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 Here's a list of major literary critical methods (like the Touchstone Method), explained in simple words — especially helpful for English literature - NET SET PHD JRF students . An Overview of Major Literary Theories & Critical Methods 1.   Touchstone Method The Touchstone Method is a way to judge the quality of poetry by comparing it with the best examples from great poets . 🧠 Coined by: Matthew Arnold , a 19th-century English poet and critic. 💡Just like a jeweler tests gold using a touchstone , a critic can test poetry by comparing it to a few lines (or passages) from great classic poets like Shakespeare, Homer, or Dante. If a poem matches the emotional depth, style, and truth of those classic lines, then it's good. If not, it's not great poetry. 📘  Points: "Touchstones" are small passages from great literature. Arnold believed these lines have high standards of excellence . Use them to compare and see if other poetry is true, b...

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Anglo-Saxon & Middle English Quiz Quiz: Geoffrey Chaucer 1. The Age of Chaucer roughly spans which period? 1200–1250 1250–1300 1340–1400 1400–1450 2. Which major historical event influenced the Age of Chaucer? The Black Death The Norman Conquest The Renaissance The English Civil War 3. Which English king ruled during most of Chaucer’s life? Edward I Edward III Henry IV Richard III 4. Which social class was emerging strongly during the Age of Chaucer? Nobility Clergy Middle class / merchants Serfs 5. Which literary style dominated England before Chaucer’s time? Renaissance prose Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse Elizabethan drama Romanticism 6. Which language was declining in literary use during Chaucer’s age? Latin French Middle English Celtic ...

Anglo-Saxon & Middle English Quiz Quiz: Geoffrey Chaucer 1. Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the ______ of English poetry. Father Prince King Master 2. Chaucer wrote *The Canterbury Tales* in which verse form? Blank verse Rhyme royal Heroic couplets Alliterative verse 3. In *The Canterbury Tales*, how many pilgrims set out on the journey? 24 29 30 32 4. Which Chaucer work is based on the story of Dido and Aeneas? Troilus and Criseyde Legend of Good Women House of Fame Book of the Duchess 5. Which Chaucer poem is an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster? The House of Fame Parliament of Fowls Book of the Duchess Legend of Good Women 6. Chaucer introduced which meter into English poetry? Alexandrine Iambic pentameter Trochaic octameter Sapphic ...

QUIZ English Literature 1.  Mix-English Literature Click Here 2. ELT MCQs  Click Here 3.  Anglo-Saxon & Anglo-Norman (Middle English) Periods Click Here  4.  Chaucer Click Here 5. William Langland  Click Here 6.  Shakespeare   Click Here

Anglo-Saxon & Middle English Quiz Quiz: Anglo-Saxon & Middle English Period 1. Which work is considered the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons? The Seafarer Beowulf The Wanderer The Dream of the Rood 2. Who is known as the father of English prose for his translations? Caedmon Cynewulf King Alfred the Great Bede 3. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first compiled during the reign of? Offa Alfred the Great Edward the Confessor Aethelstan 4. Who wrote “Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum”? Alfred the Great Bede Cynewulf Wulfstan 5. Which Anglo-Saxon poet is associated with religious hymns and was an illiterate cowherd? Caedmon Cynewulf King Alfred Widsith 6. Which poem is an elegy lamenting the loss of a lord and companions? The Seafarer The Wanderer Be...