General knowledge questions/answers about all fathers of English literature, grammar, language, and related topics,for competitive examinations (Part-1).
1.Who is the (Father of English Prose).?
Ans. John Wycliffe..
2.Who is called the (Father of Modern English).?
Ans. William Shakespeare..
3.Who is CALLED as the (Father of English Literature).?
Ans. Geoffrey Chaucer..
4.Who is known the Father of English Poetry).?
Ans. Geoffrey Chaucer..
5.Who is referred to as the (Father of the English Novel).?
Ans. Defoe..
6.Who is called as the (Father of English Drama).?
Ans. Christopher Marlowe..
7.Who is considered as the (Father of English History).?
Ans. Bede..
8.Who is called as the (Father of English Satire).?
Ans. Jonathan Swift..
9.Who is known as the (Father of English Dictionary).?
Ans. Samuel Johnson..
10.Who is regarded to as the (Father of English Grammar).?
Ans. Lindley Murray..
11.Who wrote (The Canterbury Tales).?
Ans. Geoffrey Chaucer..
12.Who authored (Robinson Crusoe) famous book?
Ans. Daniel Defoe..
13.Who authored “Hamlet” and “Macbeth”.?
Ans. William Shakespeare..
14.Which author is popular for the (Faerie Queene).?
Ans. Edmund Spenser..
15.Who is the playwright of Famous Darama (Doctor Faustus).?
Ans. Christopher Marlowe..
16.Who wrote: (The History of the English People).?
Ans. Bede..
17.Who translated “the Bible” into English, for the first time?
Ans. John Wycliffe..
18.Who penned: (Gulliver’s Travels)?
Ans. Jonathan Swift..
19.Which lexicographer published: (A Dictionary of the English Language) in 1755?
Ans. Samuel Johnson..
20.Who wrote (English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners).?
Ans. Lindley Murray..
21.Who is regarded as the (Father of American Literature).?
Ans. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens);
22.Who is called as the (Father of the Essay).?
Ans. Michel de Montaigne..
23.Who wrote (Paradise Lost).?
Ans. John Milton.
24.Who is considered as the (Father of Science Fiction).?
Ans. H.G. Wells.
25.Who wrote: “Frankenstein”?
Ans. Mary Shelley.
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