4.1 History of Novel   Activity – 1

Complete the following activities. [10 Marks]

A1] Match the Columns: (2)

          A                                          B

   (a) Eveline                               (1) Satire

   (b) Clarissa                              (2) Novel of manners

   (c) Gulliver’s Travels            (3) First Science Fiction

   (4) Frankenstein                   (4) Epistolary Novel

A2] Pick out the odd element from the group. (2)

(i) Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.G. Wells, George Eliot

(ii) Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul, Kazuo Ishigura, Aphra Behn

(iii) Plot, Conflict, Protagonist, Language

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

A3] Complete the following statements (2)

(i) _____ & _____ are the two major elements affected due to setting.

(ii) Autobiographical Novel is based on the ________

(iii) Detective fiction is a sub-genre of ______& ______

(iv) Novella is a type of Prose which is shorter than a ______ & longer than a ______

A4] Write short note in about 50 words on – (4)

(i) Women Novelists

(ii) Epistolary Novel