History of Novel Activity Sets

History of Novel 

 Set - 1👇

A) Complete the activities given below as per the instructions.

1) Choose the correct alternatives and complete the given statements. 2

a) There are (six, seven, eight) essential elements of 'Novel' or 'Novella'

Answer:- Six

b) Novel as literary genre has a history of about years.

(two thousand, five thousand, thousand)

Answer:- two thousand years

c) After 1740 in (Rome, England, India) novel originated as literary form.

Answer:- England

d) Today the most recognised dominant literary genre is (drama, one Act Play, Rovel )

Answer:- Novel 

2) State whether the following sentences are 'True' or 'False' and rewrite them. 2

a) Readers follow the action of the main character in novel is called 'Protagonist'

Answer:- True 

b) Novel makes life easier to understand than drama and poetry.

Answer:- true 

c) The historical novel narrates the adventure of the Protagonist.

Answer:- False 

d) 'Stream of Consciousness' is a term coined by William Shakespeare.

Answer:- False 

Set - 2👇👇

5. A) Complete the activities given below as per the instructions.

 Pick out the odd element from the group.

a) Plot, Conflict, Protagnist, Language

b) Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Thomas Hardy

c) Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthrone, H.G. wells, George eliot

d) The Heart of Darkness, The Turh of the screw, The pilgrims Progress, Death in venice

Answer :-

Protagnist

Thomas Hardy

George eliot

The pilgrims Progress

2) Write the language and meaning of the following words.

Words         Language         Meaning

a) Novella    Italian            new

b)Picaro         Spanish            rogue

c) Epistola     Latin                 letter 

d) Bildungsroman German   growth 

Set- 3👇👇

5. A) Complete the activities given below as per the instructions: 2

1) Match the following items from column - A with those from the column B.

Column A                      Column B

a) Geoffrey chaucer i) Frankenstein

b) Daniel Defoe            ii) Jane Eyre

c) Mary shelley     iii) Robinson crusoe

d) Charlotte Bronte iv) The canterbury                                                 Tales

Answer:

a = The Canterbury Tales 

b= Robinson crusoe 

c= Frankenstein 

d= Jane Eyre 

ii) Choose the correct alternative and complete the statements. 2

a) The main character to which the readers follow. throughout the novel is a........... of the novel. 

(Protagonist, antagonist, villian, minor character)

b)..... is the central idea in the novel. 

(plot. character, setting, theme.)

c) Psychological novel treats the (external, personal, social, internal) life of the protagonist

d) Stream of consciousness is a phrase coined by (Jonathan swift, John Bunyan, william James, walter scott)

            Set- 4👇👇

A) Complete the activities given below as per the instructions:

All Match the pairs:

1) Picaresque Novel a) bears more than                                            one layer of                                                       meaning

2) Historical Novel b) speculative fiction

3) Allegorical Novel c) adventures of an                                         accentric protagonist

4) Utopian Novel d) set in an earlier                                     period than of the writing

A21Complete the sentence:

1) The industrial revolution gave birth to.. (poor class/middle class/rich class)

2) Salman Rushdie, VS. Naipaul, Kazuo Ishigura are... 

(Indian authors, immigrant authors/ writers of Indian origion)

                       Set-5👇👇

Al Complete the activities given below as per the instructions: 

1) Fill in the blanks with correct alternative:

i) The Italian word 'novella 'means.

a) precious c) glamorous b) old d) new

Answer-       new

ii) Increase in trade and commerce along with the industrial revolution gave rise to the......

a) elite class b) poor c) middle class. class d) common class

Answer- middle class 

iii) The novels" Pamela and clarissa are

a) Historical

 c) Epistolary

b) Gothic

d) Allegorical.

Answer-  Epistolary novel 

iv) A famous satire Gulliver's Travel' is written by.........

a) Aphra Behn b) Jonathan Swift

c) Daniel Defoe  d) John Banyan.

Answer- Jonathan Swift 

 Match the following

A                                                            B 

i) Picaresque novel  a) include terror,                                          mistery, horror a                         thriller.

ii) Historical novel  b) bears more                                                     than one level                                   of meaning

iii) Gothic novel               c) set in period                                       erlier than that of                                           writing

 iv) Allegorical                 d) narrates the                                                adventure of                                            the protagonist                                         who isecentric person.

Answer- 

i) Picaresque novel    d) narrates the                                                adventure of                                            the protagonist                                         who isecentric person.

 ii) Historical novel  b) set in period                                       erlier than that of            writing

iii) Gothic novel          a) include terror,                                          mistery, horror a                         thriller.

 iv) Allegorical         b) bears more                                                     than one level                                   of meaning

          Set -6 👇👇

5. Al Complete the following statements.

i] The two types of conflicts that the plot may have are.

Ans:- internal and external conflicts 

ii] The word 'picareque is originated from

Ans:- Spanish word 'picaro'

The epistolary novel presents the narrative through.

Ans:- series of correspondence or other documents 

iv) In the eighteenth century middle class could get the time for reading and discussing the novels because

Ans:- the spread of the machines 

A2 Match the novelist and novel.

Novelist                       Novel.

1] Virgil         =          b] Ecologues

2] Malory     =      a) Morte De Arthur

3) Oroonoku =       Aphra Behn

4] Daniel Define =   Robinson crusoe

5. A) Complete the activities given below as per the instruction. 1) Rewrite the following sentences and state whether they are True or false.

a) The introduction of newspapers and magazins led to an increase in the

number of middle class readers to the 18th century.

b) The Indian English novel has undergone many changes and its future

appears break.

c) The rise of middle class played a vital role in the popularity of the novel.

d) Kazuo Ishiguro is a well-known American author of French origin.

2) Match the types of novel in column 'A'with their nature in column 'B'

A                                         B

Types of novel                   Nature

a) Story is developed through the exchange of letters. 

= Epistolary novel

b) Story includes terror, mistery, deaths and haunted buildings.

iv) Gothic novel

c) Story is based on the life of the author

i) Autobiographical novel

 d) Story deals with the development of

the author

i) Bildungsroman novel

Set - 7👇👇

A1) Complete the following activity 

i)choose the correct pair of the novel and its novelist

Answers 

 a)Tale of Genji- Murasaki Shikibu

b) Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 

c) the Wuthering Heights - Charlotte Bronte

d) Evelina - Ann Radcliff

 ii) Complete the statement by writing the correct option from the following. 2

i)The World's first novel 'Tale of Genji' is written by 

a) Miguel de Cervantes b) Daniel Defoe

C)Samuel Richardson d) Murasaki Shikibu