English By MK SINGH

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Picaresque Novel :

1. The ....... Novel originated in spain?

Ans: The Picaresque Novel

2. The word Picaresque is derived from the Spanish ........ which means an........?

Ans: picaro , anti hero or rogue

3. ........ is an generally an autobiographical account of the hero's fortunes, sufferings and wanderings ?

Ans: A Picaresque Novel

4. ......... is a combination of episodic tales arising out of journeys?

Ans: A Picaresque Novel

5. The first Picaresque Novel in English is ..... ?

Ans: John Lyly's Euphues

6. Thomas Nash's The Unfortunate Traveller is a perfect....?

Ans: Picaresque Romance

7. The heroes in the Picaresque Novels are ..... ?

Ans: Travelling heroes

8. Name some Picaresque Novels :

Ans: Defoe's Moll Flanders, Smollett's The Adventures of Ferdinand count Fathom, Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, Joyce cary's The Horse's mouth.

9. In the Picaresque Novel, the novelist constructs the picture of the society through the narration of the....... ?

Ans: hero's wanderings

The Stream of Consciousness Novel :

10. Who coined the term "stream of Consciousness" ?

Ans: William James, a Philosopher

11. Who initiated the term "stream of Consciousness " ?

Ans: James Joyce

12. Who perfected the art of the stream of Consciousness Novel?

Ans: Virginia woolf

13. ....... is technique which records the illogical flow of Impressions passing through a character's mind ?

Ans: stream of Consciousness

14. ....... is the first stream of Consciousness Novel ?

Ans: James Joyce's Ulysses

15. The stream of Consciousness Novel gives the striking picture of a ...?

Ans: Single day's life

16. Name some of the stream of Consciousness Novels of Virgini woolf ?

Ans: Mrs, Dalloway , and To the Light house

17. The stream of Consciousness technique is successfully used by....... in the 20th century?

Ans: Faulkner

The Regional Novel :

18. ...... is the representation of the influence of a particular region or logality on a group of characters?

Ans: The Regional Novel

19. The trend of the Regional Novel began with ..?

Ans : Maria Edgeworth

20. Name the Regional Novels of Maria Edgeworth...?

Ans: castle Rackrent and Ormond

21. Name some of the Regional Novels in the Victorian age ?

Ans: George Eliot's Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Thomas Hardy's Wessex Novels , Arnold Bennett's The old Wives Tale

23. Whose Novel is considered to be an "Epic lower middle Class Provincial life"?

Ans: Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives Tale .

●The Hindu Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams.

1. DESPERATE (ADJ) : (निराशाजनक):
despairing
Synonyms: hopeless, anguished
Antonyms: cheerful, composed
Example Sentence:
A desperate sadness enveloped him.

2.DISASTROUS(ADJECTIVE): (उत्पातक): catastrophic
Synonyms: calamitous, devastating
Antonyms: fortunate
Example Sentence:
A disastrous fire swept through the museum.

3. VIOLATE (VERB): (उल्लंघन करना):
contravene
Synonyms: breach, infringe
Antonyms: comply with
Example Sentence:
They violated the terms of a ceasefire.

4. COMPREHENSIVE (ADJECTIVE): (विस्तृत): inclusive
Synonyms: complete, thorough
Antonyms: partial
Example Sentence:
He has a comprehensive collection of photographs.

5. UNEQUIVOCAL (ADJECTIVE): (स्पष्ट): unambiguous
Synonyms: unmistakable, indisputable
Antonyms: vague, ambiguous
Example Sentence:
Nevertheless the text of the Washington Agreement was not unequivocal.

6. COLLAPSE (NOUN): (निपात):
subside
Synonyms: cave in, fall in
Antonyms: hold up
Example Sentence:
The roof collapsed on top of me.

7. COMPLIANCE (NOUN): (अनुपालन):
acquiescence
Synonyms: agreement, assent
Antonyms: defiance
Example Sentence:
Compliance was shown with government views shown by the commission.

8. APPALLING (ADJECTIVE): (भयानक): dreadful
Synonyms: awful, terrible
Antonyms: admirable, excellent
Example Sentence:
His conduct was appalling

9. RIOT (VERB): (उपद्रव मचाना):
rampage
Synonyms: fight, run riot
Antonyms: pacify
Example Sentence:
Students rioted in Paris.

10. CONFORM (VERB): (अनुरूप होना):
obey
Synonyms: observe, follow
Antonyms: flout
Example Sentence:
The kitchen does not conform to hygiene regulations.

Important vocabulary

📚 A Few Useful IDIOMS & PHRASES (Asked in Various Exams - NDA , SSC, Air Force, Navy etc.

(1) BY AND BY
👉शीघ्र ही (before long )

(2) BY FITS AND STARTS
👉अनियमित रूप से (irregularly)

(3) BY LEAPS AND BOUND
👉बहुत तेजी से (very rapidly)

(4) PEN AND INK
👉लिखित रूप मे (in written)

(5) Tit for tat
👉जैसे को तैसा

(6) CATS AND DOGS
👉मूसलाधार बारिश (heavy rain)

(7) TAKE TO TASK
👉 दण्डित करना ( to punish)

(8) A CLOSE SHAVE
👉बाल बाल बचना ( a narrow escape)

(9) IN BLACK AND WHITE
👉 लिखित रूप मे (in writing )

(10) SMELL THE RAT
👉संदेह होना ( suspect something / something fishy दाल मे कुछ काला होना )

(11) HUSH MONEY /UNDER THE TABLE
👉रिश्वत / घूस (Bribe)

(12) A BIG SHOT
👉important person (महत्वपूर्ण व्यक्ति)

(13) A BLOCK HEAD
👉 stupid person (मूर्ख )

(14) A BLUE BOOK
👉government report (सरकारी सूचना)

(15) A DARK HORSE
👉man of extraordinary whose talent is unknown or hidden (छुपा रूस्तम )

(16) EYE FOR EYE
👉tit for tat ( जैसे को तैसा)

(17) A PAST MASTER
👉expert (कुशल / दक्ष)

(18)At A STONE THROW
👉very near (अति निकट )

(19)INS AND OUTS
👉full details (पूरा विवरण )

(20) The Alpha and the Omega
👉beginning and end (प्रारंभ से अन्त तक )

(21) YEAMAN' S SERVICE
👉excellent work (सर्वश्रेष्ठ कार्य )

(22) TO CHEW THE CUD
👉think deeply (गहराई से विचार करना)

(23) PALMY DAYS
👉Prosperous and peaceful days (खुशहाली के दिन )

(24) RAINY DAYS
👉days of difficulty / unlucky times (मुसीबत के दिन / बुरा वक़्त )

(25) A Q***R FISH
👉A strange person ( विचित्र व्यक्ति )

(26) WELL-TO-DO
👉धनी (Rich)

(27) THROW COLD WATER
👉उत्साह भंग करना (discourage)

(28) TAKE THE CHAIR
👉सभापति होना

(29) TAKE TO HEELS
👉भाग जाना (run away)

(30) A BIRD'S EYE VIEW
👉सरसरी नजर से (देखना) a general view

(31) BURY THE HATCHET
👉पुरानी शत्रुता भुला देना (forget a quarrel )

(32) ITSY BITSY
👉बहुत छोटा (very small )

(33) A NIG-NOG
👉मूर्ख व्यक्ति ( A fool)

(34) IFS AND BUTS
👉सन्देहजनक (doubtful)

(35) INS AND OUTS
👉पूर्ण विवरण (full description)

(36) KICK THE BUCKET
👉मर जाना (to die)

(37) DONKEY'S YEARS
👉काफी लम्बे बाद (After a long time)

Literary terms -

(i) How many types are there of verse form?

Ans. There are more than 50 types of verse form. Famous verse forms include: ballad, blank verse, dramatic monologue, elegy, epic, epithalamion, free verse, limerick, ode and sonnet etc.

(ii) What do you understand by rhyme scheme?

Ans. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem. Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike are said to rhyme. Examples: time, slime, mime/ revival, arrival, survival/ greenery, machinery, scenery.

(iii) What is rhythm?

Ans. Rhythm is the pattern of flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllabls in accentual verse or of long and short syllables in quantitative verse. Rhythm is a pattern of beats, while meter organizes these beats in an understandable way.

(iv) What is a couplet?

Ans.A couplet is a unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and have the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit. This is the shortest stanza. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open).

(v) What is a heroic couplet?

Ans. A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry. It refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter. For example: "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan/ The proper study of Mankind is Man".

(vi) Define a stanza?

Ans. A stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation. It is equivalent of a paragraph in an essay. One way to identify a stanza is to count the number of lines. Thus: couplet (2 lines), tercet (3 lines), quatrain (4 lines), cinquain (5 lines), sestet (6 lines), septet (7 lines), octave (8 lines).

(vii) What is a quatrain?

Ans. A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines. There are twelve possible rhyme schemes but the most traditional and common are: AABB as in A.E. Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and ABAB as in Gwendolyn Brooks' "Sadie and Maud".

(viii) What is a sestet?

Ans. A sestet is a group of six lines of poetry, especially the last six lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet. Common rhyme schemes of a sestet include CDECDE or CDCCDC.

(ix) What is an octave?

Ans. An octave or octet is a group of eight lines of poetry, especially the first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet. Common rhyme scheme of an octave is ABBAABBA

What is a blank verse?

Ans. Blank verse is a category of poetry based on unrhymed lines and a definite meter, usually iambic pentameter. Examples of blank verse can be found in Shakespeare, William Cullen Bryant and Robert Frost.

(xi) What is a free verse?

Ans. Free verse is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter pattern, rhyme or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. Examples of free verse can be found in Mathew Arnold, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

(xii) Define meter.

Ans. Meter is the rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse. The predominant meter in English poetry is accentual-syllabic. Falling meter refers to trochees and dactyls while iambs and anapests are called rising meter. Each unit of stress and unstressed syllables is called a "foot".

(xiii) What is an iamb?

Ans. An iamb is a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The words "unite" and "provide" are both iambic. It is the most common meter in all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. In Robert Frost's "After Apple Picking", the iamb is the vehicle for the "natural", colloquial speech pattern.

(xiv) Define iambic pentameter.

Ans. Iambic pentameter is a kind of rhythmic pattern that consists of five iambs per line, almost like five heartbeats: daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM. Many of Shakespeare's works are great examples of iambic pentameter. For example, If MUsic Be the FOOD of LOVE, play ON. (Twelfth Night)

(xv) What is foot is poetry?

Ans. A foot is a unit of meter, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. A combination of feet makes up a line of meter. The most common feet in English are iamb (daDUM), trochee (DUMda), dactyle (DUMDUM) and anapest (dadaDUM).

✒ 1. : any literary work whch is performed on stage.

✒ 2. . Action that are done after tragedy or tragic event.

✒ 3. . The purging or purificati0n of soul.

✒ 4. . A person or anything whch has a role in drama.

✒ 5. .predicts future and also connects part of drama

✒ 6. . The peak point of the story fr0m where we cannot imagine the end of the story.

✒ 7. : the mixture of tragedy an comedy.

🎁 Drama has six formative element.
⚽(plot)
⚽(dramatic pers0nae)
⚽(fool)
⚽(thought)
⚽(diction)
⚽(spectacles)
⚽(song)

✒ 8. . The logical arrangements of the events.

✒ 9. . Actors in the drama.

✒ 10. . a joker in the drama.

✒ 11 . What character thinks or feels.

✒ 12. . Its mean choice of words and medium of language from whch character reveals their thoughts and feelings.

✒ 13. . The setting of the drama.

✒ 15. . The beginning of drama in whch crctr r introduced.

✒ 16. . Clash betwen pers0ns, ideas. .

✒ 17. . Peak point of conflict.

✒ 18. . the part of drama in whch conflict went to be solved.

✒ 19. . It is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete in itself and have a certain magnitude arrousing the emotions of pity and fear resulting in catharsis.

✒ 20. . The downfal of hero due to error of judgement.

✒ 21 . The turning point of drama.

✒ 22. . Sudden reversal in the fortune of protagonist.

✒ 23. of manner. Comedy on the life style of high class.

✒ 24. . It is the c0medy of everyday life of common people..

✒ 25. . The formation of a word by imitation of its sound.

✒ 26. . Whn a character speaks out in a loud voice when he is alone

✒ 27. . The conventional ideas about a character, setting or pl0t.

✒ 28. . A theme which is repeatd again and again.

✒ 29. . A comedy in whch characters are exaggeratd to that extent that they go beyond the reality.

✒ 30. . The comedy that is out c0me of tragedy. (that arises after tragedy).

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