Kerala PSC HSA English Rank File Series – 6 Solved Model Question Paper

19. 'The Merchant of Venice' by Shakespeare is modelled upon Marlowe's ...................
Answer: The Jew of Malta (1594)

• Both the plays - The merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta - are set in Italy and the main characters are Jews.
• Shylock in Shakespeare's play and Barabas in Marlow's play are selfish, greedy Jews.
• Both the Jews have got beautiful daughters ( Jessica and Abigail) who want to be rescued by gentle christians.
• Comparing the two, shakespeare's presentation of Jew- Shylock - is freer from the popular prejudices than Marlowe's.

20. Whom does Wordsworth addressed towards the end of the poem 'Tintern Abbey'?
Answer: His sister Dorothy Wordsworth.

• The full title of the poem is Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798.
• It is a first person monologue in blank verse.
• As the title suggests, it is a revisit to the hills after five years.
• The poem involves panthiest elements.
• The poem was included in the collection of poems titled Lyrical Ballads
• In the last part of the poem, the poet remembers his earlier visit to Tintern Abbey with his sister Dorothy.

21. Mephistophiles is a character in ......................... by Marlowe.
Answer: Doctor Faustus- 1604

• The complete title of the play is The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
• In the play, a man - Doctor Faustus - sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.
• First English play on the Faust legend.
• Doctor Faustus signs a contract with Lucifer, the king of devils and his assistant Mephistophiles becomes the slave of Faustus.
• It has successfully combined the Renaissance spirit and the religious theatrical traditions of Elizabethan England.
  

22. ..................... is called the Father of English Novels.
Answer: Henry Fielding

• Sir Walter Scott called Henry Fielding as the Father of English Novels
• Though Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson are also considered for the title, it is Fielding who has succeeded in presenting realistic portrayal of characters.
• Tom Jones, Amelia are important works of Fielding.

Kerala PSC HSA English Rank File Series – 5 Solved Model Question Paper

13.  Who used the Heroic Couplet in English first?

Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

• Chaucer used the Heroic Couplet in ‘The Legend of  Good Women’ and ‘The Canterbury Tales.’

• The label ‘heroic’ is given because it was mainly used in heroic (epic) poetry.

•  The Heroic Couplet was favoured by Neo-classical poets like John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, and Alexander Pope.

14. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey are known as the ____       poets.

Answer: LakePoets

• They lived in the lake district in Cumbria, hence Lakers or Lake Poets

•  The label was given by Francis Jeffrey, a Scottish Judge.

• PINK POETS is a group of poets led by W H Auden and is known for their left sympathies and social commitment.

15. Sprung Rhythm is associated with the poet ____

Answer: G M Hopkins (for details, click here)

16. ____ is the main source of Shakespeare's English History plays.

Answer:  Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles (1577)

•  It is also known as Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Almost all Shakespearian ENGLISH history plays are based on it.

• KING JOHN, RICHARD I, HENRY IV, PART I etc are examples of his ENGLISH history plays.

• His ROMAN history plays are based on PLUTARCH’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, translated by Sir Thomas North in 1579.

• His major Roman history plays are ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, TIMON OF ATHENS and JULIUS CEASAR etc…

Source text and author	Shakespeare text
‘Decameron’ by Boccaccio	Cymbeline All’s well that Ends Well Two Gentlemen of Verona
‘Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together’ by Plutarch	Antony and Cleopatra
‘The Tragic History of Romeus and Juliet’ by Arthur Brooke	Romeo and Juliet
‘Deeds of Dane’ by Saxo Gramma	Hamlet

17. Dryden's 'All for Love' is based on Shakespeare's ____

Answer: Antony and Cleopatra

• It was a neoclassical adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, hence it instructs.

• The focus is not on love and passion alone, but on presenting Antony as a soldier, husband, father and friend.

• Dryden co-produced Shakespeare’s The Tempest or The Enchanted Island (1667) with William Davenant.

18. -------------------------- is an unfinished poem by Marlowe.

Answer: Hero and Leander

• It was an incomplete epyllion ((short epic) by Marlowe.

•  Later,George Chapman completed the poem.