ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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AGES ERA PERIOD

ELIZABETHAN PERIOD

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The complex ranking system that Elizabethans believed ordered every single thing in the universe was known as:
A
The Great Order of Life
B
The Great Chain of Being
C
The Great System of Shakespeare
D
The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Chain of Being was a religious hierarchy which gave order to everything within the world. A strict ranking of both animate beings and inanimate objects, it was a vital structural notion of life and nature which contributed to the dominance of feudalism.

Detailed explanation-2: -The great chain of being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God. The chain begins with God and descends through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which period of English literature came first? The first historical period of English Literature is the Old English Period or The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066). Hope you have a comprehensive understanding of the history of English literature through this blog.

Detailed explanation-4: -a morality play. [The morality play, in which personified virtues and vices struggle for man’s soul, was popular in the fifteenth century.]

Detailed explanation-5: -Tennyson, poet of love and loss.

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