English Language & Literature Part -2


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Transformation of Sentence-----
Simple: They saw the drunken porter lying on the floor.
Complex: They saw that the drunken porter was lying on the floor.
Simple: He is too weak to walk.
Complex: He is very week, So he can’t walk.
Active: The principal teaches us English.
Passive: We are taught English by the principal.
Comparative: He is better than any other boy in the class.
Superlative: He is the best boy in the class.

Meaning-----
1. Study of coins-
Answer: Numismatics
2. Study of the problem of old age-
Answer: Gerontology
3. One with unlimited power-
Answer: Omnipotence
4. Written by light-
Answer: Photograph
5. The killing of a mother-
Answer: Matricide

Synonyms-----
1. Alteration – Adaptation
2. Authentic – Genuine
3. Bounty – Generosity
4. Deter – Hinder
5. Discrete – Definite
Antonyms-----
1. Awaful – Fantastic
2. Celebrity – Notoriety
3. Mitigated – Aggravated
4. Debacle – Success
5. Meticulous – Careless
6. Queer – Oderly
7. Spurious – Genuine

Spelling-----
1. Inoculate
2. Overrun
3. Reminiscence
4. Assent
5. Equilibrium
6. Phenomenon
7. Visionary


The Renaissance period (1500-1660)
1. Shakespear’s Julius Caesar is a-
Answer: Tragedy
2. Francis Bacon is a/an-
Answer: Essayist
3. Shakespear’s Merchant of Venice is a-
Answer: Comedy
4. Author of Hamlet-
Answer: William Shakespeare
5. Silent Woman written by-
Answer: Ben Jonson
6. Elizabethan Tragedy is centered on-
Answer: Revenge
7. Father of English prose-
Answer: Francis Bacon


The Neoclassical Period (1660-1785)
1. A lexicographer is a person who writes-
Answer: Dictionaries
2. Poet Alexander pope’s famous work-
Answer: Rape of the lock
3. Ivan Hoe written by-
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
4. Father of English novel-
Answer: Henry Fielding
5. The most famous satirist in English literature-
Answer: Jonathan swift



The Romantic period (1798-1832)
1. Solitary Reaper written by-
Answer: Wordsworth
2. John Keats is a poet of-
Answer: Romantic Age.
3. Kubla Khan is-
Answer: A verse by Coleridge
4. Wordsworth was inspired by-
Answer: the French revolution
5. John Keats is called-
Answer: Poet of beauty



Victorian period (1832-1901)
1. Vanity Fair is a novel by-
Answer: Thankeray
2. Charles Dickens is a great-
Answer: Novelist
3. Around the word in Eighty days written by-
Answer: Jules verne.
4. The origin of Species written-
Answer: Darwin

Modern period (1901-Present)
1. T.S. Eliot was born in-
Answer: USA
2. The Jungle Book written by-
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
3. Bernard Russel was a British-
Answer: Philosopher
4. George Bernard show is-
Answer: A play wright
 
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