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8 6 . Who made emotion, and not. reason, the chief force of their works?
Romanticists.
Realists.
Sentimentalists.
Classicists.
Angry Young Man.
87. What event gave official birth to the Romantic Age in English literature?
The Chartist movement.
Oliver Cromwell’s death.
The publication of “Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” by Robert Bums.
The publication of “ Lyrical Ballads” by William Wordsworth
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The publication of “Hours of Idleness” by G.G. Byron.
8 8 . What writer is the following passage about?
In 1902 he left England to become a foreign correspondent for the “Morning Post”. During the next six years he reported from the Balkans, Poland, Russia, and Paris. At the same time he was sending a series of comic short stones to English newspapers, and in 1904 published a book of them. His short stories contain a unique blend of horror and humor that has made them favorites with readers ever since they first appeared in print.
In 1908 he returned home, bought a house outside of London, and settled into a quiet life, writing and playing bridge.
But his quiet and productive life soon came to an end. On first hearing that England was at war with Germany, in August 1914, he joined the army. At that time he was 43 years old. After a year of brave service he was killed in combat.
Charles Dickens.
Richard Aldington.
Graham Greene.
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki).
Charles Percy Snow
She, a prominent detective writer, was born at Torquay, Devonshire. She was educated at home and took singing lessons in Paris. Her creative work began at the end of World War I. Her first novel, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” appeared in 1920. Here she created Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detec tive.
Susan Hill.
Agatha Christie
Margaret Drabble.
Katherine Mansfield.
Rebecca Sharp.
What writer are the following lines about?
She lectured in philosophy from 1948 to 1963 at Oxford University in England. It influenced her literary career and she became an author of many books on philosophy and philosophi cal novels. She began her literary career with a critical work “Sartre, Romantic Rationalist”, (1953). Her first novel “Under the Net” appeared in 1954 and since then she published a book almost every year.
Iris Murdoch.
Chalotte Bronte.
Katherine Mansfield
Jane Austen.
Susan Hill.
What writer are the following lines about?
In 1701 he wrote a satire in verse, “The True-born Englishman”. It was written against those, who declared that the English race should be kept pure. In the satire the author proved that true-born
Englishmen did not exist, since the English nation consisted of Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Normans, and others.
Jonathan Swift.
Daniel Defoe.
Henry Fielding.
Tobias Smollett.
Bernard Shaw.
What story is the following passage from?
“ Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No, you couldn’t have called her beautiful. Pretty? Well, if you took her to pieces... Bui why be so cruel as to take anyone to pieces? She was young, brilliant, extremely modern, exquisitely well dressed, amazingly well read in the newest of the new books, and her parties were the most delicious mixture of the really important people...
Rudyard Kipling’s “Captain Courageous”.
Katherine Mansfield’s “A Cup of Tea”.
Somerset Maugham’s “The Luncheon”.
Katherine Mansfied's “The Garden Party”
Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net”.
Whose romance is the most complete English version of stories about King Arthur?
Sir Walter Scott’s.
Christopher Marlowe’s.
Ben Jonson’s.
William Langland’s.
Sir Thomas Malory’s.
94- What writer is the following information about?
The writer was not young when he started writing. His first notable work was “The Island Pharisees” (1904) in which he
criticized the stagnation of thought in the English privileged classes. The five works entitled “The Country House” (1907), “Fraternity” (1909), “The Patrician” (1911), “The Dark Flower” (1913), and “The Freelands” (1915) reveal a similar philosophy. In these works the author criticizes country squires, ihe aristocracy and artists, and shows his deep sympathy for strong passions, sincerity and true love.
Henry Fielding.
John Galsworthy.
Samuel Richardson.
Graham Greene.
Sir Thomas Malory.
Which ofthe following is the title ofthe most quoted love poem in the English language?
“My Soul is Dark” by G.G. Byron.
“How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Browning.
“The Garden of Love” by William Blake.
“When We Two Parted” by G.G. Byron.
“The Sorrow of Love” by William Butler Yeats.
What novel written by Thackeray remained unfinished because ofhis death?
“The History of Pendinnes”.
“The Newcomes”.
“Henry Esmond”.
“Denis Duval”.
“The Virginians”.
Who is the author of “John Barleycorn”?
Robert Burns
Ted Hughes.
Alfred Tennison.
Thomas Hardy.
Susan Hill.
Whose style was often compared to that of Chekhov?
Chalotte Bronte’s.
Katherine Mansfield’s.
Jane Austen”s.
Henry Fielding’s.
John Galsworthy’s.
Complete the sentence.
The influence of existentialist ideas left a profound impression on the work o f ...
Iris Murdoch.
John Milton.
A iexander Pope.
Daniel Defoe.
Samuel Richardson.
Which writer's works focus on dilemas women face in modern world?
Agatha Christie.
Iris Murdock.
Thomas Hardy.
Margaret Drable.
Susan Hill.
Preface 3
Суз боши 4
Introduction. The Development of English Literature (Periodization). Its Place in the World Literature 6
Unit 1. Old English Literature (500-1100) 9
“Beowulf’ 10
The Literature of the 7'h - 11th centuries 14
The Venerable Bede 15
Alfred the G reat 16
Unit 2. Middle English Literature (1100-1485) 18
The Literature o f th e Norman Period (12th - 13th centu ries) 18
Supplement: The Medieval Romance 19
Pre-Renaissance Period in English Literature 21
Geoffrey Chaucer 22
“The Canterbury Tales” 24
Literature of the 15,h century 26
Supplement: Folk Ballads 27
Robin Hood Ballads 28
Unit 3. Renaissance 33
The Renaissance in England 33
Supplement 36
Sir Thomas More 36
Sir Francis Bacon 38
Edmund Spenser 41
Sir Philip Sidney 43
Christopher Marlowe 45
Supplement: Сафе Diem Poetry 46
Ben Jonson 50
William Shakespeare 52
Shakespeare’s Plays 53
Chroiology of Shakespeare’s plays 55
Shakespeare’s Comedies 59
Shakespeare’s Sonnets 61
Unit 4. E nglish Literature .in the 17lh century 64
General background 64
John Milton
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