1.

How did Industrial Revolution and Agricultural Revolution affect the life of the British people
in the age?
-manufacturing process quicker and British trade with the rest of the world grew
enormously.
- growing british empire was ready market for British produce
-new processes in agricultural forced many people to move from the country to the new
cities to find work
-many people , especially From Scotland and Ireland
2. What were the reason behind the growth of a new mood of freedom ?
3. Explain the role of women in the development of novel in the late 17th and early 18th
century.
4. Who is Aphra Behn? Mention 2 of her famous works.
Aphra behn is a women writer in Augustan age, her works (love letters between noblemen
and his sister ; oroonoko)
5. Mention for greatest male novelist of the Augustan period!
Daniel defoe
6. What is unique about Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe?
7. What did the novel of the eighteenth century such as “Moll Flanders” want to describe?
8. Mention three satire novels by Jonathan Swift.
9. How did Samuel Richardson describe typical heroine in his novels such as Pamela and
Clarissa?
10. Shakespeare’s Comedies

In comedy, the world is threatened and shaken but it ends happily.

Yet, with serious subjects: identity (The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, As you like it)

, the role of women (The Taming of the Shrew), love and jealousy (Much Ado about Nothing), love
and power (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), power of money and deceit (The Merchant of Venice)

11. How did Henry Fielding differ from Samuel Richardson?

12. What was the main purpose of Henry Fielding’s novel?
13. Mention the range of narrative styles and techniques in novels written in the eighteenth
century!
14. What made the novel “Tristram Shandy” by Laurence Sterne unusual?
15. The fashion for the Gothic and horror novels was initiated by...
16. Who was the major poet of the 18th century? And mention one of his well- known satirical
poems?
17. What was the theme of the Graveyard School?
18. What were the main themes of Robert Burns poems?
19. Why did more and more people choose to become a professional writers?
20. Mention some of early journals and magazines published in the 18th century.
21. What was the reason behind the increasing number of journals and magazines?
22. Mention two great works by Samuel Johson!
23. How did the Romantic Age see feelings and imagination?
24. What were the two symbols that William Blake use in his “Songs of Innocence and
Experience”?
25. What was the title of the poem in which Wordsworth becomes the main character, just like
in most of his poems, and describe how an individual’s thoughts and feelings are formed?
26. What did Wordsworth want to convey in “Daffodils”?
27. Who were involved in the production of “Lyrical Ballads”?
28. How does Samuel Taylor Colleridge differ from William Wordsworth?
29. How do we relate John Keats to Samuel Taylor Colleridge?
30. Mention two women writers of the 18th century?
31. What are the similarities between Sir Walter Scott and Shakespeare?
32. Mention some social problems of the age!
33. Why did novel become the most important literary form?
34. Mention two novels by Charles Dickens which describe the social problems young boys
should face in the Victorian age.
35. What is depicted in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times?
36. Mention some women writers of the Victorian !
37. What is the other name of detective novels?
38. Mention two great writers who introduced detective novels!
39. Who is Alfred Lord Tennyson? What is his most famous work?
40. A controversial writer, Oscar Wilde, was known for some of his works. Mention some of his
works.
41. Who was Robert Louis Stevenson? Mention some of his famous works.
42. Who was Rudyard Kipling? Mention some of his famous works.
43. Who was Lewis Caroll? Mention some of his famous works.
44. Mention some of fantasy works of the Victorian age!
45. How was the development of drama of the Victorian age?
46. A person, also known as a dramatist, who composes or writers a play……….
47. Restoration comedy which reflects the manners and morals of men and women who had
returned with the king form france…………………
48. This period takes its name from the original roman augustan age (27 BC – 14 AD) which the
leading writes of this period greatly admired its figures………………..
49. A style of writing that mocks, ridiculed, or pokes fun at a person, belief, or group of people in
order to challenge then. Often, this text uses sarcasm, irony, exaggeration to assert their
perspective…………………….
50. Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter…………………..
51. A literary works in which the hero is destroyed by some flaw which he cannot
control………………..
52. The play that shows the mysterious or miraculous events of the bible and the saint’s
lives………….
53. Intellectual movement refers to the revival of ancient Greek and Latin learning in Europe
that took place from about 1500 to 1600……………
54. A novel told through the medium of letters written by one or more of the characters.
55. A novel by Rudyard kipling tells the story of mowgli who was brought up in the jungle by
animal and was taught that time the jungle has its own rules and laws…………………….
56.