tales each pilgrim had
to tell in The Canterbury Tales?
4. Who is
called the father of English poetry?
5. What do you know about Chaucer?
6. What is
the full name of Chaucer?
7. Who is called the ‘Morning Star of the Renaissance’?
8. Why
Chaucer is called the father of modern English poetry?
9. What are
the three periods of Chaucer’s poetry?
10. Who are
the principal works of Chaucer?
11. Who are
the contemporary poets of Chaucer’s time?
12. Who was
William Langland and what is his main work?
13. What kind
of book is Piers Plowman?
14. What is
the ‘Hundred Years’ War’?
15. What is
“Prologue”?
16. What is The Canterbury Tales?
17. Why do the
people come to the Canterbury Church?
18. Why is
the Canterbury Church famous for?
19. Who was a
born humorist?
20. What do
you know about Humour?
21. Who is
John Wycliff?
22. Why was John
Wycliff called ‘the morning star of the Reformation’?
23. Who is called the father of English prose?
24. What is the time span of the Age of Chaucer?
25. Who wrote
Morte d’ Arther?
26. What is
rime royal?
27. What do
you know about Troilus and Crisedye?
28. Who was John Gower?
29. Who is Venus?
30. Who is Hilton?
The Reformation Period (1525-1578)
1. What is ‘Humanism’?
2. Who wrote Gorboduc?
3. What kind of movement was ‘English Renaissance’?
4. Who wrote Utopia in Latin, since English had no prestige outside England?
5. Which royal dynasty was
established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued
through the reign of Elizabeth I?
6. What is the Reformation Movement?
7. What were the effects of the Reformation in England?
8. What was the impact of the
Reformation on English literature?
9. What was the influence of Humanism on English literature?
10. What is Utopia?
11. Which country is called the motherland of Renaissance?
12. Name at least three features of Renaissance.
13. Who is regarded as the father of blank verse?
14. What is the first English tragedy?
15. Who was the leader of Reformation?
16. What is the first English comedy?
17. What is Protestantism?
18. Who is Martin Luther King?
19. Why is Tyndale famous for?
20. Why is Coverdale famous for?
21. Why did the parliament-pass a number of acts?
22. Who translated the Old and the New Testament of the
Bible?
23. When was Tyndale persecuted?
24. What do you know about The Book of Common Prayer?
25. Who was the leader to reform the English Church?
26. What was the theory of Copernicus?
27. Who was Machiavelli?
28. Who is the writer of the book The Prince?
29. Who is the first translator of Bible?
The Elizabethan Period
(1558-1603)
1. Who are the metaphysical poets?
2. Name the University Wits.
3. Which age is called the Golden Age of
English Literature?
4. What is morality play?
5. Who is called the poet’s poet?
6. What is Globe Theatre?
7. Name four plays written by William Shakespeare.
8. Name two of the major literary creations of Edmund Spenser.
9. Who is Edmund Spenser?
10. Why is Edmund Spenser called the poet’s poet?
11. What is The Faerie
Queene?
12. Why is Edmund
Spenser called a child of Renaissance and Reformation?
13. What do you know about John Donne?
14. Who is the founder of metaphysical poetry?
15. What is metaphysical poetry?
16. Who are the “University Wits”? Why are they so called?
17. How many members are there in the University Wits?
18. Who is Christopher Marlowe?
19.
Who is considered to the father of English drama?
20.
What is his contribution to Elizabethan drama?
21. Write the other works of Christopher Marlowe.
22. What do you know about William Shakespeare?
23. Which Age does William Shakespeare belong to?
24. Who is the greatest dramatist of Elizabethan Age?
25. What are the four great tragedies of Shakespeare?
26. How many dramas has
Shakespeare written in the Elizabethan Age?
27. Write at least
three characteristics/features of Elizabethan literature.
28. What is Spenserian stanza?
29. What is conceit?
30. How many are the kinds of conceit?
31. What is Petrarchan conceit?
32. What is metaphysical conceit?
33. What is wit?
34. What is monologue?
35. Who is Seneca? How does
he influence the Elizabethan dramas?
36. Who is Thomas Kyd?
37. When was The Spanish Tragedy written?
38. What do you know of The Spanish Tragedy?
39. What kind of drama is The Spanish Tragedy?
40. What has
Francis Bacon written in the Elizabethan Age?
41. What is
tragic-comedy?
42. How many dramas has William Shakespeare written?
43. How many dramas
has Shakespeare written in the Elizabethan Age?
44. What is the first play of Shakespeare?
45. What is The
Comedy of Errors?
46. Who has written
The Comedy of Errors?
47. What is The
Taming of the Shrew?
48. Who has written
The Taming of the Shrew?
49. What is Romeo
and Juliet?
50. Who has written
Romeo and Juliet?
51. What is The
Two Gentlemen of Verona?
52. Who has written
The Merry Wives of Windsor?
53. What is The
Merry Wives of Windsor?
54. Who has written
Julius Caesar?
55. What is The
Merchant of Venice?
56. Who has written
The Merchant of Venice?
57. What is Twelfth
Night?
58. Who has written
Twelfth Night?
59. What kind of comedy is Twelfth Night?
60. How are the dramas of Shakespeare classified?
61. What is Hamlet?
62. Who has written
Hamlet?
63. What is the
setting of the play, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream?
64. What is the source
of the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
65. What is A
Midsummer Night’s Dream?
66. Who has written
A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
67. What kind of comedy is A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
The Jacobean Period (1603-1625)
1. Who are called “Cavalier
Poets”?
2. What is comedy of humours?
3. Why is the period between 1603
and 1625 called Jacobean period?
4. What is meant by “Decadence”?
5. What is meant by the “decadent play” or “decadent tragedy”?
6. Which period in English History
is known as the decadent period?
7. What were the social and political conditions of this age?
8. What are the factors
responsible for the decline of drama in the Jacobean period?
9. What are most common characteristics
of the Jacobean drama?
10. What is Revenge tragedy?
11. Write the names of some
dramatists of the post Shakespearean or Jacobean period.
12. Who was John Webster?
13. Who is Francis Bacon?
14. Write the name of some essays of Francis Bacon.
15. What are the features of Bacon’s Essays?
16. What is melodrama?
17. What is epigrammatic style?
18. What is aphorism?
19. What is aphoristic style?
20. What is the time span of the Jacobean Period?
21. Which age is known as the age of decadence?
22. What is Volpone?
23. What is comedy of humours?
24. What are the sources of the plot of Volpone?
25. From which popular story does
Jonson borrow the idea of Volpone?
26. When was Volpone first acted and published?
27. What is fable?
28. What is beast-fable?
29. What is an epistle?
30. To what does Ben Jonson dedicate his epistle in Volpone?
31. Why does Ben Jonson dedicate
his play, Volpone to the
Universities?
32. What is the sub-title of Volpone?
33. What is prologue?
34. Who is John Webster?
35. Which
period of English literature did Webster belong to?
36. What is The Duchess of Malfi?
37. Who is he author or writer of
the play, The Duchess of Malfi?
38. When was
the play, The Duchess of Malfi
written?
39. What is the source of the play, The Duchess of Malfi?
40. What are the most famous masterpieces of John Webster?
41. Who was the king or ruler in the Age of Webster?
42. What was the characteristic of the Age of Webster?
43. Why did drama decline in the Age of Webster?
44. Why is the Age of Webster called
post-Shakespearean period?
45. Which class of drama does The
Duchess of Malfi belong to?
46.What is a revenge play?
47. What was
origin of the revenge play?
48. What is a melodrama?
49. Would you call The
Duchess of Malfi a melodrama?
50. Is The Duchess of Malfi
a pure tragedy?
51. What is a decadent play?
52. Is the Duchess of Malfi
a decadent play?
53. What is The Anatomy of Melancholy?
The Puritan Period (1620-1660)
1. What is Puritanism?
2. What kind
of book is Milton’s Areopagitica?
3. What is Milton’s purpose behind writing Paradise Lost?
4. Who is Puritan?
5. Who is John Milton?
6. What is Lycidas?
7. Who was the representative poet of the puritan age?
The
Restoration Period (1660-1702)
1. Who popularized ‘the comedy of manners’?
2. When did the Restoration take
place and who was restored to English Throne?
3. What is satire?
4. What is The Pilgrim’s
Progress?
5. What is the meaning of the term “Restoration”?
6. What is Restoration Period?
7. What was the social and
political condition of England during the Restoration Period?
8. Who is the great poet of the Restoration Period?
9. Why is Dryden called the father of English criticism?
10. Who is the writer of Absalom
and Achitophel?
11. What is heroic couplet?
12. What is heroic tragedy?
13. What is Blank Verse?
14. What is Restoration Comedy?
15. What are the important features of the Comedy of Manners?
16. Who is William Congreve?
17. Why is this period called the Restoration Period?
The Neo-Classical Age (1702-1745)
1. Who was known as ‘the father of English
Dictionary’?
2. Which age is known as Augustan Age in English Literature?
3. Who are called the pioneers of English Novel?
4. Why is Alexander Pope famous in English
literature?
5. Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
6. Name the most celebrated writing of Jonathan Swift.
7. What is the time span of the 18th Century?
8. Why is the 18th century called an age of prose and satire?
9. Write the greatest satirists of the 18th century?
10. Who is Alexander Pope?
11. Who is Jonathan Swift?
12. What is classicism?
13. Who was Henry Fielding?
14. What is Joseph Andrews?
15. What are the important features of the Neo-Classical Age?
The Romantic Age (1798-1832)
1. When was The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads published?
2. What was the slogan of the French Revolution?
3. Why is 1798 a landmark in the history of English literature?
4. In which year did French Revolution take place?
5. Who defined poetry
‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’?
6. Whose poems make up Lyrical
Ballads?
7. Which historical movement influenced the English Romantic
poetry?
8. Name at least three characteristics of romanticism.
9. Who is called the father of romanticism?
10. What is the duration of the Romantic Age?
11. Who was Rousseau?
12. When did the French Revolution occur in France?
13. Who are the renowned poets of the Romantic Age?
14. Who are called the Lake poets?
15. What, according to Wordsworth, is poetry?
16. What is pantheism?
17. Who is William Wordsworth?
18. Who is called the poet of nature?
19. In whose
collaboration did William Wordsworth publish Lyrical Ballads?
20. What is The Prelude?
21. Who is S.T. Coleridge?
22. Who is called the poet of supernaturalism?
23. Who is called the poet of dream?
24. What is Kubla Khan?
25. What is The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner?
26. What is Biographia
Literaria?
27. Who is Lord Lyron?
28. What is the full name of Lord Byron?
29. What is Cain?
30. What is Don Juan?
31. Which stanza form is used in Don Juan?
32. What is ottava rima?
33. Who is P.B. Shelley?
34. What is The Necessity of
Atheism?
35. What is Adonais?
36. Who is John Keats?
37. Who is called the poet of beauty?
38. Why he is called a poet of beauty?
39. Who is Jane Austen?
40. What is Pride and
Prejudice?
41. What is Lyrical Ballads?
42. What is romanticism?
The Victorian Age (1832-1901)
1. What is Victorian conflict?
2. What is ‘The Oxford Movement’?
3. Who are pre-Raphaelites?
4. What are the two
cities referred to in the novel A Tale of
Two Cities?
5. What was the national identity of W.B. Yeats?
6. What signifies the Victorian Age?
7. Who are called the Brontes?
8. When did the Oxford Movement begin?
9. Who is Alfred Tennyson?
10. Who is the representative poet of the Victorian
Period?
11. Name some famous poems of Tennyson.
12. What is In Memoriam?
13. What do you know about Robert Browning?
14. What is dramatic monologue?
15. What do you know about Matthew Arnold?
16. What do you know about Thomas Hardy?
17. Who is “Portuguese” Robert Browning?
18. What was the effect of the movement?
19. Who are the great Victorian novelists?
20. What is Jane Eyre?
21. Who was George Eliot?
22. What is Tess of the
D’Urbervilles?
23. What is Vanity Fair?
24. What is David
Copperfield?
25. What is A Tale of Two
Cities?
26. What is Great
Expectations?
27. Who are the prominent Victorians?
The Modern Age (1901-1939)
1. When did the Modern Era begin in English
literature?
2. What is an Absurd Drama?
3. Name two critical essays of T.S. Eliot?
4. What is stream of consciousness?
5. What is “Drama of Ideas”?
6. Who is W.B. Yeats?
7. What is the nationality of W.B. Yeats?
8. What is The Waste Land?
9. Who is W.H. Auden?
10. What are the important characteristics of modern drama?
11. Who are the great dramatists of modern drama?
12. Who is G.B. Shaw?
13. Who has written the play, Man
and Superman?
14. Who has written the play, Candida?
15. What kind of the play is Arms
and the Man?
16. What is Man and
Superman?
17. What is Modernism?
18. Who is Maud Gonne?
19. What is “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”?
20. Name three playwrights of the 20th century?
21. Who are the major/dominant poets of the Modern Age?
22. Who is the author of A
Passage to India?
Part B
1. Describe the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
2. What do you know about Beowulf?
3. Write down the remarkable events of the Middle Age.
4. What do you know about the poem, The Wanderer?
5. Consider King Alfred as the father of English prose.
6. What is romance? Make a list of some romances of Middle English.
7. Write a short note on The
Canterbury Tales.
8. Why would you call Chaucer the father of
English poetry?
9. Chaucer is the earlier of the great moderns. Discuss.
10. Discuss the contribution of John Wycliff.
11. Write down the remarkable events and features of the Age of
Chaucer.
12. Comment
on the use of wit and humour in the poetry of Chaucer.
13. Write short note on:-
a.
Hundred Years’ War
b.
Black Death
14. What is the contribution of Sir Thomas More?
15. Write
a short note on Reformation.
16. Write a short note on
‘Humanism’.
17. Write a short note on ‘Utopia’.
18. Name
the non-dramatic verse-writers and their literary works of the Elizabethan
Period.
19. Write a short note on ‘English Renaissance’.
20. Describe
the Elizabethan Age as the Golden Age of English literature.
21. Write a note on Shakespeare’s poems and sonnets.
22. Who
are the University Wits?
23. Why
is Bacon’s prose style significant?
24. Write
a short note on the Cavelier Poets.
25. Bring
out the features of the Decadent play.
26. Discuss
the tragedies of the Jacobean Period.
27. Why
is Bacon’s prose style significant?
28. For
what is Ben Johnson remarkable in Jacobean literature?
29. What
was the impact of Puritanism on English literature?
30. Write
a short note on John Milton.
31. Write
in brief about Paradise Lost.
32. In
what sense is John Milton a classicist?
33. What were the causes for the rise of Puritan Age? .
34. What
is metaphysical poetry? Bring out the features of metaphysical poetry.
35. What
are the chief characteristics of Restoration literature?
36. Write about Restoration Comedy of Manners.
37. What
were the causes for the rise of satire during the Restoration Age?
38. Write
short notes on:-
a.
The Restoration
b.
The Way of the World
c.
Heroic Couplet
39. Why
was the 18th century often called an age of satire?
40. What do you know about The
Coverly Papers?.
41. Discuss
the contribution of Jonathan Swift.
42. Who
is Sir Roger de Coverley?
43. Write
short notes on:-
a.
Classicism/Neo-Classicisism
b.
The Spectator
c.
Satire
44. What
are the characteristics of romantic poetry?
45. Write a note on the
features of romanticism.
46. Is Romanticism
a revival or a revolt? Give reasons for your answer.
.
47. Who are the major romantic poets? Discuss their contribution to
Romantic poetry..
48. What
do you know about Lyrical Ballads?
49. What is ‘Pantheism’?
50. Why is Blake called ‘the precursor of Romanticism’?
51. Write short notes on:-
a.
Romanticism
b.
Jane Austen
c.
The Prelude
d.
The French Revolution
52. Write a short note on the women novelists of the Victorian
Age.
53. Survey the prominent literary trends of the Victorian Age.
54. Discuss the contribution of Thomas Hardy as a novelist.
55. Discuss the contribution of Charles Dickens as a novelist.
56. What is Oxford Movement?
57. Write short notes on:-
a.
In Memoriam
b.
Alfred Tennyson
c. Dramatic
Monologue .
58. What are the trends of modern poetry?.
59. Write about the main novelists of the 20th century
English literature.
60. What
is Absurd Drama?
61. How did T.S. Eliot influence Modern poetry?
62. Write
a short note on ‘Drama of ideas’.
63. Write
a short note on ‘Stream of
Consciousness’?
Part C
1. What pictures of the Anglo-Saxon life do you get in Beowulf?
2.
Discuss the three stages of Chaucer’s poetic
development.
3. What picture of 14th century life and society do you
find in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales?
4. Write an essay on English Reformation Movement.
5.
Discuss Shakespeare’s contribution to English Drama.
6.
Why is the Elizabethan Age called the golden age of
English literature?
7.
Who were the University Wits? What was their
contribution to English drama?
8.
Who are the Cavaliers Poets? Discuss their
contribution to English poetry.
9.
Discuss the main literary trends in the Age
of Milton.
10.
Write an essay on the Restoration Comedy.
11.
How would you portray the 18th century as the Age of satire?
12.
Discuss the general characteristics of the poetry of the Neoclassical
Age.
13.
Discuss the important characteristics of English Romanticism.
14.
Discuss the contribution or historical significance of Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads.
15.
Discuss the salient features of Victorian novel.
16.
Consider Tennyson as a representative poet of the Victorian Age.
17.
Write about the main novelists of the 20th
century English literature.
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