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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Who sees with ‘blinding sight’ in Do not go gentle into that good night? |
| A. | wise men |
| B. | good men |
| C. | wild men |
| D. | grave men |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
“Do not go gentle into that good night” is a plea to the poet’s _______. |
| A. | lover |
| B. | friend |
| C. | father |
| D. | brother |
| Answer» D. brother | |
| 3. |
Whose frail deeds dance in a ‘green bay’ in Do not go Gentle into that good night? |
| A. | wise men |
| B. | good men |
| C. | wild men |
| D. | grave men |
| Answer» C. wild men | |
| 4. |
“Do not go gentle into that good night” is a ____________. |
| A. | elegy |
| B. | ode |
| C. | villanelle |
| D. | lyric |
| Answer» D. lyric | |
| 5. |
‘Spirit’ in Ode to a Skylark refers to |
| A. | skylark |
| B. | poet |
| C. | poetry |
| D. | weather |
| Answer» B. poet | |
| 6. |
The mysterious lady’s eyes in La Belle Dame Sans Merci are described as ____. |
| A. | light |
| B. | fading |
| C. | moist |
| D. | wild |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
Who is “alone and palely loitering” in “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”? |
| A. | faery |
| B. | child |
| C. | knight |
| D. | king |
| Answer» D. king | |
| 8. |
_________ gives a reply to the speaker within the poem in Milton’s “When I consider how my light isspent” |
| A. | time |
| B. | patience |
| C. | light |
| D. | darkness |
| Answer» C. light | |
| 9. |
Cohen’s “I am your Man” conveys the speaker’s ____________. |
| A. | desperateness |
| B. | anger |
| C. | sorrow |
| D. | happiness |
| Answer» B. anger | |
| 10. |
The poem “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” immortalizes ________. |
| A. | the poem |
| B. | the poet |
| C. | the young man |
| D. | summer |
| Answer» D. summer | |
| 11. |
“Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day ” is the ___th sonnet of Shakespeare's collection of 154sonnets. |
| A. | 19 |
| B. | 20 |
| C. | 17 |
| D. | 18 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 12. |
______________ is not one of the gifts given by the knight to the mysterious young woman in Keats’La Belle Dame Sans Merci. |
| A. | honey wild |
| B. | garlands |
| C. | fragrant zone |
| D. | bracelets |
| Answer» B. garlands | |
| 13. |
In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, “twin compasses” are compared to _________. |
| A. | soul |
| B. | lovers |
| C. | virtuous men |
| D. | love |
| Answer» C. virtuous men | |
| 14. |
John Donne belongs to the __________ school of poetry |
| A. | metaphysical |
| B. | romantic |
| C. | cavalier |
| D. | modernist |
| Answer» B. romantic | |
| 15. |
The bronze statue of Neptune in My Last Duchess is taming a __________. |
| A. | innsbruck |
| B. | sea-horse |
| C. | white mule |
| D. | fair daughter |
| Answer» C. white mule | |
| 16. |
In the poem “Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”, “eye of heaven” refers to |
| A. | summer |
| B. | sun |
| C. | death |
| D. | flower bud |
| Answer» C. death | |
| 17. |
Which among the following is an example for Performing Poetry? |
| A. | hiroshima |
| B. | piano |
| C. | tyger |
| D. | dover beach |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
The…………… is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets (three line stanza) followedby a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. |
| A. | villanelle |
| B. | haiku |
| C. | tanka |
| D. | rubai |
| Answer» B. haiku | |
| 19. |
…………….. is a Persian verse form in the stanzaic structure of a quatrain. |
| A. | ghazal |
| B. | jintisha |
| C. | rubai |
| D. | haiku |
| Answer» D. haiku | |
| 20. |
The ………….is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line originatedin Japan in 7th century |
| A. | haiku |
| B. | jintisha |
| C. | tanka |
| D. | ghazal |
| Answer» D. ghazal | |
| 21. |
A type of literature that exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or asociety, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule. |
| A. | satire |
| B. | haiku |
| C. | dramatic monologue |
| D. | ballad |
| Answer» B. haiku | |
| 22. |
Poetry that has no regular rhythm, metre, rhyme and structure. |
| A. | haiku |
| B. | ode |
| C. | narrative poetry |
| D. | free verse |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
Japanese poem with 5-7-5 syllables |
| A. | jintisha |
| B. | haiku |
| C. | tanka |
| D. | couplet |
| Answer» C. tanka | |
| 24. |
Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| A. | cinquain |
| B. | haiku |
| C. | blank verse |
| D. | couplet |
| Answer» D. couplet | |
| 25. |
he poem that tells a story is called……. |
| A. | dramatic monologue |
| B. | haiku |
| C. | free verse |
| D. | narrative poetry |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
A poetic form in which a person is speaking to himself or to an imaginary listener dramatically toreveal specific intentions of his actions. |
| A. | narrative poetry |
| B. | free verse |
| C. | dramatic monologue |
| D. | performance poetry |
| Answer» D. performance poetry | |
| 27. |
A………. has 14 lines, and is written in iambic pentameter. |
| A. | sonnet |
| B. | ode |
| C. | lyric |
| D. | ballad |
| Answer» B. ode | |
| 28. |
…………is a literary device that can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines ina verse, and has the same meter to form a complete thought. |
| A. | lyric |
| B. | couplet |
| C. | ballad |
| D. | sonnet |
| Answer» C. ballad | |
| 29. |
. In ………….the poets praise people, natural scenes, and abstract ideas. |
| A. | ballad |
| B. | lyric |
| C. | sonnet |
| D. | ode |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W B Yeats is a …………….poem. |
| A. | lyric |
| B. | ballad |
| C. | sonnet |
| D. | ode |
| Answer» B. ballad | |
| 31. |
What is the literary device which use as a modifier (usually an adjective ) qualifies a noun otherthan the person or thing it is actually describing ? |
| A. | synecdoche |
| B. | hyperbole |
| C. | oxymoron |
| D. | transferred epithet |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
…………………..is a type of metonymy in which a part of something represents the whole, or itmay use a whole to represent a part. |
| A. | oxymoron |
| B. | transferred epithet |
| C. | synecdoche |
| D. | hyperbole |
| Answer» D. hyperbole | |
| 33. |
Name of the figure of speech in which a thing or concept is replaced by the name of somethingclosely associated with the same thing or concept |
| A. | oxymoron |
| B. | metonymy |
| C. | hyperbole |
| D. | personification |
| Answer» C. hyperbole | |
| 34. |
The poetic form that is written today is defined as a short poem expressing the thoughts andfeelings of a single speaker |
| A. | ode |
| B. | satire |
| C. | lyric |
| D. | ballad |
| Answer» D. ballad | |
| 35. |
…………is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. |
| A. | metonymy |
| B. | personification |
| C. | hyperbole |
| D. | oxymoron |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
………..is a figure of speech that attributes human qualities to that which is non – human. |
| A. | oxymoron |
| B. | metonymy |
| C. | personification |
| D. | hyperbole |
| Answer» D. hyperbole | |
| 37. |
What figurative language is used in the given sentence?“The boy was as fast as a rocket as he sped on his bicycle” |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | personification |
| D. | hyperbole |
| Answer» B. metaphor | |
| 38. |
The figure of speech that uses to compare two distinctly different things is indicated by words“like” and “as” |
| A. | metaphor |
| B. | simile |
| C. | metonymy |
| D. | hyperbole |
| Answer» C. metonymy | |
| 39. |
What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing is another? |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | metonymy |
| D. | hyperbole |
| Answer» C. metonymy | |
| 40. |
Diction can be defined as style of speaking or writing, determined by the choice of words bya speaker or a writer |
| A. | alliteration |
| B. | assonance |
| C. | diction |
| D. | metonymy |
| Answer» D. metonymy | |
| 41. |
“Men sell the wedding bells.” is an example of ………. |
| A. | rhyme |
| B. | alliteration |
| C. | assonance |
| D. | diction |
| Answer» D. diction | |
| 42. |
………….is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonantsound, occur close together in a series. |
| A. | rhythm |
| B. | rhyme |
| C. | metre |
| D. | alliteration |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
A ………….is a repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in poems orsongs |
| A. | metre |
| B. | rhyme |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | rhythm |
| Answer» C. alliteration | |
| 44. |
………. is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem. |
| A. | metre |
| B. | rhythm |
| C. | rhyme |
| D. | alliteration |
| Answer» B. rhythm | |
| 45. |
………… is a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed andunstressed syllables, particularly in verse form. |
| A. | metre |
| B. | rhythm |
| C. | rhyme |
| D. | alliteration |
| Answer» C. rhyme | |
| 46. |
Cell wall protein of Streptococcus pyogenes crossreacts with human |
| A. | synovial fluid |
| B. | cardiac valves |
| C. | myocardium |
| D. | vascular intima |
| Answer» D. vascular intima | |
| 47. |
Protein A is found in cell wall of |
| A. | coagulase-negative staphylococci |
| B. | Staphylococcus aureus |
| C. | Micrococci |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. Micrococci | |
| 48. |
Members of the genus Mycobacterium are |
| A. | gram-positive |
| B. | acid-fast |
| C. | non-motile |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
Typical drumstick appearance of bacilli is generally seen in |
| A. | C perfringens |
| B. | C botulinum |
| C. | C tetani |
| D. | C histolyticum |
| Answer» D. C histolyticum | |
| 50. |
Nagler's reaction is useful for the identification of |
| A. | C tetani |
| B. | C perfringens |
| C. | C botulinum |
| D. | C difficile |
| Answer» C. C botulinum | |