ENGLISH LITERATURE MCQS

@FATHER AND FOUNDERS’ LIST @

1. FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY –CHAUCER

2. FATHER OF ENGLISH PROSE – KING ALFRED

3. FATHER OF ENGLISH NOVEL – HENRY FIELDING

4. FATHER OF ENGLISH MODERN PROSE – BACON

5. FATHER OF MODERN LINGUISTICS – BLOOMSFIELD

6. FATHER OF ENGLISH ESSAYS – BACON

7. FATHER OF ESSAYS – MONTAIGNE

8. FATHER OF AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM – EMERSON

9. FATHER OF HISTORICAL NOVEL – SIR WALTER SCOTT

10. FATHER OF REVENGE TRAGEDY – THOMAS KYD

11. FATHER OF SECOND ENGLISH POETS – EDMUND SPENSER

12. PRINCE OF ENGLISH ESSAYIST – CHARLES LAMB

13. POETS POET – SPENSER

14. CRITICS CRITIC – HAZLITT

15. THE FOUNDER OF KNIGHT SCHOOL OF POETRY – MARLOWE

16. THE FOUNDER OF METAPHYSICAL SCHOOL OF POETRY – JOHN DONNE

17. THE FOUNDER OF LAKE SCHOOL OF POETRY – WORDSWORTH

18. THE FOUNDER OF SAITANIK SCHOOL OF POETRY – LORD BYRON

19. THE FOUNDER OF CHAUCER SOCIETY – FURNIVALL

20. THE FOUNDER OF SHAKESPEAREAN SOCEITY – STEELE

21. THE FOUNDER OF SONNET – PETRARCH

22. THE FOUNDER OF’THE CLUB’ – JOHNSON

23. THE FOUNDER OF SOCIETY FOR PURE ENGLISH – ROBERT BRIDGES

24. FOUNDER OF NEW SHAKESPEAREAN SOCIETY – FURNIVALL

25. FOUNDER OF THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY – BALEVATSKY

26. FOUNDER OF T.G. GRAMMAR – NOAM CHOMSKY

27. FOUNDER OF SHELLY SOCIETY – STEELE\

28. FOUNDER OF TOUCHSTONE METHOD – MATHEW ARNOLD

29. FOUNDER OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS – SIGMUND FREUD

30. FATHER OF PLAGIRIST – CHAUCER

31. FATHER OF PRE-RAPHELITE MOVEMENT – D.G. ROSSETTI

32. PRINCE OF PLAGIRIST – SHAKESPEARE

33. FATHER OF GOTHIC NOVELS – HORACE WALPOLE

34. FATHER OF ENGLISH DRAMA – CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

35. MORNING STAR OF ENGLISH DRAMA – CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

36. MORNING STAR OF REFORMATION – WYCLIFF

37. CHILD OF RENAISSANCE & REFORMATION – SPENSER

38. FOUNDER OF BRITISH SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS – J.R. FIRTH

39. FOUNDER OF PRAMASAMAJ – DEVENDRANATH TAGORE

40. AUTHORISED VERISON OF THE BIBLE- KING JAMES I

41. EXPONENTS OF TRAGIC COMEDY – SHAKESPEARE

42. EXPONENT OF EPISTOLARY NOVEL – SAMUEL RICHARDSON

43. EXPONENT OF SPRUNG RHYTHM – G.M. HOPKINS

44. EXPONENT OF SOCIAL ESSAYS – FRANCIS BACON

45. EXPONENT OF REGIONAL NOVELS – THOMAS HARDY

46. EXPONENT OF DOMESTIC NOVELS – JANE AUSTEN

47. EXPONENT OF DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE – ROBERT BROWNING

48. EXPONENT OF PRACTICAL CRITICISM – I.A. RICHARDS

49. FATHER OF ENGLISH CRITICISM – DRYDEN

50. FATHER OF AMERICAN POETRY – WILLIAM CULLER BRYANT

51. MOVEMENT OF POETS COINED – J.D. SCOTT

52. INTRODUCER OF BLANK VERSE – EARL OF SURREY

53. INTRODUCER OF FREE VERSE – WALT WHITMAN

54. INTRODUCER OF LIMARIC – EDWARD LEAR

55. FOUNDER OF ‘JOURNAL’ – SHELLEY

56. INTRODUCER OF SONNET – WYATT

57. STRUCTURALISM ASSOCIATED WITH – FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE

58. AMBIGUITY ASSOCIATED WITH – WILLIAM EMPSON

59. ARCHITYPE ASSOCIATED WITH – NORTHROP FRYE

60. LIBIDO & PSYCHO-ANALYSIS ASSOCIATED WITH – C.G. JUNG

61. THE BARD OF AVAN KNOWN AS – SHAKESPEARE

62. SAGE OF CONCORD – EMERSON

63. THE FIRST LEXICOGRAPHER – SAMUEL JOHNSON

64. INTRODUCER OF THE TERZA RHYMA(RIMA) – SHELLEY

65. INTRODUCER OF PRINTING PRESS IN ENGLAND – WILLIAM CAXTON

66. INVENTED OF PRINTING PRESS – JOHN GUTTENSBURG

67. THE WELL OF ENGLISH POETRY – CHAUCER

68. THE PRE-CURSORS OF ENGLISH NOVEL – ADDISON & STEELE

69. TWENTIETH CENTURY DRYDEN KNOWN AS – T.S. ELIOT

70. FOUNDER OF COCKNEY SCHOOL OF POETRY – HAZLITT

71. FOUNDER OF GRAVEYARD SCHOOL OF POETRY – THOMAS GRAY

72. THE ‘GENTLE’WRITER KNOWN AS – CHARLES LAMB

73. PROMINENT MEMBER OF ROYAL SOCIETY – JOHN DRYDEN

74. METAPHYSICAL WORD COINED BY – JOHNSON

75. METAPHYSICS WORD COINED BY – DRYDEN

76. FATHER OF MODERN DRAMA – EUGENE O NEIL

77. FATHER OF SHORT STORY – EDGAR ALLAN POE

78. FOUNDER OF IRISH THEATRE MOVEMENT –w W.B. YEATS

79. THE TRANSITION PERIOD FAMOUS FOR – THOMAS GRAY