ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

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‘Renaissance’ means ____
A
the revival of learning
B
the revival of hard task
C
the revival of life
D
the revival of new country
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Renaissance is a French word meaning “rebirth.” It refers to a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom.

Detailed explanation-2: -Revival of Learning in American English noun. the Renaissance in its relation to learning, esp. in literature ( Revival of Literature or Revival of Letters)

Detailed explanation-3: -The revival of classical learning that Petrarch and Boccaccio promoted was only one aspect of the complex phenomenon of the Renaissance.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term Renaissance, though used by many writers “to denote the whole transition from the Middle Ages to the modern world, ”[106] is more correctly applied to the revival of art resulting from the discovery and imitation of classic models in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Detailed explanation-5: -Renaissance eventually comes from the French word “Renaistre, ” meaning “to be born again.” The Renaissance was a revival or a rebirth of cultural awareness and learning among art, law, language, literature, philosophy, science, and mathematics. This period took place between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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