UGC NET English Literature Questions with Answers

1. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?

(A) boisterous humour
(B) humour and pathos
(C) subtlety of irony
(D) stream of consciousness

2. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?

(A) The Bible
(B) The Irish mythology
(C) The German mythology
(D) The Greek mythology

3. The following lines are an example……… of image.
‘The river sweats
Oil and tar’

(A) visual
(B) kinetic
(C) erotic
(D) musical

4. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?

(A)Hopkins
(B)Tennyson
(C)Browning
(D)Wordsworth

5. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?

(A) The Tempest
(B) Henry IV, Pt I
(C) Hamlet
(D) Twelfth Night

6. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?

(A) Work Without Hope
(B) Frost at Midnight
(C) The Rime of the Ancient
(D) Youth and Age

7. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?

(A) 1823

(B) 1826
(C) 1834
(D) 1833

8. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—

(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
(D) D. G. Rossetti

9. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?

(A) Spenserian Stanza
(B) Ballad
(C) OttavaRima
(D) Rhyme Royal

10. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”

(A) Oxymoron
(B) Metaphor
(C) Simile
(D) Synecdoche

11. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?

(A) Allen Tate
(B) J. C. Ransom
(C) I. A. Richards
(D) F. R Leavis

12. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?

(A) Sesame and Lilies
(B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(C) Unto This Last
(D) Fors Clavigera

13. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?

(A)Ralph and Jack
(B) Simon and Eric
(C) Ralph and Eric
(D) Simon and Jack

14. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.
Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?

(A) The Tempest
(B) Hamlet
(C) Henry IV, Pt I
(D) Twelfth Night

15. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?
‘To Carthage then I came’

(A) Buddha
(B) Tiresias
(C) Smyrna Merchant
(D) Augustine

16. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist
especially Turner-
(A) The Stones of Venice
(B) The Two Paths
(C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D) Modern Painters

17. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of—
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Anthony Trollope
(C) W.H.White
(D) B. Disraeli

18. Identify the poet whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘1ove and loss’-
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
(D) D. G. Rossetti

19. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as•—
(A) Spenserian Stanza
(B) Ballad
(C) Ottava Rima
(D) Rhyme Royal

20. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry~—
(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Earl of Surrey
(D) Milton

21. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by-
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
(C) Carlyle
(D) John Ruskin

22. Tracts for the Times relates to-
(A) The Oxford Movement
(B) The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
(C) The Romantic Movement
(D) The Symbolist Movement

23. The Chartist Movement sought-
(A) Protection of the political rights of the working class
(B) Recognition of chartered trading companies
(C) Political rights for women
(D) Protection of the political rights of the middle class

24. Who wrote Biographia Literaria ?
(A) Byron
(B) Shelley
(C) Coleridge
(D) Lamb

25. Who was Fortinbras ?
(A) Claudius’s son
(B) Son to the king of Norway
(C) Ophelia’s lover
(D) Hamlet’s friend

26. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet ?
(A) Nine
(B) Seven
(C) Five
(D) Three

27. “The best lack all conviction,
while the worst are full of passionate intensity’
The above lines have been taken from— `
(A) The Waste Land
(B) Tintern Abbey
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Prayer for My Daughter

28. William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn after—
(A) Lawrence’s father
(B) Lawrence’s brother
(C) Lawrence himself
(D) None of these

29. The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is-
(A) Satire
(B) Sensuality
(C) Sensuousness
(D) Social reform

30. The keynote of Browning’s philosophy of life is-
(A) agnosticism
(B) optimism
(C) pessimism
(D) skepticism

31.The term, ‘curtal sonnet’, was coined by

(A) John Milton
(B) William Blake
(C) Gerald Manley Hopkins
(D) Matthew Arnold

32. The author of the pamphlet Short View of Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) was

(A) John Bunyan

(B) Jeremy Collier
(C) William Wycherley
(D) John Vanbrugh

33. Identify a play in the following list that is not written by Oscar Wilde :

(A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) The Importance of Being Earnest
(C) Saints and Sinners
(D) An Ideal Husband

34. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year
(A) 1995

(B) 1996
(C) 1997
(D) 1998

35. Which of the following arrangements of English novels is in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and Lovers, Brave New World
(B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Kim, Brave New World
(C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Brave New World
(D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India

36. “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is written by

(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) John Gay
(D) Jonathan Swift

37. Widowers’ Houses was written by

(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) John Galsworthy
(D) G.B. Shaw

38. Who among the following Marxist critics has reconsidered the classic problem of ‘base and superstructure” in relation to literature ?

(A) Edmund Wilson
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Walter Benjamin

39. “Heteroglossia” refers to

(A) the multiple readings of a text.
(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text.
(C) the comments on the margins of a text.
(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a text.

40. Margaret Drabble is the author of

(A) The Memoirs of a Survivor

(B) The Witch of Exmoor(C) The Service of Clouds
(D) The Godless in Eden

41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden’s literary rival,

(A) Richard Flecknoe
(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) John Wilmot
(D) Matthew Prior

42. Eighteenth century writers used satire frequently for

(A) attacking human vices and follies.(B) inciting the reading public.
(C) glorifying the culture of the upper classes.
(D) pleasing their women readers.

43. Byron’s “The Vision of Judgement” is a satire directed against

(A) Charles Lamb
(B) John Keats
(C) Henry Hallam
(D) Robert Southey

44. Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man was published in

(A) 1790
(B) 1791
(C) 1792
(D) 1793

45. Andrew Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” was written in

(A) 1647
(B) 1649
(C) 1650
(D) 1648

46. “The Rime of Ancient Mariner” is about

(A) a perilous adventure in the sea
(B) the accidental killing of an octopus
(C) the curse of a sea God
(D) the guilt and expiation of the Ancient Mariner

47. “To Daffodils” is a poem, written by

(A) Robert Herrick
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) John Keats
(D) P.B. Shelley

48. Which of the following novels reconstructs the historical events of the Indian Mutiny ?

(A) The Jewel in the Crown
(B) The Siege of Krishnapur
(C) The Day of the Scorpion
(D) The Towers of Silence

49. “England, my England” is a poem by

(A) W.E. Henley
(B) A.E. Housman
(C) R.L. Stevenson
(D) Rudyard Kipling

50. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University due to the publication of

(A) The Revolt of Islam
(B) The Necessity of Atheism
(C) The Triumph of Life
(D) The Masque of Anarchy

Ten things I love about Literature

Literature is a part of my life, it is not alone stops with my degree yet it has done something to my life. I wonder sometimes why do I have this much love and interest in literature, but most of the times I end up with a smile on my lips. It is always hard to find an answer for a simple question so today I decided to make it as a topic hence I can really think deep about the question Why Do I Love Literature? . 

I like to share the best Ten points I feel excited about Literature:

1. I feel very humane whenever I read a masterpiece work. It helps to find who am I.

2. I can understand the perspective of other humans, so that it becomes easy to deal with people in real life.

3. Every author is like one of my good old friend. I know them very well even though I never met them.

4. It makes me to think about the society, culture and much more essential things which makes me a responsible citizen.

5. I realize the value of money, family and love from the books which made me to cry.

6. Able to travel all around the world even to the past and future without going out of the room and the best thing is with less money.

7. Creates a love towards the characters I read. They live in the heart forever.

8. Every piece of literature gives me an inspiration to life.

9. Reduced the gap between education and reality. So I can score good marks with ease. 

10. Most beautiful thing is it allows me to live different lives. 

Tenses in English Language

For anyone who wants to talk or write in the language of English, it is necessary to know about the tense forms clearly. All of us must have read this in our schooling but how much do we remember till now or how much we have implemented it, is the question. So here is a easy and simple recap along with some useful tips. 

12 Basic Tenses in English

As we all know already there are 12 common tenses exist in the English grammar. For better understanding initially I split these 12 tenses into 3 parts.

Present Tense

Past Tense

Future Tense

When we converse we used to say things in present, past or future form. For example, I do (present), I did (past) and I will do(future). If you don't have the clearance when you speak you can just use these basic tenses but remember this is the very basic and it is for beginners alone. Now we subdivide each into 4 forms as given below.

1.Present Tense                 2.Past Tense               3.Future Tense

     (do)                                    (did)                             (will do)

Present continuous           Past continuous            Future continuous 

     (doing)                            (was doing)                  (will be doing)

Present perfect                  Past perfect                  Future perfect

   (have done)                       (had done)                 (will have done)

Present perfect                  Past perfect                  Future perfect

  continuous                        continuous                     continuous

(have been doing)         (had been doing)       (will have been doing)

Here are few simple examples: there are 3 examples for each sentence first one is an example for positive statement, second one is negative form and the third one is the question form.

Examples:

Simple Present - He loves, He does not love, Does he love?

Present continuous - He is loving, He is not loving, Is he loving?

Present perfect - He has loved, He has not loved, Has he loved?

Present perfect continuous - He has been loving, He has not been loving, Has he been loving?

Simple Past - He loved, He did not loved, Did he loved?

Past continuous - He was loving, He was not loving, Was he loving?

Past perfect - He had loved, He had not loved, Had he loved?

Past perfect continuous - He had been loving, He had not been loving, Had he been loving?

Simple Future - He will love, He will not love, Will he love?

Future continuous - He will be loving, He will not be loving, Will he be loving?

Future perfect - He will have loved, He will not have loved, Will he have loved?

Future perfect continuous - He will have been loving, He will not have been loving, Will he have been loving?

Books for further reference to develop your grammar skills

  

The Famous Speech By Mark Antony

(from Julius Caesar, spoken by Marc Antony)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

Scene Explanation:

After Julius Caesar was stabbed by a group of  conspirators( Brutus, Cassius etc..), Mark Antony urges them to allow him to give a speech in Caesar's Funeral after his handshake with the group. Cassius warns not to allow him to do so but Brutus allowed him thinking that he has no power to make a change. In the funeral speech Brutus justifies the assassination of Julius Caesar is simply for the goodness of Rome, he says that he loves Caesar but loves his country even more in order to catch the minds of the Rome crowd. After this Antony gives the most famous speech to the crowd, at the beginning the part of the crowd is not ready to hear his words but the rest of them are interested in.  

Why the Speech is So Special

Shakespeare has showed in excellence in the rhetorical irony form. The one speech that can change the entire crowd must be so powerful than anyone can imagine, that work has been exceptionally carried out by the Bard of Avon. It has illustrated one of the greatest moment in the Roman period. He played with the words so well that every reader impressed to the words in deep. 

Julius Caesar is a famous historical play written by William Shakespeare in the year of 1599 approximately. 

           

The Most Famous 50 Works in English Literature

The Most Famous 50 Works in English Literature are presented here in the chronological order with the author name. These are absolutely great works done by the writing wizards of all time in the English Language.

1. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
2. The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser
3. A Valediction - John Donne
4. Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
5. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
6. The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
7. The Alchemist - Ben Jonson 
8. The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
9. Utopia - Sir Thomas More
10. Paradise Lost - John Milton
11. The Changeling - Thomas Middleton
12. The Temple - George Herbert
13. To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell
14. The Way of the world - William Congreve
15. Mac Flecknoe - John Dryden
16. Gulliver's Travel - Jonathan Swift
17. Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
18. The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
19. She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith
20. The French Revolution - William Blake
21. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
22. Dictionary of English Language - Samuel Johnson
23. The Daffodils - William Wordsworth
24. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - S. T. Coleridge
25. Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats
26. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
27. Ulysses- Alfred Lord Tennyson
28. Andrea Del Sarto - Robert Browning
29. Scholar Gypsy - Mathew Arnold
30. The Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
31. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
32. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
33. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
34. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
35. The Invisible Man - Herbert George Wells
36. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
37. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
38. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
39. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
40. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
41. 1984 - George Orwell
42. Lord of the Flies -  William Golding
43. A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
44. The Tower - W. B. Yeats
45. The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
46. Arms and the Man - George Bernard Shaw
47. The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
48. The Birthday Party - Harold Pinter
49. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
50. Look Back in Anger - John Osborne 

All You Want to Know About D. H. Lawrence

The English poet, novelist, essayist, playwright and critic David Herbert Richard Lawrence (D. H. Lawrence) was born in Nottinghamshire, England in 1885, he is one among the influential writer of twentieth century. His works was banned until 1959 in United States. Lawrence's collected work is a masterpiece which exposes the dehumanizing nature of the modern world,in the second half of his life he had face many issues that causes more enemies to him because of his creative and bold writing. E. M. Forster addressed him as  "The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation". 

Born	David Herbert Richards Lawrence 11 September 1885 Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Died	2 March 1930 (aged 44) Vence, France
Occupation	Novelist, poet
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Nottingham
Period	1907–1930
Genre	Modernism
Notable works	·         Novel: Sons and Lovers The Rainbow Women in Love John Thomas and Lady Jane Lady Chatterley's Lover ·         Short Story: Odour of Chrysanthemums The Virgin and the Gypsy The Rocking-Horse Winner

Facts

• D.H. Lawrence's first book The White Peacock was published in 1910.

• His second novel was The Trespasser, published in 1912.

• D. H. Lawrence proposed to Louie Burrows, an old college friend. Soon after he met his old professor's wife Frieda von Richthofen and fell in love with her.

• D. H. Lawrence's first play The Daughter-in-Law was published in 1912.

• In 1913 D. H. Lawrence published Love Poems and Others, a book of poetry.

• D. H. Lawrence and Frieda married on July 13th, 1914.

• His next book The Prussian was a short story collection.

• In 1915 D.H. Lawrence's book The Rainbow was published but was condemned for its sexual content.

• With World War I, D.H. Lawrence and his German wife were banished from Cornwall and they traveled continuously, staying with friends. During this time he published four more poetry books including Amores, Look! We Have Come Through!, New Poems, and Bay: A Book of Poems.

• In 1920, in Italy, D.H. Lawrence published Women in Love, and in 1922 a book of short stories titled My England and other Stories was published.

• D.H. Lawrence traveled to America in 1922, and wrote Studies in Classic American Literature.

• D. H. Lawrence wrote Boy in the Bush (1924), St. Mawr (1925), and The Plumed Serpent (1926) while in the United States, on a ranch in New Mexico.

• He went back to Italy in 1927 after developing tuberculosis. There he wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover. It was published in Italy in 1928, but it was banned in the United States until 1958 due to its graphic sexual content. It was banned in England until 1960, until a jury ruled in favor of Penguin Books.

• D.H. Lawrence died in Venice, Italy at the age of 44, on March 2nd, 1930.

• Although he had been considered a crude writer during his lifetime, his works have become well-regarded and he is now considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest modernist writers.

Famous Quotes Of D.H. Lawrence

"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions."

"My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily. "

"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."

"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."

"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale."

"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."

"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken."

"Men! The only animal in the world to fear. "

"In every living thing there is the desire for love. "

Words Often Confused

Accept - to receive

Except- with the exclusion of

Advice - recommendation (noun)

Advise - to recommend (verb)

Adverse - unfavorable

Averse - opposed to

Affect - to influence (verb); emotional response (noun)

Effect - result (noun); to cause (verb)

Aisle - space between rows

Isle - island

Allude - to make indirect reference to

Elude - to avoid

Allusion - indirect reference

Illusion - false idea, misleading appearance

Already - by this time

All ready - fully prepared

Altar- sacred platform or place

Alter- to change

Altogether- thoroughly

All together- everyone/everything in one place

A lot - a quantity; many of something

Allot- to divide or portion out

Angel- supernatural being, good person

Angle- shape made by joining 2 straight lines

Are- plural form of "to be"

Our- plural form of "my"

Accent- pronunciation common to a region

Ascent- the act of rising or climbing

Assent- consent, agreement

Assistance- help

Assistants- helpers

Bare- nude, unadorned

Bear- to carry; an animal

Beside- close to; next to

Besides- except for; in addition

Boar- a wild male pig

Bore- to drill a hole through

Board- piece of wood

Bored- uninterested

Born- brought into life

Borne- past participle of "to bear" (carry)

Breath- air taken in (noun)

Breathe- to take in air (verb)

Brake- device for stopping

Break- destroy; make into pieces

Buy- to purchase

By- next to; through the agency of

Canvas- heavy cloth

Canvass- to take a survey; a survey

Capital- major city

Capitol- government building

Choose- to pick

Chose- past tense of "to choose"

Clothes- garments

Cloths- pieces of fabric

Coarse- rough

Course- path; series of lectures

Complement- something that completes

Compliment- praise, flattery

Conscience- sense of morality

Conscious- awake, aware

 Corps- regulated group

Corpse- dead body

Council- governing body

Counsel- advice; to give advice

Dairy- place where milk products are processed

Diary- personal journal

Descent- downward movement

Dissent- disagreement

Dessert- final, sweet course in a meal

Desert- to abandon; dry, sandy area

Device- a plan; a tool or utensil

Devise- to create

Discreet- modest, prudent behavior

Discrete- a separate thing, distinct

Do- a verb indicating performance or execution of a task

Dew- water droplets condensed from air

Due- as a result of

Dominant- commanding, controlling

Dominate- to control

Die- to lose life; one of a pair of dice

Dye- to change or add color

Dyeing- changing or adding color

Dying- losing life

Elicit- to draw out

Illicit- illegal, forbidden

Eminent- prominent

Imminent- about to happen

Envelop- to surround (verb)

Envelope- container for a letter (noun)

Everyday- routine, commonplace, ordinary (adj.)

Every day- each day, succession (adj. + noun)

Fair- light skinned; just, honest; a carnival

Fare- money for transportation; food

Farther- at a greater(measurable) distance

Further- in greater(non-measurable) depth

Formally- conventionally, with ceremony

Formerly- previously

Forth- forward

Fourth- number four in a list

Gorilla- animal in ape family

Guerrilla- soldier specializing in surprise attacks

Hear- to sense sound by ear

Here- in this place

Heard- past tense of "to hear"

Herd- group of animals

Hoard- a hidden fund or supply, a cache

Horde- a large group or crowd, swarm

Hole- opening

Whole- complete; an entire thing

Human- relating to the species  homo sapiens

Humane- compassionate

Its- possessive form of "it"

It's- contraction for "it is"

Knew- past tense of "know"

New- fresh, not yet old

Know- to comprehend

No- negative

Later- after a time

Latter- second one of two things

Lead- heavy metal substance; to guide

Led- past tense of "to lead"

  

Lessen- to decrease

Lesson- something learned and/or taught

Lightning- storm-related electricity

Lightening- making lighter

Loose- unbound, not tightly fastened

Lose- to misplace

Maybe- perhaps (adv.)

May be- might be (verb)

Meat- animal flesh

Meet- to encounter

Mete- to measure; to distribute

Metal- a hard organic substance

Medal- a flat disk stamped with a design

Mettle- courage, spirit, energy

Miner- a worker in a mine

Minor- underage person (noun); less important (adj.)

Moral- distinguishing right from wrong; lesson of a fable or story

Morale- attitude or outlook usually of a group

Passed- past tense of "to pass"

Past- at a previous time

Patience- putting up with annoyances

Patients- people under medical care

Peace- absence of war

Piece- part of a whole; musical arrangement

Peak- point, pinnacle, maximum

Peek- to peer through or look furtively

Pique- fit of resentment, feeling of wounded vanity

Pedal- the foot lever of a bicycle or car

Petal- a flower segment

Peddle- to sell

Personal- intimate; owned by a person

Personnel- employees

Plain- simple, unadorned

Plane- to shave wood; aircraft (noun)

Precede- to come before

Proceed- to continue

Presence- attendance; being at hand

Presents- gifts

Principal- foremost (adj.); administrator of a school (noun)

Principle- moral conviction, basic truth

Quiet- silent, calm

Quite- very

Rain- water drops falling; to fall like rain

Reign- to rule

Rein- strap to control an animal (noun); to guide or control (verb)

Raise- to lift up

Raze- to tear down

Rational- having reason or understanding

Rationale- principles of opinion, beliefs

Respectfully- with respect

Respectively- in that order

Reverend- title given to clergy; deserving respect

Reverent- worshipful

Right- correct; opposite of left

Rite- ritual or ceremony

Write- to put words on paper

Road- path

Rode- past tense of "to ride"

Scene- place of an action; segment of a play

Seen- viewed; past participle of "to see"

Sense- perception, understanding

Since- measurement of past time; because

Sight- scene, view, picture

Site- place, location

Cite- to document or quote (verb)

 Stationary- standing still

Stationery- writing paper

Straight- unbending

Strait- narrow or confining; a waterway

Taught- past tense of "to teach"

Taut- tight

Than- besides

Then- at that time; next

Their- possessive form of "they"

There- in that place

They're- contraction for "they are"

Through- finished; into and out of

Threw- past tense of "to throw"

Thorough- complete

To- toward

Too- also; very (used to show emphasis)

Two- number following one

Track- course, road

Tract- pamphlet; plot of ground

Waist- midsection of the body

Waste- discarded material; to squander

Waive- forgo, renounce

Wave- flutter, move back and forth

Weak- not strong

Week- seven days

Weather- climatic condition

Whether- if

Wether- a neutered male sheep

Where- in which place

Were- past tense of "to be"

Which- one of a group

Witch- female sorcerer

Whose- possessive for "of who"

Who's- contraction for "who is"

Your- possessive for "of you"

You're- contraction for "you are"

Yore- time long past

David Mitchell - A Versatile Contemporary Writer

There are many writers in the universe who are exceptionally well in analyzing the historical facts and narrate it. Many writers are very skilled in anticipating the future and write it in their typical style, but only very few writers can able to write on both and David Mitchell is one among them. David Stephen Mitchell was born in England on January 12, 1969, he is one among the successful novelist of the present era. Mitchell is an author of seven prosperous novels and two of them were shortlisted for The Booker Prize. And his very recent work "From Me Flows What You Call Time" will be published in the year of 2114. He is a man of past, present and future. 

Mitchell's Works

• Ghost Written(1999)
• number9dream (2001)
• Cloud Atlas(2004)
• Black Swan Green(2006)
• The Thousand Autumn of Jacob De Zoet(2010)
• The Bone Clocks(2014)
• Slade House(2015)

           

Ghost written

This novel was written in an unique style and thoughts of Mitchell. The book is about nine parts of the world and the people who live in it. Each section is a new plot with a central character and also about few fellow humans and the beauty of this novel is having a connectivity among those nine different places in the world. David Mitchell introduced a new theory of coincidence and inter-connectivity to fictions. A well-structured book speaks about almost every problem and complications of the human kind.  

number9dream

number9dream has been shortlisted for the Booker prize, this plot is about a young nineteen year old boy Eiji, who search his father and also mourns for the death of his twin sister. It presents the complexity of understanding the identity and imaginative journey of one's own life. “Number9Dream, with its propulsive energy, its Joycean eruption of language and playfulness, represents further confirmation that David Mitchell should be counted among the top young novelists working today.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Cloud Atlas

Mitchell has showed his extra-ordinary excellence in this novel. This books has been adopted into movie and succeed as well. It has won British Book Award and shortlisted to Booker Prize in the year 2004. Six different stories in the six different period of time has been presented simultaneously with a deep connectivity. The book has been started in nineteenth century and traveled to the post-apocalyptic future. “Cloud Atlas ought to make [Mitchell] famous on both sides of the Atlantic as a writer whose fearlessness is matched by his talent.”—The Washington Post Book World

Black Swan Green

This book is a semi-autobiographical novel of Mitchell, it has 13 sections each one is the happenings of every month from January 1982 to January 1983, the story has been written in the perspective of 13 year old boy. This book has been long-listed for the Booker prize in 2006. “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time

The Thousand Autumn of Jacob De Zoet

The Thousand Autumn of Jacob De Zoet is a historical novel of Japan. During the Dutch Trading with Japan and he described the state of the country and the measures taken by them inorder to protect themselves from the outsiders of Japan. Mitchell explains the pain and pleasure of the man in the Age of Exploration. “By any standards, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a formidable marvel.”—James Wood, The New Yorker

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell's sixth book, this book has won World Fantasy Award in 2015. This title refers to the immortality of the characters in the book that compared with the normal mortal bones of humans. This story is about a woman who has an invisible eye and the war between two immortals. “Intensely compelling . . . fantastically witty . . . offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation.”—The Washington Post

Slade House

Each Mitchell's novel has a specific and unique elements, Slade House is also one of its kind. This novel is a collection of twitts in Twitter by Mitchell himself. The plot starts in seventeenth century and ends up to the present year which means 2015 and its about a mysterious slade house. “Diabolically entertaining . . . dark, thrilling, and fun . . . a thoroughly entertaining ride full of mind games, unexpected twists, and even a few laughs.”—The Daily Beast

Other Works - Short stories

• "January Man", Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists, Spring 2003
• "What You Do Not Know You Want", McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, Vintage Books (Random House), 2004
• "Acknowledgments", Prospect, 2005
• "Preface", The Daily Telegraph, April 2006
• "Dénouement", The Guardian, May 2007
• "Judith Castle", New York Times, January 2008
• "An Inside Job", Included in "Fighting Words", edited by Roddy Doyle, published by Stoney Road Press, 2009 (Limited to 150 copies)
• "The Massive Rat", The Guardian, August 2009
• "Character Development", The Guardian, September 2009
• "Muggins Here", The Guardian, August 2010
• "Earth calling Taylor", Financial Times, December 2010
• "The Siphoners", Included in "I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet", 2011
• "The Gardener", in the exhibit "The Flower Show" by Kai and Sunny, 2011 (Limited to 50 copies)
• "Lots of Bits of Star", in the exhibit "Caught by the Nest" by Kai and Sunny, 2013 (Limited to 50 copies)
• "Variations on a Theme by Mister Donut", Granta 127: Japan, Spring 2014
• "The Right Sort", Twitter, 2014

DM's Quotes 

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” 

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.” 

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” 

“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.” 

“Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.” 

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.” 

“One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.” 

“By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” 

“Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.” 

“Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.”