# How many periods are there in English Literature according to the World Book Encyclopedia?
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# How many periods are there in English Literature according to the World Book Encyclopedia? + 10 - 9 - 11 - 12 # Who were the first inhabitants of Britain? +Cave dwellers - Romans - Founders - Druids #“Beowulf” was composed around the year…. + 700 - 800 - 900 - 1000 #Who presented the sword “Hrunting” to Beowulf? + Unferth - Hrothgar - Higelac - Wiglaf #The poem “Beowulf”begins and ends with….. + Funeral - Battle - Wedding - Feast #Which writer (poet) is characterized by the following: He is sometimes called “the prince of poets” because many later English poets learned the art of versification from his works. He created a sonnet form of his own. He is the author of the sonnet cycle “Amoretti”. + Edmund Spenser - Robert Burns - Christopher Marlowe - Thomas Hood #“The Ecclesiastical History of the English Race” was written in…. + 731 - 730 - 703 - 704 #In what literary genre “Anglo-Saxon Chronicle” was written? + Prose - Poetry - Sonnet - Lyrics #When did Sir Thomas Mallory live? + 1395-1472 - 1390-1470 - 1394-1471 - 1395-1472 #Who was the first writer of Arthurian Legends? + Geoffrey of Monmouth - Sir Thomas Mallory - Venerable Bede - Alfred The Great #The poem “Piers Plowman” was written by… + William Langland - Caedmon - Cynewulf - Venerable Bede #What work is considered to be the predecessor of psychological novel in England? + Troilus and Criseyda - The legend of Good Women - The House of fame - The Canterbury Tales #Chaucer began composing his masterpiece “The Canterbury Tales “ in…. + 1386 - 1385 - 1387 - 1388 #Who wrote ”Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider….” ? + Sir Francis Bacon - Sir Thomas More - Sir Philip Sidney - Edmund Spenser #In the work “Utopia” Thomas More criticizes…. + Social system - Economic system - Church system - King`s divorce #Sir Thomas More worked as Lord Chancellor in…… + 1529-1532 - 1525-1532 - 1529-1533 - 1529-1530 #Bacon`s “The New Atlantis” was written in…… + 1626 - 1625 - 1627 - 1628 #“The New Instrument “by Bacon was written in ….. + Latin - Modern English - German - French #The poem “Faerie Queene” describes + Nature - Love - Politics - Dream #Which work is usually considered the most outstanding work of Elizabethan literary theory and criticism? + “An apology for poetry” by Sir Philip Sidney - “Of students” by Sir Francis Bacon - “Arcadia” by Sir Philip Sidney - “Every man in his humor” by Ben Jonson. #Who was the first Elizabethan writer of tragedy? + Christopher Marlowe - William Shakespeare - John Milton - Ben Jonson #Christopher Marlowe’s three greatest tragedies are: + ”Tamburlaine the Great”, “Doctor Faustus”, “The Jew of Malta” - “The Rape of the Lock”, “An Essay on Man”, Tamburlaine the Great” - “Paradise Lost”, “Samson Agonistes”, “Doctor Faustus” - “Manfred”, “Macbeth”, “The Jew of Malta” #Who is considered to be the founder of English literature? + Geoffrey Chaucer - Edmund Spenser - William Shakespeare - John Milton #Who is the author of the best English Satirical comedies? + Ben Jonson - R. I. Stevenson - William Shakespeare - Christopher Marlowe #The works: “Volpone, or the Fox”, “The Silent Woman””The Alchemist” were written by… + Ben Johnson - Francis Bacon - Geoffrey Chaucer - John Milton #How many plays were written by William Shakespeare? + 37 - 38 - 39 - 40 #How many sonnets were written by William Shakespeare? + 154 - 164 - 155 - 165 #How many periods are there in William Shakespeare`s creative activity? + 4 - 5 - 6 - 3 #John Milton lived and worked in…. + 1608-1674 - 1609-1670 - 1607-1688 - 1607-1687 #“Paradise Lost” is divided into….. + 12 books - 11 books - 14 books - 13 books #The poem “Annus Mirabilis” is written by … + John Dryden - John Milton - Joseph Addison - Richard Steele # What kind of verses did John Dryden write? + Odes, poetic drama, biting satires and translations - Narrative poetry ,poems and sonnets - Sonnets, odes, lyrics and drama - Poetic drama, sonnets, biting satire, translations #What poetry do the following lines belong to? Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Or woods, or sleepy mountain yields. (Christopher Marlowe. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.) + C'arpe diem poetry. - Romantic poetry. - Puritan poetry - Metaphysical poetry #Which century is called “the Augustan Age” + 18th - 19th - 17th - 16th #Whose epigram is the following:”To err is human, to forgive divine”. + Alexander Pope - John Dryden - Joseph Addison - Richard Steele #Who is the founder of the early realistic novel in English Literature? + Daniel Defoe - Jonathan Swift - Alexander Pope - John Milton #“The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe” was written in… + 1719 - 1718 - 1717 - 1715 #When did English poets begin to write on Carpe diem theme? + In the Renaissance period - In the Age of Reason - In the Age of Enlightenment. - In the 17th century #In what form did Satan return at night in order to persuade Eve to eat the forbidden fruit? ("Paradise Lost") + Serpent - Swallow - Fox - Bird #Which tragedy written by W. Shakespeare is considered the hardest of his works to understand because of the main character's behavior? + Hamlet - Othello - Macbeth - King Lear #Jonathan Swift lived in the years….. + 1667-1745 - 1667-1746 - 1668-1749 - 1668-1748 #How many voyages are there in “Gulliver`s Travels” + 4 - 3 - 2 - 5 #“The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling” was written by….. + Henry Fielding - Samuel Richardson - Jonathan Swift - Daniel Defoe #The novel “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling “consists of…. + 18 books - 17 books - 16 books - 15 books #The first representative of the sentimental school in England was….. + Samuel Richardson - Henry Fielding - Jonathan Swift - Daniel Defoe #How many lines does a sonnet consist of? + 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 #What was the first literary work (collection of poems,) written by G.G.Byron? + "Hours of Idleness.” - "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." - "Manfred" - "English Bar #The poem “My Heart`s in the Highlands” is written by…. + Robert Burns - William Blake - George Byron - W.Wordsworthds and Scotch” #Which writer gave official birth to the Romantic Age in English Literature? + Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Robert Burns - George Byron - William Blake #What were the three chief forms of Elizabethan poetry + The lyric, the sonnet, and narrative poetry - The epic, the sonnet, and blues - Narrative poetry, odes, and epic - The limericks, the lyric and narrative poetry. #William Blake was a…… + Mystic - Playwright - Novelist - Sonnet writer #“The Paradise Lost’ was written by… + John Milton - William Blake - Alexander Pope - John Dryden #“The Gates of Paradise “and “Jerusalem” were written by… + William Blake - Alexander Pope - John Dryden - John Milton #Which novels by Walter Scott were devoted to Scottish history? + ”Waverly, or "Tis Sixty Years Since", "The Astrologer"," Rob Roy". - "The Monastery", "The Abbot", "The Pirate", "Woodstock". - "Ivanhoe" (1820), 'The Monastery" (! 820), "The Ab¬bot". - The Fortunes of Nigel" , "Peveril of the Peak" ,"Woodstock". #One of the main divisions of a long poem is….. + Canto - Stanza - Part - Passage #A movement in art and literature which arose in the 17th century is …… + Classicism - Romanticism - Sentimentalism - Neo-classicism #The using of ridicule, irony, sarcasm in writing or speech for the purpose of exposing some moral or social vice is called… + Satire - Fiction - Fable - Humor #Which work belongs to the eighth century? + “Beowulf” - “Canterbury Tales” - “Paradise Lost” - “Robinson Crusoe” #Where do Grendel and his equally monstrous mother live? + At the bottom of a foul lake - On the pick of a high mountains - At the cave beneath the ground - At home as common people #Who were called “scribes”? + Writers - Warriors - Singers - Priests #The Anglo-Saxons were advanced people and by the time they conquered Britain, they had already their own ……….. called “runes”. + Letters - Books - Teachers - Schools #When was Britain conquered by Rome? + In the 4th century BC - In the 1st century BC - In the 2nd century BC - In the 3rd century BC #What is the major theme in Romanticism? + Nature - Money - Home - Relation #Which language was“The Ecclesiastical History of the English Race”written in? + Latin - German - English - Scottish #Who is the only Englishman named a Doctor of the church” + The Venerable Bede - Alfred the Great - Caedmon - Cynewulf #By whom “The Ecclesiastical History of the English Race”was translated into Anglo-Saxon? + Alfred the Great - The apprentice of Bede - The auther Himself - Scholars at the court of King Alfred #Choose Cynewulf’s 4 famous works + The "Christ" , The "Elene", The "Juliana", The "Fates of the Apostles” - The "Christ" , The "Elene", “Robin Hood”, “Beowulf” - The "Christ" , The "Elene", The "Juliana", “Beowulf” - The "Elene", The "Juliana", The "Fates of the Apostles” #Choose suitable information about Cynewulf’s “The Elene” + It is a typical representation of the life of a saint that closely follows its Latin source. - This poem preserved in only one manuscript - This poem uncovered in Vercelli - This poem is a glorification of three themes #………..is a story about two teenagers who fall in love but are forbidden to see each other by their parents. + Romeo and Juliet - Pygmalion - Clarissa - Hamlet #………..are stories of adventure in which the chief parts are played by knights, famous king, or distressed ladies, acting most often under the impulse of love, religious faith, or, in many, mere desire for adventure. + Medieval romances - Epic poem - Sonnets - Ballads #Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ______. + King Lear…Romeo and Juliet - King Lear…Othello - King John…The Merchant of Venice - King John…Julius Caesar #The keynote of the Renaissance is ____________. + Humanism - Realism - Naturalism - Skepticism #The English Renaissance period was an age of ______. + poetry and drama - drama and novel - novel and poetry - romance and poetry #_____is a typical feature of Swift’s writings. + Bitter satire - Elegant style - Casual narration -…………was a great cultural movement that began in Italy during the early 1330’s. # It spread to England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and other countries in the late 1400’s band ended about 1600. + Renaissance - Naturalism - Realism - Romanticism Complicated sentence structure #England’s first playhouse was built by…………… + James Burbage - William Shakespeare - William Caxton - Queen Elisabeth #………is a short poem that expresses a poet’s personal emotions and thoughts in a songlike style. + Lyrics - Poem - Sonnet - Romance #In this book the author criticizes the social system of England. He advances the proposal that education should be provided for everybody, men and women. He advocates tolerance for every form of religion. Wars and Warriors are abolished. + “Utopia” - “A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation” - “The New Atlantis” - “Of Studies”. #……. introduced the essay form into English literature, and from 1597 to 1625 he published, in three collections, a total of fifty-eight essays. + Francis Bacon - Ben Jonson - Samuel Jonson - Thomas More #The title of his sonnet cycle “Amoretti” means…… + “little love stories” - “little romanti stories” - “little stories about nature” - “little stories about young girl” #In this work the author tells how a Scythian shepherd rises from his lowly birth, and by the power of his personality becomes conqueror of the world. + “Tamberlaine the Great” - “The Jew of Malta” - “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”, - “Dido, Queen of Carthage”, #This character is a partly historical, partly legendary character. Most probably he lived in the second half of the 12th century, during the reign of Henry II and his son Richard, the Lion Heart. + Robin Hood - Merlin - King Arthur - Loyal Knight #This is Latin for “seize ( take advantage of) the day” and this poetry dealt with the swift passage of time and transiency of youth. + Carpe diem poem - Epic poem - Legend - Lyrics #………is one of Shakespeare’s greatest creations, but it is also considered the hardest of his works to understand. Some critics count it even mysterious. + “Hamlet” - “Othello” - “King Liar” - “Romeo and Juliet” #What works by Charles Dickens are written in a spirit of disillusionment? Now he feels that a better future is too far off and he only allows himself, as a writer, to dream of that future. His heroes show the moral strength and patience of the common people. + “Great Expectations”, and “Our Mutual Friend”. - “David Copperfield”, “Hard Times”, “Little Dorrit” - “Sketches by Boz” , “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, “Oliver Twist”, - “Nicholas Nickleby”, “Barnaby Rudge”, “The Old Curiosity Shop”. #Which comedy centres on the typical Shakesperian conflict between true and false emotion? + “The twelfth night” - “All’s Well That Ends Well” - “The Tempest” - “The Tempest” #………..is an epic, divided into twelve books, or chapters. The characters are God, three guardian angels - Raphael, Gabriel and Michael, Sa-tan and his rebel angels, and the first man and woman - Adam and Eve. Satan, who revolts against God, draws his side many rebel-angels and is driven out of Heaven. + “Paradise Lost” - “Paradise Regained” - “The gates of Paradise” - “Samson Agonisters” #What work are these lines taken from? Speechless he stood and pale, till thus at length First to himself he inward silence broke: _- Of all God’s works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, + “Paradise Lost” - “Paradise Regained” - “The gates of Paradise” - “Samson Agonisters” #“Annus Mirabilis”, a poem commemorating three events of the: the end of the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Dutch Warwas written by…….. + John Dryden - John Milton - Philip Sydney - Edmund Spenser #The eighteenth-century philosophical impulse known as…… + The Enlightenment - The Renaissance - The Edwardian - The Realism #Eighteenth-century England is also often called…….. + The Augustan Age - The Renaissance - The Edwardian - The Realism #This epigram is written by …….. : T’is education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined. + Alexander Pope - John Dryden - John Milton - George Byron #Who founded and conducted the first English newspaper “The Review” (1704 - 1713)? + Daniel Defoe - Jonathan Swift - Alexander Pope - John Dryden #Which writer (poet) is characterized by the following: He is sometimes called “the prince of poets” because many later English poets learned the art of versification from his works. He created a sonnet form of his own. He is the author of the sonnet cycle “Amoretti”. + Edmund Spenser - Robert Burns - Christopher Marlowe - Thomas Hood #In Which novels Charles Dickens expresses the strongest criticism for the social, describes in detail the social institutions of the day and draws a vivid picture of the English people life? + “David Copperfield”, “Hard Times”, “Little Dorrit” -“Great Expectations”, and “Our Mutual Friend”. - “Sketches by Boz” , “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, “Oliver Twist”, -“Nicholas Nickleby”, “Barnaby Rudge”, “The Old Curiosity Shop”. #What work is considered to be the predecessor of psychological novel in England? + Troilus and Criseyda - The legend of Good Women - The House of fame - The Canterbury Tales #Chaucer began composing his masterpiece “The Canterbury Tales “ in…. +1386 - 1385 - 1387 - 1388 #Who wrote ”Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider….” + Sir Francis Bacon - Sir Thomas More - Sir Philip Sidney - Edmund Spenser #Which poet of the Victorian Age has generally been called a difficult writer, so much that societies were formed to interpret his poetry? But sometimes he wrote simply, when he thought it consistent with his subject. One of his such not-too-difficult-to understand lyrical poems is “The Lost Mistress”. + Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson - Lord Byron - William Thackeray #Who wrote the most-quoted love poem in the English language “How do I love you ”? + Elizabeth Barrett - Charlotte Bronte - Robert Browning - Lord Tennyson #What is the city where the first church was built ? + Canterbury - Rome - London - Whitby #Who are the writers of religious poetry? + Caedmon and Cynewulf - Venerable Bede and Alfred the Great - William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer - Pope Gregory #To what type of literature does the epic poem “Beowulf ” belong to? + Pagan Literature - Secular Literature - Religious Literature #Written literature did not exist in the British Isles until about the year + 700 - 800 - 900 - 850 #Which work describes the growth of the Christian church in England from the attack of Julius Caesar in 55 B.C. to the beginning of the 8th century? + “The Ecclesiastical History of the English Race” - “ The Paraphrase” - “ Helen” and “Juliana” - “Caedmon`s Hymn” #What are Cynewulf’s works notable for? + for introducing women characters - for writing about war time - for religious ideas - for strong criticism #What did the literature of the early Middle Ages and the church teach? + Theology - Philosophy - Humanism - History #Fill the gap. Romances were brought to England by medieval poets called “…………..” (finders), who came from France with the Norman conquerors + trouveres - bards - scribers - poets #Fill the gap. Medieval romances were based on……………., especially those about King Arthur and the knights. The heroes of these romances, unlike the characters of church literature, were human beings who loved, hated and suffered + + Celtic legends - Latin legends - French legends - Ancient Roman legends #The material for the medieval romance in English was mainly drawn from the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. This subject matter is sometimes called the………………….. + “Matter of Britain” - “Matter of France” - “Matter of London ” - “Matter of Rome” #What art referred to the practice of training knights for the purpose of fighting? + The art of chivalry - The art of romances - The art of fighting - The art of the soldiers # “The House of Fame”, a didactic poem; “The Parliament of Fowls” (birds), an allegorical poem satirizing Parliament; “Troilus and Criseyda” were written by……… + Geoffrey Chaucer - William Langland - Alfred the Great - John Wycliffe #Folk poetry flourished in England and Scotland in the 15th century. The most interesting examples of folk poetry were ………… which expressed the sentiments and thoughts of people. They were handed down orally from generation to generation. + ballads - legends - romances - epic poems #How many periods can be distinguished in Geoffrey Chaucer’s literary work? + 3 - 4 - 5 - 2 #What group do Robin Hood ballads belong to? + heroic - romantic - historic - realistic #During this period thinkers paid greater attention to the study of humanity. + Renaissance - Enlightenment - Sentimentalism - Romanticism # The height of the Renaissance was under the reign of…………… + Elizabeth I - Tudor Dynasty - Stuart Dynasty - King Charles #The most important dramatist among the University Wits was ……. + Christopher Marlowe - Robert Greene - George Peele - James Burbage # Blank verse, introduced into the language by………….., became the main form for writing tragedies and comedies + Surrey - Wyatt - Marlowe - Robert Green # Shakespeare’s great tragedies were written during the reign of……… + King James - King Charles - Elizabeth I - Queen Marry #The following work was published in 1591, and consisted of 108 sonnets and 11 songs, and usually regarded as the greatest literary achievement of Philip Sidney. + “Astrophel and Stella” - “Arcadia”. - “Apology for Poetry” - “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia” #Though “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia” was written chiefly in prose, it contained some poems. Lost for more than three hundred years, two manuscript copies of Sydney’s original “Arcadia” were finally found in……………. + 1907 - 1909 - 1912 - 1910 #. In this work the author polemized with those who denied poetry, and its right to exist. Sidney proclaimed the great importance of poetry because of its power to teach and delight at the same time. + “Apology for Poetry” - “Astrophel and Stella” - “Arcadia”. - “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia” # In this work Christopher Marlowe tells how a Scythian shepherd rises from his lowly birth, and by the power of his personality becomes conqueror of the world. Elizabethan spectators found a keen pleasure in watching a brave but ruthless hero struggle against titanic forces on his way to the success. + “Tamberlaine the Great” - “The Jew of Malta” - “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus” - “Dido, Queen of Carthage” # ………….. Latin for “seize ( take advantage of) the day” and this poetry dealt with the swift passage of time and transiency of youth. Usually the speaker of such a poem was a young man, and usually he was urging a young woman to take advantage of life and love while she was still young and attractive + Carpe diem poetry - Epic poetry - Blank poetry - lyrics #He was also a fine lyric poet. His miner poems and the songs in many of his plays are true masterpieces. But it was in the genre of satirical comedies that he became leader and excelled all other dramatists. His comic manner of depicting characters typical of contemporary life influenced the whole English literature. He was friendly with Shakespeare. + Ben Jonson - Christopher Marlowe - Philip Sidney - Edmund Spenser #No other writer’s plays have been produced so often and read so widely in so many different countries. He had a greater influence on the world literature than any other author. + William Shakespeare - Ben Jonson - Christopher Marlowe - Philip Sidney #What are the years of the period known as “The lost years” because there are no documentary records of Shakespeare’s activities + 1585-1592 - 1588-1590 - 1590-1595 - 1595-1597 #Which tragedy of William Shakespeare blames the adults for their blind self-interest, which leads to the death of youngsters? + Romeo and Juliet - The Taming of the Shrew - The Two Gentlemen of Verona. - Love’s Labour’s Lost. #For whose murder the king, Claudius, exiles Hamlet to England ? + Polonius - Laertes - Ophelia - his mother # Who kills Hamlet with a poisoned sword? + Laertes - Polonius - Claudius - Horasio #This comedy centres on the typical Shakesperian conflict between true and false emotion. Duke Orsino tries to convince himself that he is in love with Countess Olivia and grows more absorbed by his feelings after each rebuff received from her. But Olivia is in deep grief for her dead brother and renounces all joy of life. + Twelth Night - Much Ado about Nothing - The Taming of the Shrew - The Two Gentlemen of Verona. #What sonnet are these lines taken from? Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rime; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear’d with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, + 55 - 75 - 56 - 76 # Who were the main protagonists of Shakespeare’s sonnets? + poet himself, dark lady, poet`s friend - poet himself, dark lady - poet himself, dark lady, contemporary poet of his time - poet, his beloved woman, dark lady # What are the years of “Restoration” period? + 1660-1688 - 1665- 1690 - 1665-1698 - 1660-1690 #Highly intellectual verse filled with intricate and prolonged metaphors. The leading poet is John Donne + metaphysical poetry - sonnet - epic poem - ode #The story is taken from the Bible. The great hero, is imprisoned and blinded, but manages to destroy his enemies, although he perishes himself. Some character features of the hero of the tragedy are identical with those of the author, Milton. In it Milton shows that he remained faithful to his ideals. It is considered his most powerful work. + “Samson Agonistes” - “Paradise Lost” - “Paradise Regained” - “Lycidas” #Who is the writer of the works “Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Cromwell“ ,“Astraea Redux”? + John Dryden - John Milton - Daniel Defoe - Oliver Cromwell #………. was a talented translator too. His translation of Virgil’s “Aeneid”, published in 1697, was extremely popular. As a translator, he also rendered Juvenal, Ovid and Chaucer, and the best of his prose in the preface of 1700 to the “Fables”, in which, in the year of his death, he introduced some of his translations to the public. + John Dryden - John Milton - Daniel Defoe - Oliver Cromwell #The writers and philosophers of this age reflected the ideology of the middle class. They protested against the survival of feudalism. They thought that vice was due to ignorance, so they started a public movement for educating the people. + Enlightenment - Sentimentalism - Romanticism - Rstoration #Who issued a magazine, “The Tatler”,which was followed by others: “The Spectator” (1711), “The Guardian” (1713), and “The Englishman”(1713). + Richard Steele - Daniel Defoe - John Milton - John Dryden # Eighteenth-century England is also often called the………... The term comes from the name given to the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus. During his reign, which lasted from 27 B.C. to 14 A.D. Latin literature reached its height with such great writers as Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. English authors tried to imitate or recapture many of the philosophic and literary ideals of this period of Roman history. + Augustan Age - The age Reason - The age of Johnson - The age of Classicism #The translator of the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” of Homer, which brought him fame. He had a delicate sense of style, which he polished to the highest degree. His poems rapidly developed from the gentle lyrics of his earlier years into biting satires of English society and politics of the 17th century. + Alexander Pope - Daniel Defoe - John Milton - John Dryden #In this work , Pope was able to mock at the whole of the fashionable society of the eighteenth century, while showing that he had some passionate attachment to its elegance. + “The Rape of the Lock” - “An Essay on Criticism” - “The Dunciad” - “Essay on Man” #In this work Defoe expressed his views on the greatest public improvements of modern times: higher education for women, the protection of seamen, the construction of highways, and the opening of saving-banks. + “Essays on Projects” - “The True-born Englishman” - “The Life of Captain Singleton” - “Robison Crusoe” # This work was written against those, who declared that the English race should be kept pure. In the satire Defoe proved that trueborn Englishmen did not exist, since the English nation consisted of Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Normans, and others. + “The True-born Englishman” - “Essays on Projects” - “The Life of Captain Singleton” - “Robison Crusoe # Who is the writer of the novel “The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders” in 1722? + Daniel Defoe - Jonathan Swift - Samuel Johnson - Alexander Pope # In this work Jonathan Swift ridiculed the extravagances of religion, literature, and academia. + “A Tale of a Tub” - “The Battle of Books” - “Journal to Stella” - “Gulliver’s Travels” # Gulliver’s second voyage takes him to the country of …………, where people are 12 times larger than Gulliver and amused by his tiny size. + Brobdingnag - Lilliputians - Houyhnhnms - several strange kingdoms #The greatest merit of the novel is the satirical description of all the vices of the society of the time. Under the cloak of fantasy the writer satirized the politics of the time, religious prejudices, wars of ambition and the absurdity of many aspects of science of the Enlightenment. + Gulliver’s Travels - Robinson Crusoe - The History of Tom Jones - Pamela #The works “A Judge Caught in his Own Trap”(1730), “Don Quixote in Eng-land” (1734), and “Pasquin” (1736) were written by……… + Henry Fielding - Samuel Richardson - Tobias Smollet - Daniel Defoe #He is the author of the “Elegy”. He was among the most learned men in Europe in his day, yet his poems are a thin sheaf, a few odes and the “Elegy”. He brought into his poems new interests, but with the whole of the classical and medieval world within his grasp it is sad that some melancholy or inertia held him from composition. + Thomas Gray - Henry Fielding - Samuel Richardson - Tobias Smollet #The other sentimentalist poets of the 18th century was:………… who was too diffuse to be a great artist. His poem “The Seasons” (1726) is like a schoolboy’s essay padded into the requisite size. Yet for over a century he was one of the most widely-read poets in England. + James Thomson - Thomas Gray - Henry Fielding - Samuel Richardson #The works “The Lives of the English Poets”, “London” and “The Vanity of Human Wishes”, “Rasselas” were written by……….. + Samuel Johnson - Samuel Richardson - James Thomson - Thomas Gray #Who is the writer of one of the great comedies of English drama “The School for Scandal” was written in 1777. This play exposes society people who love malicious gossip and does it with glittering wit. Here the author creates contrasting characters of a careless but kind young man, Charles Surface, and his cunning and selfish brother Joseph. + Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Samuel Johnson - Samuel Richardson - James Thomson # English writers of the late 1700s and early 1800s substituted passion for Augustan harmony and moderation. They preferred mysteriousness, believed in the creative power of the imagination and adopted a personal view of the world. These writers are called…………. + romantics - sentimentalists - realists - humanists # In this work Thomas Gray described the unfulfilled lives of common people. It abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind and with sentiments to which every bosom must return an echo. + “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” - “The Task” - “Is There for Honest Poverty” - “John Barleycorn” #The poems “Is There for Honest Poverty”, “John Barleycorn”, “Epistle to Dovie, a Brother Poet”, “Lines Written on a Bank-note” were written by…… + Robert Burns - William Blake - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Tobias Smollet #In 1798, with the publication of this collection of poems William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge gave official birth to the Romantic Age in literature. + “Lyrical Ballads” - “The Task” - “Is There for Honest Poverty” - “John Barleycorn” #Their motto was : “Close to Nature and from Nature to God”, because they believed that religion put man at peace with the world. They were……… + Lake Poets - Sons of Ben - Classicists poets - Sentimentalists #Who is the writer of the poems “Hours of Idleness”, “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”. + lord Byron - Robert Burns - William Blake - Samuel Taylor Coleridge #Byron spoke in defense of the English workers and blamed the government for the unbearable conditions of the life of the working people. N which poem the poet again raised his voice in defense of the oppressed workers, encouraging them to fight for freedom? + “Song for the Luddites” - “Hours of Idleness” - “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers” - ”Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” #Which author himself remarked: “I awoke one morning and found myself famous”? + lord Byron - Robert Burns - William Blake - Samuel Taylor Coleridge #The tales “Oriental Tales”: “The Giaour”, “The Corsair”, “Lara”, Pari-sina”were written by……… + lord Byron - Robert Burns - William Blake - Samuel Taylor Coleridge # It is one of Byron`s great poems, a performance of rare artistic skill.Humor, sentiment, adventure, and pathos were thrown together with that same disconcerting incongruity as they were to be found in life. The style is a clever imitation of idiom and phrasing of ordinary conversation, used with great cunning for satiric and comic effects. + “Don Juan” - “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” - “The Prophecy of Dante” - “Marino Faliero” # The following poems “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” (1805), “Marmion” (1808) and “The Lady of the Lake” were written by…………. + Walter Scott - Lord Byron - William Blake - Samuel Taylor Coleridge #This writer published many of his novels under the name of “The Author of Waverley”. During the years (1815 - 1832) he wrote more than 27 other novels, four plays and many stories and tales besides. All of his novels were referred to as part of the Waverley series, because the author was identified on the title page as “The Author of Waverley”. His authorship was officially revealed in 1827, but it had been known for years. It was………………….. + Walter Scott - Lord Byron - William Blake - Samuel Taylor Coleridge The first group of Walter Scott`s novels are devoted to ……………… a. Scottish history b. Italian history c. English history d. French history # The following novels by Walter Scott “Ivanhoe” (1819), “The Monastery” (1820), “The Abbot” (1820), “Kenilworth” (1821), “The Pirate” (1822), “The Fortunes of Nigel” (1822), “Peveril of the Peak” (1822), ’’Woodstock” (1826) refer to……………….. + English history - European history - Scottish history - Italian history # What is the birthplace of sonnet? + Italy - Rome - England - France #The main idea of the book is to call for peace and compromise. Scott wanted to reconcile the hostile classes. He believed that social harmony possible if the best representatives of all classes would unite in a struggle against evil. This idea is expressed in the novel ………………………in the episode when the Norman king Richard, together with Robin Hood and his merry men, attack the castle of the Norman baron to set the Saxon thanes free. This incident shows how the allied forces of honest men, though from hostile classes, conquer evil. + “Ivanhoe” - The Pirate” - “The Fortunes of Nigel” - “Peveril of the Peak” #The leading woman novelist of the Romanticism is……………. + Jane Austen - Charlotte Bronte - Emily Dickens - Marry Avans # The novels “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma” “Mansfield Park” , “Persuasion” were written by……….. + Jane Austen - Charlotte Bronte - Emily Dickens - Marry Avans # She had satirized the “terror” novel, and in her own work she substituted her cleverly worked realism and comedy. Her letters show how conscious she was of what she was doing, and of her own limitations:“I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other”. It is……………………. + Jane Austen - Charlotte Bronte - Emily Dickens - Marry Avans #This poet was born on January 25, 1759 in Ayrshire, Scotland. His father was a poor farmer, but he tried to give his son the best education. Later, the poet wrote about it in his verses “My Father Was a Farmer”: + Robert Burns - Samuel Johnson - W.Blake - Daniel Defoe # “The Critic”, a short satiric play, written in 1779. In this work the writer wittily criticizes theatrical fashions of his time. It is…………………….. + Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Tobias Smallet - Henry Fielding - Jonathan Swift #Sheridan’s finest play, one of the great comedies of English drama was written in 1777. This play exposes society people who love malicious gossip and does it with glittering wit. Here the author creates contrasting characters of a careless but kind young man, Charles Surface, and his cunning and selfish brother Joseph. + “The School for Scandal” - “St. Patrick’s Day” - “The Duenna” - “The Critic” #The following works: “Dictionary of the English Language”, “The Lives of the English Poets”, “The Vanity of Human Wishes” were written by ……………………….. + Samuel Johnson - Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Tobias Smallet - Henry Fielding # Special tribute should be given to Samuel Johnson’s biographer, whose “Life of Johnson” was published in 1791. + James Boswell - Arthur Burke - Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Tobias Smallet #The second half of the eighteenth century is often called the Age of Johnson. It was named so after…………………, whose powerful personality and long literary career, made him the dominating literary figure of the century, from about 1750 until his death in 1784 + Samuel Johnson - Ben Johnson - Richard Johnson - William Johnson #What is the type of these novels “Pamela; or, Virtue Reward-ed” , “Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady” and “The History of Sir Charles Grandison”? + Epistolary novel - Epic Novel - Realistic Novel - Gothic novel # The only example of philosophic satirical novel in English Literature is …….. + Gulliver`s Travels - Robinson Crusoe - The Foundling - Pamela #What type of the novel has the following features: comic romance rooted in the narrative conventions of romance and epic, un-heroic hero - 'ordinary' person, omniscient, meddling, third person narrator,wide social range topics? + Epic Novel - Epistolary novel - Realistic Novel - Gothic novel # This writer of Realism possessed qualities rarely found together; a rich imagination, great critical power and keen knowledge of the human heart. He used to say that the three essential qualities in a novelist are genius, learning, and experience of human nature. His characters are all-round living being of flesh and blood, a combination of contradictions of good and bad. The virtues he appreciates greatest are courage, frankness and generosity. The most detestable vices for him are selfishness and hypocrisy. +Henry Fielding - Samuel Richardson - Laurence Stern - Walter Scott # In this work of Fielding the motive of satire completely dominated his second narrative, in which he took the life of a thief and receiver, who had been hanged, as a theme for demonstrating the small division between a great rogue and a great soldier, or a great politician; + “The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great” - “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling” - ”Joseph Andrews” - “Amelia” # The novel by Henry Fielding” (1752), his last novel and is less even in its success. He idealizes the main woman character, and this leads to an excess of pathos, which deprives the novel of the balance possessed be “Tom Jones” + Amelia - Clarissa - Pamela - Emma # The main heroine of this novel of Samuel Richardson was a virtuous servant, who resisted the attempts at seduction of the son of her late mistress, and, as a result, gained from him a proposal of marriage, which she gleefully accepted. + Pamela - Clarissa - Emma - Clarissa # Who is the writer of the novel “Sentimental Journey” and in some other novels of the time, the corruption of town life is contrasted to the happy patriarchal life in the country. He was also a poet. Most of his poems are devoted to the village life. + Laurence Sterne - Samuel Johnson - Oliver Goldsmith - Walter Scott # Who is the other sentimentalist poet of the 18th century who was too diffuse to be a great artist. His poem “The Seasons” is like a schoolboy’s essay padded into the requisite size. Yet for over a century he was one of the most widely-read poets in England. His sympathy with ordinary life, and for poverty, combined with his generous sentiment made him acceptable to many who could not tolerate the hard brilliance of A. Pope. + James Thomson -Walter Scott - Henry Fielding - Robert Burns # Who wrote of the beauties of nature and his dislike of cities in and “The Task” (1785) where he moved freely amid rural scenes and described them in a manner not very heavy and pretentious? + William Cowper -Walter Scott - Henry Fielding - Robert Burns # This writer`s philosophy was rationalism. Rationalism is a conviction that one should think and behave rationally - according to reason; it takes for granted the idea that the world is put together in such a way that the human mind can grasp it. The writer of the poem “Essay on Man”. + Alexander Pope - Walter Scott - Henry Fielding - Robert Burns # Who is the writer of “Beggar’s Opera”? + John Gay - Joseph Addison - Richard Steele - Oliver Goldsmith # The periodical essay was the eighteenth-century equivalent of the broadcast talk. Contact between writers and readers was established by famous English essayists ………….. + Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. - Richard Steele and Oliver Goldsmith - Henry Fielding and Robert Burns - William Cowper and -Walter Scott # Who composed the famous poem “Oh Shakespeare in Puritan Literature? + John Milton - John Dryden - Joseph Addison - Richard Steele # This poem is commemorated Edward King, a friend of Milton from the University of Cambridge. The body of this poem is composed of three movements that run in parallel pattern. This means that each movement begins with an invocation, and ends with a conclusion to Milton’s “emotional problem” + Lycidas - Oh Shakespeare - Paradise Lost - Samson Download 194.04 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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