Literary | MCQs

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 was awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

Jon Fosse is from Norway.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2022 is awarded to the author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. 

Annie Ernaux is an author belongs to France. 

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Agha Hashar Kashmiri is the Shakespeare of Urdu literature.

He started to show interest in stage dramas and moved to Bombay at the age of 14

Agha Hashar Kashmiri's first play, Aftab-e-Muhabbat, was published in 1897

Born: Muhammad Shah 3 April 1879 Banaras, India

Died: 1 April 1935 (aged 56) Lahore

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Waris Shah called the Shakespeare of Punjabi literature.

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Suniti Namjoshi is an Indian poet and a fabulist. 

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Imam Shafi was Born: 767 AD, Gaza

Imam Shafi was Died: January 20, 820 AD, Fustat, Egypt

The work was composed by the founder of the Shafi'i school.

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مولوی عبدالحق کی کتاب "چاند ہم عصر" اردو ادب کی ایک مشہور تصنیف ہے۔

اس کتاب کی اشاعت 1952 میں ہوئی تھی۔

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of closely connected words.

In this sentence, the ‘s’ sound is repeated in “she,” “sells,” “seashells,” and “seashore.”

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Prosaic means بے لطف بے مزہ

Dull means پھیکا

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Ever since the end of the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer has been known as the "father of English poetry," a model of writing to be imitated by English poets.