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In Old English poetry ceasura was:

a pause in the middle of every verse

An epic poem such as “Beowulf” can be best defined as:

a long narrative poem about the deeds of warriors and heroes

In the above-mentioned poem Beowulf is:

a Scandinavian warrior

“The Wanderer” is one of Old English:

elegiac poems

The word “Wyrd” in Old English poetry and culture corresponds to:

fate or personal destiny

6) “The Battle of Maldon” is both interesting and important because:

it carries the first breath of chivalry

In one of the best-known Old English riddles, the one-time “armed warrior” now “covered with gold and silver” who “summons pleasant companions to battle with a song” is:

a horn

Old English charms were simple poetic forms that originated from:

native folklore and superstition

Caedmon’s famous “Hymn”:

extolls the might of the Creator

Hymn can be generally defined as:

a solemn song of praise of religious or patriotic content

In “The Dream of the Rood”, the title “rood” is:

the holy cross

The father of English prose was:

King Alfred

The Norman Conquest, which concludes the Old English Period, took place in the year:

1066

Brut in the rhyming chronicle of the same title is:

the legendary founder of the British race

By contrast, Bruce in the historical poem by John Barbour of the same title is:

the brave king of Scotland

“The Owl and the Nightingale” is a good example of the popular medieval:

allegorical poetry

The motif of journey and adventures is typical of medieval:

romance

One of the best Arthurian metrical romances is:

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”

In which of the poems listed below the anonymous poet visualizes the mystery of the Virgin Birth in terms of the most natural of mysteries – the falling dew:

in “I Sing of a Maiden”

The origin of ballad is:

plebeian

The greatest poet of the Middle English Period, Geoffrey Chaucer lived in:

the 14th century

Chaucer’s Criseyde from the famous poem entitled “Troilus and Criseyde” is regarded as the first:

realistic female creation

In his greatest work, “The Canterbury Tales”, Chaucer invented a new verse form called:

heroic couplet

Heroic couplet as invented by Geoffrey Chaucer comprises:

iambic pentameter lines rhyming aabbccdd, etc.

Middle English morality plays (or simply moralities) were:

dramatic pieces in which personified abstractions appeared

Sir John Mandeville was the ostensible author of a popular:

book of travels

The late medieval prose romance entitled “Le Morte d’Arthur” by Sir Thomas Malory presents:

a more earthly and thereby more realistic version of the Round Table

One of the factors that contributed to the advent of the Renaissance was the invention of printing. In England printing was introduced by:

William Caxton

Renaissance Humanism implies a concern with:

human needs

The Reformation, a great religious and national movement which swept across 16th-century Europe and strongly influenced contemporary literature, was started in 1517 by:

the German Martin Luther

The Renaissance poet John Skelton satirised:

vices of life at court

In Renaissance poetry, dialogue form was typical of:

pastoral eclogue

The great epic allegory entitled “The Faerie Queene” composed by the prominent Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser can be treated as:

an instruction book for the contemporary courtier and gentleman

Mythological-erotic poems composed by English Renaissance poets derived from:

the Roman poet Ovid

Christopher Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander” contains the motif of

homoerotic love

The first practitioners of the sonnet in England was/were:

Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

The sonnet is a short lyric consisting of only:

14 lines

A major foreign source which contributed to the rise of English tragedy were the plays of:

Seneca

The play that is regarded to be the first English tragedy is entitled:

“Gorboduc” by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville

A major foreign source which contributed to the rise of English comedy were the plays of:

Plautus and Terence

The play that is regarded to be the first English comedy is entitled:

“Ralph Roister Doister” by Nicholas Udall

Shakespeare’s dramatic canon comprises:

37 plays

Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is:

a tragedy

For his “Utopia” Sir Thomas More drew inspiration from:

Plato’s “Republic”

What does ‘utopia’ literally mean?

ideal place

John Lyly created an elaborately ornate style in prose which came to be known as:

Euphuistic

One of the rhetorical devices used by Lyly was isocolon. It consists in the use of:

successive phrases and/or clauses equal in length

The term ‘picaresque’ is of Spanish origin and comes from ‘pícaro’ which denotes in English:

a rogue

The Civil War in the middle of the 17th century was fought between:

the Royalists and the Puritans

In the last year of the Civil War (in 1649) King Charles I:

was beheaded

The adjective ‘nascent’ in the phrase ‘the nascent Neoclassicism’ means:

coming into existence or starting to develop

The term ‘Baroque’ literally means:

a flawed pearl

Metaphysical ‘conceit’ can be best described as:

a strained or far-fetched comparison or metaphor

The Cavalier poets centered around:

the court of King Charles I Stuart

In one of John Donne’s poems, “The Flea”, the speaker uses the title insect as:

an erotic image

In “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” Donne compares spiritual lovers who temporarily part to:

the compasses used for drawing circles

In one of the “Holy Sonnets” (No. 14) by John Donne, the speaker suggests that he shall never be chaste unless:

God ravishes him

In “Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness” Donne mentions by name the Biblical figures – Japhet, Cham and Shem who were:

the sons of Noah who repopulated the world after the ark came to rest

The spiritual leader of the Cavalier School was:

Ben Jonson

In the “Queen and Huntress” the speaker compares the title Queen (actually Queen Elizabeth I) to Cynthia, the Greek goddess of:

chase and the Moon

In the elegant “Song to Celia” the speaker declares that he would not give up his unrequited love for Celia even if he had a chance to quench his thirst (his passion for her) with ‘Jove’s nectar’ which is symbolic of:

immortality

Baroque style in English drama in the first half of the 17th century is best typified by:

the horror tragedy

The classical unities of action, place and time in drama derived from:

Aristotle

The comedy of humours as practised by Ben Jonson:

satirised human eccentricities and passions

The great master of Baroque style in English prose in the first half of the 17th century was:

Sir Thomas Browne

By contrast, Neoclassical style in contemporary prose is best typified by:

Francis Bacon

John Milton composed his greatest work – the epic poem “Paradise Lost” – in:

blank verse

Milton’s tragedy entitled “Samson Agonistes”:

presents some intended correspondence with the dramatic circumstances of Milton’s life

John Milton very courageously defended freedom of the printed word in:

“Areopagitica”

The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 meant the return to the throne of the ... dynasty:

Stuart

The label ‘Augustan Age’ applies to the reign of:

King Charles II Stuart (1660-1685)

The Restoration in England was the age of scientists, and the greatest of them was:

Sir Isaac Newton

The leading English poet of the period John Dryden can be best described as:

an occasional poet

Dryden’s best-known poem entitled “Alexander’s Feast” is:

an ode

In the above-mentioned poem, the master musician who plays the flute and the lyre is/are:

Timotheus

The Roman patroness of music and musicians mentioned by name in the above-mentioned poem is:

St. Cecilia

Burlesque is a type of satire which is characterized by:

exaggeration, crude jokes, and vulgar style

In his satirical poem entitled “Hudibras”, Samuel Butler compared the Puritans to madmen or drunkards who fight for their Dame Religion as if she were:

a punk

As regards Restoration drama, tragedy was generally not of a high artistic merit, mainly because:

it was bound or limited by numerous strict rules

The hero and heroine in John Dryden’s blank-verse tragedy entitled “All for Love”, which he wrote in imitation of one of Shakespeare’s tragedies, are:

Mark Antony and Cleopatra

In contrast to tragedy, William Congreve composed very successful comedies during the Restoration Age. Those comedies are classified as:

comedies of manners

Among the typical characters in Congreve’s comedies were:

emancipated young ladies

n the allegorical prose work entitled “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan, the title protagonist whose name is Christian can be regarded as:

an Everyman figure

Taking into account a great amount of realistic observation of men and their attitudes and actions, some literary historians regard “The Pilgrim’s Progress” as the first ... in English literature.

novel

“An Essay on Criticism” by Alexander Pope can be best described as:

a didactic poem in the manner of Horace’s “Ars Poetica”

Pope’s injunction “First follow Nature [...] Unerring Nature [...] divinely bright” implied a representation of nature in neoclassical poetry as:

the ultimate, universal and permanent truth of human experience valid everywhere and for all the time

The title of Pope’s brilliant poem “The Rape of the Lock” relates to a real incident involving:

the cutting off of a lady’s lock of hair

Rape Of The Lock is an excellent specimen of:

a mock-epic poem

Pope’s “Essay on Man” can be conveniently categorized as:

a philosophical poem

Pope composed all his major works in:

heroic couplet

In the first half of the 18th century, one of the new developments in drama was:

sentimental comedy practised by Susanna Centlivre

Another new development in contemporary drama was domestic tragedy whose best practitioner was:

George Lillo

The hero of the popular contemporary parody of heroic tragedy by Henry Fielding was:

Tom Thumb

“The Beggar’s Opera” by John Gay is a musical play that can be described as:

a ballad opera

The first modern periodical which started to appear in 1709 was:

“The Tatler”

Editors of the first English periodicals in 1709 and 1711 were:

Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele

The novel can be briefly defined as:

a work in prose which gives a picture of real life and manners, and of the times in which it is/was written

In “Robinson Crusoe” Daniel Defoe emphasises that commercial success of the title hero:

must be supplemented with a religious belief

Jonathan Swift’s intention in “Gulliver’s Travels” was to:

demonstrate that human nature is deeply and permanently flawed

The last prominent English neoclassical poet, Samuel Johnson, imitated the Roman satirist:

Juvenal

) In his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes” and prose work “Rasselas. Prince of Abissinia”, Samuel Johnson demonstrated that the search for happiness is:

futile

Johnson’s “Rasselas” is an apolgue, which is –

a type of a fable with a moral

James Thomson and his long blank-verse poem “The Seasons” represent the Preromantic school of:

nature poetry

The “country churchyard” in the title of Tomas Gray’s famous elegy indicates:

a small cemetery next to a church

The striking feature in the above-mentioned poem is that the speaker:

mourns an intimate friend's death

The poet Edward Young was a prominent member of the:

Graveyard School

The poet James Macpherson pretended to have discovered and translated from Gaelic into English the verses of:

Ossian

The poetic fame of Robert Burns rests on:

songs

“Auld Land Syne” continues to be sung in the English-speaking countries –

on New Year’s Eve

As a playwright, Oliver Goldsmith is best known for his:

comedies of manners

“The School for Scandal” was composed by:

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

In his works, the novelist Samuel Richardson undertook to:

improve moral standards of his readers

The term ‘epistolary’ relates to:

narration by means of letters

The masterpieces of Henry Fielding, the novels “Joseph Andrews” and “Tom Jones”, owe much to the:

picaresque tradition

Fielding’s characters in confrontation with the surrounding world prove in practice their –

Christian ideals

Tobias Smollett’s first, largely autobiographical novel, “Roderick Random”, was inspired by his –

service in the Royal Navy

The term ‘farce’ denotes:

comicality of a lower order

The precursor of a modernist or experimental novel in the 18th century was:

Laurence Sterne

The standard setting of the action in 18th-century Gothic romances was:

the gloomy medieval castle