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Nice to know:
Father of English language/literature Geoffrey Chaucer
Father of English poem/poetry/modern poetry
Father of modern English literature G. B. Shaw
The greatest modern English dramatist
Poet of poets Edmund Spenser
Both a poet and a painter William Blake
Rebel poet in English literature Lord Byron
Famous mock heroic poet in English literature Alexander Pope
English epic poet John Milton
Poet of nature William Wordsworth
Poet of beauty/sensuousness John Keats
Poet of supernaturalism S. T. Coleridge
Poet of skylark & winds/Revolutionary poet P. B. Shelly
The greatest dramatist of all times William Shakespeare
Father of English prose Francis Bacon
Founder of English prose Alfred the Great
The most famous satirist in English literature Jonathan Swift
Father of science fiction Jules Verne
Father of short story Edgar Allan Poe
Father of English novel Henry Fielding / D. Defoe /
J. Swift / S. Richardson
Elizabethan C. Marlowe
(1558-1603) W. Shakespeare
Romantic Keats
(1798-1832) Shelly
Lord Byron
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Victorian M. Arnold Charles Dickens
(1832-1901) A. Tennyson George Eliot
R. Browning Treasure Eliot
Mnemonic: MAR Thomas Austin
Modern T.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot
(1901-1939) Thomas Hardy
Joseph Conrad
James Joyce
Rudyard Kipling
H.G. Wells
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The University Wits: The witty students of Cambridge and Oxford are called University wits. They are—
Robert Greene, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Lodge, John Lyly, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, George
Peele (Mnemonic: GKLMNP)
T.S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell, J. B. Shaw, Orhan Pamuk, Harold
Pinter, H.G. Wells, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Rudyard Kipling, John Galsworthy, Doris
Lessing
British writer:
American writer:
French writer:
Others:
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Award of Nobel prize in literature was started from the year 1901
Who was the first recipient of Noble prize in literature Sully Prudhomme
A statesman but awarded Nobel prize in English literature Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill got the Nobel prize in 1953
A modern philosopher but awarded Noble prize in English literature Bertrand Russell
A senator and a poet who won the Nobel prize for literature W. B. Yeats
American female novelist Perl S Buck awarded Nobel prize in The Good Earth
1938 for the book
A French author who refused Nobel prize Jae Paul Sartre
A Russian author who refused Nobel prize Boris Pasternak
Booker prize is awarded for Literature
Theme:
Character:
Character of Shakespeare’s play:
Character Play
Brutus Julius Caesar
Ophelia Hamlet
Shylock The Merchant of Venice
Three Witches Macbeth
Calliban, Prospero, Alonso, Antonio The Tempest
Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about 2000 years ago
The name of Hamlet‟s fiancé is Ophelia
The name of Othello‟s wife is Desdemona
Othello gave Desdemona ___as a token of love Handkerchief
Achilles was a great Greek fighter
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W. Shakespeare Tragedy:
Romeo and Juliet; Othello; Macbeth; Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear;
Julius Caesar; Hamlet; Titus Andronicus (1st tragedy)
Mnemonic: ROMA K Julia’ Hamlet
Comedies:
As You Like It; The Tempest (last play); The Merchant of Venice;
Twelfth Night; The Comedy of Errors; Winter‟s Tale; The Midsummer
Night‟s Dream; The Taming of the Shrew; Measure of Measure; Love‟s
Labour‟s Lost; All‟s Well That Ends Well; Much Ado About Nothing.
Mnemonic: As you like it, let’s go to the tempest of the merchant of venice
at twelfth night to see the comedy of errors and winter’s tale. At the
midsummer night’s dream we will see the taming of the shrew, measure of
measure and love’s labour’s lost & will say all’s well that ends well.
J. B. Shaw Drama:
o Joan of Arc
o You Never Can Tell
o Caesar and Cleopatra
o Candida
o Arms and the Man
o Man and Superman
o Mrs. Warren‟s Profession
o Pygmalion
Mnemonic: Joan, it’s Your CAMP.
Ben Jonson Drama:
o Silent Woman
o Alchemist
o Volpone (The Fox)
o Everyman in His Humor, Everyman out of His Humor
Mnemonic: SAVE
Christopher Marlowe Drama:
o Edward (II)
o The Jew of Malta
o Tambeurline the Great
o Doctor Faustus (The tragical history of Dr. Faustus)
Poem:
o The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Mnemonic: Edward, The Jew of Malta, was a Great Passionate Doctor
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W. Wordsworth Poems:
o The Solitary Reaper
o Michael
o The Lucy Poems
o Written in March
o Ode on Immortality
o The Daffodils/ I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
o Rainbow
o The Excursion
o Revolution and Independence
o Tintern Abbey
Mnemonic: The Solitary Michael Lucy Written the Ode ‘Daffodils in
Rainbow’ during Excursion of Independence day at Tintern abbey.
Famous book of poems:
o Lyrical Ballads
Verse:
o Prelude
Drama:
o The Borderers
S. T. Coleridge Poems:
o The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (ballad)
o Christabel
o Kubla Khan (verse)
o Dejection: An ode
Famous book:
o Biographia Literaria
Mnemonic: ABCD
John Keats Poems:
o Isabella
o Ode on a Grecian Urn
o Ode to a Nightingale
o Ode to Autumn
Mnemonic: Isabella went to Greece at Night with an Auto.
Famous book
o Lamia
o Endymion (epic)
o Hyperion
Mnemonic: Lamia at the end Hyper
P. B. Shelly Books:
o Prometheus Unbound (a four act play/tragedy)
o Adonais (Elegy, Keats এ )
o The Revolt of Islam
o The Necessity of Atheism
o A defense of Poetry
Mnemonic: Prome Adona Islam Atheism Defense
Poems:
o Ozymandias
o Ode to a Skylark
o Ode to the West Wind
o The Cloud
o When Soft Voices Die
Mnemonic: Ozymandias উ soft voice এ
John Milton Famous work:
o Paradise Lost (epic)
o Paradise Regained (epic)
o Areopagitica (prose)
o Lycidas (elegy)
Mnemonic: PAL
Alexander Pope Famous work:
o Rape of the Lock (epic)
o An Essay on Man (poem)
o An Essay on Criticism (poem)
T.S. Eliot Poems:
o Gerontion
o Ash Wednesday
o The Waste Land
o The Love Song
o The Hollow Men
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Drama:
o Murder in the Cathedral
Mnemonic: Gerontion West Land এ Hollow Men
Murder
W.B. Yeats Poems:
o Leda and Swan
o The Wild Swans at Coole
o The Lake Isle of Innisfree
o Sailing to Byzantium
Mnemonic: Leda Coole free Byzid
Robert Browning Poems:
o My Last Duchess
o Andrea Del Sarto
o Rabbi Ben Ezra
o The Patriot
Mnemonic: MART
Book of poems:
o Men and Women
Thomas Gray Famous Elegy:
o Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
W. Blake Poems:
o Milton-a poem
o The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
o The Four Zoas
o Songs of Innocence
o Songs of Experience
Mnemonic: Milton এ Blake
Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems:
o Tithonus
o Ulysses
o Locksley Hall
o Oenone
o Lotus Eaters
o Morte D‟ Arthur
Elegy:
o In Memorium
Mnemonic: Titho এ Lysse Memorium Hall এ
Charles Dickens Novels:
o David Copperfield
o Hard Times
o Great Expectations
o The Adventures of Oliver Twist
o A Tale of Two Cities
Mnemonic: David Oliver
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Quotations:
Quotations Author
Know thyself. ( ) Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living. ( ) Socrates
We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle
He, who is unable to live in a society, must be either a beast or a god. Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. Aristotle
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen; ( ) Thomas Gray
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise. Thomas Gray
( , )
Give me good mothers I will give you a good nation. Nepoleon
The career is open to the talents. Nepoleon
Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon>Hobbes
Opportunity makes a thief. ( ) Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an Francis Bacon
exact man.
Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed, and some few to Francis Bacon
be chewed and digested.
Wives are young men‟s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old Francis Bacon
men‟s nurses. ( , )
The people are the masters. Edmund Burke
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke
( ড় , )
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. Edmund Burke
Injustice everywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King
( )
I have a dream. Martin Luther King
Govt. of the people, by the people, for the people. Abraham Lincoln
You may fool some of the people some of the time; you can even fool some Abraham Lincoln
of the people all the time; but you can‟t fool all the people all the time.
The govt. is the best which governs least. Henry David Thoreau
( উ )
Justice delayed is justice denied. Gladstone
( )
England expects that every man will do his duty at the battle of Nelson
Trafalgar.
England respects everyman to do his duty. Nelson
( )
Sweet is revenge, especially to women. Lord Byron
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Robert Browning
But I have promises to keep; Robert frost
And miles to go before I sleep.
Good face is the best letter of recommendation. Queen Elizabeth
( , )
The country is good if its universities are good. Pundit Nehru
Be You Ever So High, the Law is Above You. ( উ উ ) Lord Denning
No man is above the law and no man is below it. Roosevelt
The good of the people is the chief law. Cicero
( )
Come, live with me and be my love. C. Marlowe
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton
( , )
Judges like Caesar‟s wife should be above suspicion. Bowen L J
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Blow, blow the winter wind/ Thou (you) are not so unkind. As You Like It,
( , ) Shakespeare
A young man married is a man that‟s marred. All’s Well that Ends Well,
Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. The Merry Wives of Windsor,
Shakespeare
Corruption wins not more than honesty. The Merchant of Venice,
Shakespeare
The upright judge condemns crimes but he does not hate the criminals. Shakespeare
I am a man more sinned against than sinning. Shakespeare
( , )
Life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Shakespeare
While I stand on the roadway or on the Pavement grey, I hear it in the The Lake Isle of Innis free,
deep heart‟s core. W. B. Yeats
For God‟s sake hold your tongue, and let me love. The Canonization,
John Donne
When wisdom brings no profit, King Oedipus,
To be wise is to suffer. Sophocles
Hold fast to dreams. Dreams, Langston Hughes
Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Dreams, Langston Hughes
All people dream but not equally. D. H. Lawrence
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the Schopenhauer
commentary.
How can the bird that is born for joy, The School Boy,
Sit in a cage and sing? William Blake
How shall the summer arise in joy, The School Boy,
Or the summer fruits appear? William Blake
Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disaraeli
I have not seen Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. Fidel Castro
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say Voltaire
it. ( , )
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Henrik Ibsen
Alliteration The repetition of the same letter Mist and mellow fruitfulness. Budding beauty.
(consonant) at the beginning of She sells sea shells on the sea shore. A storm
successive words man struggling with the storm of the fate.
Anaphora The repetition of the same word or Every day, every night, in every way, I am
phrase at the beginning of successive getting better and better.
clauses or verses
Assonances The close repetition of the same The flash of a hand. (ash,and= )
vowels followed by different An Austrian army awfully arrayed.
consonants
Simile Explicit comparison between two I wandered lonely as a cloud.
different things using the words My love is like a red, red rose.
as/like
Metaphor Implicit comparison between two Sabrina has a heart of stone.
different things without using the My heart leaped into my mouth.
words as/like/such Bangladesh Biman, your home is in the air.
Onomatopoeia Jingle-jangle, melodious murmur,
I raised my head at the rustling of the leaves.
Personification Time waits for none.
The radio suddenly stopped singing.
Death, thou shalt not die.
Apostrophe O death! The poor man’s friend and the best.
, উ
।এ এ
Personification.
Hyperbole / এ overstatement Ten thousand saw I at a glance. Here’s the
Exaggeration ( ) smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia
will not sweeten this little hand. She felt it was
taking a hundred years to complete the exam.
King of kings.
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Readers who have eclectic tastes in literature read books on different topics
If a part of speech or writing breaks the theme, it is called digression
Actors tells a story by gestures in a mime
Dramatic monologue is used in poetry
Animal can speak in a fable
When a poem has a speaker, what does a novel have? narrator
The narrator of a novel written in the 3rd person is called an omniscient narrator
Novel means something new and is derived from Latin
The romantic age in English literature began with the lyrical Ballads
publication of
The year 1798 is famous for publication of lyrical Ballads
The collaborators of lyrical Ballads were Wordsworth & Coleridge
„Tom Jones‟ by Henry Fielding was first published in 1749 (the 1st half of 18th century)
„A Tale of Two Cities‟ was written on the basis of French revolution
„A Tale of Two Cities‟ refers to London and Paris
London town is found a living being in the work of Charles Dickens
Phoenix is a mythological bird regenerating from ashes
Octogenarian is a person between the ages of 80-90 years
Tom Tykwer‟s „Run Lola Run‟ is a film
„Who doth ambition shun‟ means a person who gives up ambition
Who was the tutor of Alexander the Great? Aristotle (S-P-A-A)
[Socrates > Plato > Aristotle > Alexander]
The last word of the proverb—“A good husband should blind
be deaf and a good wife_____”
The sentence “Who would have thought Shylock was so wonder
unkind?” expresses
The Canterbury Tales is as alive and__ today as it was appealing
nearly 600 years ago
Into the ___of death rode the six hundred. valley
They ___ in never-ending ___. stretched, line
According to William Wordsworth‟s „A man speaking to poet is a man who speaking to men
man‟—what is the central idea of poet?
A novella is a short novel
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The central idea of „To Daffodils‟ is that life is short, so live to the fullest
“Fair daffodils! We weep to see; you haste away so soon” who Robert Herrick
wrote these beautiful line?
Which two things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to summer‟s rain and morning‟s dew
human beings and daffodils?
In „To Daffodils‟ human life is compared with morning‟s dew, summer‟s rain, spring
In the poem „To Daffodils‟ the poet weeps over short-lived human life
„Hasting day‟ in „To Daffodils‟ means hurriedly passing day
Which word seems out of place? Daffodil
The last line of „To Daffodils‟ is as quick a growth to meet decay
The central idea of „I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud‟ is that we can find solace in nature
“Ten thousand saw at a glance; Tossing their heads in sprightly Daffodils
dance”—what is the poet W. Wordsworth referring to?
The speaker of „I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud‟ saw Golden daffodils
Why were the daffodils in Wordsworth‟s „I Wandered Lonely there was a strong wind
As a Cloud‟ dancing?
In „I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud‟ Wordsworth compares the the stars of the milky way
daffodils with
In „I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud‟ the daffodils gave the poet a great deal of pleasure
Why is the poet so sad to see the daffodils in „The daffodils‟? because the flower remind him of his own death
Who wrote the following lines—“all at once I saw a crowd, a Wordsworth
host, of golden daffodils”?
Ozymandias (Shelly):
The central idea of „Ozymandias‟ is that all things, both great and small will perish
In the poem „Ozymandias‟ who calls Ozymandias „king of Ozymandias himself
kings‟?
In the poem „Ozymandias‟, the phrase „king of kings‟ is an exaggeration
example of
In Shelly‟s „Ozymandias‟ the words, “My name is the pedestal of the statue
Ozymandias, king of kings” are inscribed on
The statue of Ozymandias is in a desert
In „Ozymandias‟ who saw the statue of Ozymandias? a traveler
In „Ozymandias‟ the poet says, “I met a traveler__an__land”. from, antique
The phrase „trunk less legs‟ in the poem „Ozymandias‟ refers to legs without body
Which phrase would best describe „the cuckoo‟? the harbinger of spring
What lies half sunk in the sand in Shelly‟s „Ozymandias‟? broken head of a statue
In Shelly‟s „Ozymandias‟ „frown‟ and „sneer of cold command‟ shattered visage
are seen on
„Visage‟ in Shelly‟s „Ozymandias‟ refers to face
The central idea of „Under the Greenwood Tree‟ is that life in nature is simple and free
In the lines “Here shall he see/ No enemy” taken from „Under the greenwood tree
the Greenwood Tree‟. „Here‟ stands for
In „Under the Greenwood Tree‟ the „Tree‟ refers to nature/forest
In „Under the Greenwood Tree‟ the poet mention two enemies
In „Under the Greenwood Tree‟ which of the following is forest
mentioned as an „enemy‟?
“Here shall he see/ No enemy/ But winter and rough Under the Greenwood Tree
weather”—where do you find these lines?
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