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1.

Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?

A. The Restoration
B. Jacobean Age
C. The Augustan Age
D. The Age of Sensibility
Answer» C. The Augustan Age
2.

Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly ?

A. To a skylark
B. The Daffodils
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Culture and Anarchy
Answer» B. The Daffodils
3.

Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare ?

A. Macbeth
B. Othello
C. Merchant of Venice
D. None of these
Answer» D. None of these
4.

Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy ?

A. The Seven Lamps
B. Unto this Last
C. The Stones of Venice
D. None of these
Answer» C. The Stones of Venice
5.

Which is called the Victorian Age______________?

A. 18th Century
B. 19th Century
C. 20th Century
D. None of these
Answer» C. 20th Century
6.

Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize__________________?

A. The Luminaries
B. Wolf Hall
C. The White Tiger
D. The Sea
Answer» B. Wolf Hall
7.

When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born ?

A. 1809
B. 1810
C. 1811
D. 1812
Answer» B. 1810
8.

What was the nationality of OscarWilde ?

A. Irish
B. Scottish
C. French
D. English
Answer» B. Scottish
9.

What the term Elegy refers ?

A. a song of lamentation
B. a song of pleasure
C. a hymn
D. a praiseworthy song
Answer» B. a song of pleasure
10.

What the term Renaissance refers ?

A. revival or rebirth
B. representation
C. presentation
D. rebel
Answer» B. representation
11.

What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?

A. having no rhyming end
B. having no rhythmic flow
C. having no significance
D. having no blanks in the verse
Answer» B. having no rhythmic flow
12.

What is the term Utopia ?

A. a hat of a king
B. a day dreamer
C. a lotus eater
D. an ideal state which does not exist in real
Answer» E.
13.

What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem ?

A. The Canterbury Tales
B. Don Juan
C. The Prelude
D. None of these
Answer» D. None of these
14.

What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?

A. Imagination
B. Modernism
C. Post-modernism
D. None of the above
Answer» B. Modernism
15.

What is Robert Frost famous Journal ?

A. The summers day
B. The Road not taken
C. The Atlantic Monthly
D. The Mountain Interval
Answer» D. The Mountain Interval
16.

What is Quinzaine ?

A. a fourteen line stanza
B. a twenty line stanza
C. a thirteen line stanza
D. a fifteen line stanza
Answer» E.
17.

What is ‘Parable’ ?

A. an allegorical story usually containing a moral lesson
B. the basic unit of a composition
C. a sense of distress
D. none of the above
Answer» B. the basic unit of a composition
18.

What is Epistolary Novel ?

A. a novel of short length
B. a novel personal feelings
C. a Novella
D. a novel of correspondence among the characters
Answer» E.
19.

What is anthology ?

A. collection of poems
B. collection of insects
C. fish cultivation
D. study of poetry
Answer» B. collection of insects
20.

What is an Epic ?

A. a short poem
B. a long narrative poem
C. a historical poem
D. a prose composition
Answer» C. a historical poem
21.

What is an Effigy ?

A. a poem
B. a sonnet
C. an image or dummy
D. a lamentation
Answer» D. a lamentation
22.

What is a plot ?

A. an idea about writing
B. the choice of words
C. choice of poem
D. arrangement of the incidents
Answer» E.
23.

What do you mean by Quatrain ?

A. a poem of fourteen lines
B. a stanza of fourteen lines
C. a stanza of six lines
D. a stanza of four lines
Answer» E.
24.

What do you mean by Stanza ?

A. a division of drama
B. a division of novel
C. a division of story
D. a subdivision of a poem
Answer» E.
25.

What do you mean by Hyperbole ?

A. a long verse
B. a long narrative poem
C. an overriding view
D. an overstatement about something
Answer» E.
26.

What do you mean by Phonetics ?

A. study of speech sounds
B. study of language and rules
C. study of insects
D. study of meaning and syntax
Answer» B. study of language and rules
27.

What do you mean by Heroic Couplet ?

A. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
B. a two line stanza
C. a poem of lamentation
D. a song for mourning
Answer» B. a two line stanza
28.

What do you mean by Diction ?

A. choice of words for writing
B. choice of characters
C. choice of rhythms
D. choice of simile and metaphor
Answer» B. choice of characters
29.

What do you mean by Archaism ?

A. modern mode of words
B. up-to-date words
C. literary words
D. obsolete words
Answer» E.
30.

What do you mean by Burlesque ?

A. a satiric caricature of the characters
B. a drama
C. a satiric person
D. an allegorical statement
Answer» B. a drama
31.

What do you mean by Beast Fable ?

A. a fictional story of animal characters
B. a short story
C. a long narrative prose
D. a soft style epic
Answer» B. a short story
32.

What did Robert Frost’s father do ?

A. teacher
B. journalist
C. black-smith
D. farmer
Answer» C. black-smith
33.

We find Subjective Elements in ?

A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. All
Answer» E.
34.

‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel by_______________?

A. Dickens
B. Thackeray
C. Scott
D. Fielding
Answer» C. Scott
35.

Utopia is an ideal state written by_______________?

A. Thomas Gray
B. William Shakespeare
C. George Bernard Shaw
D. Thomas More
Answer» E.
36.

“Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s________________?

A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Julius Caeser
Answer» D. Julius Caeser
37.

Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by_______________?

A. Shelley
B. Oscar Wilde
C. T. S. Eliot
D. None of these
Answer» D. None of these
38.

Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________?

A. 102
B. 154
C. 163
D. 194
Answer» C. 163
39.

‘Tom Jones’ by Henry Fielding was first published in______________?

A. the first half of 19th century
B. the first half of 18th century
C. the 2nd half of 18th century
D. 19th century
Answer» C. the 2nd half of 18th century
40.

“To be, or not to be, that is the question”- Where do you find this quotation ?

A. Macbeth
B. Hamlet
C. As You like It
D. Othello
Answer» C. As You like It
41.

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

A. Architect
B. Engraver
C. Sculptor
D. None of these
Answer» B. Engraver
42.

This work was written before the other three choices ?

A. Bede’s “An Ecclesiastical History of the English People”
B. Julian of Norwhich’s “Book of Showings”
C. Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
D. Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia”
Answer» B. Julian of Norwhich’s “Book of Showings”
43.

This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century ?

A. Henry James’s “The Ambassadors”
B. Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
C. E.M. Forster’s “A Room With A View”
D. Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”
Answer» C. E.M. Forster’s “A Room With A View”
44.

The University Wits were_______________?

A. Poets
B. Playwrights
C. Novelists
D. None of these
Answer» C. Novelists
45.

The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by_____________?

A. Ruskin
B. Lamb
C. Mill
D. Oscar Wilde
Answer» D. Oscar Wilde
46.

The statue of ‘Ozymandias’ is______________?

A. on a mountain
B. beside a river
C. in a desert
D. in a valley
Answer» D. in a valley
47.

The shepherd in “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is_________________?

A. sentimental
B. practical
C. irresponsible
D. romantic
Answer» E.
48.

The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?

A. Lyrical Ballads
B. My Last Duchess
C. A Tale of Two Cities
D. Canonization
Answer» B. My Last Duchess
49.

‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by________________?

A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Shelley
D. None of these
Answer» D. None of these
50.

The Rape of the Lock is a_______________?

A. Parody
B. Elegy
C. Romance
D. Sonnet
Answer» B. Elegy