ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the central argument in Dr. Richard Kelly’s “The Novelist’s Eye”?
A
All novelists are painters at heart.
B
George du Maurier felt that black-and-white illustrators could be as important as novelists and painters.
C
George du Maurier attacked the social position of the novelist in his illustrations.
D
George du Maurier was a tremendous influence on Victorian novelists.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The literary purpose is used to entertain and to give aesthetic pleasure. The focus of the literary purpose is on the words themselves and on a conscious and deliberate arrangement of the words to produce a pleasing or enriching effect. A writer often expresses a worldview when using the literary purpose.

Detailed explanation-2: -literature, a body of written works. The name has traditionally been applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the perceived aesthetic excellence of their execution.

Detailed explanation-3: -Literature allows a person to step back in time and learn about life on Earth from the ones who walked before us. We can gather a better understanding of culture and have a greater appreciation of them. We learn through the ways history is recorded, in the forms of manuscripts and through speech itself.

Detailed explanation-4: -Style in literature is the literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words-the author’s word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text.

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