৩৫তম BCS — Modern English Literature প্রশ্নসমাধান
এই পরীক্ষায় ৫টি প্রশ্ন — Arms and the Man, Isle of Innisfree, Riders to the Sea, George Eliot odd-out, Toni Morrison books.
প্রশ্ন ৪৫: 'Arms and the Man' by?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw ✓
G.B. Shaw's 'Arms and the Man' (1894)
- Anti-war satirical comedy
- One of Shaw's 'Plays Pleasant' collection
- Title from Virgil's Aeneid ("Arma virumque cano")
Shaw's major plays
- Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
- Arms and the Man (1894)
- Candida (1894)
- Man and Superman (1903)
- Pygmalion (1913) — basis for My Fair Lady
- Saint Joan (1923)
Shaw won Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.
প্রশ্ন ৫২: 'Isle of Innisfree' by?
Answer: W.B. Yeats ✓
Yeats's 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' (1888)
- Nostalgic escape to nature
- About a small island in Lough Gill, Ireland
- Famous opening: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree"
Yeats — Irish poet, Nobel 1923.
প্রশ্ন ৫৩: 'Riders to the Sea' is?
Answer: a one-act play ✓
J.M. Synge's 'Riders to the Sea' (1904)
- Famous Irish one-act tragedy
- Setting: Aran Islands, off Ireland's west coast
- Theme: A mother loses men to the sea
- Often staged in Irish theatre repertoire
Synge was part of the Irish Literary Revival (with Yeats, Lady Gregory).
প্রশ্ন ৬৯: Odd-man-out: George Eliot, Hardy, Conrad, Joyce
Answer: George Eliot ✓
- George Eliot (1819-1880) — Victorian era; pen name for Mary Ann Evans (female).
- Hardy, Conrad, Joyce — all bridge Victorian/Modern era; male authors.
- Multiple distinguishing features possible (era, gender, etc.).
প্রশ্ন ৭০: Odd-man-out: Bluest Eye, Sula, As I Lay Dying, A Mercy
Answer: As I Lay Dying ✓
Toni Morrison's novels
- The Bluest Eye (1970)
- Sula (1973)
- Song of Solomon (1977)
- Beloved (1987)
- A Mercy (2008)
'As I Lay Dying' (1930)
- By William Faulkner (Nobel 1949)
- Stream-of-consciousness style; American Southern Gothic
টপিকটি গভীরে শিখুন
Modern English Literature — মূল লেকচার শিট — Modernist movement, stream-of-consciousness, war poetry, Irish Literary Revival, BCS-tested 20th-century authors।