Prof.Abdelhamid Fouda 

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 Advanced English Conversations:

What to say when… asking for other people's opinion

So what do you say when you're asking for other people's opinions?

Well quite simply, you could ask:

1. Do you agree?

Very basic. It's quite closed that question, so what about if you opened up that question to get a more interesting answer?

2. What do you think about that?

3. What's your opinion?

4. How do you feel about it?

If you want to make it a little more polite, you might say:

5. I'd like to hear your thoughts on that…

6. I'm interested to hear your opinion about this…

And more formally, maybe if you were at a meeting at work, you know you might ask

7. Would you like to add anything?

And this is just, you know, a nice sort of polite way of inviting other people into the conversation to share their opinion.

What to say when… you want to interrupt

So what about what to say when you want to interrupt? When someone else is talking and you want to interrupt them.

Well there are definitely ways to do it rudely but of course, there are many ways to do it politely as well. Sometimes you have to interrupt in conversations. So of course, you could say:

8. Sorry

9. Excuse me – is a little more polite

And then you can actually lead straight on with your different idea or your opinion there.

Sorry I thought our meeting was on Thursday next week, not Wednesday.

You know, it's just a little brief interjection to help you share a different opinion or a different thought. Now you can informally interrupt someone to add an idea to a conversation by saying

10. Do you mind if I add to that?

11. Can I jump in here?

And that literally means can I jump into the conversation right now at this point. I've got something to share. I want to say it.

Now there are some more polite ways to express this as well. You might say

12. Sorry to interrupt but… (I've got something to say)

13. Sorry for interrupting

Now there's not a lot of difference between those two. I would just say that “Sorry to interrupt” is probably used more when you're speaking directly to the person that you're interrupting and then maybe if you're stepping into a room full of people talking, a meeting room or something like that, then you might say “Sorry for interrupting, I just needed to share something with you.”

Now to go even more formal than that, perhaps if you're working in a hotel and you need to interrupt a customer, you might say:

14. Sorry, may I interrupt you for just a moment?

15. If I may interrupt you for a minute… (I'd like to share something with you)

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Okay. Where was I?

That was a good example of what to say when you've gone off topic.

What to say when… you have gone off topic

If you go off topic, it means that you started talking about something, so for example apples, but while you were talking you started to talk about something else, you know, maybe you got distracted or you got excited and went off telling a different story. Or even the other person that you're talking to has gone off topic and you're thinking “How on earth did we end up talking about potatoes?”

You've got to get your conversation back on track right? And it really is just that simple shift in the conversation. So here's how to do it.

16. So anyway, getting back to my story..

17. As I was saying…

18. Where was I? Ah yes…

You can also combine some of these expressions together.

So anyway, where were we? Ah yes… You were talking about apples!

What to say when… you think you understood but you need to double-check.

These are really important expressions to learn, to help you as you're listening so that you can feel more confident about your answers, you know, when you're answering someone else's question, this is just a little check to make sure you're answering it accurately.

So if you didn't quite hear perfectly, you could say:

19. So what you're asking is…

And then repeat back what you heard.

20. So, what you want to know is…

And then repeat.

21. Do you mean?

And then paraphrase what you heard or you could say

22. In other words, what you're saying is…

And this is a really natural part of conversation. Native speakers are not gonna care if you ask them to confirm what they said because it just makes it much easier to continue the conversation, right?

If you're working in customer service, maybe at a hotel or at a restaurant or something like that then using the verb ‘confirm' is a little moreformal. You might say:

23. I'd like to confirm what you said…

24. Excuse me, can I just confirm that/what you said…

Naturally, we agree and we disagree with people all of the time right and there are so many different ways to do this in English. Agreeing is pretty simple right, you can just say:

25. Yes! Absolutely!

to say that you agree.

26. I completely agree with you!

And we have this really fantastic expression which is…

27. I couldn't agree more

I couldn't possibly agree more. I really strongly agree with you.

What to say… somewhat disagree

But what to say to somewhat disagree? Now all of these examples are ways to say that you accept some of the ideas that the other person has shared but you don't completely agree with them.

Okay so you might say

28. I see what you mean but…

And then express, you know, a different opinion.

29. I understand your point of view but…

30. I can see where you're coming from but…

31. I agree with you up to a point, however… (I've got a different opinion)

What to say to… disagree

So then what to say when you disagree completely?

32. I don't feel the same way.

33. Actually, I don't quite agree or I disagree.

34. I'm afraid I don't agree with you on that / about that

Now this is quite an interesting English expression, “I'm afraid”. We use it when we're trying to make a statement more polite not just to say that we're worried or we're scared.

I'm afraid I can't help you.

I'm afraid we've run out of sausages.

So it's just a way of making those statements a little more polite and you can do the same thing when you're disagreeing.

I'm afraid I don't agree with you.

So to be quite formal when you disagree, then try to add a word like ‘respectfully'

35. Respectfully, I have to disagree.

And then if you feel like your conversation isn't going anywhere, maybe there's a bit of tension, people are getting frustrated and annoyed and you want to change the topic.

36. Well, we'll have to agree to disagree then!

It's a way to end the discussion, especially when it's getting a little heated and change the topic a little.

Now of course in English, you can be quite rude with your body language when you're disagreeing with someone. So in formal situations or when you want to be really polite, try to be aware of what your body is doing. So avoid shaking your head or rolling your eyes or sighing. You know? Unless you really want that other person to see that you're frustrated or you're annoyed with them.

What to say to… change the topic

Speaking of changing the topic, what do you say when you want to do that in English? What to say to change the topic? Now this is useful.

You might want to change the topic for a few different reasons. It could be as simple as you've run out of things to say about the topic. So instead of ending the conversation, you can simply change the topic and change direction.

37. That reminds me…

38. Speaking about / speaking of that…

You know this is a really useful expression or a way of you know kind of linking two ideas in a conversation.

Speaking about your holiday to Greece, did I tell you that I've got a trip planned later in the year?

But maybe you just want to introduce something completely different. So then you could try

39. Oh, by the way… (did I tell you about this?)

40. Oh, while I remember…

41. Before I forget… (I've got something I want to say)

42. This has nothing to do with what we're talking about but… (I've got to share it anyway)

43. I know this is completely changing the topic but… (I've got to tell you)

What to say when… you are talking about a controversial topic

Now this is more advanced conversation skills but maybe you want to talk about politics, religion, social issues. I quite enjoy learning about religion, social issues. I quite enjoy learning about but I know that my views will not always be the same as everyone else's.

But that doesn't mean that you need to avoid it, right? You just need a few tools and a few tips to help you keep the conversation open and positive.

So when you're introducing an idea that you feel like not everyone's going to agree with then you could try saying

44. I know not everyone agrees with me… (but this is what I think)

45. I know this is a contentious issue.

Contentious. And then go in to explain.

46. It might be an unpopular opinion but I strongly believe…

47. I don't see eye to eye with everyone on this matter, but I think it's really important to discuss this.

48. Whilst you may not agree with my views, I'm definitely interested in hearing yours.

49. I'm not trying to ruffle anyone's feathers here.

This is a fun little idiom to say I'm not trying to make anyone upset or angry, you know, I'm just sharing a different opinion. I'm not intending to ruffle anyone's feathers.

What to say when… you want to end a conversation

So having one of these simple expressions on hand will help you to politely end a conversation and move on. Right we don't want to get stuck in a conversation.

50. Well, I'd best be off! It's been great chatting.

51. Anyway, I'd better get back to it. I better get back to work.

52. I'm so glad I ran into you. It's been great catching up. I'll see you soon.

So there you have it! That was over fifty common phrases to help you have more advanced English conversations and help you to maintain those conversations even longer.

Now all of these tools are ones that native English speakers use all the time in conversations. So listen out for them in movies and podcasts. Try to hear them in context. Now definitely don't try and learn all of them at once, okay not all fifty phrases at once but definitely choose a couple of them from each category and really start to get familiar with them and how to use them.

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English #literature #Mcqs

 Prof. Abdelhamid Fouda 

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William Wordsworth 

1. Wordsworth was born at?

COCKERMOUTH 

2.Date of birth of William Wordsworth? 

1770

3. Wordsworth's father name is?

John Wordsworth 

4. He spent his boyhood among?

Shepherds

5. He was? 

First second of his parents 

6. When he was 8 years old

Mother died 

7. He lost his father at the age of? 

14 years

8.  He went to Cambridge at the age of??

16

9. Cambridge to get his education at?

Saint John college 

10. Wordsworth visited France? 

Twice

11. He visited France first time?

1790

12."An Evening walk and descriptive Sketches" were published by Wordsworth in?

1793

13. His poetic genius was stimulated by his friend?

Coldridge 

14. His friendship with Coleridge began in?

1796

15. Lyrical Ballads were published in? 

1798.

G.B. Shaw:

Q. English dramatist and scholar Bernard Shaw was born in?

Ans. 1856. He died in 1950

Q. Bernard Shaw was born in?

Ans. Dublin

Q. Shaw started to write dramas under the influence of?

Ans. Ibsen

Q. Quintessence Of Ibsenism is written by? Ans. Shaw

Q. The most underrated comedy of Shaw is? Ans. You Never Can Tell

Q. In the history of English drama, Shaw’s position is next to?

Ans. Shakespeare

Q. Shaw built his own theater, the theater of? Ans. Ideas

Q. Who is considered the founder of the drama of ideas?

Ans. Shaw

Q. Bernard Shaw’s forefathers were?

Ans. Small landowners

Q. His father’s family were small landowners in Ireland since?

Ans. 17th century

Q. Shaw’s play Man And Superman proved tremendous success especially in?

Ans. New York

Q. Shaw’s last unfinished play was given to? Ans. The British Museum

Q. Shaw won the Nobel Prize for literature in? Ans. 1925

Q. Shaw dominated the English literature for? Ans. Over sixty years

Q. His father was employed at?

Ans. Law court

Q. Shaw’s father later became?

Ans. Grain merchant

Q. Bernard Shaw’s mother was young than his father by? Ans. 20 years

Q. Bernard Shaw’s mother was? Ans. Opera singer

Q. As a boy Bernard Shaw frequented to? Ans. Irish National Gallery

Q. Through the source of opera, Bernard Shaw introduced himself to great?

Ans. Writers

Q. Bernard Shaw’s family background with respect to religion was?

Ans. Protestant

Q. Shaw’s first novel was?

Ans. Immaturity

Q. Shaw’s first novel immaturity deals with the problem of?

Ans. Marriage

Q. Shaw was?

Ans. An atheist

Q. Shaw had?

Ans. Two sisters

Q. Shaw worked as a?

Ans. Clerk then cashier

Q. In ten years upto the age of 29, Shaw earned by means of his journalism only? Ans. Six pounds

Q. Between the period of 1879-1882, he wrote?

Ans. Four novels

Q. Shaw second novel was?

Ans. The Irrational Knot

Q. Shaw’s first published book was?

Ans. Cashel Byron’s Profession

Q. Shaw went to a meeting addressed by Henry George in?

Ans. 1882

Q. What, according to Shaw, changed the current of his life?

Ans. Henry George’s speech

Q. After change in the current of Shaw’s life, he studied?

Ans. Socialism

Q. Shaw read Marx’s?

Ans. Das Kapital

Q. The name of the socialist journal which accepted Cashel Byron’s Profession was? Ans. Today

Q. Shaw was elected to the executive of Fabian Society in?

Ans. 1885

Q. Shaw had an outstanding aptitude for? Ans. Debate

Q. His aptitude for debate earned for Shaw the position of a?

Ans. Public speaker

Q. Which is decidedly Shaw’s best novel? Ans. Cashel Byron’s Profession

Q. Who wrote Pygmalion?

Ans. Shaw

Q. Shaw wrote his last complete play at the age of?

Ans. 91

Q. The last complete play of Shaw was?

Ans. Buoyant Billions

Q. Shaw got married at the age of?

Ans. 42…in 1898

Q. Which play of Shaw was banned?

Ans. Mrs. Warren’s Profession

Q. Shaw’s play Major Barbara is about?

Ans. Money

Q. Shaw was?

Ans. Anti-romantic

Q. What is the subtitle given to Pygmalion by Shaw?

Ans. A Romance

Q. Who wrote the play Getting Married?

Ans. Shaw

Q. Which plays were Shaw’s first stage successes?

Ans. Arms And The Man and Candida

Q. Who wrote The Apple Cart?

Ans. Shaw

Q. Pygmalion was the legendary king of? Ans. Cyprus

Q. Pygmalion is a problem play and?

Ans. Play of ideas

Q. The subject of Shaw’s Arms And The Man is?

Ans. Romantic conception of the soldier

Q. Shaw was?

Ans. A vegetarian

Q. Who said, “Shaw has been for modern Britain what Socrates was for ancient Greece?”

Ans. A.C Ward

Q. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession deals with?

Ans. Prostitution

Q. Shaw’s play John Bull’s Other Island deals with?

Ans. Irish problems

Q. In whose writing Shaw saw an escape from the Darwinian theory?

Ans. Samuel Butler

Q. Shaw published the first collection of plays in?

Ans. 1898. It was in two volumes

Q. Doctor’s Dilemma was written by?

Ans. Shaw

Q. Shaw got Oscar Award in?

Ans. 1938

Q. Shaw married?

Ans. Charlotte Payne-Townshend

Q. Shaw died at the age of?

Ans. 94

Q. Shaw wrote how many novels in total? Ans. Five

Q. Shaw’s first financial success as a playwright came with his eighth play?

Ans. The Devil’s Disciple

Q. Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple is about the attempted hanging of a rebel during?

Ans. The American War of Independence

Q. Shaw bequeathed a large sum of money in his will for?

Ans. Creating and promoting a new alphabet

Q. Pygmalion was published in?

Ans. 1912

Q. The novel An Unsocial Socialist was written by?

Ans. Bernard Shaw

Q. Shaw’s work Love Among The Artists is? Ans. A novel

Q. The Black Girl In Search Of God is a short story by?

Ans. Bernard Shaw

Q. Who wrote The philanderer?

Ans. Shaw

Q. Misalliance is written by?

Ans. Shaw

Q. Who wrote Caesar And Cleopatra?

Ans. Shaw

Q. Who wrote Heartbreak house?

Ans. Shaw

Q. Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple is?

Ans. A melodrama

Q. In Man Of Destiny, Shaw presented the satirical portrait of?

Ans. Young Napoleon

Q. Shaw wrote prefaces to his plays in order to justify his determination to accept ______as the normal material of the drama? Ans. Problems

Q. Shaw’s plays are of______, debate and discussion rather than dramas of character, action and passion? Ans. Ideas

Q. Pygmalion reveals Shaw’s constant fascination with? Ans. Language

Q. Shaw’s play Man And Superman explores the idea of a?

Ans. Life force

Q. Shaw’s play Candida deals with?

Ans. Female equality

Q. Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses deals with a slum landlord’s __________of the poor?

Ans. Exploitation

Q. The chief Shavian quality is to make people _______by compelling them to laugh? Ans. Think

Q. Who asked Shaw to write dialogue for the adaptation of French play?

Ans. Henry George

Q. Shaw’s first collection of plays is entitled? Ans. Plays Pleasant And Unpleasant

Q. The main purpose of Shaw’s first volume was to shake people out of their?

Ans. Political complacencies and beliefs

Q. Shaw’s most successful play was?

Ans. Pygmalion

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#English_Literature 

1.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Literature

2.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Poetry

3.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Language

4.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Morning Star of the Renaissance

5.Geoffrey Chaucer = The First National Poet

6.Venerable Bede = The Father of English Learning.

7.Venerable Bede = The Father of English History

8.King Alfred the Great = The Father of English Prose

9.Aeschylus = The Father of Tragedy

10.Nicholas Udall = The First English Comedy Writer

11.Edmund Spenser = The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)

12.Edmund Spenser = The Child of Renaissance

13.Edmund Spenser = The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation

14.Gutenberg = The Father of Printing

15.William Caxton = Father of English Press

16.Francis Bacon = The Father of English Essay

17.John Wycliffe = The Morning Star of the Reformation

18.Christopher Marlowe = The Father of English Tragedy

19.William Shakespeare = Bard of Avon

20.William Shakespeare = The Father of English Drama

21.William Shakespeare = Sweet Swan of Avon

22.William Shakespeare = The Bard

23.Robert Burns = The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)

24.Robert Burns = The National Poet of Scotland

25.Robert Burns = Rabbie

26.Robert Burns = The Ploughman Poet

27.William Dunber = The Chaucer of Scotland

28.John Dryden = Father of English criticism

29.William of Newbury = Father of Historical Criticism

30.John Donne = Poet of love

31.John Donne = Metaphysical poet

32.John Milton = Epic poet

33.John Milton = The great master of verse

34.John Milton = Lady of the Christ College

35.John Milton = Poet of the Devil’s Party

36.John Milton = Master of the Grand style

38.John Milton = The Blind Poet of England

39.Alexander Pope = Mock heroic poet

40.William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature

41.William Wordsworth = The High Priest of Nature

42.William Wordsworth = The Poet of Nature

43.William Wordsworth = The Lake Poet

44.William Wordsworth = Poet of Childhood.

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81. Who uttered these words “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all” ?

John Keats

82. Which was Marlowe’s first play ?

Tamburlaine

83. To which theater was Christopher Marlow associated with ?

English Renaissance theatre

84. What was the first published title of Christopher Marlow’s play The Jew of Malta ?

The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta

85. The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by ?

Wyclif

86. Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance ?

15th

87. Renaissance first came to the ?

Italy

88. Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus’ character at the beginning of the play ?

arrogant

89. Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance ?

Spencer

90. “On his blindness”, a collection of sonnets is written by ?

John Milton 

91. “The Prince Of Poets in his time”, on whom grave the inscription is written ?

Edmund Spencer

92. What is Faerie Queene ?

An allegory

93. Who wrote “Holy Sonnets” ?

John Donne

94. Who wrote “The Massacre at Paris” ?

Christopher Marlowe

95. Which famous work of John Milton’s was based on the fall of man ?

Paradise Lost

96. What is the meaning of Milton’s work Samson Agonistes ?

Wrestler

97. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?

How do I love thee

98. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry

Meter

99. The repetition of similar ending sounds

Rhyme

100. Applying human qualities to non-human things

Personification

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101. The repetition of beginning consonant sound

Alliteration

102. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as

metaphor

103. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

simile

104. Using words or letters to imitate sounds

onomatopoeia

105. a description that appeals to one of the five senses

imagery

106. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters

narrative

107. A poem with no meter or rhyme

free verse

108. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme

lyric

109. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

Iambic pentameter

110. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?

William Carlos Williams

111. Who wrote this famous line: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate…'

Shakespeare

112. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?

The 12th

113. From which of Shakespeare's plays is this famous line: 'Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night'

Romeo and Juliet

114. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

Acrostic

115. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?

Robert Burns

116. How has Stephen Dunn been described in 'the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?

A poet of middleness

117. 'The Cambridge school' refers to a group who emerged when?

The 1960's

118. Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?

Ottowa

119. Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?

Skeptical & Impressionistic

120. Which Welsh poet wrote "Under Milk Wood?"

Dylan Thomas

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121. Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

Geoffrey Chaucer

122. Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles?"

Arthur Conan Doyle

123. ___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?

Camille

124. Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

125. Who wrote "Ten Little Niggers?"

Agatha Christie

126. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?

The Poor Man and the Lady & The Return of Native

127. Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, Wine, and Snuff?"

John Keats

128. "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden."This is an extract from:

Paradise Lost

129. William Shakespeare was born in the year:

1564

130. Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale?'

William Shakespeare

131. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.

132. What is the word for a "play on words"?

pun

133. Which represents an example of alliteration?

Peter Piper Picked Peppers

134. What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

Onomatopoeia

135. The theme is ...?

the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.

136. Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem.

theme, purpose, form, and mood.

137. Which is not a poetry form?

tale

138. Which is an example of a proverb?

You can't have your cake and eat it, too

139. Which is an exaggeration?

Hyperbole

140. Who has defined 'poetry' as a fundamental creative act using languages?

Dylan Thomas

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141. What is a sonnet?

A poem of fourteen lines

142. What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?

Prosody

143. Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?

Hyperbole

144. There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by - This is a couplet from the Bailiff's Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?

Synecdoche

145. Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?

Arabic

146. Complete this Shakespearan line - Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:

Impediments

147. Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?

a. Jintishi

148. What is the title of the poem that begins thus - 'What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare'?

Leisure

149. Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?

William Wordsworth

150. What is a funny poem of five lines called?

Limerick

151. How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?

A game of knowledge

152. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?

War poems

153. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?

St Louis

154. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?

Sylvia Plath

155. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?

28

156. In what form did Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' first become known?

A radio play

157. The magazine 'Contemporary Poetry and Prose' was inspired by which exhibition?

The Surrealist Exhibition

158. Why did 'Poetry Quarterly' cease publication in 1953?

Owner convicted of fraud

159. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?

Novelist

160. Of which poet was it said 'Even if he's not a great poet, he's certainly a great something'?

Kipling

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161. Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?

the Anglo-Saxons

162. Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?

French

163. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures?

Arthur

164. Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?

fourteenth

165. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?

Edward III

166. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?

Geoffrey Chaucer

167. What was vellum?

parchment made of animal skin

168. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

169. What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?

a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

170. Who was the first English Christian king?

Ethelbert

171. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?

everlasting shame

172. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:

admiration and elegiac sympathy.

173. The use of "whale-road"for sea and "life-house"for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?

kenning

174. Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry?

Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.

175. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?

ironic understatement

176. How did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?

his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

177. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?

Dutch

178. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance"emerged, initially apply?

a work written in the French vernacular

179. Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to

the clergy

180. What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain?

the reign of King Arthur

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Those who wait they get. (Own Creation)

181. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for

women who have chosen to live as religious recluses

182. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering"of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?

the Gawain poet

183. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?

The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

184. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?

Dante's Divine Comedy

185. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

William Langland

186. What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?

the War of the Roses

187. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?

the morality play

188. Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true?

She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.

189. Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot?

Sir Thomas Malory

190. Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first work?

The Spanish Tragedy

191. Marlowe born in________

1564

192. In "the tragic history of Doctor Faustus". Faustus was a :

German scholar

193. Who wrote "The Massacre at Paris"?

Christopher Marlowe

194. After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem "Hero and Leander"?

George Chapman

195. Who succeeded Lyly?

Robert Greene

196. Which of the Marlowe's plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash?

The tragedy of Dido and Queen of Carthage..

197. Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?

Thomas lodge

198. The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as:

The Paston letters

199. Who wrote "Holy Sonnets"?

John Donne

200. Who wrote following lines:

. "........ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

John Donne

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Those who wait they get. (Own Creation)

202. "On his blindness", a collection of sonnets is written by:

John Milton

203. "Paradise lost" was lost by:

Eve & Adam

204. In "Paradise regained" who regained the paradise?

Jesus

205. Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers?

The Shepherd's calendar

206. Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to --------------------------------------?

Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle

207. John Donne's "The Anniversaries" is a:

An elegy in two parts

208. Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?

Spencer

209. During Spencer's visit to his Kinsfolk in Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures as__________________ much of his work:

Rosalind

210. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?

Homer

211. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?

Allen Tate

212. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third sections from?

Dante

213. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land?

Sysyphus

214. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?

guardian

215. Estella is the daughter of?

Joe Gargery

216. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?

Unto This Last

217. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

Catholicism

218. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?

humour and pathos

219. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?

The Bible

220. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?

Satan

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Those who wait they get. (Own Creation)

1.Who called Shakespeare as an "Upstart Crow?

Robert Greene

2.Caliban in The Tempest is a Symbol of?

Native cultures in colonialism

3. Who is called "Male Cordelia" in King Lear?

Edgar

4. Who is the "Pivotal Character" in Othello?

Iago

5.Pozzo is an Italian word means?

Well

6.Godot is a Symbol of?

Salvation

7.Lord of the flies refers to?

Beelzebub

8.Who gave Aesthetic Theory "Art for Arts sake"?

Victor cousin

9.Who coined the term Aestheticism?

Alexander Baumgarten

10. John Ruskin coined the term "Pathetic Fallacy" in?

Modern painters

1.Who called Shakespeare as an "Upstart Crow?

Robert Greene

2.Caliban in The Tempest is a Symbol of?

Native cultures in colonialism

3. Who is called "Male Cordelia" in King Lear?

Edgar

4. Who is the "Pivotal Character" in Othello?

Iago

5.Pozzo is an Italian word means?

Well

6.Godot is a Symbol of?

Salvation

7.Lord of the flies refers to?

Beelzebub

8.Who gave Aesthetic Theory "Art for Arts sake"?

Victor cousin

9.Who coined the term Aestheticism?

Alexander Baumgarten

10. John Ruskin coined the term "Pathetic Fallacy" in?

Modern painters