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VINEET PANDEY’S SAHITYA CLASSEs Disclaimer: This paper was mostly based on British History and other important topics on basic level standard. To make the comprehension easy for students to understand the answer we have used easy methods [Wikipedia, sparks notes etc] to explain.The students are requested to call or whatspp on 8587035827 for any discussion on answers or suggestion. AVAIL ALL SET/SLET PAPERS by whatspping us.+- The answers are properly examined still UGC should be followed for final answer ENGLISH PAPER-2 (ANSWER KEY WITH ILLUSTRATED EXPLANATION) 1. Which narrative poem by Lord Tennyson presents the story of a fisherman turned merchant-sailor who, after a shipwreck, is marooned on a desert island? 1. ―Crossing the Bar‖ 2. ―Tithonus‖ 3. ―Enoch ―Arden‖ 4. ―Maud‖ Ans. (3). Enoch Arden is a narrative poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, during his tenure as England's poet laureate. The story on which it was based was provided to Tennyson by Thomas Woolner. The hero of the poem, fisherman turned merchant sailor Enoch Arden, leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, who offers him work after he had lost his job due to an accident; in a manner that reflects the hero's masculine view of personal toil and hardship to support his family, Enoch Arden left his family to better serve them as a husband and father. However during his voyage, Enoch Arden is shipwrecked on a desert island with two companions; both eventually die, leaving Arden alone there. This part of the story is reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe. 2. In ―Memorial Verses‖ Mathew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are they? 1. Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth 2. Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton 3. Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth 4. Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron Ans. (4) The poem is written by Matthew Arnold. a Victorian poet. Arnold published the poem in 1850, the year in which Wordsworth died. The poem talks about three preceded literary figures - Goethe, Byron and Wordsworth and their relevance in the poet's contemporary society. Goethe is described by the poet as a sage of the age who SAHITYA CLASSES (Dehli, Jammu, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Dehradun) 1 ADDRESS- 31 / A JIA SARAI NEW DELHI 110016. 8587035827, 9672784555, 9267928908, (NEAR HAUZ KHAS METRO STATION) (Source: Compilation from various WEBSITES and Other Resources) VINEET PANDEY’S SAHITYA CLASSEs was aware of the ailments and problems of the European people. Arnold praises Byron not for his works but for his unusual spirit and his struggle. The poet uplifts the position of Wordsworth and after his departure, he would be missed by Europeans. The poet emphasizes that Wordsworth possesses "healing powers" and no one after him would teach people how to actually feel things. 3. Who among the following English playwrights wrote screenplays on novels such as Marcel Proust‘s In Search of Lost Time, John Fowles‘s French Lieutenant‘s Woman, and Margaret Atwood‘s Handmaid‘s Tales? 1. John Arden 2. Edward Bond 3. Harold Pinter 4. David Hare Ans . (3) 4. The year in which English literary history between 1649 and 1660 are known as ……… 1. The Neoclassical Period 2. The Commonwealth Period 3. The Suart Period 4. THE Jacobean Period Ans . (2) The Commonwealth was the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland,[1] was ruled as a republic following the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The republic's existence was declared through "An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth",[2] adopted by the Rump Parliament on 19 May 1649. Power in the early Commonwealth was vested primarily in the Parliament and a Council of State. During the period, fighting continued, particularly in Ireland and Scotland, between the parliamentary forces and those opposed to them, as part of what is now referred to as the Third English Civil War. 5. In Rk Narayan‘s Swami and friends, which game offers Swami the best kind of emotional release from the strains and pressures of disagreeable circumstance? 1. Cricket 2. Football 3. Tennis 4. Hockey Ans . (1) 6. William Blake expressed the importance of te particular when he said that ―To Generalize is to be ---- ------. To particularize is the alone Distinction of Merit‖. Fill in the blank. 1. AN Idiot 2. A poet 3. A dreamer 4. A skunk Ans . (1) ―To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.‖ -William Blake SAHITYA CLASSES (Dehli, Jammu, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Dehradun) 2 ADDRESS- 31 / A JIA SARAI NEW DELHI 110016. 8587035827, 9672784555, 9267928908, (NEAR HAUZ KHAS METRO STATION) (Source: Compilation from various WEBSITES and Other Resources) VINEET PANDEY’S SAHITYA CLASSEs 7. Which of the following was not a dialect of Old English? 1. Irish 2. Northambrian 3. Mercian 4. Kentish Ans. (1) ld English developed from a set of Anglo-Frisian or Ingvaeonic dialects originally spoken by Germanic tribes traditionally known as the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. As the Anglo- Saxons became dominant in England, their language replaced the languages of Roman Britain: Common Brittonic, a Celtic language, and Latin, brought to Britain by Roman invasion. Old English had four main dialects, associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish and West Saxon. It was West Saxon that formed the basis for the literary standard of the later Old English period,[3] although the dominant forms of Middle and Modern English would develop mainly from Mercian. The speech of eastern and northern parts of England was subject to strong Old Norse influence due to Scandinavian rule and settlement beginning in the 9th century. 8. Anthony Burgess‘s last novel, published in 1993, is called A Dead Man in Deptford. Who is the central character to whom the title refers? 1. Sir Walter Raleigh 2. Sir Philip Sidney 3. Christopher Marlowe 4. Earl of Southampton Ans (3) A Dead Man in Deptford is a 1993 novel by Anthony Burgess, the last to be published during his lifetime. It depicts the life and character of Christopher Marlowe, a renowned playwright of the Elizabethan era. Reckless but brilliant Cambridge scholar Kit Marlowe is conscripted by Francis Walsingham to be a spy for Queen Elizabeth. It is love at first sight for Kit and Walsingham's young cousin Thomas, and Kit is soon sent to the English college at Rheims to ferret out recusantsconspiring against the Queen and her Church of England. Walsingham and his agents have enabled a conspiracy, later known as the Babington Plot, as a means to effect the execution of Elizabeth's rival, Mary, Queen of Scots. Kit is instrumental in the arrest of the conspirators, but horrified by their execution. Marlowe is portrayed as a secretive, solitary and eventually isolated person. Burgess explores his sexual addiction and passion for the theatre. 9. Choose the correct chronological order: 1. William Caxton, prints the first English book—William Shakespeare‘s first folio—john Milton‘s Aeopagitica—― Tottel‘s Miscellany‖ (song and sonnets) 2. ―Tottle‘s Misllany‖ (Songs and Sonnets)—William Shakespeare‘s first folio—William Caxton prints the first English book- John Milton‘s Areopagitica SAHITYA CLASSES (Dehli, Jammu, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Dehradun) 3 ADDRESS- 31 / A JIA SARAI NEW DELHI 110016. 8587035827, 9672784555, 9267928908, (NEAR HAUZ KHAS METRO STATION) (Source: Compilation from various WEBSITES and Other Resources) VINEET PANDEY’S SAHITYA CLASSEs 3. William Caxton prints the first English book—― Tottle‘s Miscllany‖ (songs and sonnets)— William Shakespeare‘s first folio—john milton‘s Areopagitica 4. William Shakespeare‘s first folio-John milton‘s Areopagitica- William Caxton prints the first book- ―Tottle‘ Miscllany‖ (songs and sonnets) Ans (3) William Caxton was the first Englishman to learn to use a printing press. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye was his first printed book, and the first book printed anywhere in English. It was produced in 1473 on the Continent, in either Bruges or Ghent. The text is a recuyell (compilation) of stories about the Trojan Wars by Raoul Lefèvre, originally written in French. The translation was also by Caxton. Songes and Sonettes, usually called Tottel's Miscellany, was the first printed anthology of English poetry. First published by Richard Tottel in 1557 in London, it ran to many editions in the sixteenth century. The First Folio is the first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays, collated and published in 1623, seven years after his death. Folio editions were large and expensive books that were seen as prestige items. Shakespeare wrote around 37 plays, 36 of which are contained in the First Folio. Most of these plays were performed in the Globe, an open-air playhouse in London built on the south bank of the Thames in 1599. As none of Shakespeare's original manuscripts survive (except, possibly, Sir Thomas More, which Shakespeare is believed to have revised a part of) we only know his work from printed editions. Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc‘d Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship.[1] Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications. 10. What does the phrase ut picture poesis from Horace‘s Art of Poetry means? 1. ―as in painting so is in poetry‖ 2. ―poetry beggers pictorial description‖ 3. ―as in poetry so is in painting‖ 4.