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In the sentence, what does turn over a new leaf mean?
After failing the exam, he decided to turn over a new leaf and study every day.
Correct answer(s):
- make a fresh start
‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a drama by ____
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- William Shakespeare
In what year did Shakespeare die?
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- 1616 AD
William Shakespeare is a famous ____
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- dramatist
Who wrote ‘Patriotism’?
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- Sir Walter Scott
London town is found a living being in the work of ____
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- Charles Dickens
‘David Copperfield’ is a / an ____ novel.
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- Victorian
Who is William Hazlitt?
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- Essayist
‘The waves beside them danced'(from ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’) is an example of ____
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- personification
The central idea of ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is that _____
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- we can find solace in nature
Who is known as the father of English drama?
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- William Shakespeare
Who of the following was both a poet and painter?
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- William Blake
Who was a ‘poet laureate’?
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- William Wordsworth
Who is known as ‘the poet of nature in English literature’?
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- William Wordsworth
‘Poet are unacknowledged legislators of the world’, Who told it?
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- P. B. Shelley
Who has written?
‘He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things great and small’.
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- Coleridge
Which ode begins with the lines?
‘My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains.
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk’.
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- Ode to a Nightingale
Who is the first great English story-teller in English Literature?
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- Geoffrey Chaucer
Who is the first Humorist in English Literature?
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- Geoffrey Chaucer
Who is the first great modernist of English Literature?
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- Geoffrey Chaucer