Quize English language Cum literature

 

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).?

 

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.

 

26.Who authored: (Pride and Prejudice) famous Naval ?

Ans. Jane Austen,

 

27.Who is regarded as the (Father of English Romanticism).?

Ans. William Wordsworth,

 

28.Who co-authored, the (Lyrical Ballads).?

Ans. Samuel Taylor Coleridge; and William Wordsworth.

 

29.Who wrote (Don Quixote).?

Ans. Miguel de Cervantes..

 

30.Who is regarded as  the (Father of Modern Linguistics).?

Ans. Ferdinand de Saussure,

 

31.Who is considered  as the (Father of American Poetry)?

Ans. Walt Whitman.

 

32.Who wrote (Leaves of Grass).?

Ans. Walt Whitman.

 

33.Who is regarded the (Father of Modern English Criticism)?

Ans. Matthew Arnold,

 

34.Who authored (Culture and Anarchy).?

Ans. Matthew Arnold.

 

35.Who wrote (Moby-Dick).?

Ans. Herman Melville,

 

36.Who is considered  the (Father of English Epic Poetry).?

Ans. John Milton.

 

37.Who authored :(The Divine Comedy).?

Ans. Dante Alighieri.

 

38.Who wrote :(The Odyssey) and (The Iliad)?

Ans. Homer..

 

39.Who is called the (Father of English Sonnet)?

Ans. Thomas Wyatt.

 

40.Who introduced, the Petrarchan sonnet, to England?

Ans. Sir Thomas Wyatt..

 

41.Who is considered the (Father of Modern Realism).?

Ans. Henrik Ibsen.

 

42.Who wrote (A Doll’s House).?

Ans. Henrik Ibsen.

 

43. Who is the (Father of Tragedy).?

Ans. Aeschylus.

 

44. Who wrote (Oresteia).?

Ans. Aeschylus..

 

45. Who is regarded the (Father of Comedy).?

Ans. Aristophanes.

 

46. Who authored (The Clouds) and (Lysistrata).?

Ans. Aristophanes.

 

47. Who is considered the (Father of the English Short Story).?

Ans. Edgar Allan Poe.

 

48. Who wrote :(The Tell-Tale Heart).?

Ans. Edgar Allan Poe..

 

49. Who is the (Father of the Detective Story).?

Ans. Edgar Allan Poe..

 

50. Who authored :(The Murders in the Rue Morgue).?

Ans. Edgar Allan Poe..

 

51. Who is regarded the (Father of English Criticism).?

Ans. John Dryden..

 

52. Who wrote:(An Essay of Dramatic Poesy).?

Ans. John Dryden..

 

53. Who is called the (Father of Modern Drama).?

Ans. Henrik Ibsen..

 

54. Who authored (Ghosts).?

Ans. Henrik Ibsen..

 

55. Who is regarded as  the (Father of the Realistic Novel).?

Ans. Henry Fielding..

 

56. Who wrote : (Tom Jones).?

Ans. Henry Fielding..

 

57. Who is regarded  the (Father of American Literature).?

Ans. Washington Irving..

 

58. Who authored: (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow).?

Ans. Washington Irving..

 

59. Who is known the (Father of Russian Literature).?

Ans. Alexander Pushkin..

 

60. Who wrote: (Eugene Onegin).?

Ans. Alexander Pushkin..

 

61. Who is regarded the (Father of the American Novel).?

Ans. James Fenimore Cooper.

 

62. Who authored (The Last of the Mohicans).?

Ans. James Fenimore Cooper.

 

63. Who is called the (Father of Modern Poetry).?

Ans. T.S. Eliot..

 

64. Who wrote: (The Waste Land).?

Ans. T.S. Eliot..

 

65. Who is called the (Father of Gothic Fiction).?

Ans. Horace Walpole..

 

66. Who authored =(The Castle of Otranto).?

Ans. Horace Walpole..

 

67. Who is the (Father of the Romantic Movement).?

Ans. Jean-Jacques Rousseau..

 

68. Who wrote (The Social Contract).?

Ans. Jean-Jacques Rousseau..

 

69. Who is regarded the (Father of Realism).?

Ans. Gustave Flaubert..

 

70. Who authored (Madame Bovary).?

Ans. Gustave Flaubert..

 

71. Who is known the (Father of German Literature).?

Ans. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe..

 

72. Who wrote :(Faust).?

Ans. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe..

 

73. Who is regarded the (Father of African Literature0.?

Ans. Chinua Achebe..

 

74. Who authored:(Things Fall Apart).?

Ans. Chinua Achebe..

 

75. Who is regarded:(Father of Indian Literature).?

Ans. R.K. Narayan

 

76. Who wrote (Swami and Friends).?

Ans. R.K. Narayan..

 

77. Who is the (Father of Modern English Poetry).?

Ans.  W.B. Yeats..

 

78. Who authored: (The Second Coming).?

Ans. W.B. Yeats..

 

79. Who is considered the :(Father of Free Verse).?

Ans. Walt Whitman..

 

80. Who wrote: (Song of Myself).?

Ans. Walt Whitman..

 

81. Who is called the (Father of American Realism).?

 

Ans. William Dean Howells..

 

82. Who authored (The Rise of Silas Lapham).?

Ans. William Dean Howells..

 

83. Who is the (Father of the American Short Story).?

Ans. Nathaniel Hawthorne..

 

84. Who wrote: (The Scarlet Letter).?

Ans. Nathaniel Hawthorne..

 

85. Who is regarded: the (Father of the Historical Novel).?

Ans. Sir Walter Scott..

 

86. Who authored (Ivanhoe).?

Ans. Sir Walter Scott..

 

87. Who is regarded the (Father of English Literary Criticism).?

Ans. John Dryden..

 

88. Who wrote (Absalom and Achitophel).?

Ans. John Dryden..

 

89. Who is the (Father of the Japanese Novel).?

Ans. Murasaki Shikibu..

 

90. Who authored :(The Tale of Genji).?

 

Ans. Murasaki Shikibu..

 

91. Who is considered the (Father of the American Theater).?

Ans. Eugene O’Neill..

 

92. Who wrote: (Long Day’s Journey Into Night).?

Ans. Eugene O’Neill..

 

93. Who is regarded as the (Father of American Literature).?

Ans. Mark Twain..

 

94. Who authored (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)?

Ans. Mark Twain..

 

95. Who is called the (Father of Modern Poetry).?

Ans. Ezra Pound..

 

96. Who wrote: (The Cantos).?

Ans. Ezra Pound..

 

97. Who is the (Father of Symbolism).?

Ans. Charles Baudelaire..

 

98. Who authored (Les Fleurs du mal).?

Ans. Charles Baudelaire..

 

99. Who is considered the (Father of American Realism)?

 

Ans. Mark Twain..

 

100. Who wrote (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer).?

Ans. Mark Twain..

 

101. Who is considered the (Father of the Modern Detective Novel).?

Ans.Arthur Conan Doyle..

 

102. Who created the character (Sherlock Holmes).?

Ans. Arthur Conan Doyle..

 

103. Who is known the (Father of the American Gothic).?

Ans. Edgar Allan Poe..

 

104. Who authored :(The Fall of the House of Usher).?

Ans. Edgar Allan Poe..

 

105. Who is called as the (Father of Modern Fantasy).?

Ans. J.R.R. Tolkien..

 

106. Who wrote: (The Lord of the Rings).?

Ans. J.R.R. Tolkien..

 

107. Who is called the (Father of American Transcendentalism).?

Ans. Ralph Waldo Emerson..

 

108. Who authored: (Nature) and (Self-Reliance).?

Ans. Ralph Waldo Emerson..

 

109. Who is regarded the (Father of American Poetry).?

Ans. Walt Whitman..

 

110. Who is called  the (Father of Modern Satire).?

Ans. Jonathan Swift..

 

112. Who wrote: (A Modest Proposal).?

Ans. Jonathan Swift..

 

113. Who is considered the (Father of American Naturalism).?

Ans. Stephen Crane..

 

114. Who authored: (The Red Badge of Courage).?

Ans. Stephen Crane..

 

115. Who is called the (Father of Existentialism).?

Ans. Søren Kierkegaard..

 

116. Who wrote: (Fear and Trembling).?

Ans. Søren Kierkegaard..

 

117. Who is considered the (Father of Greek Tragedy).?

Ans. Aeschylus..

 

118. Who is known as the (Father of Historical Fiction).?

Ans. Sir Walter Scott..

 

119. Who authored (Waverley).?

Ans. Sir Walter Scott..

 

120. Who is the(“Father of the Indian Novel).?

Ans. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay..

 

121. Who wrote (Anandamath).?

Ans. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay..

 

122. Who is considered the (Father of Urdu Literature).?

Ans. Mirza Ghalib..

 

123. Who is the (Father of Modern Science Fiction).?

Ans. H.G. Wells..

 

124. Who authored :(The War of the Worlds).?

Ans. H.G. Wells

 

125. Who is called  the (Father of the American Novel).?

Ans. Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

126. Who wrote: (The House of the Seven Gables).?

Ans. Nathaniel Hawthorne..

 

127. Who is considered the (Father of English Literary Criticism).?

Ans. John Dryden..

 

128. Who is called the (Father of the African Novel).?

Ans. Chinua Achebe..

 

129. Who authored :(Arrow of God).?

Ans. Chinua Achebe..

 

130. Who is the “Father of American Drama”?

Ans. Eugene O’Neill

 

131. Who wrote: (The Iceman Cometh).?

Ans. Eugene O’Neill..

 

132.Who is regarded the (Father of the Modern Short Story).?

Ans. Anton Chekhov..

 

133. Who wrote:(The Lady with the Dog).?

Ans. Anton Chekhov..

 

134. Who is considered the (Father of Indian Literature in English).?

Ans. R.K. Narayan..

 

135. Who authored (The Guide).?

Ans. R.K. Narayan..

 

136. Who is regarded as the (Father of Modern Theatre).?

Ans. Henrik Ibsen..

 

137. Who wrote: (Hedda Gabler).?

Ans. Henrik Ibsen..

 

138. Who is the (Father of African-American Literature).?

Ans. Richard Wright..

 

139. Who authored:(Native Son).?

Ans. Richard Wright..

 

140.Who is called the (Father of Modernist Poetry).?

Ans. Ezra Pound..

 

141. Who wrote:  (In a Station of the Metro).?

Ans. Ezra Pound..

 

142. Who is considered the (Father of the American Short Story).?

Ans. Washington Irving..).

143. Who authored (Rip Van Winkle”?

Ans. Washington Irving

 

144. Who is the (Father of Modern Science Fiction).?

Ans. Isaac Asimov..

 

145. Who wrote the (Foundation) series?

Ans. Isaac Asimov..

 

146. Who is considered the (Father of Postmodern Literature).?

Ans. Thomas Pynchon..

 

147. Who authored: (Gravity’s Rainbow).?

Ans. Thomas Pynchon..

 

148. Who is considered the (Father of Modern Drama).?

Ans. Henrik Ibsen..

 

149. Who wrote: (An Enemy of the People).?

Ans. Henrik Ibsen..

 

150. Who is the (Father of English History).?

Ans. Bede..

 

151. Who authored: (Ecclesiastical History of the English People).?

Ans. Bede..

 

 


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