4th Quarter English Exam

• Charles Dickens


  Nineteenth-century British/English author/writer, social critic and editor who wrote novels, short stories, comics, and novellas.
• Charles Dickens


  He wrote some of the most famous novels of his time, including “Oliver Twist”, “Great Expectations”, “A Tale of Two Cities”, “Bleak House,” “David Copperfield,” and “A Christmas Carol.”
• Charles Dickens


  He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
• Charles Dickens


  His most famous work is probably “A Christmas Carol”. It was first published just before Christmas in 1843, and its first print of 6,000 copies sold out in just 8 days. “Oliver Twist” was turned into a musical that is still being performed now, and there have been several film versions of “Great Expectations.”
• Charles John Huffam Dickens


  What is Charles' Dickens' full name?
• Virginia Woolf


  Her ‘stream of consciousness’ technique enabled her to portray the interior lives of her characters and to depict the montage-like imprint of memory.
• Virginia Woolf


  Was an English writer considered as one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device
• Virginia Woolf


  She is best known for her novels, especially “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925) and “To the Lighthouse” (1927)
• Virginia Woolf


  She also wrote the novels “The Voyage Out” (1915), “Jacob’s Room” (1922), “Orlando” (1928), and “The Waves” (1931). Her most famous essay was “A Room of One’s Own” (1929)
• Rudyard Kipling


  Was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
• Rudyard Kipling


  His poems included “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” and “If—.” His children’s fictional stories included “The Jungle Book” which had eight short stories revolving around the main character, Mowgli. (1894) and “Just So Stories” (1902). His most successful novel was “Kim” (1901).
• Rudyard Kipling


  His poems, often strongly rhythmic, are frequently narrative ballads.
• Rudyard Kipling


  He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
• Charlotte Bronte


  Married name is Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls and her pseudonym is Currer Bell.
• Charlotte Bronte


  Was an English novelist and poet best known for “Jane Eyre” (1847)
• Charlotte Bronte


  She started writing in her childhood shortly after the deaths of her two young sisters. Aged 16, her writing abilities were questioned by Robert Southey, a famous poet. To him, literature is not a business of a woman’s life but she continued her struggle and won a reputable place in the literary world.
• Jane Eyre


  What novel is this?

  The novel is still very relevant today for Jane is a strong feminist symbol, arguing through the whole novel that women should be free to fulfill their desires, express their true natures, and chart their own destinies.
• Charlotte Bronte 


  Two sisters of hers who survived to adulthood also became writers: Emily Brontë (pseudonym Ellis Bell; famous for her only novel “Wuthering Heights”) and Anne Brontë (pseudonym Acton Bell; first of two novels “Agnes Grey”).
• Edgar Allan Poe


  is an American short-story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor who is famous for his/her cultivation of mystery and the macabre.
• Edgar Allan Poe


  He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature.
• Edgar Allan Poe


  His best-known works include the poems “To Helen” (1831), “The Raven” (1845), and “Annabel Lee” (1849); the short stories of wickedness and crime “The TellTale Heart” (1843) and “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846); and the supernatural horror story “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839).
• Edgar Allan Poe


  His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. He is credited with initiating the modern detective story, developing the Gothic horror story, and being a significant early forerunner of the science fiction form
• Shirley Jackson


  Is an American novelist and short-story writer, known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.
• Shirley Hardie Jackson


  What is Shirley Jackson's full name?
• Shirley Jackson


  He/she is best known for her story “The Lottery” (1948), written in a single morning and the novel “The Haunting of Hill House.”
• Shirley Jackson


  Wrote two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories
• William Sydney Porter


  Better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer whose short stories are known for wit, wordplay and clever twist endings.
• William Sydney Porter

  He wrote nearly 600 stories about life in America. The classic short story “The Gift of the Magi” is the most famous of his stories. (Use his full name)
• O. Henry 


  He was a prolific author, publishing nearly three hundred short stories and some poems in his brief literary career. (Use his pen name)
• Kate Chopin


  Wrote two published novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s
• Kate Chopin


  Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her best-known works focus on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women. She is best known for her stories about the inner lives of sensitive, daring women.
• Kate Chopin


  Her novel “The Awakening” and her short stories are read today in countries around the world, and she is widely recognized as one of America's essential authors.
• Kate Chopin


  She is best known today for her 1899 novel “The Awakening.”
• Verbals


  Are verb forms that do not function as verbs but as other parts of speech - as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.
• Verbal phrases


  Are verbals attached with their complements or modifiers
• Participles


  A verbal that functions as a modifier, specifically as an adjective. The participle may be in the present participle form (V-ing) or in the past participle form (V-en) of the verb.
• Participial phrase


  Is composed of a participle and all its modifiers working as an adjective.
• Gerunds


  A verbal that functions as a noun. So as a noun, it has the same functions as a real noun – as subject, predicate nominative, direct object, object of a preposition, indirect object, appositive, object complement.
• Gerund


  Always in the present participle form (V-ing) of the verb.
• Gerund phrase 


  Consists of a gerund with all its complements or modifiers functioning as a noun.