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50 Important MCQs for PG Entrance (Part 2) FOR PART 1 (1-50) CLICK HERE  Read the excerpt given below and select the most appropriate option given in the next of our questions: Irish poets, learn your trade, Sing whatever is well made, Scorn the sort now growing up All out of shape from toe to top, Their unremembering hearts and heads Base-born products of base beds. Sing the peasantry, and then Hard-riding country gentlemen, The holiness of monks, and after Porter-drinkers' randy laughter; Sing the lords and ladies gay That were beaten into the clay Through seven heroic centuries; Cast your mind on other days That we in coming days may be Still the indomitable Irishry 51. The last three lines of the stanza look to the. future to shape the present future to shape the past past to shape the future past to shape the present Ans: (C) past to shape the future 52. By referring to poetry as a "tra...

50 Important MCQ's for PG Entrance (Part 1) This post aims to provide 50 important MCQ's for PG entrance and thereby also helping in attaining knowledge regarding the different question patterns of various entrance examination all over India, of different universities for pursuing Masters degree in English literature. This questionnaire was provided for the 2022 M.A. in English programme, Dibrugarh University. Here, I have provided fifty of the 100 questions and the other fifty i.e. the Part 2 has been provided in the link below: PART 2👉👉  https://literarysphere.com/50-important-mcqs-for-pg-entrance-2/ 1 . Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase 'spots of time'. (A) Coleridge (B) Keats (C) Wordsworth (D) Byron Ans: Wordsworth 2 . Select the correct author work' combinations from the follow...

This post is helpful in providing 50 Important MCQs on The Anglo Saxon Age of English Literature, moreover, this is helpful in the preparations of various entrance examinations and national examinations like UGC NET. The Anglo-Saxon age of English Literature begins from 410, and lasts till 1066 AD. This period is one of the most crucial period of English literary history since this is from where English Literature founded its roots from. 50 Important MCQs on The Anglo Saxon Age of English Literature 1 . In which period or age did the History of English Literature begin? a) The Medieval Period b) The Anglo Norman Period c) The Anglo Saxon Period d) The Neo-classical Period The Anglo Saxon Period 2. Beowulf, the only important piece of literature surviving since the Old English Period is a/an a) lyrical ballad b) Anglo Saxon epic c) prose narrative d) Classical epic Anglo Saxon epic 3. Which Germanic tribe came to England in the middle of 5th century? a) The Jutes b) The ...

This post provides an overview of An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope. AN OVERVIEW OF AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM ~BY ALEXANDER POPE Alexander Pope was born in the year 1688, during the year of revolution in London. He in many respects was a unique figure of the English literary history. Firstly, because he was considered to be “the poet” of a great nation. He was an undisputed master in the narrow field of satiric and didactic verse during the early 18 th century. Pope’s influence completely dominated the poetry of his age. Many foreign writers looked to him and many English poets looked to him as their inspiration. Secondly, he was one of the writers who was a remarkable reflection of the spirit of the age he lived in. (An Overview of An Essay on Criticism) Thirdly, he was the one and only important writer of the age who gave his whole life to letters. Unlike Swift, Addison and other writers of his age, Pope was someone who chose only literature as his profession. And four...

This post aims to provide an analysis and stanza wise summary of Upon Westminster Bridge poem, by the famous Romantic writer William Wordsworth. Summary of Upon Westminster Bridge Poem “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” ~ William Wordsworth ABOUT THE AUTHOR William Wordsworth, one of the most famous poets of the Romantic era, was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England on April 7, 1770. His mother died when he was 7, and he was an orphan at 13. He graduated in 1791, from Cambridge University. (Summary of Upon Westminster Bridge Poem) He was a great follower of the French Revolution that began in 1789. In the year 1795, Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge along with whom he composed his famous collection Lyrical Ballads (1798). The Lyrical Ballads helped Romanticism take a hold on English Poetry. In the same year of the publication of the Lyrical Ballads , Wordsworth also began  writing his autobiographical poem The Prelude, and published it post...

This post is aimed to describe the patriarchy in Jane Eyre, a novel by Charlotte Bronte. Patriarchy, and gender politics in Jane Eyre (Patriarchy in Jane Eyre) The Victorian era was often marked by patriarchal domination. The gender roles during this era were more sharply defined than any time in the history so much so that even the very author of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte too had to succumb herself to this domination. (Patriarchy in Jane Eyre) Charlotte Bronte originally published Jane Eyre and all her works under the male pseudonym of Currer Bell because during the Victorian era women writers were judged too softly and Bronte did not want her audiences to judge her work on basis of her being a woman. Jane Eyre, one of the most iconic works of Victorian literature the struggle of women during that era very prominently in a patriarchal society, which can be considered ahead of Bronte’s time. Through the character of Jane, the female protagonist of the novel, Bronte, p...