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Most important Short Questions with Answers Sea Fever by John Masefield

  Sea Fever 1) Who wrote the poem ‘Sea Fever’? Ans:- John Masefield wrote the poem ’Sea Fever’. 2) What was the favourite place of the poet?  Ans:- To see the sea was the favourite place of the poet.  3) What do you mean by steer?  Ans:- Steer means to control the direction of movement.  4) What was the colour of mist on the sea’s face?  Ans:- The colour of the mist was grey.  5) What thing did not the poet deny?  Ans:- The poet can not deny the call of running tide.  6) Write the name of Sea-bird?  Ans:- Sea-gull is the name of a sea-bird.  7) Who wants to live a gypsy life?  Ans:- The poet wants to become a gypsy life.  8) Write the name of the sea-animal?  Ans:- Whale, a name of the sea-animal.  9) What do you mean by whetted knife? Ans:- Whetted knife means sharpened knife.  10) What kind of day does the poet prefer for siling?  Ans:- The poet prefers va...
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Some Important Facts

              Some Important Facts
◼D.H.Lawrence called one of his novels Kangaroo as “Thought Adventure".

◼The phrase ‘religion of the blood' is associated with D.H.Lawrence.

◼A character in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando changes his sex. Charles II is characterised in this novel.

◼A woman's search for a fitting mate is the central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

◼‘Chocolate cream hero' appears in Shaw’s Arms and the Man.

◼The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shaw’s Man and Superman.

◼Prostitution is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

◼Labour and Capital conflict is the central theme of Galsworthy’s Strife.

◼"The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another." These lines occur in Galsworthy’s Justice.

◼Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.

◼Joseph Conrad's novels are generally set in the background of the sea.

◼Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem “ If”

◼The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by William James.

◼The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with Hopkins.

◼Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.

◼T .S. Eliot called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure.

◼The World Within World is an autobiography of Stephen Spender.

◼G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”.
◼Aldous Huxley borrowed the title ‘Brave New World’ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

William Morris is the author of The Earthly Paradise.

◼T S Eliot was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion”.

◼Virginia Woolf was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England.

◼George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty – Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are prophetic novels.

◼Plato said, ‘Art is twice removed from reality'.

◼Plato proposed in his Republic that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.

◼Five principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus.

◼In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four speakers representing four different ideologies. Neander expresses Dryden's own views.

◼Dr. Johnson called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'

◼Shelley said, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”.

◼Dr . Johnson preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his Tragedies.

◼Coleridge said, "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose."

◼Heroic Couplet is a two-line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic Pentameter.

◼Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a Heroic couplet.
◼Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
◼Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter.
◼Ottawa Rima is an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme.
◼Spenserian stanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of two quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded off with an Alexandrine.

◼Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.

◼Simile is a comparison between two things which have at least one point common.

◼Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the sake of emphasis.

◼The poem by Chaucer known to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.

◼Chaucer introduced the Heroic couplet in English verse and invented Rhyme Royal.

◼The invention of the genre, the Eclogues (pastoral poetry) is attributed to Alexander Barclay.

◼Mort D' Arthur is the first book in English in poetic prose.

◼First to use blank verse in English drama Thomas Sackville.

◼The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in London, 1576.
◼Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England.

◼Thomas Nash was the creator of the picaresque novel. ( The Unfortunate Traveler)
◼Francis Bacon is the first great stylist in English prose.

◼Marlowe wrote only tragedies.

◼Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the introductory sonnet

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