HSC Science (Electronics) इयत्ता १२ वी - Maharashtra State Board Important Questions for English

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence:

Eighteenth century gifted mankind with _____________

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence:

Novel soon became dominant literary genre as it _____________

The Tale of Genji by Muraski Shikabu was published in the year __________

The first Indian English novel ‘Rajmohan’s wife’ was written by ___________

Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with ___________

The famous trio of Indian writers is ___________

Write in chronological order

1. Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji
2. Greek Romances
3. The appearance of magazines and newspapers
4. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

Write in chronological order

1. Industrial Revolution
2. Drama and Poetry started fading away
3. Novel gained popularity
4. The rise of middle class

Given below are some novels, events and writers of Indian English. Arrange them in chronological order.

1. Rise of famous Indian Trio
2. Nayantara Sahgal, Arun Joshi, Manohar Malgaonkar
3. Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Kiran Nagarkar
4. Rajmohan’s Wife by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya

Given below are some Novels in English literature. Arrange them in their order of their appearance.

1. The Pilgrim’s Progress and Oroonaku
2. Ecologues
3. Pamela and Gulliver’s Travels
4. The Tale of Genji

‘Tale of Genji’ is described as world’s first novel.

Middle class people had a little interest in romances and tragedies.

The struggle in between opposite forces in a story is called as conflict.

Epistolary Novel is a series of correspondence, other documents and diary entries as well.

Match the following.

Match the following.

Appearance of newspaper in 18^th century attracted a large number of readers from ___________.

Rise of Novel as a literary genre resulted in lowering the importance of ____________.

Match the following items from column-A with those from the column-B:

Pick the odd word out: