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General knowledge questions/answers about fathers of English literature, grammar, language, and related topics,
for competitive examinations.

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.

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..