Q. 5. (A) Complete the activities given below as per the instructions.
🔸 Pick out the odd element from each line.
(a) Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Daniel Defoe, Anthony Burgess.
(b) Mystery, Style, Conflict, Character.
(c) The turn of the screw, Aphra Behn, Rajmohan's Wife, Jane Eyre.
(d) Drama, Novel, Psychology, Poetry.
🔸 Choose the correct alternatives and rewrite the sentences:
(a) The novel as a literary genre has a history of about ---------- years.
[two thousand five hundred, two thousand, five hundred]
(b) The new literature written in the 18th century was characterised by-------------------
[mystery, fantasy, spirit of realism]
(c) In ------------ novel, the surface meaning is different from the symbolic meaning.
[Allegorical, Dystopian, Gothic]
(d) ---------------has coined the phrase: Stream of Consciousness'.
[Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, William James]
🔸 Match the following items from column-A with those from column-B.
Column ‘A’ Column‘B’
(a) Murasaki Sikibu (i) The Pilgrim’s Progress
(b) Jonathan Swift (ii) Gulliver’s Travels
(c) John Bunyan (iii) Raja Mohan’s Wife
d) Bankim Chandra (iv) Tale of Genji Chattopadhyay
🔸 Pick the odd word out.
(a) Amit Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Henry Fielding, Amita Desai.
(b) plot, novella, setting, theme
(c) place, time, climate, epistolary
(d) horror, mystery, picaresque, thriller
🔸 Rewrite the given sentences by choosing the correct alternative given in the brackets:
(i) The word 'novella', originated from the.... word 'novelle', a type of prose fiction.
(French; Italian; American; Mexican)
(ii) The psychological novel presents the....... Of the protagonist.
(personal life; professional life; social life; internal life)
(iii) The word 'utopia' possesses the .......
(best qualities; worst qualities; ideal qualities; unequal qualities)
(iv) In the eighteenth century middle class could get time for reading and discussing the novels because of........
(ideas of life; the spread of superstitions; the spread of machines; ample free time)
🔸 Choose the correct alternatives and complete the given statements:
(a) Novels with the elements of horror, blood-shed and mystery are called _______ novels.
(Realistic, Gothic, Psychological)
(b) The German word ‘bildungsroman’ indicates _______. (Letter, New, Growth)
(c) There are _______ essential elements of ‘Novel’ or ‘Novella’. (six, eight, eleven)
(d) Struggle between the opposite forces in the story is called _______. (plot, conflict, setting)
🔸 Choose the correct alternatives and rewrite the sentences.
(a) The central idea in the novel is ----------- [plot / theme / story]
(b) The main character in the novel is referred to as -------------------- [antagonist / clown / protagonist]
(c) The struggle between the opposite forces in the story is called -------------- .[setting / character / conflict]
(d) Language and techniques used in the novel is known as -----------------------[manner / style / texture]
🔸State whether the following sentences are True or False
1. Novel is recognized as the most dominant literary genre in modern times.
2. A Novel is relatively a short narrative.
3. ‘Tale of Genji’ is described as the world's first novel.
4. Middle class people had a little interest in romances and tragedies.
🔸Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence.
i. The Eighteenth century gifted mankind with….
a) Drama and poetry
b) Novel and drama
c) Poetry and novel
d) Novel and periodical essays
ii. Novel soon became dominant literary genre as it ….
a) Helped people to live a more purposeful life.
b) Caught the intellectual, sentimental and realistic spirit.
c) grew gradually and gained popularity.
d) All of these.
iii. Indian writers in English Novel initially wrote about the theme of …..
a) Domestic violence.
b) Nationalistic and Social virtues.
c) Scientific theories.
d) Psychological insights.
iv. Gothic novel contains …….
a) Terror and supernatural.
b) Mystery and thriller.
c) Horror and haunted buildings.
d) All of these.
🔸Pick out the odd element from each line.
a) Theme, Plot, Conflict, Novella
b) Manohar Malgaonkar, Mulkraj Anand, Raja Rao, George Orwell
c) The Heart of Darkness, Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Rajmohan's Wife
d) Utopian, Terror, Haunted buildings, Supernatural
🔸State whether the following statements are True or False
1. Detective friction is a subgenre of crime fiction.
2. ' Tale of Genji ' is written by Miguel de cervantes.
3. The main character is referred as the 'protagonist '.
4. ' Picaresque Novel' is based on the life of the author.
