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BRITISH LITERATURE
Decoding Question Series
Q.1) Besides being a playwright, who among the
following has translated homer?

(1) Ben Johnson

(2) Thomas Dekker

(3) Thomas Heywood

(4) George Chapman

Decoding Question Series
Q.1) Besides being a playwright, who among the
following has translated homer?

(1) Ben Johnson

(2) Thomas Dekker

(3) Thomas Heywood

(4) George Chapman

George Chapman
• George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator
and poet.

• Chapman has been speculated to be the Rival Poet of

Shakespeare's sonnets by William Minto.

• Chapman is best remembered for his translations of

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric
Batrachomyomachia.

• Chapman also translated the Homeric Hymns, the

Georgics of Virgil, The Works of Hesiod, the Hero and
Leander of Musaeus and the Fifth Satire of Juvenal.
George Chapman
• Among his comedies are The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, An
Humorous Day's Mirth, All Fools, Monsieur D'Olive, The
Gentleman Usher, May Day , and The Widow's Tears.

• His plays show a willingness to experiment with dramatic

form: An Humorous Day's Mirth was one of the first plays
to be written in the style of "humours comedy" which Ben
Jonson later used in Every Man in His Humour and Every
Man Out of His Humour.

• With The Widow's Tears, he was also one of the first writers
to meld comedy with more serious themes, creating the
tragicomedy later made famous by Beaumont and Fletcher.
Decoding Question Series
Q.2) Which of the following is not true about “Lyrical
ballads"?

[1] It is a manifesto of romantic poetry

[2] It turns English poetry away from the social and

intellectual sophistication of the 17th and 18th century
poetry

[3] It takes poetry out of the confines of reason and

intellect to the unravished and unspoilt beauties of nature

[4] It is very particular about the form and structure of a

poem
Decoding Question Series
Q.2) Which of the following is not true about “Lyrical
ballads"?

[1] It is a manifesto of romantic poetry

[2] It turns English poetry away from the social and

intellectual sophistication of the 17th and 18th century
poetry

[3] It takes poetry out of the confines of reason and

intellect to the unravished and unspoilt beauties of nature

[4] It is very particular about the form and structure of a

poem
 Lyrical Ballads
• Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection
of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally
considered to have marked the beginning of the
English Romantic movement in literature.

• Wordsworth and Coleridge set out to overturn what

they considered the priggish, learned, and highly
sculpted forms of 17th and 18th century English poetry
and to make poetry accessible to the average person
via verse written in common, everyday language.
 LYRICAL BALLADS
• Lyrical Ballads (1798) : First Edition

• Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) : Second Edition

(Additional Poems + Preface about Poetical Principles)

• Lyrical Ballads (1802) : Third Edition

(Appendix titled Poetic Diction which expanded the
ideas set in Preface)

• Lyrical Ballads (1805) : Fourth Edition

Decoding Question Series
Q.3) Which of the following are Plato’s main objections against
poetry?
[A] The poet is an imitator.
[B] The poet is incapable of bravery.
[C) The poet, by fueling passions and emotions, weakens the
reasoning capacity of the citizens.
[D] The poet is less responsible
[E] The poet has no knowledge of the world.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, C and E only
[2] A and B only
[3] B and D only
[4] E and D only
Decoding Question Series
Q.3) Which of the following are Plato’s main objections against
poetry?
[A] The poet is an imitator.
[B] The poet is incapable of bravery.
[C) The poet, by fueling passions and emotions, weakens the
reasoning capacity of the citizens.
[D] The poet is less responsible
[E] The poet has no knowledge of the world.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, C and E only
[2] A and B only
[3] B and D only
[4] E and D only
Plato’s Views On Poetry
• Art is mere imitation and therefore it is deceptive.
• It encourages passion and let it rule over intellect.
• Poetry and all other Art is useless.
• Art leads to immorality.
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Q.4) Which among the following is an incomplete poem by P.B.
Shelley?

[1] "The triumph of life”

[2] "Ode to the west-wind”
[3] “Queen Mab”
[4] “The daemon of the world”
Decoding Question Series
Q.4) Which among the following is an incomplete poem by P.B.
Shelley?

[1] "The triumph of life”

[2] "Ode to the west-wind”
[3] “Queen Mab”
[4] “The daemon of the world”
P.B. Shelley
• P.B. Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets who did
not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his
achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death and he
became an important influence on subsequent generations of
poets.

• Among his best-known works are

• "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind" , "To a Skylark",
• The philosophical essay "The Necessity of Atheism" and
• The political ballad "The Mask of Anarchy" .
• His other major works include the verse drama The Cenci
• And long poems such as Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude , Julian
and Maddalo , Adonais,
• Prometheus Unbound—widely considered his masterpiece—
Hellas , and
• His final, unfinished work, The Triumph of Life (1822).
Decoding Question Series
Q.5) Who said, “there is, there can be and there ought to be the
difference between the language of prose and metrical
composition?

[1] John Dryden

[2] William Wordsworth
[3] S.T. Coleridge
[4] TS Eliot
Decoding Question Series
Q.5) Who said, “there is, there can be and there ought to be the
difference between the language of prose and metrical
composition?

[1] John Dryden

[2] William Wordsworth
[3] S.T. Coleridge
[4] TS Eliot
Wordsworth on Poetic Diction
• Wordsworth believes that “personifications do not
make any natural or regular part of that language,”
(1500) and “that they should be rejected as an
ordinary device to elevate the style, and raise it above
prose” (1500).

• “Little of what [Wordsworth] uses is called poetic

diction” (1498) and the use of personifications rarely
occur.

• Wordsworth claims that “there neither is, nor can be,

an essential difference between the language of prose
and metrical composition” (1502).
Coleridge on Poetic Diction
• Coleridge asserts that there is and there ought
to be an essential difference between the
languages of prose from that of poetry.

• This difference arises from the fact that the

poetry use meter and meter requires a different
arrangement of words.
• Therefore there must be an ‘essential’
difference between the language of prose and
that of poetry.
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Q.6) Which among the following are true about Harold printer?
[A] Harold printer was born in the year 1925
[B] He was influenced by Samuel Beckett and the theatre of the
absurd
[C] The caretaker and the alchemist are his famous plays
[D] Stanley is a character in the birthday party
[E] Betrayal is a story of a married couple

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, D and E only
[2]B, D and E only
[3] B, C and D only
[4] A, C and D only
Decoding Question Series
Q.6) Which among the following are true about Harold printer?
[A] Harold printer was born in the year 1925
[B] He was influenced by Samuel Beckett and the theatre of the
absurd
[C] The caretaker and the alchemist are his famous plays
[D] Stanley is a character in the birthday party
[E] Betrayal is a story of a married couple

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, D and E only
[2] B, D and E only
[3] B, C and D only
[4] A, C and D only
Harold Pinter (1930- 2008)
• Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director
and actor.
• A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential
modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned
more than 50 years.
• His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The
Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he
adapted for the screen.
• His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The
Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman,
The Trial and Sleuth.
• He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film
productions of his own and others' works.
Harold Pinter (1930- 2008)
• The Birthday Party (play):-
• Petey, a man in his sixties
• Meg, a woman in her sixties
• Stanley, a man in his late thirties
• Lulu, a girl in her early twenties
• Goldberg, a man in his fifties
• McCann, a man of thirty

• In the setting of a rundown seaside boarding house, a

little birthday party is turned into a nightmare when two
sinister strangers arrive unexpectedly.
Harold Pinter (1930- 2008)
• Betrayal is a play written by Harold Pinter in 1978.

• It features his characteristically economical dialogue,

characters' hidden emotions and veiled motivations,
and their self-absorbed competitive one-upmanship,
face-saving, dishonesty, and (self-) deceptions.

• The plot of Betrayal integrates different permutations of

betrayal relating to a seven-year affair involving a
married couple, Emma and Robert, and Robert's "close
friend" Jerry, who is also married, to a woman named
Judith.
Decoding Question Series
Q.7) Who among the following attached himself to the Earl of
Nottingham’s theatrical company?

[1] William Shakespeare

[2] Christopher Marlowe
[3] George Peele
[4] Ben Johnson
Decoding Question Series
Q.7) Who among the following attached himself to the Earl of
Nottingham’s theatrical company?

[1] William Shakespeare

[2] Christopher Marlowe
[3] George Peele
[4] Ben Johnson
Admiral’s Men
• Admiral’s Men, also called Lord Admiral’s Men, a
theatrical company in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
• About 1576–79 they were known as Lord Howard’s Men,
so called after their patron Charles Howard, 1st earl of
Nottingham, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham.
• The company was closely associated with Christopher
Marlowe and performed several of his works
including Tamburlaine and Faustus.
• In addition, the Admiral’s Men were the first to
produce George Chapman’s plays.
• The Admiral’s Men began to decline with the rise of
the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (located at the Globe
Theatre).
Decoding Question Series
Q.8) Who among the following in the article. “Fleshly school of
poetry”. Attacked the pre-Raphaelites, especially D.G. Rossetti?

[1] Robert browning

[2] William Holeman Hunt
[3] Robert Buchanan
[4] Christina Rossetti
Decoding Question Series
Q.8) Who among the following in the article. “Fleshly school of
poetry”. Attacked the pre-Raphaelites, especially D.G. Rossetti?

[1] Robert browning

[2] William Holeman Hunt
[3] Robert Buchanan
[4] Christina Rossetti
 The Fleshly School
• The Fleshly School is the name given by Robert Buchanan to
a realistic, sensual school of poets, to which Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, William Morris, and Algernon Charles
Swinburne belonged.
• He accused them of immorality in an article entitled "The
Fleshly School of Poetry" in The Contemporary Review in
October 1871.
• This article was expanded into a pamphlet (1872), but he
subsequently withdrew from the criticisms it contained,
and it is chiefly remembered by the replies it evoked from
Rossetti in a letter to the Athenaeum (December 16, 1871),
entitled The Stealthy School of Criticism, and from
Swinburne in Under the Microscope (1872).
Decoding Question Series
Q.9) In which year miles Coverdale translated The old testament
of the bible?

[1] 1533
[2] 1534
[3] 1535
[4] 1536
Decoding Question Series
Q.9) In which year miles Coverdale translated The old testament
of the bible?

[1] 1533
[2] 1534
[3] 1535
[4] 1536
Miles Coverdale Bible
• Miles Coverdale In 1535, Coverdale produced the
first complete printed translation of the Bible into
English.
• The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale
and published in 1535, was the first complete
Modern English translation of the Bible.
Decoding Question Series
Q.10) Who is the author of the poem “House of fame”?

[1] William Langland

[2] Geoffrey Chaucer
[3] Thomas Moore
[4] Philip Sidney
Decoding Question Series
Q.10) Who is the author of the poem “House of fame”?

[1] William Langland

[2] Geoffrey Chaucer
[3] Thomas Moore
[4] Philip Sidney
 Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
• Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, author, and civil
servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.

• He has been called the "father of English literature", or,

alternatively, the "father of English poetry”.

• Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher

and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on
the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis.

• Among Chaucer's many other works are The Book of the

Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good
Women, and Troilus and Criseyde.
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