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Question
Middle class people had a little interest in romances and tragedies.
Options
True
False
Solution
Middle class people had a little interest in romances and tragedies. - True
RELATED QUESTIONS
Match the columns:
| Column A | Column B |
| (a) Murasaki Shikibu | (1) Cervantes |
| (b) Novella | (2) Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya |
| (c) Don Quixote | (3) Tale of Genji |
| (d) Rajmohan’s Wife | (4) New |
Pick out the odd element from the group.
Place, Period, Theme, Climate, Lifestyle
Pick out the odd element from the group.
Theme, Plot, Character, Novella
Complete the following statement:
The two types of conflicts that the plot may have are _______.
Complete the following statement:
The word ‘picaresque’ originated from _______.
Complete the following statement:
In the eighteenth century, the middle class could get time for reading and discussing novels because _______.
Write a short note on:
Novella
Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence:
Indian writers in English Novel initially wrote about the theme of _____________
Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence:
Strike out the unnecessary Detective fiction is ____________.
A novel is relatively a _______ narrative.
English word ‘Novel’ is derived from the Italian word ______________
_____________ is the pioneer of the ‘Stream of Consciousness’ technique in English novel.
The first Indian English novel ‘Rajmohan’s wife’ was written by ___________
Joseph Conrad wrote the novella named as _____________
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with ___________
Write in chronological order
- Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji
- Greek Romances
- The appearance of magazines and newspapers
- Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
Write in chronological order
- Industrial Revolution
- Drama and Poetry started fading away
- Novel gained popularity
- The rise of middle class
Given below are some novels, events and writers of Indian English. Arrange them in chronological order.
- Rise of famous Indian Trio
- Nayantara Sahgal, Arun Joshi, Manohar Malgaonkar
- Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Kiran Nagarkar
- Rajmohan’s Wife by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Novel is recognized as the most dominant literary genre in modern times.
A Novel is relatively a short narrative.
‘Tale of Genji’ is described as world’s first novel.
Novella is greater in length than Novel.
Setting doesn’t affect plot or characters.
Epistolary Novel is a series of correspondence, other documents and diary entries as well.
Match the following.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Theme | a) philosophical statement, a central idea |
| 2. Plot | b) the struggle in between opposite forces |
| 3. Conflict | c) techniques of the narration |
| 4. Language, Style | d) Course of the events |
Match the following.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Agatha Christie | a) stream of consciousness |
| 2. William James | b) crime fiction |
| 3. George Eliot | c) science-based novels |
| 4. Mary Shelly | d) psychological novels |
Match the following.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. The flow of thoughts | a) Bildungsroman novel |
| 2. The internal life of the protagonist | b) Stream of Consciousness |
| 3. The novel based on the life of the author | c) Psychological novel |
| 4. The growth of protagonist’s mind, spirit and characters | d) Autobiographical novel |
Match the following.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Daniel Defoe | a) Gulliver’s Travels |
| 2. Jonathan Swift | b) Robinson Crusoe |
| 3. Samuel Richardson | c) The Pilgrim’s Progress |
| 4. John Bunyan | d) Pamela |
Match the following.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Picaresque Novel | a) bears more than one layers of meaning. |
| 2. Historical Novel | b) speculative fiction |
| 3. Allegorical Novel | c) adventures of an eccentric protagonist |
| 4. Utopian Novel | d) set in an earlier period than of the writing. |
The industrial revolution gave birth to _______.
Appearance of newspaper in 18th century attracted a large number of readers from ___________.
Rise of Novel as a literary genre resulted in lowering the importance of ____________.
Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul, Kazuo Ishigura are __________.
Match the following items from column-A with those from the column-B:
| Column-A | Column-B |
| (a) Murasaki Sikibu | (i) The Pilgrim's Progress |
| (b) Jonathan Swift | (ii) Gulliver's Travels |
| (c) John Bunyan | (iii) Raja Mohan's Wife |
| (d) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay |
(iv) Tale of Genji |
Pick the odd word out:
Pick the odd word out:
Match the following items from column ‘A’ with those from column ‘B’:
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ |
| (a) Oroonoku | (i) Joseph Conrad |
| (b) The Heart of Darkness | (ii) John Bunyan |
| (c) Frankenstein | (iii) Aphra Behn |
| (d) The Pilgrim’s Progress | (iv) Mary Shelly |
Novels with the elements of horror, bloodshed and mystery are called ______ novels.
The German word ‘bildungsroman’ indicates _______.
There are ______ essential elements of ‘Novel’ or ‘Novella’.
Struggle between the opposite forces in the story is called ______.
Match the columns:
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ |
| (1) Novel | (a) Greek Romances |
| (2) 18th Century Literature | (b) Middle class readers |
| (3) 2nd to 6th Century | (c) A long narrative fiction |
| (4) Newspapers and magazines | (d) Spirit of Realism |
______ novel is concerned with the protagonist’s overall growth from childhood to adulthood.
______ novel is a novel based on the author's life.
