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Question- What is comedy?
Answer-
The word 'Comedy' has been derived from the French word comdie, which in turn is taken from the Greeco-Latin word Comedia. The word comedia is made of two words komos, which means revel and aeidein mean "to sing."
According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, comedy means a branch of drama that deals with everyday life and humourous events. It also means a play of light and amusing type of theatre. Comedy may be defined as a play with a happy ending.
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- Question- What is an Epic? Describe its main characteristics.
- Question- Write a short note on kinds of epic.
- Question- Write a short note on Mock-Epic.
- Question- Point out the chief characteristics of epic.
- Question- Explain Birth of tragedy written by Nietzsche. Summarize. The Birth of Tragedy by Nictzche.
- Question- Explain the comedy in Classical literature.
- Question- Explain the early history of the Athens City State.
- Question- Discuss the literary trends of the Augustan Age or Augustan Rome.
- Question- Write a short note on epic.
- Question- What is mock-epic?
- Question- What is an Epic?
- Question- According to Nietzsche, what does the tragedy of Oedipus teach us about knowledge?
- Question- What separates the Dionysian Greek from the Dionysian barbarian?.
- Question- What is comedy?
- Question- Why was the reign of Augustus known as the Golden Age of Roman literature?
- Question- Why was Roman literature important?
- Question- Discuss the themes of the Republic (book VII) Written by Plato.
- Question- "Why does Plato compare ordinary human existence to that of chained prisoners in a cave?"
- Question- Critically Analysis of the book VII of Republic.
- Question- What is an Allegory?
- Question- What is the Allegory of the Cave?
- Question- What Does The Allegory of the Cave Mean? What is the influence of allegory of the cave?
- Question- What is the main theme of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in the Republic?
- Question- In what sense is the Liberator a philosopher like Socrates?
- Question- Attempt an essay on the role and function of the divine machinery employed in Homer epic, The Iliad.
- Question- Examine the significance of the wrath of Achilles in Homer's The Iliad.
- Question- Comment on The Iliad as an epic.
- Question- Discuss Homer s portrayal of Agamemnon in Book I of The Iliad.
- Question- How do the first few lines of The Iliad preview the conflict, setting, and characters of the poem?
- Question- In what ways, are Achilless and Agamemnons characterizations of each other in Book 1 of The Iliadjustified?
- Question- To extent can the dictum character is destiny be applied to oedipus rex.
- Question- Discuss the role of Fate in Sophocles's Oedipus Rex.
- Question- Attempt a critical appreciation of sophocles Oedipus rex.
- Question- Attempt a critical appreciation of the plot structure of Sophocles Oedipus Rex.
- Question- What disaster does befall the city of Athens? What safety is expected by the priest?
- Question- What does Oedipus declare about the murderer of Laius?
- Question- Why does Oedipus want to meet the survivor?
- Question- What account of his past life Oedipus did give to Jocasta?
- Question- What is the reaction of Jocasta on hearing the truth?
- Question- What is the result of discovering the parentage of Oedipus?
- Question- Critically examine Geoffrey Chaucer both as a Medieval and a modern poet.
- Question- Discuss the literary features and general chacharactersitics of Chaucer age.
- Question- Comment on the use of wit, irony and satire in Chaucer's the Prologue.
- Question- What is Rhyme Royal? Comment on its use by Chaucer.
- Question- Who were the main writers that influenced the Age of Chaucer?
- Question- What are literary and intellectual tendencies during the age of Chaucer?
- Question- What do you understand by the term 'Renaissance'? Discuss its impact of English Literature.
- Question- Write an essay on the characteristics of the Renaissance.
- Question- What was the influence of the Renaissance upon the Elizabethan Poetry?
- Question- Write an essay on the influence of the Renaissance upon Elizabethan Drama.
- Question- Write a note on the English Chaucerians and Scottish ChauceriAnswer-
- Question- "Renaissance is the age of discoveries and adventures." Discuss in short."
- Question- Write à short note on Renaissance as the age of peace, stability and contentment.
- Question- "The Renaissance was both a revolt and a revival." Discuss in short.
- Question- "Chaucer is called the Morning Star of the Renaissance." Discuss.
- Question- Write a short note on Humanism in the Renaissance.
- Question- Write a short note on the feelings of Nationalism and Patriotism in the Renaissance.
- Question- Write a short note on humanism in English literature during the Renaissance period.
- Question- Write a note on the Reformation and its impact on literature.
- Question- Describe the chief characteristics of the Reformation.
- Question- Write a note on the prose and drama of the Reformation Period.
- Question- "The Reformation is a Revolt." Discuss in short.
- Question- Whom do you say the product of the Reformation?
- Question- Mention the impact of the Reformation on poetry.
- Question- Mention briefly the contribution of the Reformation in the field of literature.
- Question- "William Tindale is the translator of the scriptures." Discuss.
- Question- What is Cambridge Movement?
- Question- What is the difference between "Renaissance and Reformation?
- Question- What do you understand by the Morality Play? What are its chief characteristics?
- Question- Write an essay on versus Pre-reformation Post-reformation in reference of Morality Plays.
- Question- Write a note on Shakespeare's use of the popular belief of his time in Macbeth, and discuss in what ways they help in the tragic development of the action in the play.
- Question- Write a note on the Miracle Play.
- Question- Distinguish between the classical.comedy and the Shakespearean tragedy.
- Question- What is 'tragic flaw' ? Do you find it in Macbeth's character? Illustrate.
- Question- "In Shakespeare's comedies heroines take the lead." Analyse.
- Question- Mention briefly the theme of the Morality Plays.
- Question- What is the role of the virtues in Morality play?
- Question- Write a note on Justice and Equity as characters in early English Dramas.
- Question- Mention briefly the Miracle Plays as fore-runners of the Shakespearean Drama.
- Question- Mention briefly the influence of Latin comedy on Saints Plays and Morality Plays.
- Question- What is the difference between miracle and morality plays?
- Question- Write a note on the University Wits and their contribution in the field of English Literature.
- Question- "The second period of the Elizabethan drama was dominated by "The University Wits". Discuss.
- Question- Mention the common features of the plays of the University Wits.
- Question- What was the impact of the University Wits on Shakespeare?
- Question- "Marlowe gave life and reality to the characters." Discuss.
- Question- Write a short note on Marlowe and his works.
- Question- Write a short note on Thomas Kyd and John Lyly and their works.
- Question- Write an essay on the Elizabethan Poetry.
- Question- Write a note on the English Satire.
- Question- Write a note on the 'English Ballad'.
- Question- Write a short note on sonneteering during the Elizabethan Age.
- Question- "Edmund Spenser is the second father of English Poetry." Discuss.
- Question- Mention briefly Shakespeare as a sonneteer or as a poet.
- Question- Write a note on the prominent works of Spenser.
- Question- What do you understand by Metaphysical Poetry and how is it originated?
- Question- Evaluate John Donne as the leader and founder of the 'Metaphysical School of Poetry'.
- Question- Discuss the main characteristics of Metaphysical poetry.
- Question- Write a short note on the obscurity in Metaphysical Poetry.
- Question- Write a short note on mysticism in Metaphysical Poetry.
- Question- Write a short note on the Metaphysical Poetry as 'show of learning' or 'intellectual poetry'.
- Question- Write a note on George Herbert as the Metaphysical Poet.
- Question- "Abraham Cowley was the greatest English poet of his time." Discuss
- Question- Mention briefly the poets who wrote amatory verse.
- Question- Write a short note on the use of conceits and far-fetched images in Metaphysical Poetry.
- Question- Mention briefly the Hyperbolic Expressions in Metaphysical Poetry.
- Question- Discuss briefly the obscurity in the Metaphysical poetry.
- Question- Write a note on Neo-classicism.
- Question- Write an essay on the origin and growth of the Neo-classicism.
- Question- "Neo-classicism is a mis-leading idea." Discuss.-
- Question- Write a note on Dryden and Pope as the chief precursors of Neo-classicism.
- Question- Write an essay on the origin and growth of the neo-classicism in English Literature.
- Question- What is Classic?
- Question- Write a short note on the Classical art, Neo-classical art and Romantic art.
- Question- Write a short note on the intellectual in Classical Poetry.
- Question- Write a note on the chief precursors of Neo-classicism.
- Question- "The classical poetry is almost entirely unromantic." Discuss in short.
- Question- "Classical poetry is a 'town poetry'." Discuss in short.
- Question- What is an Ode?
- Question- Write a note on the artificiality of the classical poets.
- Question- Write a note on the pioneers of the Classical School of Poetry.
- Question- Write an essay on the growth of the Novel.
- Question- What are the chief characteristics of the Novel?
- Question- Write a note on contribution of Dr. Samuel Johnson to the eighteenth century literature.
- Question- Define novel and discuss the difference between a novel and romance in short.
- Question- Discuss briefly the novel as an epic of democracy.
- Question- Write some names of prose writers of the Eighteenth Century.
- Question- Introduce Charles Dickens as a novelist ?
- Question- Who was the founder of the eighteenth century journal "The Spectator'? What was chiefly the theme of his essays?
- Question- How did the increase in women readers contribute to the popularity of the novel in the eighteenth century?
- Question- How is the popularity of the novel in the age of Johnson related to the rise in power of the middle class?
- Question- What were the causes of the growth of the novel in the 18th century?
- Question- What is Romanticism? Discuss its main characteristics.
- Question- "Wordsworth may rightly be called the pioneer of the Romantic Movement of the early nineteenth century.' Discuss.
- Question- Write a note on Shelley's poetry.
- Question- Comment on Gray and Collins as Precursors of Romanticism?
- Question- Which poets may be called the precursors of the Romantic Movement?
- Question- When did Romantic Movement began?
- Question- Why is Romantic Movement referred to as Romantic Revival?
- Question- Critically examine the contribution of Dr. Samuel Johnson to the eighteenth century literature.
- Question- What is Lord Byron's contribution to the Romantic Revival?
- Question- Why is Romantic Movement also known as Romantic Revolt?
- Question- Mention briefly the element of love of nature found in Romantic Poetry.
- Question- What were the qualities of the Romanticism of the Elizabethan Age?
- Question- What was the impact of the French Revolution on Romanticism?
- Question- Mention briefly the expression of the individualism in Romantic Poetry.
- Question- Which movement of English literature was influenced by the French Revolution?
- Question- Write an essay on the use of the Poetic Imagery by the Romantic Poets.
- Question- Write a note on prose, novel, drama and miscellaneous writings of the Romantic Age.
- Question- What do you understand by Romantic Revival? Discuss with examples from the poetry of the period.
- Question- What was Wordsworth's contribution to the Romantic Literature?
- Question- Write an essay on the novelists of the Romantic age.
- Question- Write a note on Edmund Burke's secret of greatness as a prose-writer.
- Question- Mention the role of imagination and emotion in the Romantic Literature.
- Question- "The Romantic poets obeyed an inner call to explore more fully the world of the spirit." Discuss.
- Question- What is Lord B is Lord Byron's contribution to the Romantic Literature?
- Question- Write a short note on Wordsworth as a poet of man.
- Question- Which form of poetry was most favoured by Keats? Mention some of his poems in this form.
- Question- Who was inspired by Rousseau's call "Return to Nature"?
- Question- Write a note on the sonnets written in the age of the Romantic Revival.
- Question- Discuss the 'Interest in the Past' which is to be seen in Romantic Poetry.
- Question- Write a note on the growth of Victorian Literature.
- Question- "Alfred Lord Tennyson was the true representative of the Victorian Age." Discuss.
- Question- Compare and Contrast Tennyson and Browning as poet?
- Question- What is lyrical about Tennyson?
- Question- Mention briefly the difference between the Victorian and the Modern Age.
- Question- Mention briefly the impact of the Middle Ages on the Victorian poets.
- Question- Write a short note on the kinds of novels produced during the Victorian Period and the prominent novelists of the period.
- Question- Mention briefly the chief novels of Charles Dickens.
- Question- Who are the minor and the main poets of the Victorian Period?
- Question- Mention briefly the chief features of Victorian Poetry.
- Question- Write a note on the impact of Science and Religion.
- Question- Write an essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Movement.
- Question- Write an essay on the hief characteristics of the Pre-Raphaelite Poetry.
- Question- Mention briefly the chief characteristics of literature in Pre- Raphaelitism.
- Question- Give some features of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement.
- Question- "Rossetti was the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement." Discuss in short.
- Question- "William Morris was a writer, artist and reformer." Discuss in short.
- Question- Mention briefly Swinburne as one of the Pre-Raphaelites.
- Question- Who were Pre-Raphaelites ?
- Question- "The revolt of the nineties looks confused, but not so 'naughty'." Discuss.
- Question- Write a note on the literary tendencies of the Naughty Nineties.
- Question- Write a note on the pessimistic poets of the Nineties.
- Question- Write a note on the novelists of the Nineties.
- Question- Write a note on the drama of the Nineties.
- Question- What do you understand by "The Decadents'?
- Question- Write an essay on the Twentieth Century Poetry.
- Question- What do you understand by Georgian Poetry ? Mention the characteristics of imagism and symbolism of Georgian Poetry.
- Question- Write an essay on the Twentieth Century Novel.
- Question- Write an essay on the Psychological Novel.
- Question- Write an essay on the 'Stream of Consciousness novel'.
- Question- “The modern novel is a story without an ending.” Discuss.
- Question- Write a note on the possibilities and the limitations of the Psychological Novel.
- Question- What impression of James Joyce as a Psychological Novelist do you have?
- Question- Write a note on the 'Stream of Consciousness' technique in Fiction.
- Question- Write a note on the decay of the Plot.
- Question- Write an essay on the Twentieth Century Drama.
- Question- Write an essay on the chief characteristics of the twentieth century drama.
- Question- Write an analytical essay on melodrama.
- Question- Write an essay on the poetry between the World-Wars?
- Question- Write a note on the contribution of Galsworthy to Modern Drama.
- Question- Why are the problem plays known as the drama of ideas or propaganda plays?
- Question- Mention the chief qualities of the Modern Poetic Drama.
- Question- Mention briefly T.S. Eliot's contribution to the Modern Poetic Drama.
- Question- Write a short note on the problem play and its chief qualities.
- Question- What are the main characteristics of the Modern Age ?
- Question- Mention briefly the impact of the two World Wars on the Modern Literature.
- Question- Mention briefly the influence of radio and cinema on the literature of the Modern Age.
- Question- What is expressionist drama in Modern Sense ?
- Question- What is the Drama of Ideas and what are its chief features ?
- Question- Mention briefly the characters of the Drama of Ideas.
- Question- Evaluate A.W. Pinero as the playwright of Drama of Ideas.
- Question- Write some names of prose writers of the eighteenth century.
- Question- Write a note on themes and motives of the dramatists of the Drama of Ideas.
- Question- Mention in short the main characteristics of the "Drama of Ideas".
- Question- Write a note on Epic Theatre.
- Question- Write a note on the technique of 'Alienation Effect'.
- Question- What is the goal of Epic Theatre ?
- Question- What is the important requirement of acting in Epic Theatre?
- Question- Mention briefly the Dialectical Theatre.
- Question- Write a note on Feminism.
- Question- Write a short note on the three phases of the feminist theory.
- Question- What is Post-colonial theory?