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This section includes 306 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English Literature knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 101. |
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 | |
| 102. |
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 | |
| 103. |
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 | |
| 104. |
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 | |
| 105. |
Which is called the Victorian Age______________? |
| A. | 18th Century |
| B. | 19th Century |
| C. | 20th Century |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. 20th Century | |
| 106. |
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 | |
| 107. |
When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born ? |
| A. | 1809 |
| B. | 1810 |
| C. | 1811 |
| D. | 1812 |
| Answer» B. 1810 | |
| 108. |
What was the nationality of OscarWilde ? |
| A. | Irish |
| B. | Scottish |
| C. | French |
| D. | English |
| Answer» B. Scottish | |
| 109. |
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 | |
| 110. |
What the term Renaissance refers ? |
| A. | revival or rebirth |
| B. | representation |
| C. | presentation |
| D. | rebel |
| Answer» B. representation | |
| 111. |
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 | |
| 112. |
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. | |
| 113. |
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 | |
| 114. |
What is the feature of Romantic poetry ? |
| A. | Imagination |
| B. | Modernism |
| C. | Post-modernism |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Modernism | |
| 115. |
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 | |
| 116. |
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. | |
| 117. |
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 | |
| 118. |
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. | |
| 119. |
What is anthology ? |
| A. | collection of poems |
| B. | collection of insects |
| C. | fish cultivation |
| D. | study of poetry |
| Answer» B. collection of insects | |
| 120. |
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 | |
| 121. |
What is an Effigy ? |
| A. | a poem |
| B. | a sonnet |
| C. | an image or dummy |
| D. | a lamentation |
| Answer» D. a lamentation | |
| 122. |
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. | |
| 123. |
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. | |
| 124. |
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. | |
| 125. |
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. | |
| 126. |
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 | |
| 127. |
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 | |
| 128. |
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 | |
| 129. |
What do you mean by Archaism ? |
| A. | modern mode of words |
| B. | up-to-date words |
| C. | literary words |
| D. | obsolete words |
| Answer» E. | |
| 130. |
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 | |
| 131. |
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 | |
| 132. |
What did Robert Frost’s father do ? |
| A. | teacher |
| B. | journalist |
| C. | black-smith |
| D. | farmer |
| Answer» C. black-smith | |
| 133. |
We find Subjective Elements in ? |
| A. | Keats |
| B. | Shelley |
| C. | Wordsworth |
| D. | All |
| Answer» E. | |
| 134. |
‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel by_______________? |
| A. | Dickens |
| B. | Thackeray |
| C. | Scott |
| D. | Fielding |
| Answer» C. Scott | |
| 135. |
Utopia is an ideal state written by_______________? |
| A. | Thomas Gray |
| B. | William Shakespeare |
| C. | George Bernard Shaw |
| D. | Thomas More |
| Answer» E. | |
| 136. |
“Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s________________? |
| A. | Hamlet |
| B. | Othello |
| C. | King Lear |
| D. | Julius Caeser |
| Answer» D. Julius Caeser | |
| 137. |
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 | |
| 138. |
Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________? |
| A. | 102 |
| B. | 154 |
| C. | 163 |
| D. | 194 |
| Answer» C. 163 | |
| 139. |
‘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 | |
| 140. |
“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 | |
| 141. |
Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________? |
| A. | Architect |
| B. | Engraver |
| C. | Sculptor |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Engraver | |
| 142. |
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” | |
| 143. |
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” | |
| 144. |
The University Wits were_______________? |
| A. | Poets |
| B. | Playwrights |
| C. | Novelists |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Novelists | |
| 145. |
The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by_____________? |
| A. | Ruskin |
| B. | Lamb |
| C. | Mill |
| D. | Oscar Wilde |
| Answer» D. Oscar Wilde | |
| 146. |
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 | |
| 147. |
The shepherd in “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is_________________? |
| A. | sentimental |
| B. | practical |
| C. | irresponsible |
| D. | romantic |
| Answer» E. | |
| 148. |
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 | |
| 149. |
‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by________________? |
| A. | Wordsworth |
| B. | Coleridge |
| C. | Shelley |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 150. |
The Rape of the Lock is a_______________? |
| A. | Parody |
| B. | Elegy |
| C. | Romance |
| D. | Sonnet |
| Answer» B. Elegy | |