4.1 HISTORY OF NOVEL

PART I

Introduction

PART II

Elements of Novel/Novella & Types of Novel

4.1.2 ACTIVITIES ON HISTORY OF NOVEL

Activities 

*** Complete the activities as per the instructions:                                                                                                  

 1. Choose the correct option and rewrite the sentence:

i) The eighteenth century has gifted English literature with .....

a)Novel and Drama

b)Drama and Poetry

c)Novel and The Periodical Essay

d)Novel and Poetry

ii)Novel soon  became the dominant literary genre because....

a)It tried to instruct the readers.

b)Caught the intellectual, sentimental and realistic plane.

c)Helped people to live more purposeful and virtuous life.

d)All of these.

iii)The novel has a history of about.... years.

a)Four thousand

b)Two thousand

c)Hundred

d)Three thousand

iv).... has been described as the world's first novel.

a)Don Quixote

b)Rajmohan's Wife

c)Oroonoku

d)Tale of Genji

v)In the eighteenth century middle class could get the time for reading and discussing the novel because....

a)Industrial Revolution had given rise to the middle class.

b)The spread of machines could provide a time to the people for reading and discussions about it .

c)The realistic picture of everyday life has been depicted in it.

d)All of these.

vi)Indian authors in English Novel wrote on the theme of ....

a)Psychological insights.

b)Domestic violence.

c)Nationalistic virtues or social issues.

d)Scientific theories.

vii)"Novella" means....

a)A prose fiction.

b)Longer than short stories.

c)Well structured.

d)All of these.

viii)There are ....elements of novel.

a)Two

b)Four

c)Five

d)Six

ix)Gothic novel contains....

a)Mystery

b)Horror

c)Supernatural elements

d)All of these.

x)Science Fiction is a genre of ....

a)Space travel

b)Futuristic setting 

c)Time travel

d)All of these.

2)Fill in the blanks by choosing correct alternative:

i)A novel is a relatively a ....narrative fiction.

             (long/short/descriptive)

ii)The word 'Novel' is derived from the .... word 'Novella'.

           (Spanish/Dutch/Italian)

iii)'The Canterbury Tales' has been written by ....

           (Virgil/Geoffrey Chaucer/Malory)

iv).... is the pioneer of the stream of Consciousness technique in English novel.

           (Agatha Christie/Virginia Woolf/Charles Dickens)

v)The struggle between the opposite forces in the story is called ....

            (Theme/Plot//Conflict)

3) Match the following.

         Novelist                                               Novel

  

1)Geoffrey Chaucer                             a)Morte De Arthur

2)John Bunyan                                     b)Don Quixote

3)Murasaki Shikibu                             c)The Tale of Genji

4)Malory                                               d)The Canterbury Tales

5)Miguel de Cervantes                         e)The Pilgrim's Progress

***Match the following.

           A                                                                B

1)Conflict                                                a)Narration of the course of events

2)Plot                                                       b)Struggle

3)Setting                                                  c)Central idea    

4)Theme                                                  d)Background

5)Style                                                     e)The story

4) State whether the following statements are True or False and correct the false sentence:

1) A novel creates the picture of the society of that time.

2) Novel is recognized as the most dominant literary genre in the fourteenth century.

3) In eighteenth century, Drama and Poetry were the two literary forms that were fading away.

4) Place,time and climate were included in theme.

5)Novella is longer than a full length novel.

5)Pick out the odd element from the group.

1)Drama,Theme, Novel, Poetry.

2) Mulkraj  Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja  Rao, D.H.Lawrence.

3)Gothic novel, Epistolary novel, Novella, Psychological novel.

4)Lifestyle, Place, Characters, Climate.

5) Salman Rushdie, Graham Greene, Charles Dickens,William Golding.