English Literature (questions for state exam)

 

1.      Characterize the Dawn of English literature. Anglo-Saxon literature.

2.      Characterize the Pre-Renaissance period in English literature.

3.      Characterize the Renaissance period in English literature.

4.      Characterize the Restoration period in English literature.

5.      Characterize the Enlightenment period in English literature.

6.      Characterize the Romantic Age in English literature. Two trends of Romantic Movement.

7.      The Victorian Age. Poetry.

8.      The Victorian Age. Prose.

9.      W.Shakespeare and his epoch.

10.  Characterize the 20th century drama in English literature.

11.  Characterize the 20th century poetry in English literature.

12.  Characterize the 20th century prose in English literature.

13.  English literature of bourgeois Revolution. John Milton – the poet of Revolution.

14.  A survey of critical realism. Somerset Maugham, as a sharp observer of people.

15.  Social, political and philosophic content of B.Shaw's plays.

16.  Modernism. "Stream of consciousness" of V.Woolf and J. Joyce.

17.  "The picture of Dorian Gray" by O.Wilde and the aesthetics of hedonism.

18.  Geoffrey Chaucer is the greatest poet of the Pre-Renaissance period.

19.  Characterize the 20th century science-fiction in English literature.

20.  Romantic prose in English literature. W. Scott's historical novels.

21.  Sentimentalism in England. Samuel Richardson is the first representative of the sentimental school.

22.  Characterize the Renaissance period in English literature. Early Elizabethan drama.

23.  Poetry in the Age of Reason (Enlightenment).

24.  Prose in the Age of Reason.

25.  The Coming of the Modern Age.

26.  Characterize the 20th century poetry in English literature. Poets of the 1WW.

27.  Characterize the 20th century poetry in English literature. Poets of the 2WW.

28.  Characterize the 20th century prose. Post-War literature.

29.  Characterize the 20th century prose. Detective Fiction.

30.  Characterize the Renaissance period. Thomas More is the first humanist of the Renaissance.

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