The Book of the Duchess by Chaucer is a
lengthy allegory on the death of his patron's wife
a short lyrical story of the Duchess of Wales
Which work of Chaucer bears a close resemblance to Dante's Divine Comedy
The House of Fame
The Parliament of Fowls
Which of the following contains passages directly taken from Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer and Pindorous reveal maturity of Chaucer's narrative skills and his dexterity in handling the
Heoric Couplet
Rhyma Royal
The very idea of The Canterbury Tales is believed to have been taken from Boccacco's
Filostrato
Recamerone
Which of the following is considered to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet
Troilus and Criseyded
The Legend of Good Woemn
Who said., "Chaucer found English a dialect and left it a language"
Lowes
Hadow
Hudson has rightly said that under the influence of Chaucer in English poetry, the rhyme gradually displaced
free verse
alliteration
Chaucer used ottava rhyma, the eight syllabic line rhyming in couplets in
The Book of the Duchess
In Prologue and Canterbury Tales Chaucer used
Heroic Couplet
Ottava Rhyma
The Rhyma Royal which Chaucer used in Troilus and Criseyde is arranged in stanzas consisting ten syllabic lines and having
Seven lines in each stanza
Ten lines in each stanza
In the Prologue to the Canerbury Tales the fading chivlary of the Middle ages was represented by the aged Knight while the budding chivlary of the Chaucherean Times was represented by
The Frair
The Squire
Chaucher's physician in the Doctor of Physique was heavily dependent on
modern science
astrology
Chaucer has been criticized for presenting an incomplete picture of his times because
he neglected the sufferings of the poor
he overemphasized the rights of the lower class
Who has been called the Morning Star of the Renaissance?
Spencer
Chaucer
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a story of
24 pilgrims
29 pilgrims
Who has been called by Spenser as "The Well of the English Undefiled"
Langland
Chaucer introduced Heroic Couplet in English verse and invented the
One of the main drawbacks of Troilus and Criseyde is
complex characters
long and tiresome speeches
The character of Criseyde is
a psychological study of a complex woman
a true representative of typical medieval woman
Pandorus is a/an
obnoxious rouge
comic character
The vision of William Concerning Piers, the plowman is the only extant poem of
John Gower
W. Langland
The poet known entirely for Bruce, the supreme national poem of Scotland is
John Barbour
John Cycliffe