St. Thomas College of Teacher Education

1. El-Lit Quest 2015 St. Thomas College of Teacher Education Organised By Purple Patch The English Club jobykeelath@gmail.com

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3. ROUND I SHAKESPEARE HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

4. “Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets, Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admired him but I love Shakespeare.”Who made this comment? HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

5. “…Poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed Shall lodge thee”, taken from a play by William Shakespeare called Two Gentlemen of Verona (I.ii.115-116), appears as an epigraph in one of Thomas Hardy’s novels. Which is that novel? HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

6. Of Cakes and Ale is a novel written by Somerset Maugham. From which Shakespearean play does he borrow the title ? HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

7. "But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit ..." (Act 2, Scene 6) is a quote taken from a Shakespearean play. Which is that play? HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

8. “The barge she sat in, like a burnish’d throne, burn’d on the water.” It is a famous line adapted into The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot with certain changes. Which is the Shakespearean source text? HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

9. ROUND IIIDENTIFY THE PERSON HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

10. Lifespan 1573-1637 . Born in Westminster, he is a poet, dramatist, scholar and writer of court masques. • Born as the posthumous son of a clergyman, he had worked as a bricklayer under his stepfather. • In 1598 killed a fellow-actor in a duel but escaped from gallows. • Wrote a masque glorifying Queen Elizabeth named Cynthia’s Revels(1600). • Introduced the Comedy of Humours. HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

11. Lifespan 1906-1989.Born in Ireland, he is a playwright and novelist. • He had a lasting friendship with James Joyce and his first published work was an essay on Joyce. • Awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1969 • Associated with the Theatre of the Absurd Play- Waiting for Godot(1952) HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

12. Lifespan 1865-1936.Born in Bombay, he is a short-story writer, poet, and novelist. • Called as the ‘Laureate of the Music Hall’ ,he wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. • It is with him one especially associates the political jingoisms of the “White Man’s Burden”. • Received Nobel Prize in 1907 and he was the first English writer to receive the award.Famous for his The Jungle Books. HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

13. A Scottish novelist, playwright and poet born in Edinburgh (1771-1832). • In 1813 he was offered the position of Poet Laureat. He declined, and the position went to Robert Southey. • The Lay of the Last Minstrel, his first original work. • Founder of the genre called historical novel. • The author of Waverley novels. HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

14. Poet and novelist born in Coventry (1922-85) • He was a Librarian of the Brynmor Jones Library at Hull University. • Belongs to ‘the Movement’ group of 1950’s and was a lifelong friend of Kingsley Amis. • His first book is The North Ship(1945) and in 1946 published the novel Jill. • Wrote the famous poem “church Going”. HOME

15. ROUND III CRITICISM HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

16. Bathos is an abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. Who introduced this term? ANSWER HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

17. Who observes that Shelley’s Defence of Poetry “is a defence without an attack”? ANSWER HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

18. Matthew Arnold speaks of two desirable features of good poetry in his essay “Study of Poetry”. One is truth. Which is the other one? ANSWER HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

19. “Words too familiar or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.” Who expressed this opinion in Life of Dryden? ANSWER HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

20. To whom was The School of Abuse by Stephen Gosson dedicated? ANSWER HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

21. ROUND IV ARRANGE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

22. A Voyage to Lilliput A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms A Voyage to Laputa A Voyage to Brobdingnag HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

23. A Vindication of the Rights of Women Lyrical Ballads Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry French Revolution HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

24. Peasants Revolt Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Le MorteD’Arthur Utopia HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

25. A Dictionary of the English Language The Defeat of Spanish Armada The Pilgrim’s Progress Lives of the English Poets HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

26. The Feminine Mystique Sexual Politics The Second Sex The Subjection of Women HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

27. ROUND V AUDIO HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

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33. ROUND VI FIND THE PAIR HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

34. Opening lines of novels • One Hundred Years of Solitude • The Unnamable • The Outsider • Jane Eyre • “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” • “Mother died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.” • "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel AurelianoBuendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." • "Where now? Who now? When now?" HOME jobykeelath@gmail.com

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