English Literature
What does English Literature include?
Many Old English poems glorified ...
The first Old English poet is..
Who wrote the first history of the English people?
Who came to the British Isles from France about 3000 years ago, absorbed the early Britons and became the ancestors of the Scotch,
Irish and Welsh people?
Who is the greatest
hero of Celtis sagas?
Who is the hero of the most important epic poem of the Anglo-Saxon period?
Who is the author of The Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of
the Round Table?
What was G. Chaucer's masterpiece about pilgrimage called?
In which story is there a knight, a yeoman, a nun, a monk, a priest, a merchant, a
clerk, a sailor, the author himself and others, thirty-one pilgrims in all?
What is a sonnet?
What was the period between 1485 and 1603 in English Literature called?
Who wrote
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red ?
Who is the author of Utopia ?
How many sonnets did W. Shakespeare write?
Which of these plays by W. Shakespeare are not comedies?
How are the 17th and 18th centuries known in the history of European
culture?
Who wrote the poem Paradise Lost?
What did D. Defoe write?
This period saw a remarkable rise of literature. People wrote on many
subjects and made great contribution in the fields of philosophy, history and
natural sciences. The problem of vital importance to the writers was the
study of man and the origin of his good and evil qualities.
What period of literarure is it?
This period saw a transition from poetry to the prosaic age of the
essayists. Satire became popular. This period also saw the
rise of the political pamphlet.
What period is it?
It is an epic poem about the Creation of the Universe, the
first humans Adam and Eve, the Fall of Man, the temptation of Adam and
Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Name the author and the work.
He learns to tame wild goats, grow corn and
make bread. One day he saves a man from cannibals and calls him Friday.
Friday turns out to be a clever man. He learns English and becomes a
devoted servant and companion to his master.
What work of literature is it? Who is the authour?
The first voyage is a trip to Lilliput.
The second is a voyage to Brobdingnag, the country of giants.
The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island.
The fourth voyage is to the island where intellectual creatures were
horses and all the human beings, Yahoos, were reduced to the level of
brutes.
Name the author and the book.
Who is called the founder of the historical novel?
Who is the author of the famous poem "My heart in the Highlands"?
Ch. Dickens, W. Thackeray, Ch. Bronte, A. Trollope and Th. Hardy are famous representatives of English ...
He learnt much from his mother, who
was a well-educated woman, and from the books
she gave him to read. He and his eldest sister
didn’t go to school for a long time. Their father lost
his job and was imprisoned for debt. All the
property the family had was sold, and the boy was
put to work in a blacking factory. He worked hard washing bottles for shoe-42
polish and putting labels on them, while his father, mother, sisters and
brothers all lived in debtors’ prison.
Who is the author of David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, David Copperfield?
Who is the author of The Happy Prince and Other Tales?
Who do these sayings belong to?
A moment may ruin a life.
Don't use big words. They mean so little.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what
one wants, and the other is getting it.
What themes did Oscar Wilde touch on in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray?
What are R. Kipling's most popular works?
What is the leading genre of the XX century literature?
Which of these authors used ‘the stream of consciousness’ literary technique?
Which of these writers are famous for writing detective novels?
Who is the author of the following novels
The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds,
The First Men in the Moon?
Who are these words about?
His science-fiction novels are always built on a scientific basis and
based on real scientific discoveries. Some of his works show his scientific
foresight.
Which of these authors didn't write plays?
Who wrote about elflike beings called hobbits and is considered "the father of modern fantasy"?
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