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A QUIZ ON THE MOONSTONE BY WILKIE COLLINS

A QUIZ ON THE MOONSTONE by WILKIE COLLINS.  #Join my online classes and fulfill your dream of becoming a professor of English Literature.  #Dr Mukesh Pareek  14 NET, 3 JRF, 2 M. Phil  Expert of Experts in NET Coaching  Fill your inquiry form on my website and get such quizzes free daily 👇👇👇👇👇 www.mukeshpareek.com 🎯1. What is the actual type of gem the moonstone is?  Sapphire  Ruby  Yellow Diamond  Topaz Ans Yellow Diamond The traditions behind the name include having been set in the forehead of an Indian god who typified the moon; also its lustre was said to grow and fade with the waxing and waning of the moon. Join My Online classes and get world class study material.  Dr Mukesh Pareek  14 NET, 3 JRF, 2 M. Phil  Expert of Experts in NET Coaching  Contact whatsapp 9828402032 www.mukeshpareek.com 🎯2. What god breathed the breath of his divinity on the moonstone?  Brahma  Shiva  Vishnu  Buddha Ans Vishnu After Vishnu did this he commanded that the moonstone be watched by the three

A Quiz on Romanticism

#Join my  #online classes to fulfill your dream of becoming a #professor of #English Literature.  #A Quiz on Romanticism  Dr Mukesh Pareek  Expert of Experts in NET English Literature Coaching  14 NET, 3 JRF, 2 M. Phil  🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓 🎯1.Though an icon of the Romantic period, his works are in some ways the least romantic of the group. He favored traditional forms over new innovations; he preferred satire to introspection; and in "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," he ridiculed his fellow Romantics as being inferior to the neoclassical poets. www.mukeshpareek.com  William Wordsworth  Lord Byron*  Samuel Taylor Coleridge  John Keats English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" uses the popular neoclassical form of the heroic couplet. In it, Byron calls Southey "the ballad-monger." He criticizes Wordworth's style: "That simple Wordsworth, framer of a lay . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose

TEN MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS ON FEMINISM FOR UGC NET STUDENTS

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The Second Sex by  Simone de Beauvoir (1949) To ask what influence this book had on gender politics is akin to wondering what the sun ever did for the earth. The answer? Everything. Today,  The Second Sex  is still hailed as the mothership of feminist philosophy. “One is not born, but rather becomes (a) woman,” muses De Beauvoir (the quote varying, according to the translation). Exploring topics from sex, work and family to prostitution, abortion and the history of female subordination, De Beauvoir challenges the notion of men as the default (the ideal), and women as “other”. For many,  The Second Sex  represents not just key feminist reading, but rather essential feminist thinking . The Feminine Mystique by  Betty Friedan (1963) This book was no mere pity-party for dissatisfied 1950s/60s Valium-gobbling US housewives. It was a call to arms, demystifying what became known as  “second-wave feminism” for ordinary women  all over the world. Friedan also identified “the problem that has no

SPOKEN ENGLISH MATERIAL

1000 Most Common Words in English Building your vocabulary with some of the most common words used in the English language is a great start for your journey in learning this beautiful language. Not only do these common words expand the English terminology that you know, but they also help you with your English conversation skills since they are indeed words that you hear others use everyday. If you know 1,000 words, you will be between a  functional beginner  and  conversational  level in English.  In most of the world’s languages, 500 words will be more than enough to get you through any tourist situations and everyday introductions. START BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY WITH EVERYDAY COMMON WORDS Using everyday common words are the most convenient way to learn English. The more you hear these words, the better it is for you to process and understand them. And the more you use them, the stronger your English skills become. So it’s a great process of learning from others, and at the same time