English lecturer Interview questions preparation.
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Question: What is literature?
Answer: Literature reflects an accurate/realistic picture of society and is primarily meant for the pleasure of the mind. Literature is merely a reflection of human characters. In literature, profound emotions are triggered by verbal criticism and interpretation of life using flowery language.
Question: Meaning of literature
Answer: Literature is mainly about giving pleasure. Pleasure and profit are the two motives for reading English literature. Reading literature can be a great source of enjoyment. Reading literature can be profitable only when done correctly. For this reason, we are very interested in reading literature.
Question: What is poetry? Explain in your own words.
Answer: A metrical work known as poetry expresses one or more meanings. The verse is another name for it. Poetry is the "spontaneous overflow of intense sentiments recollected in repose," according to William Wordsworth. Poetry, according to Matthew Arnold, "is a criticism of life."
Question: Explain Romanticism in your own words.
Answer: Romanticism's literary or artistic movement occurred in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Like classical aesthetics, it does not adhere to any strict norms. It glorifies nature rather than society. The fundamental elements of Romanticism include subjectivity, adoration of beauty, deep feelings and imagination, and escaping to the ivory tower from harsh realities.
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The sentiments, beliefs, and concepts which contain freshness of mind, the seed of foresight, prudence, and trends of reformation and character protests against traditional attitudes and desire to do good for humanity are known as Romanticism.
Q. What are some of the essential traits of Romanticism?
Answer:
1. High imagination
2. Subjectivity
3. Rebellion
4. Interest in the past
5. Love of nature
6. Mysticism, spiritualism, pantheism
7. Freedom
8. Supernaturalism
9. Deep feelings
10. Escape
Question: Size of Gulliver comparatively.
Answer: Gulliver was six feet tall, and Lilliputians were six inches. At Brobdingnag, however, people averaged sixty feet; Gulliver became a Lilliputian.
Periods of English literature:
450-1066 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
Time
1066–1500 Middle English period
1500-1600 Renaissance (early
Modern) Period
1558-1603 Elizabethan Age
1603-1625: The Jacobean Age
1625-1649 Caroline Age
1649-1660 Commonwealth period
1600-1785 Neoclassical
Time
Restoration period 1660–1700
1700-1745 Age of Augustus
1745-1783: The Age of Sensibility
1785-1830 Period of Romanticism
1832-1901 Victorian period
1848–1860 Pre-Raphaelites
1880-1901 Aesthetics and
Decadence
1901-1910 Edwardian period
1910–1914 Georgian period
1914-1945: The Modern Era
1945-1945: Postmodernism
Question: What is modernism?
Answer: Modernism is divided into two parts --- (1) white and (2) black. Modern literature mainly reflects the ills and evils of modern times, the frustration and lack of feelings, emotions, and capitalism. An unbridled thirst for knowledge, adventurous voyages, and atheism are also essential features of modernism.
Question. Explain classicism in your own words.
Answer: In Europe's 17th and 18th centuries, a literary and artistic movement known as classicism promoted reason, restraint, and rigid form. The term classicism is derived from ancient Greece and the Romanesque style. In general, this term refers to the styles, rules, models, conventions, themes, and sensibilities of classical authors and their influence and presence in the works of later authors. The principal English poets and writers who followed classical rules and manners were Ben Jonson, Pop, Swift, Dryden, and Addison.
Question: Explain pantheism in your own words.
Answer: William Wordsworth created pantheism's new philosophy or ideology during the Romantic era. According to pantheism, God can be found in all of nature. A transcendental, intuitive conviction in the unity of all things is pantheism. Wordsworth attempts to spread the idea that all things alive are a part of the Almighty God through pantheism. We can say that God is all, and all is God. This is the pantheism he mentions in Tintern Abbey.
"Nature never betrays."
The heart that loved her."
Question: What is Poetry:
Answer:
Poetry is one of the oldest genres of literature. In poetry, words are arranged to create rhythm and melody. It is a composition of words in metrical form. in poetry, words are placed in their best order. S.T Coleridge describes poetry as:
"Best words in the best order"
poetry mostly follows meter and rhyme schemes. It is full of powerful feelings and emotions. For more details Click Here
Question: What is the Victorian spirit or age?
Answer: After the dynamic Queen Victoria came to power, the Victorian spirit underwent radical changes in all parts of society. Industrialization, urbanization, Victorian literature, women's emancipation, renaissance spirit, scientific progress, etc., are outstanding advances in the Victorian era. In short, the Victorian spirit is an indomitable desire for knowledge and remarkable development.
Anglo-Saxon:
The term Anglo-Saxon is defined by the names of three tribal groups – Angles, Jutes, and Saxons. The Angles and Jutes came from the Jutland Peninsula, and the Saxons from the area later called Lower Saxony. Nor is it worth anything that the Anglo-Saxons knew themselves as English. They spoke both Old English and Modern English. From around the early fifth century AD until the Norman Conquest in 1066, the ethnically and linguistically related peoples who lived in the south and east of the island of Great Britain were referred to as Anglo-Saxons. Bede recognized them as decedents of the three Germanic tribes of the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons because they spoke closely similar Germanic dialects. Many people mistakenly thought that a spear was called an angle. Hence the word "angle" was used to describe it. On the other hand, "Saxon" derives from "Sax," which means sword; according to historians, they were more potent with a sword.
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