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2021-11-13 13:30:57 ओपन / कमेंट

2021-11-12 19:49:35 Alexander Barclay (1484 - 1552)

He was a Poet, scholar, and Preacher, Possibly Scottish by birth.
Important Works :

1. The Ship of Fools (1509)
* He translated Brant's 'Narrenschiff, into English verse as" The Ship of Fools."

2. Eclogues.
* written in (1513 - 1514) it is interesting as the earliest English pastorals.

3. Pastorals.
* A form of literature that celebrates in conventionally idealized terms, the innocent love musical pleasure of shepherds. ओपन / कमेंट

2021-11-12 19:49:32 William Tyndale (1494 - 1536)

He was the captain of the Army of reformers and was their spiritual leader.
He holds the distinction of being the first to ever print The New Testament in English Language.
He was a true Scholar and a genius , as fluent I eight languages that it was said one would think any one of them to be his native tongue.
He is frequently referred as" Architect of the English language " because he coined to many phrases that we use today in our language.
He translated Bible into an early form of modern English in 1526.
He was the first person the make use of Gutenberg movable type of press.
Tyndale translations were banned by the authorities and Tyndale himself was burned in 1536, at the instigation of agents of Henry 8 and the Anglican Church. ओपन / कमेंट

2021-11-12 19:49:30 Sir Thomas wyatt (1503 - 1542)

He was a 16th century poet and English Ambassador in the reign of Henry 8.
He was born in Kent and his father Henry wyatt was a Counselor in the Court of Henry 8.
He introduced Petrarchan Sonnet in English.
None of the wyatt's Poem was published in 1557, 15 years after his death.
In 1535 wyatt was knighted and appointed High Sheriff, of what and in 1541 was elected knight of the shire.
Tottel's Miscellany was named after its printer Richard Tottel who included 97 poems attributed of wyatt's among total 271 poems. Tottel's Miscellany is also called Songs and Sonnets.
He experimented stanza forms like rondeau, epigrams, terza Rima,Ottawa Rima, satires, monorime, quatrains, and Iambic pentameters.
C. S. Lewis called him the "Father of the drab age"
In 1536 wyatt was inspired in the tower of London for allegedly committing adultery with Anne Boleyn the wife of Henry 8.
He started wyatt Rebellion against the Marriage of Mary 1 and Philip 11.
He was died of illness in 1542.
The structure of wyatt sonnet or Petrarchan sonnet is octave and Sestet and a Caesura in between:
ABBA ABBA + CDC CDE or CDC CDC
"They flee from me" is a poem written by Thomas wyatt referring wyatt's affair with high born woman of court of Henry 8 ( Anne Boleyn) opening line of the poem is :

"They flee from me, that sometime did me seek with naked foot stalking in my chamber." ओपन / कमेंट

2021-11-12 19:49:26 Absurd Drama :

1. .... is a term applied to the work of a group of dramatists whose work emerged during the early fifties ?

Ans: Absurd Drama

2. The term "Absurd Drama " was coined by ?

Ans: Albert Camus

3. ........ walting for Godot........ Rhinoceros and.......Who is afraid of Virginia woolf were well known Absurd dramas ?

Ans: Samuel Beckett's , Lonesco's,
and Albee's

4. ...... is used instead of Comprehensive dialogue in Absurd drama ?

Ans: The ironic Cross - talk

5. The predicament of modern man is the subject of the ........?

Ans: Absurd play

6. ....... present the suffering of man and the metaphysical anguish to which modern consciousness is subjected ?

Ans: Absurd plays

7. ......... are used to suggest man's precarious existence ?

Ans: strange symbols

THE ASIDE :

8. ........ is a dramatic convention ?

Ans: The Aside

9. A character in a play may express his or her thoughts aloud and it is not supposed to hear is called .....?

Ans: The Aside

10. ...... in spoken in undertone ?

Ans: An Aside

11. When a .........is spoken, the character is alone on the stage.

Ans: Soliloquy

12. When an......... is spoken, the others characters are also present on the stage.?

Ans: Aside

13. ...... used Aside in The School for scandal and........... in she stoops to conquer?

Ans: Sheridan, Goldsmith

14....... and....... used Aside in their plays ?

Ans: William Congreve , Wycherley

15. The 19th century....... used asides freely ?

Ans: melodramas ओपन / कमेंट

2021-11-12 19:39:50 ओपन / कमेंट

2021-11-12 16:10:42 ( Novels vs Novellas vs Short Stories )

• Novel:--

A novel is a fictional narrative written in chapters with a more complicated storyline and character set than a novella or short story. Novels are generally longer than 40,000 words, although 70,000 to 100,000 words is the typical length for this form of fiction. However, there are exceptions to every rule: George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is 30,000 words, and Tolstoy's "War and Peace" comes in at around 560,000 words, yet both are recognized as novels.

• Novella:--

A novella is also referred to as a short novel. Acceptable word counts vary between publishers and literary organizations but typically fall between 20,000 and 40,000 words. Some publishers recognize as few as 17,500 words as an acceptable count. Novellas are written without chapter breaks, and the complexity of storyline sits midway between the novel and short story. A novella unfolds in under 50,000 words, so the intricacies and layers that you may write into a novel would not have the opportunity to develop fully within the constraints of this shorter format.

• Short Story:--

A short story is a piece of prose fiction between 1,000 and 7,500 words. It is by definition short and to the point, with a concise story arc and direct conclusion to the plot. Short stories are written for reading in one session, and as such, there are no chapters or tangible breaks in the storytelling. A short-story narrative tells a tale succinctly and economically without the need for excessive embellishment.

• Novelette:--

The novelette format lies between a novel and short story. Novelettes are typically between 7,500 and 15,000 words in length and are similar in structure to novellas. The term is not widely used because it is seen in some circles as a derogatory term for a novel that is sub-standard. ओपन / कमेंट

2021-11-11 03:02:23 The One-act play :

1. ...... is a Shortened drama ?

Ans: The One act play

2. ....... has a single plot ?

Ans: The One act play

3. ...... may be either pure comedy or pure tragedy?

Ans: The Oce act play

4. ........ is comfined a single place and the number of characters are limited in a One- act play ?

Ans: The Action

5. ....... were started from the days of mystery and miracle plays?

Ans: The One act plays

6. ....... disappeared during the Elizabethan period ?

Ans: The One act plays

7. ......... reappeared only at the end of the 19th century?

Ans: The One act plays

8. In the modern times .......are used as curtain raisers before a full length play ?

Ans: The One act plays

9. George Bernard Shaw's one act plays are .......... and.........?

Ans: The man of Destiny and The Dark lady of the sonnets

10. Noel Coward, a great one act playwright wrote ....?

Ans:Tonight At Eight thirty

11. The one act play became......... in keat's The Land of Heart's Desire and Synge's Riders to the Sea?

Ans: Poetic

12. The one act plays with.......themes are W. W. Jacob's The Monkey's Paw and Synge's Riders to the Sea?

Ans: Tragic

13. Name some of the famous modern One act plays :

Ans: John Drinkwater's The Storm, Galsworthy's The Little Man, A. A. Milne's The man in the Bowler's Hat, J. B. Priestley's Mother's Day, Stanley Houghton's The Dear Departed. ओपन / कमेंट

2021-11-09 18:58:02 Word of the year 2021: The Oxford Dictionary has declared 'Vax' as the word of the year for the year 2021 due to its frequent usage throughout the year as medical breakthroughs happened around the world. According to 'a report into the language of vaccines' by Oxford Languages, the word 'vax' had appeared more than 72 times by September than the same time last year.

The word Vax is defined as, "a colloquialism meaning either vaccine or vaccination as a noun and vaccinate as a verb."

Post the development of vaccines for Covid-19, the year 2021 marked large-scale vaccine drives in nations worldwide - just in India, 100 crore vaccine doses were administered as of October 21, 2021.

Rise in use of vaccine-related words
The appearance of the word 'vaccine' itself doubled between September 2020 and September 2021 according to the report by Oxford Language. ओपन / कमेंट