DELS Department of English and Literary Studies

*English Vocabulary*

Segregate علیحدہ کرنا
Annex منسلک کرنا
Impunity نجات دلانا چھٹکارا پانا
Foster پرورش کرنا
Vindictive کینہ پرور
Vicious شیطانی
Repression انسداد ،روک
Stubbornness اڑیل پن
Shun جھٹلانا
Intransigence ضدی
Entourage وفد
Strive کوشش
Endeavor جدوجہد ، کوشش
Scribble بے توجہی سے لکھنا
Oust معزول ہونا، شکست دینا
Sang رکاوٹ
Halt روکنا
Harbor بندر گاہ ، ٹھکانا
Rigorously سخت
Enviable قابلِ رشک
Culminate بلند مقام پر پہنچنا
Uproar ہنگامہ
Sprawl وسیع و عریض
Tranche قسط
Belligerence جنگ جو
Deter مزاحمت
Thwart ناکام بنانا
Fortitude تحمل
Demise مر جانا
Snapped اچانک سروس ختم ہونا
Lodge درج کرنا
Carnage خون ریزی
Vulnerable غیر محفوظ
Spat تلخ کلامی
Expat وضاحت
Inevitable ناگزیر
invigorate ہمت بڑھانا
Plundering لوٹنا
Bereaved غمزدہ
Topple گرا دینا
Scathing شدید
Fragile کمزور
Reservations تحفظات
Felicity مبارکباد
Alleviate کم کرنا
Spectator تماشائی
Impassion جذباتی
Unprecedented غیر معمولی
Contour محیط کرنا
Adjourn ملتوی کرنا
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فرض کیجئے آپ چائے کا کپ ہاتھ میں لئے کھڑے ہیں اور کوئی آپ کو دھکا دے دیتا ہے، تو کیا ہوتا ہے؟ آپ کے کپ سے چائے چھلک جاتی ہے۔ اگر آپ سے پوچھا جائے کہ آپ کے کپ سے چائے کیوں چھلکی؟ تو آپ کا جواب ہوگا : کیونکہ فلاں نے مجھے دھکا دیا...
غلط جواب...
درست جواب یہ ہے کہ آپ کے کپ میں چائے تھی اسی لئے چھلکی۔ آپ کے کپ سے وہی چھلکے گا جو اس میں ہے۔
۔
اسی طرح جب زندگی میں ہمیں دھکے لگتے ہیں لوگوں کے رویوں سے، تو اس وقت ہماری اصلیت ہی چھلکتی ہے۔ آپ کا اصل اس وقت تک سامنے نہیں آتا جب تک آپ کو دھکا نہ لگے۔
تو دیکھنا یہ ہے کہ جب آپ کو دھکا لگا تو کیا چھلکا؟
صبر، خاموشی، شکرگزاری، رواداری، سکون، انسانیت، وقار...
یا
غصہ، کڑواہٹ، جنون، حسد، نفرت، حقارت۔
چن لیجئے کہ ہمیں اپنے کردار کو کس چیز سے بھرنا ہے۔
فیصلہ ہمارے اختیار میں ہے.

"A drop of ink can make a million think"

The Department of English Language and Literary Studies is stirred with pleasure to announce that the Short Story Writing Contest is starting very soon. Jump the gun and stand on your toes to get yourself registered.

*100 Most Famous Urdu Proverbs with English Translation*

*1. جسے اللہ رکھے اُسے کون چکھے*
Jisay Allah Rakhay usay kon Chakhay.
If Allah wills not, no one can Harm.
*2. بھوکے کو سوکھی بھی چپڑی کے برابر*
Bhokay ko Sokhi bhi Chopri k baraber
Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man
*3. اندھا کیا چاہے دو آنکھیں*
Andha Kya Chahay doo Ankhan
A wish coming True.
*4. آنکھ کا اندھا نام نین سکھ*
Aankh ka Andha Naam Nain-Sukh
Opposite qualities of meaning of person’s name
*5. کھسیانی بلی کھمبا نوچے*
Khasyani Billi Khamba Nochay
To show anger after getting embarrassed.
*6. کہاں راجہ بھوج کہاں گنگو تیلی*
Kahan Raja Bhojh kahan Gangoteli
Big difference in status or Class .
*7. جتنے منہ اتنی باتیں*
Jitnay moun utni Baatain
More mouths will have more talks
*8. چھوٹا منہ بڑی بات*
Chota moun bari baat
To talk big without having a big position
*9. چوری کا مال موری میں*
Chori ka maal mori main
Money earned the wrong way will be taken away, would be lost
*10. دور کے ڈھول سُہانے*
Door k Dhol Sohanay
The grass is always greener on the other side
*11. مان نہ مان میں تیرا مہمان*
Maan na maan main taira mehmaan
Getting involved without having
*12. بہتی گنگا میں ہاتھ دھونا*
Behti Ganga main Hath dhona
To use the available opportunity
*13. گنگا گائے گنگا داس جمنا گائے جمنا داس*
Ganga ga-ay ganga daas Jamna ga-ay jamna daas
A person of no principles
*14. گھر کا بھیدی لنکا ڈھائے*
Ghar ka bhadi lanka dha-ay
Division is main reason for the damage
*15. چور کی داڑھی میں تنکا*
Chor ki Darhi main Tinka
One is afraid of his/her crime
*16. جیسی کرنی ویسی بھرنی*
Jaisi karni waisi Bharni
As you sow so shall you reap
*17. دھوبی کا کتا نہ گھر کا نہ گھاٹ کا*
Dhobi ka Kutta na ghar ka na Ghat ka
A person try to be on two sides goes nowhere
*18. ہاتھ کنگن کو آرسی کیا*
Hath kangan ko Arsi Kya
Evidence does not need proof
*19. انگور کھٹے ہیں*
Angoor Khatay hain
Sour grapes
*20. بندر کیا جانے ادرک کا سواد*
Bandar kya janay Adrak ka Sawad
Casting pearls before swine
*21. دال میں کالا*
Daal maen kala
More to it than meets the eye
*22. آگے کنواں پیچھے کھائی*
Aagy Kuwan pechay Khaee
Between the devil and the deep-sea
*23. جلے پر نمک چھڑکنا*
Jalay par Namak Cherkna
Rubbing salt on one’s wound
*24. ناچ نہ جانے آنگھن ٹیڑھا*
Naach na janay Angan Terha
A poor worker blames his tools
*25. انتھ بھلا تو سب بھلا*
Anth bhla to Sab bhla
All’s well that ends well
*26. اب پچھتائے کیا، جب چڑیاں چگ گئیں کھیت*
Ab Pachtay kya jab Chiryan chug gaen Khait
No use crying over split milk
*27. جتنی چادر ہو اتنا پیر پھیلاؤ*
Jitni Chadar ho utna pair phelao
Cut your coat according to your cloth
*28. تالی ایک ہاتھ سے نہیں بجتی*
Taali aik hath say nahi bajti
It takes two to quarrel
*29. جہاں چاہ وہاں رہ*
jahan Chah Wahan Rah
Where there’s a will, there’s a way
*30. دودھ کا جلا چھاچھ بھی پھونک کر پیتا ہے*
Doodh ka jala chach bhi Phonk kar pita hay
Once bitten twice shy
*31. کھوٹا چھنا باجے گھنا*
Khota chana bajay ghana
Empty vessels make more noise
*32. ایک میان میں دو تلواریں نہیں سماتیں*
aik Miyan main doo Talwarain nahi Samatein
No man can serve two masters
*33. جیسا دیس ویسا بھیس*
Jaisa dais waisa bhais
In Rome do as the Romans do
*34. اوس چاٹنے سے پیاس نہیں بجھتی*
Oas Chatnay say Piyas nahi Bojhti
A fog cannot be dispelled by a fan
*35. چور چور مسیرے بھائی*
Chor Chor masairay bhai
Birds of same feather flock together
*36. کر برا تو ہوئے برا*
Kar bura to hoay bura
Do evil & look for like
*37. اسکی عقل چرنے کو گئی ہے*
Us ki Aqal charnay ko g*i hay
His wits are gone a wool gathering
*38. آپ بھلے تو جگ بھلا*
Aap bhalay to Jag Bhala
Good mind, good find
*39. اپنے منہ میاں مٹھو*
Apnay moun miyan Mitho
Fool to others to himself a sage
*40. جو گرجتے ہیں وہ برستے نہیں*
Jo garjtay hain wo barastay nahi
Barking dogs seldom bite
*41. لالچ بری بلا ہے*
Lalich buri bala hay
Avarice is root of all evils
*42. لوہے کے چنے چبانا*
Lohay k chany Chabana
Hard nut to crack
*43. ڈوبتے کو تنکے کا سہارا*
Doobtay ko Tinkay ka sahara
Drowning man catches at straw
*44. بوئے پودے ببول کے آم کہاں سے ہوئے*
Boay poday babol k, Aam kahan say hoay
Gather thistles & expect pickles
*45. جیسا راجا ویسی پرجا*
Jaisa raja waisi Parja
As the King so are the subjects
*46. سانچ کو آنچ نہیں*
Sanch ko Aanch nahi
Pure gold does not fear the flame
*47. اونچی دوکان پھیکا پکوان*
Ounchi duyan Pheika pakwan
Great cry little wool
*48. بھینس کے آگے بین بجانا*
Bhains k Aagy been bajana
Crying in wilderness
*49. چار دن کی چاندنی پھر اندھیری رات*
Char din ki Chandni phir andhairi raat
A nine days wonder
*50. اونٹ کے منہ میں زیرا*
Ounth k moun main Zeera
A drop in the Ocean
*51. نیکی کر دریا میں ڈال*
Naiki kar Darya main daal
Do good & cast in to the river.
*52. لوہا لوہے کو کاٹتا ہے*
Loha Lohay ko Katta hay
Diamonds cut diamonds
*53. اندھوں میں کانا راجہ*
Andhon main Kana Raja
A figure among cyphers
*54. جان ہے تو جہان ہے*
jaan hay to jahan hay
Only if you are alive, things matter .
*55. بخل میں چھری منہ پے رام رام*
Baghal main Churi moun pay ram ram
A wolf in lamb’s clothing
*56. نیم حکیم خطرہ جان*
Neem hakeem khatra jaan
A little Knowledge is a dangerous thing
*57. لکیر کا فقیر*
Lakeer ka Fakeer
To go about the same old beaten path
*58. بچہ بغل میں ڈھنڈورا شہر میں*
Bacha Baghal main Dhindhora shehar main
Child is in the armpit, chaos in the city
*59. تیل دیکھو تیل کی دھار دیکھو*
Tail dakho tail ki Dhar dekho
Watch the oil and watch it pour
*60. سانپ بھی مر جائے، لاٹھی بھی نہ ٹوٹے*
Sanmp bhi mar jay, lathi bhi na totay
The snake dies and the club doesn’t break
*61. ایک تیر سے دو شکار*
Aik teer say doo Shikar
Two hunts with one arrow
*62. بوڑھی گھوڑی لال لگام*
Borhi Ghori laal lagam
Old mare red reigns
*63. بھاگتے چور کی لنگوٹی ہی سہی*
Bhagtay Chor ki langoti hi sahi
Some thing is better than nothing.
*64. پتھر پے لکیر*
Pathar pay Lakeer
Line on the rock
*65. دودھ کا دودھ پانی کا پانی*
Doodh ka doodh pani ka pani.
Milk of milk, Water of water
*66. ضرورت ایجاد کی ماں ہے*
zaroorat ejad ki maan hai
Necessity is a mother of invention
*67. چور کا بھائی گٹھ کترا*
Chor ka bahi Gath Kutra
They agree like pick-pockets in a fair
*68. عقلمند اپنے ہی پھندے میں نہیں پھنستا*
Akalmand apnay hi phanday main nahi pahsta
A fox never dies in the dirt of his own
*69. کتاب ایک ایسا دوست ہے جو کبھی دھوکہ نھیں دیتا*
Kitab aik asa dost hay jo kabhi dhoka nahi daita A book is a friend that never deceives
*70. جو کم سوچتے ہیں وہی زیادہ بولتے ہیں*
Jo Kam sochty han wohi ziyada bolty han
The less people think the more they talk
*71. دِل میں زہر زبان پر شہد*
Dil main zehar zuban par shahd
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off
*72. مَری ہُوئی مَکّھی سے شہد نہیں نکلتا*
Mari hue makhi say shahd nahi nikalta
A dead bee make no honey
*73. ایک انار سو بیمار*
Aik anaar so bemar
One post and a hundred candidates
*74. دوست راہ چلتے نہیں بنتے*
Dost rah chaltay nahi bantay
Friendship is to be bought at a fair
*75. کیا نہاۓ گی ۔ کیا نچوڑے گی*
Gangi kya nhay gee, kya nachoray gee
No one can strip a naked person
*76. جِس نے کی شرم اس کے پھوٹے کرم*
Jis nay kee sharm us kay photay karam
The modesty will be the ruin of you
*77. شرافت نیت سے ہے*
Shirafat neeyat say hay
The mind ennobles not the blood
*78. ٹال مٹول کام شیطان کا ہے*
Tal matool kaam shetan ka hay
When God says today, the devil says tomorrow
*79. ایک کو سائی ۔ دوسرے کو بدھائی*
Aik ko saai dosray ko badhai
To invite one and feast another
*80. ایک مچھلی سارے جال کو گندا کرتی ہے*
aik machli saray jal ko ghanda karti hay
A single sinner sink the boat
*81. نو نقد نہ تیرہ اُدھار*
Nou naqad na taira udhar
Batter an egg today than a hen tomorrow
*82. بھلا جو چاہے آپ کا ۔ دینا نہ رکھے باپ کا*
bhala jo chahay aap ka dena na rakhay baap ka
Out of debit, out of danger
*83. بھٹ پڑے وہ سونا جِس سے ٹوٹیں کان*
Bhat paray wo sona jis say totain kaan
Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot
*84. پھول میں کانٹا ہے*
Phool main kanta hay
Honey is sweet but the bee stings
*85. سیوا بن میوا کہاں*
Saiva bin maiva kahan
No pains no g*ins
*86. کاہل فقیر کا بھائی*
Kahil faqeer ka bhai
The slothful man is the beggar’s brother
*87. بھو سے بغیر اناج نہیں*
Bhosay baghair anaj nahi
No corn without chaff
*88. دوڑنے سے پہلے چلنا سیکھو!*
Dhornay say pehlay chalna sekho
Creep before you gang
*89. مان نہ مان میں تیرا مہمان*
Maan na maan main tera mehmaan
Whether you recognize me or not i am your guest
*90. کوٹھی والا روۓ چھپر والا سوۓ*
Kothi wala roey chapar wala soey
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
*91. خالی باتوں سے بھی کہیں پیٹ بھرتا ہے*
Khali batoon say bhi kahin pait bharta hay
Do not give me words instead of meal
*92. مُفت کی شراب قاضی پر حلال*
Muft key sharab qazi per hlaal
An empty door will tempt a saint
*93. ایک اور ایک گیارہ*
Aik aur aik gyara
Union is strength
*94. شتابی میں خرابی ہے*
Shetabi main Khrabi hay
Error is always in hassle
*95. سارے انڈے ایک ہی ٹوکری میں مت رکھو*
Saray anday aik hi tokri main mat rakho
Do not put all your eggs in one basket
*96. سر منڈاتے ہی اولے پڑے*
Sar mundhatay hi olay paray
A poor man’s rain
*97. بڑھاپے کی مفلسی سب سے بُری*
Barhapay ki muflisi sab say buri
Poverty on an old man’s back is a heavy burden
*98. یہ منہ اور مسور کی دال*
Ye moun aur masoor ki daal
Honey is not for the ass’s mouth
*99. ہمت مرداں مددِ خُدا*
Himat-e- mardan madad-e-khuda
God helps those who helps himself
*100. آسمان سے گرا کھجور میں اٹکا*
Asmaan say gira khajoor main atka
Out of the frying pan into the fire...

*Shakespeare's most memorable quotes*

*Hamlet*
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.”

Act 1, Scene 3

“The play ‘s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”

Act 2, Scene 2

“To be, or not to be; that is the question; Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer; The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms ag*inst a sea of troubles”

Act 3, Scene 1

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it..”

Act 5, Scene 1

*A Midsummer Night's Dream*
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

Act 1, Scene 1

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind”

Act 1, Scene 1

“My Oberon! What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass.”

Act 4, Scene 1

*Twelfth Night*
“If music be the food of love, play on.”

Act 1, Scene 1

“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

Act 2, Scene 5

“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”

Act 3 Scene 1

*As you like it*
“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”

Act 2, Scene 7

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?“

Act 3, Scene 5

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

Act 5, Scene 1

*Merchant of Venice*
“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.”

Act 2, Scene 6

“All that glisters is not gold.”

Act 2, Scene 7

*Much Ado About Nothing*
“When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.”

Act 1, Scene 1

“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it”

Act 3, Scene 2

*Romeo and Juliet*
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

Act 2, Scene 1

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

Act 2, Scene 1

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet”

Act 2, Scene 2

*Henry V*
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!"

Act 3, Scene 1

*Macbeth*
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”

Act 4, Scene 1

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Act 5, Scene 5

*Sonnet 18*
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date"

*Richard II*
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Ag*inst infection and the hand of war"

Act 2 , Scene 1

*Richard III*
“Now is the winter of our discontent, Made glorious summer by this sun of York”

Act 1, Scene 1

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

Act 5, Scene 4

*Love's Labour's Lost*
"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

Act 5, Scene 1

*The Tempest*
“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade ; But doth suffer a sea-change; Into something rich and strange.”

Act 1, Scene 2

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

Act 2, Scene 2

*Measure for Measure*
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”

Act 2, Scene 1

“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope”

Act 3, Scene 1

“What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.”

Act 5, Scene 1.

*The Merry Wives of Windsor*
"Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."

Act 2, Scene 2

*Othello*
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve; For daws to peck at."

Act 1, Scene 1

*Julius Caesar*
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”

Act 2, Scene 2

“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff”

Act 3, Scene 2

*Anthony and Cleopatra*
"My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then! But, come, away; Get me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, Or I'll unpeople Egypt."

Act 1, Scene 5

*Henry IV, Part II*
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"

Act 3, Scene 1

*King Lear*
"The worst is not, So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.'"

Act 4, Scene 1

Punjab Public Service Commission English Exam 2020 for the post of BPS-17.

University of Management and Technology-Sialkot Campus shall remain closed on Monday November 9,2020 on account of Iqbal Day.

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Following are the hundred important facts of English Literature.

1. Chaucer lived during the reigns of – Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV
2. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was written in – 1385 onwards
3. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales belongs to – 3rd Period of Chaucer’s literary career
4. Norman Conquest took place in – 1066 (11th Century)
5. Wyclif’s Bible was published in – 1380 6. William Langland’s The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman was written in – 1362-90
7. The Travels of Sir John Maundeville was published in - 1400
8. The Hundred Years’ War was begun in – 1338 (14th Century)
9. The Hundred Years’ War was fought between – England and France
10. Wat Tyler’s Rebellion took place in - 1381
11. The War of Roses was fought between – The House of York and the House of Lancaster
12. The War of Roses was fought during the period – 1455-86
13. Thomas Malory’s Morte De Arthur was written in – 1470 (published in 1485)
14. Caxton’s Printing Press was set up in – 1485
15. Thomas More’s Utopia was published in – 1516 (Latin), 1551 (English)
16. The First English Comedy, Roister Doister was written in – 1550
17. Roister Doister was written by – Nicholas Udall
18. The First English Tragedy, Gorboduc was written in – 1561
19. Gorboduc was written by – Thomas Sackville, Lord of Buckhurst & Thomas Norton
20. Tottel’s Miscellancy was published in - 1557
21. Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne of England in – 1558
22. Globe Theatre was built in – 1599
23. The Elizabethan Age covers the period – 1558-1602
24. The leader of University Wits was – Christopher Marlowe
25. Marlowe’s first tragedy was – Tamburlaine the Great (1587)
26. Shakespeare wrote – 37 plays
27. Dryden’s All for Love is based on Shakespeare’s – Antony and Cleopatra
28. Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in – 1609
29. The hero of Spenser’s Faerie Queene is - King Arthur
30. Spenser’s Faerie Queene is dedicated to – Queen Elizabeth
31. Spenser dedicated his Shephearde’s Calendar to – Philip Sydney
32. John Lyly’s Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit was published in 1579 and was contemporary with – Shepheardes Calender.
33. White Devil and Duchess of Malfi were written by – John Webester
34. Ben Jonson’s first play Every Man in his Humour was published in – 1598
35. Ben Jonson is known for his – Comedy of Humours
36. Ben Jonson’s play written wholly in prose – Bartholomew Fair
37. Bacon’s essays are written in – Aphoristic style
38. Bacon wrote essays in all – 106 essays (1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition – 10, 38, 58 essays)
39. Authorised version of the Bible - 1611 40. The leader of Metaphysical School of Poets was – Henery Vaughan
41. The term ‘Augustan’ was first applied to school of Poets by – Dr. Johnson
42. The intellectual father of French Revolution – Rousseau
43. Lyrical Ballads was published in – 1798
44. The leader of the Pre-Raphaelite in England was – D.G. Rossetti
45. The founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England – William Holman Hunt
46. The originator of the Oxford Movement was – John Keble
47. The phrase ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is associated with – James Joyce
48. The Hero of Homer’s Iliad is – Achilles 49. Pope’s R**e of the Lock contains – Five Cantos
50. A Ballad stanza generally contains – Four lines
51. The greatest Epic in English is written by – Milton
52. The next in command after Satan in Paradise Lost is – Beelzebub
53. The meaning of L’Allegro is – A cheerful man 54. A Pastoral Elegy written by Shelley on the death of Keats – Adonais 55. Everyman a famous play of 15th Century was a – Morality Play 56. The villain in Duchess of Malfi is – Bosola 57. Dryden’s plays in general are called – Heroic Plays
58. The last play written by Shakespeare is – The Tempest
59. Andrea Del Sarto in Browning’s Dramatic Monologue was – A renowned Painter
60. Rabbi Ben Ezra was a – real Jewish Scholar.
61. Occleve in The Governail of Princes wrote a famous poem mourning the death of Chaucer.
62. Caxton was the first to set up a printing press in England in 1476.
63. William Tyndale’s English New Testament is the earliest verse of Bible.
64. Tottle's Miscellany is a famous anthology of 'Songs and Sonnets' by Wyatt and Surrey.
65. Amoretti contained 88 sonnets of Spenser.
66. Thomas Mores' Utopia was first written in Latin in 1516. It was rendered into English in 1551.
67. Roister Doister is believed to be the first regular comedy in English by Nicholas Udall.
68. Gorboduc is believed to be the first regular tragedy in English by Sackville and Norton in collaboration.
69. Chaucer's Physician in the Doctor of Physique was heavily dependent upon Astrology.
70. Spenser described Chaucer as "The Well of English undefiled’.
71. Chaucer's pilgrims go on their pilgrimage in the month of April.
72. Forest of Arden appears in the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare.
73. Globe Theatre was built in 1599.
74. When Sidney died, Spenser wrote an elegy on his death called “Astrophel”
75. Spenser’s Epithalamion is a wedding hymn.
76. The first tragedy Gorboduc was later entitled as Ferrex and Porrex.
77. Sidney's “Apologie for Poetrie” is a reply to Gosson's “School of Abuse”.
78. In his Apologie for Poetrie, Sidney defends the Three Dramatic Unities.
79. Christopher Marlowe wrote only tragedies. He first used Blank Verse in his Jew of Malta.
80. "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships” . This line occurs in Doctor Faustus by Marlowe.
81. Ben Jonson used the phrase 'Marlowe's mighty line' for Marlowe's Blank Verse.
82. Ruskin said, "Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes".
83. The phrase 'The Mousetrap' used by Shakespeare in Hamlet. It is the play within the play.
84. Spenser dedicates the Preface to The Faerie Queene to Sir Walter Raleigh.
85. The Faerie Queene is an allegory .In this Queen Elizabeth is allegorized through the character of Gloriana.
86. Charles Lamb called Spenser the 'Poets' Poet'.
87. Spenser first used the Spenserian stanza in Faerie Queene.
88. In the original scheme or plan of the Faerie Queene as designed by Spenser, it was to be completed in Twelve Books. But he could not complete the whole plan. Only six books exist now.
89. Twelve Cantos are there in Book I of the Faerie Queene.
90. In the Dedicatory Letter, Spenser Says that the real beginning of the allegory in the Faerie Queene is to be found in Book XII.
91. The Faerie Queene is basically a moral allegory. Spenser derived this concept of moral allegory from Aristotle.
92. Ben Jonson said 'Spenser writ no language.'
93. Spenser divided his ‘Shepheardes Calender’ into twelve Ecologues. They represent twelve months of a year.
94. Bacon's Essays are modelled on the Essais of Montaigne.
95. Bacon is the author of Novum Organum.
96. Spenser dedicated his Shepheards Calendar to Sir Philip Sidney.
97. Ten Essays were published in Bacon's First Edition of Essays in 1597.
98. 58 essays of Bacon were published in his third and last edition of Essays in 1625.
99. "......... a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better , but it embaseth it". These lines occur in Bacon’s “Of Truth”.
100. Hamlet said "Frailty thy name is woman” in Hamlet by Shakespeare.


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*Words with appropriate prepositions*

Some verbs, adjectives and nouns are followed by particular prepositions.
Here are some of the most common combinations.
Note that alternatives are sometimes possible, and that British and American usage sometimes differ.

*Absorbed in*
He is completely absorbed in his research work.

*Abstain from*
You must abstain from smoking and drinking.

*Acceptable to*
That suggestion is not acceptable to us.

*Acquainted with*
I am only slightly acquainted with him.

*Acquitted of*
James was acquitted of the charge of theft.

*Adapt to*
One must learn to adapt oneself to changing circumstances.

*Addicted to*
James is addicted to gambling.

*Admit to*
He was admitted to the Medical College.

*Admit of*
This is an urgent matter which admits of no delay.

*Allotted to*
I have performed the task allotted to me.

*Amazed at*
I was amazed at her performance.

*Anxious to*
She is anxious to hear from her son.

*Avail … of*
Avail yourself of this opportunity.

*Aware of*
I am not aware of their plans.

*Backward in*
She is rather backward in her studies.

*Believe in*
Do you believe in ghosts?

*Boast of*
She boasts of her aristocratic upbringing.

*Brood over*
Don’t brood over past failures.

*Call at (=visit)*
On the way we called at a friend’s house.

*Call for (= demand)*
The principal has called for an explanation from the suspended students.

*Care for*
I don’t care for your objections. I have decided to do it.

*CSS 2020 PRECIS PAPER:-*
*PART-I: MCQs*

Q1.
*SYNONYMS:-*
01. Guile=slyness, decency, blame, mad
02. Essay=direct, compose, attempt, effort
03. Inception=incision, unending, beginning, growth
04. Expatriate=emigrant, displaced, infirm, male
05. Sinister=malevolent, sinful, ill-famed, occult
06. Contraption=intrigue, device, sticker, trend
07. Animosity=friendly, flow, enmity, vanity
08. Condone=trap, overlook, conform, desist
09. Plagiarism=copy, piracy, deviance, plague
10. Impeachment=indictment, castigation, contempt, charge

*ANTONYMS:-*
11. Eternity=heaven, transcience, mundane, abstract
12. Pandemonium=platform, quietude, confusion, tension
13. Relinquish=assume, confer, leave, throw
14. Henpecked=meek, assertive, obedient, rebel
15. Consistency=anomaly, constant, regularity, errant
16. Laudable=extol, unworthy, ignorance, praise
17. Exaggeration=fabricate, understate, confab, curse
18. Extempore=sudden, prepared, imprint, frenzy
19. Hypothetical=unreal, unsound, actual, vague
20. Pooh-pooh=ridicule, reprehend, ravage, praise

100 Important Books & Authors

1):- David Copperfield → Charles Dickens

2):- Hamlet → William Shakespeare

3):- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner → Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4):- Das Capital → Karl Mark

5):- Animal Farm → George Orwell

6):- Dialogues → Plato

7):- Tempest → William Shakespeare

8):- Main Kemp → Ad loaf Hi**er

9):- Mother → Maxim Gorky

10):- As You Like it → William Shakespeare

11):- Paradise Lost → John Milton

12):- The Tale of Two Cities → Charles Dickens

13):- The Merchant of Venice → William Shakespeare

14):- Pride and Prejudice → Jane Austen

15):- All’s Well that Ends Well → William Shakespeare

16):- Anna Karenina → Leo Tolstoy

17):- Origin of Species → Charles Darwin

18):- Discovery of India → Jawahar Lal Nehru

19):- Asian Drama → Gunner Myrdal

20):- The Old Man and The Sea → Earnest Hemingway

21):- Julius Caesar → William Shakespeare

22):- Man and Superman → George Bernard Shaw

23):- War and Peace → Leo Tolstoy

24):- Gulliver’s Travels → Jonathan Swift

25):- Heaven and Earth → Lord Byron

26):- Blue Bird → Lord Alfred Tennyson

27):- Othello → William Shakespeare

28):- India Wins Freedom → Abul Kalam Azad

29):- Marriage and Moral → Bertrand Russell

30):- God of the Small Things → Arundhuty Roy

31):- Caesar and Cleopatra → George Bernard

32):- Romeo and Juliet → William Shakespeare

33):- Jungle Book → Rudyard Kipling

34):- Lycidas → John Milton

35):- Emma → Jane Austen

36):- A pair of Blue Eyes → Thomas Hardy

37):- Odyssey → Homer

38):- Memories of the Second World War → Winston Churchill

39):- For Whom the Bell Tolls → Earnest Hemingway

40):- Wealth of Nations → Adam Smith

41):- West Land → T.S Eliot

42):- Vanity Fair → W.M Thackeray

43):- Prince → Machiavelli

44):- Republic → Plato
45):- Freedom → Bertrand Russell

46):- A Long Walk to Freedom → Nelson Mandela

47):- Robinson Crusoe → Daniel Defoe

48):- Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow → D.H Lawrence

49):- Ulysses → Lord Alfred Tennyson

50):- Sense and Sensibility → Jane Austen

51):- Roots → Alex Haley

52):- To Skylark → P. B Shelly

53):- Time Machine → H. W Wells

54):- Try and Try Ag*in → W.E Hick son

55):- Seven Seas → Rudyard Kipling

56):- Around the World in Eighty Days→ Jules Verne

57):- Waiting For Goddot → Samuel Becket

58):- Things Fall Apart → Chinua Achebe

59):- Silent Women → Ben Johnson

60):- Wuthering Heights → Emile Bronte

61):- The Way of the World → William Congreve

62):- Voyage of Lilliput → Jonathon Swift

63):- Top Secret → Henry Fielding

64):- Twelfth Night → William Shakespeare

65):- Utopia → Sir Thomas Moore

66):- Tom Jones → Henry Fielding

67):- The Return of the Native → Thomas Hardy

68):- The Alchemist → Ben Jonson

69):- Tess of t D’Urbervilles → Thomas Hardy

70):- Scholar Gipsy → Matthew Arnold

71):- The R**e of the Lock → Alexander Pope

72):- Prelude → William Wordsworth

73):- Ode to the West Wind → P.B Shelly

74):- Great Expectations → Charles Dickens

75):- King Lear → William Shakespeare

76):- Kublai Khan → Samuel Taylor Coleridge

77):- Isabella → John Keats

78):- Measure and Measure → William Shakespeare

79):-In Memoriam → Lord Alfred Tennyson

80):- Pilgrim’s Progress → John Bunyan

81):- Oliver Twist → Charles Dickens

82):- Paradise Reg*ined → John Milton

83):- Iliad → Homer

84):- Divine Comedy → Dante

85):- Crime and Punishment → Dostoevsky
86):- A Brief History Of Time → Stephen Hawking

87):- A Farewell to Arms → Earnest Hemingway

88):- A Midsummer’s Nights Dream → William
Shakespeare
89):- Adonis → P. B Shelly

90):- Akbar Nama → Abul Fazal

91):- Canterbury Tales → Geoffrey Chaucer

92):- Comedy of Errors → William Shakespeare
93):- Don Juan → Lord Byron

94):- Dr. Faustus → Christopher Marlowe

95):- Politics → Aristotle

96):- Volpone → Ben Jonson

97):- Dictionary → Samuel Johnson

98):- A Passage to India → E. M. Forster

99):- Macbeth → William Shakespeare

100):- Samson Agonists → John Milton