Who called Dryden the father of English criticism?
A. Pope
B. Doctor Johnson
C. DeQuincey
D. Coleridge
____ is the writer of The Spy and is regarded as “the first of the great American Novelists.”
A. Washington Irving
B. John Fenimore Cooper
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Edgar Allen Poe
___ are consonants for which the flow of air is stopped or restricted by lips.
A. Nasal
B. Affricate
C. Glottal
D. Bilabial
To which language group does English belong?
A. Romance
B. Germanic
C. Celtic
D. American
The title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral Romance in proses:
A. Utopia
B. Arcadia
C. Hydriotaphia
D. Lamia
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive large numbers having been destroyed in:
A. The Anglo-Saxon conquest beginning in the 1450s
B. The Norman conquest of 1066
C. The dissolution of monasteries in the 1530s
D. The wave of Contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476
Sarojini Naidu is chiefly a_____ poet.
A. Narrative
B. Epic
C. Lyric
D. Satirical
The study of which words occur together, and their frequency of co-occurrence.
A. Connotation
B. Collocation
C. Implication
D. Location
Newly released book in 2020 “The Pandemic century” is written by which author?
A. David page
B. Anthony Mercy
C. Mark Horigabaum
D. Mark Bloomberg