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6th Paper (New Syllabus) The Victorians : EEG-06

1. When did Indian Sepoy Mutiny take place?

=29 March 1857

2. What is about the Victorian Age ?

=The Victorian Age is named after the reign of Queen Victoria. Several

movements and reforms took place during this period, which influenced the

literature. There was tremendous growth in publication of periodicals and

also the emergence of children's literature as a genre. Dramatic monologue

emerged as a poetic form in the poems of Robert Browning. Charles

Dickens, George Eliot, the Bronte sisters were storytellers and their novels

reflected the Victorian period.

3. Who is the author of On the Origin of Species published in 1859 ?

= Charles Darwin

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4. Which novel of Charles Dickens is a poignant account of the drastic effect of Utilitarianism and the deadening consequences of tutelage on Utilitarian principles?

=Hard Times

5. What was the Oxford Movement?

The Oxford Movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of England which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of Oxford, argued for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy and theology.

The movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its series of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841. Tractarians were also disparagingly referred to as "Newmanites" (before 1845) and "Puseyites" (after 1845) after two prominent Tractarians, John Henry Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey.

6. Who is the writer of a fundamental work namely The Seven Lamps of Architecture ?

= John Ruskin

7. Who has invented ‘curtal sonnet’ and ‘sprung rhythm’?

= Gerard Manley Hopkins

8. On whose death is Thyrsis written?

-=His friend, poet Arthur Hugh Clough

9. What does Hopkins mean by instress?

= Hopkins used two terms, "inscape" and "instress," which can cause some confusion. By "inscape" he means the unified complex of characteristics that give each thing its uniqueness and that differentiate it from other things, and by "instress" he means either the force of being which holds the inscape together or the impulse from the inscape which carries it whole into the mind of the beholder.

10. Who is considered to be the first ever detective novelist in English?

=William Collins

11. Who is called as “the Last of the Great Victorians?”

= George Meredith

12. What is the poetic form of Tennyson's Ulysses ?

= blank verse/ dramatic monologue

13. What type of novel is David Copperfield?

= bildungsroman

14. Whose work mention the Marshalsea Prison so frequently?

=Charles Dicken in David Copperfield

15. The figure of the fallen woman is epitomized by which character in the Novel David Copperfield?

=Emily‚Daniel Peggotty’s niece.

16. What is title of the storm scene in Chapter 55 of David Copperfield ?

= Tempest.

17. How old is Gabriel at the novel's opening?

= 28 years old

18. What town does Bathsheba go to after rejecting Gabriel's proposal?

= Weatherbury

19. Wherefrom the title Far From the Madding Crowd comes?

= The title‘ Far From the Madding Crowd’comes fromThomas Gray’s famous 18th-century poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

20. What is meant by ‘Wessex’

= A merely realistic dream country

? 21. How many lectures are there in Heroes and Hero-Worship of Carlyle ?

= There are Six lectures in Heroes and Hero-Worship of Carlyle.

22. What was Ulysses's son's name?

= Telemachus

23. Ulysses is the king of what island?

=Ithaca island.

24. Who is the poet addressing in the first stanza of the poem ‘Break, Break, Break’ ?

= In the first stanza of the poem ‘Break‚Break‚Break’‚ the poet himself addressing the sea.

25. "The Sea of Faith was once, too, at the full, ... But now I only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath..." What is a metaphor used here ?

26. Which of the following imagery was included in Dover Beach?

27. What is the weather like at the start of Porphyria's Lover?

= the weather is stormy and rainy

28. Thomas Carlyle calls whom as the saint of poetry?

= Thomas Carlyle calls not only Dante but also Shakespeare as the saint of poetry.

29. What is the pseudonym of Charlotte Bronte ?

=The pseudonym of Charlotte Bronte is CurrerBell

30. Who is a Byronic hero in the novel Jane Eyre?

= Edward Rochester is a Byronic hero in the novel Jane Eyre

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