৩৫তম BCS — English Literature Ages প্রশ্নসমাধান
এই পরীক্ষায় ৪টি প্রশ্ন — Nobel Laureate, climax of plot, Elizabethan period, Marxism.
প্রশ্ন ৪০: Not a Nobel Laureate?
Answer: Graham Greene ✓
- Greene nominated multiple times; never won.
- Eliot (1948), Faulkner (1949), Morrison (1993) — all Nobel laureates.
প্রশ্ন ৪৩: 'climax' of a plot?
Answer: at the height ✓
Freytag's Pyramid — climax = peak emotional intensity (turning point), not the end.
প্রশ্ন ৫৮: Elizabethan period writer?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe ✓
Elizabethan Age (1558-1603)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) — Shakespeare's contemporary; 'Doctor Faustus', 'Tamburlaine'
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) — 'The Faerie Queene'
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) — essays
NOT Elizabethan
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) — Neoclassical/Augustan
- John Dryden (1631-1700) — Restoration
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) — Modern absurdist
প্রশ্ন ৬১: 'Class relations and societal conflict' is key to?
Answer: Marxism ✓
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
- Class struggle as engine of history
- Bourgeoisie vs. Proletariat
- 'The Communist Manifesto' (1848, with Engels), 'Das Kapital' (1867)
Other 'isms' — Quick reference
| -ism |
Focus |
| Marxism |
Class & society |
| Feminism |
Gender |
| Formalism |
Form/structure |
| Structuralism |
Systems of signs/language |
| Existentialism |
Individual existence (Sartre) |
| Postcolonialism |
Colonial legacy |
টপিকটি গভীরে শিখুন
English Literature — Ages & Periods — মূল লেকচার শিট — All literary ages, age-defining works, critical theories।