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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.
| 251. |
“In Memoriam” is _______________? |
| A. | an ode |
| B. | an elegy |
| C. | a sonnet |
| D. | neither |
| Answer» C. a sonnet | |
| 252. |
In his poetry Tennyson is_______________? |
| A. | The representative poet of Victorian Age |
| B. | The representative poet of Romantic Age |
| C. | The best nature poet |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. The representative poet of Romantic Age | |
| 253. |
In 1905, VirginiaWoolf began to write for which publication ? |
| A. | The Time’s Literary Supplement |
| B. | The Lady’s Home Journal |
| C. | Strand Magazine |
| D. | Reader Magazine |
| Answer» B. The Lady’s Home Journal | |
| 254. |
‘I wandered Lonely as a cloud’ is an example of______________? |
| A. | symbol |
| B. | Metaphor |
| C. | Simile |
| D. | Metonymy |
| Answer» D. Metonymy | |
| 255. |
‘I count religion but a childish toy’ is a line from Marlowe’s play______________? |
| A. | Dr. Faustus |
| B. | The Jew of Malta |
| C. | Tamburlaine |
| D. | Edward II |
| Answer» C. Tamburlaine | |
| 256. |
Hyperion is a/an poem_________________? |
| A. | Elegy |
| B. | Epic |
| C. | Lyric |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 257. |
HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by_______________? |
| A. | Thomas gray |
| B. | Alexander Pope |
| C. | Edward gibbon |
| D. | William Blake |
| Answer» B. Alexander Pope | |
| 258. |
How many chapters are in the Quran ? |
| A. | 42 |
| B. | 67 |
| C. | 98 |
| D. | 114 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 259. |
Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period ? |
| A. | Charles II was restored to the throne |
| B. | The French Revolution |
| C. | The Great Fire of London |
| D. | The Exclusion Bill Crisis |
| Answer» C. The Great Fire of London | |
| 260. |
‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by______________? |
| A. | Ruskin |
| B. | Carlyle |
| C. | Mill |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Mill | |
| 261. |
Henry Higgins is a character in________________? |
| A. | Pygmalion |
| B. | saint joan |
| C. | Candida |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. saint joan | |
| 262. |
Hellenism of Keats connotes______________? |
| A. | his love of poetry |
| B. | his love of ancient cultures |
| C. | his love of Greek culture and art |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 263. |
’Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter’ is a line from_______________? |
| A. | Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| B. | The Prelude |
| C. | Ode to Autumn |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. The Prelude | |
| 264. |
‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is an example of______________? |
| A. | Oxymoron |
| B. | Synaesthesia |
| C. | Sensuousness |
| D. | Contrast |
| Answer» C. Sensuousness | |
| 265. |
He was not a Renaissance writer________________? |
| A. | William Shakespeare |
| B. | Sir Philip Sidney |
| C. | Christopher Marlowe |
| D. | Sir Thomas Malory |
| Answer» E. | |
| 266. |
has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments_____________? |
| A. | Hyperbole |
| B. | Metaphor |
| C. | Rhetoric |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Metaphor | |
| 267. |
Hardy’s Nature is_____________? |
| A. | Friendly |
| B. | Indifferent |
| C. | Vindictive |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Vindictive | |
| 268. |
Hardy is a__________________? |
| A. | Pessimist |
| B. | Meliorist |
| C. | Mystic |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Meliorist | |
| 269. |
‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by_______________? |
| A. | Bradley |
| B. | Dover Wilson |
| C. | Earnest Jones |
| D. | Freud |
| Answer» D. Freud | |
| 270. |
Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii ? |
| A. | 1998 |
| B. | 1997 |
| C. | 1999 |
| D. | 2000 |
| Answer» D. 2000 | |
| 271. |
George Bernard Shaw is_________________? |
| A. | a playwright |
| B. | a film-maker |
| C. | a historian |
| D. | a modern painter |
| Answer» B. a film-maker | |
| 272. |
Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ? |
| A. | Richard III |
| B. | James 1 |
| C. | Edward III |
| D. | Henry II |
| Answer» D. Henry II | |
| 273. |
From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains in ISBN (International Standard Book Number)? |
| A. | 9 |
| B. | 10 |
| C. | 13 |
| D. | 15 |
| Answer» D. 15 | |
| 274. |
Firdausi was the poet of________________? |
| A. | Persian |
| B. | English |
| C. | French |
| D. | Italy |
| Answer» B. English | |
| 275. |
Find the Odd man out ? |
| A. | Ulysses : James Joyce |
| B. | A Full Moon in March : W. B. Yeats |
| C. | Drama of Ideas : T. S. Eliot |
| D. | Riders to the Sea : John Millington Synge |
| Answer» D. Riders to the Sea : John Millington Synge | |
| 276. |
Famous romantic poets were_____________? |
| A. | Five |
| B. | Four |
| C. | Six |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 277. |
Famous Irish poet and dramatist is______________? |
| A. | W.B. Yeats |
| B. | L. Tolstoy |
| C. | A. Pope |
| D. | H.G. Wells |
| Answer» B. L. Tolstoy | |
| 278. |
Exiles’ is a______________? |
| A. | Short Story |
| B. | Novel |
| C. | Play |
| D. | Poem |
| Answer» D. Poem | |
| 279. |
‘Essays of Elia’ was written by______________? |
| A. | William Hazlitt |
| B. | Emily Dickinson |
| C. | Emily Bronte |
| D. | Charles Lamb |
| Answer» E. | |
| 280. |
Emile Zola is a famous__________________? |
| A. | English novelist |
| B. | American Novelist |
| C. | Irish novelist |
| D. | French Novelist |
| Answer» E. | |
| 281. |
Eliot was influenced by___________________? |
| A. | Ezra Pound |
| B. | Shaw |
| C. | Hardy |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. Shaw | |
| 282. |
Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an_______________? |
| A. | assistant |
| B. | director |
| C. | writer |
| D. | Editor e… none of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 283. |
‘Elegy’ is______________________? |
| A. | Historical poem |
| B. | figurative story |
| C. | song of lamentation |
| D. | short story |
| Answer» D. short story | |
| 284. |
Edmund Spenser is a_________________? |
| A. | poet |
| B. | dramatist |
| C. | artist |
| D. | scientist |
| Answer» B. dramatist | |
| 285. |
Dickens’ first novel which focused on the specific social ills was______________? |
| A. | the Christmas carol |
| B. | Great Expectations |
| C. | oliver twist |
| D. | a tale of two cities |
| Answer» C. oliver twist | |
| 286. |
defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature ? |
| A. | Dr. Johnson |
| B. | Shakespeare |
| C. | Dryden |
| D. | Coleridge |
| Answer» D. Coleridge | |
| 287. |
Childe Harold was written by_______________? |
| A. | Byron |
| B. | Shelley |
| C. | Tennyson |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Shelley | |
| 288. |
Catharsis refers to the term_______________? |
| A. | characters in play |
| B. | animals in play |
| C. | sympathy to others |
| D. | arouse of pity and fear |
| Answer» E. | |
| 289. |
Byron’s journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem_______________? |
| A. | cain |
| B. | Childe Herald’s Pilgrimage |
| C. | Don Juan |
| D. | the prisoner of Chillon |
| Answer» C. Don Juan | |
| 290. |
“But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these lines appear ? |
| A. | We Are Seven (Wordsworth) |
| B. | Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde) |
| C. | Prisoner of Chillon (Byron) |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Prisoner of Chillon (Byron) | |
| 291. |
Browning is famous for his______________? |
| A. | Sensory images |
| B. | Dramatic Monologues |
| C. | Narrative ballads |
| D. | Blank Verse |
| Answer» C. Narrative ballads | |
| 292. |
“Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind.”-Example of ? |
| A. | Simile |
| B. | Conceit |
| C. | Metaphor |
| D. | Couplet |
| Answer» E. | |
| 293. |
“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” is stated by_____________? |
| A. | Keats |
| B. | Shelley |
| C. | Jane Austine |
| D. | Charles Lamb |
| Answer» B. Shelley | |
| 294. |
‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s__________________? |
| A. | The Wasteland |
| B. | The Hollow men |
| C. | East Coker |
| D. | Prufrock |
| Answer» B. The Hollow men | |
| 295. |
‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by_________________? |
| A. | Tennyson |
| B. | Browning |
| C. | Keats |
| D. | T. S. Eliot |
| Answer» C. Keats | |
| 296. |
All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s__________________? |
| A. | Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s |
| B. | Shakespeare’s Tempest |
| C. | Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing. |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Shakespeare’s Tempest | |
| 297. |
‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement ? |
| A. | Shelly |
| B. | De Quincey |
| C. | Wordsworth |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 298. |
“After Apple Picking” is written by_______________? |
| A. | Robert Browning |
| B. | Robert Frost |
| C. | both A and B |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. both A and B | |
| 299. |
Adonis is modeled on________________? |
| A. | Bion’s lament for Adonis |
| B. | Lycidas |
| C. | In Memoriam |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Lycidas | |
| 300. |
‘Adela’ is a character from_______________? |
| A. | A Passage to India |
| B. | Paradise Lost |
| C. | Hamlet |
| D. | Doctor Faustus |
| Answer» B. Paradise Lost | |