‘The Alchemist’ is written by_______________?

A. Ben Johnson
B. Paulo Coelho
C. Marlowe
D. None of them

Tennyson wrote____________?
0

A. Dover Beach
B. My last Duchess
C. The Eve of St. Agnes
D. The Lotus Eaters

Tennyson was_____________?
0

A. a romantic
B. a Victorian
C. a Pre…Raphaelite
D. none of these

Novel which is not written by D. H Lawrence ?

0

A. The Rainbow
B. Ullysses
C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D. Sons and Lovers

Who is the author of ‘Heaven and Earth’ ?

0

A. Lord Tennyson
B. William Wordsworth
C. John Keats
D. Lord Byron

Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?

0

A. The ability to sympathize with other

B. Say bad thing, about others
C. To empathize
D. None of these

Which one is the world’s longest running play______________?

0

A. The Mousetrap
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Othello
D. Macbeth

What do you mean by Diction ?

0

A. choice of words for writing

B. choice of characters
C. choice of rhythms
D. choice of simile and metaphor

The age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art______________?
0

A. Classical
B. Romantic
C. Victorian
D. Elizabethan

How many chapters are in the Quran ?

0

A. 42
B. 67
C. 98
D. 114

Who is the writer of The Augustan Period ?

0

A. Robert Herrick
B. Jeremy Taylor
C. Samuel Richardson
D. Thomas Hobbes

Famous Irish poet and dramatist is______________?

0
A. W.B. Yeats
B. L. Tolstoy
C. A. Pope
D. H.G. Wells

‘The Excursion’ was written by________________?

1

A. Coleridge
B. Blake
C. Shelley
D. None of these

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What is Epistolary Novel ?

0

A. a novel of short length

B. a novel personal feelings
C. a Novella
D. a novel of correspondence among the characters

A person who writes about his own life writes ______________?

0

A. a diary
B. a biography
C. an autobiography
D. a chronicle

Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813 ?
0

A. Tennyson
B. Byron
C. Southey
D. Wordsworth

Wordsworth is a ______________ poet ?

0

A. classical
B. modern
C. romantic
D. Greek

The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988

is______________?
0

A. The Taming of the Shrew

B. As you Like it
C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
D. Titus Andronicus

What the term Renaissance refers ?

0

A. revival or rebirth
B. representation
C. presentation
D. rebel

Who is called the Bird of Avon ?

0

A. John Dryden
B. William Shakespeare
C. John Milton
D. None of these

“not of an age, but for all time”-was told about Shakespeare by whom ?
0

A. Marlowe
B. Ben Johnson
C. King Henry
D. John Milton

“To be, or not to be, that is the question”- Where do you find this quotation ?
0

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

‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by________________?

0
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Shelley
D. None of these

‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from________________?

0

A. Merchant of Venice
B. Two gentleman of Verona
C. Midsummer’s Night Dream
D. Anthony and Cleopatra

Hyperion is a/an poem_________________?

0

A. Elegy
B. Epic
C. Lyric
D. None of these

Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria ?

0

A. The Idylls of the kings

B. Charge of the Light Brigade
C. In Memoriam
D. None of these

Hellenism of Keats connotes______________?

0

A. his love of poetry

B. his love of ancient cultures
C. his love of Greek culture and art
D. None of these

What do you mean by Hyperbole ?

0

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

Hardy’s Nature is_____________?

0

A. Friendly
B. Indifferent
C. Vindictive
D. None of these

‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by_______________?

0

A. Bradley
B. Dover Wilson
C. Earnest Jones
D. Freud

‘Satanic Verses’ is written by__________________?

0

A. R.K. Narayan
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Jhumpa Lahiri
D. Arundhuti Roy

George Bernard Shaw is_________________?

0

A. a playwright
B. a film-maker
C. a historian
D. a modern painter

Who is the writer of The Restoration Period ?

0

A. Aphra Ben
B. Robert Herrick
C. Jeremy Taylor
D. Thomas Hobbes

Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an_______________?

0

A. assistant
B. director
C. writer
D. Editor e… none of these
Exiles’ is a______________?
0

A. Short Story
B. Novel
C. Play
D. Poem

The statue of ‘Ozymandias’ is______________?

0

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

Macbeth is a_____________?
0

A. play
B. novel
C. an essy
D. poem

Who is the writer of ‘Vision of Sin’ ?

0

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. William Shakespeare
C. A. Lord Tennyson
D. Christopher Marlowe

“A long poem is a combination of short poems.” Who has held the above opinion ?
0

A. Coleridge
B. Keats
C. Wordsworth
D. None of these

The Essays of Elia was first published in book form in_____________?

0

A. 1795
B. 1807
C. 1823
D. 1829

The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ occurs in which one of Keats’ following
poems_______________?
0

A. Ode to Nightingale
B. Ode to Grecian Urn
C. Ode to Psyche
D. None of these

In which city the play of Shakespeare ’Romeo and Juliet’ is set in_________________?
0

A. Milan
B. Verona
C. Turin
D. none of these

Dickens’ first novel which focused on the specific social ills was______________?
0

A. the Christmas carol

B. Great Expectations
C. oliver twist
D. a tale of two cities

Who is the author of ‘Man and Superman’ ?

0

A. W. Shakespeare
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. Leo Tolstoy
D. Charles Dickens

What is Robert Frost famous Journal ?

0

A. The summers day

B. The Road not taken
C. The Atlantic Monthly
D. The Mountain Interval

The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to_______________?

0
A. Objectify the issue in terms of a cause
B. Advance a single system to the public
C. Allow the writer to draw on his
D. Be brooding and meditative. own personality

Find the Odd man out ?

0

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

Who is the author of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ ?

0

A. Charles Dickens
B. Homer
C. Lord Tennison
D. Ernest Hemingway

‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by______________?

0

A. Hemingway
B. Virginia Woolf
C. E.M. Forster
D. D.H. Lawrence

’Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter’ is a line from_______________?
0

A. Ode on a Grecian Urn

B. The Prelude
C. Ode to Autumn
D. None of these

Which one is not by Shakespeare ?

0

A. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

B. True is it that we have seen betting days.
C. Knowledge is power.
D. None of these.

Who is the author of the famous book ‘The Judgment’ is_______________?

0

A. Anthony Mascarenhas
B. Amartya Sen
C. Kuldip Nayer
D. Nelson Mandela

‘Ode to Autumn’ was written by__________________?

0

A. Shelley
B. Keats
C. Byron
D. Blake

Who is the writer of ‘Comedy of Errors’ ?

0

A. Ben Jhonson
B. G B Shaw
C. William Shakespeare
D. T S Eliot

“The Crown of Wild Olive”, is written by__________________?

0

A. Ruskin
B. J.S.Mill
C. C. Lamb
D. Russell

Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii ?

0

A. 1998
B. 1997
C. 1999
D. 2000

What is an Effigy ?
0

A. a poem
B. a sonnet
C. an image or dummy
D. a lamentation
Which on of the following is first long poem in English ?
0

A. The Wanderer
B. Beowulf
C. The Seafarer
D. Dream of the Road

What is Quinzaine ?
0

A. a fourteen line stanza

B. a twenty line stanza
C. a thirteen line stanza
D. a fifteen line stanza

Who wrote poem about Lucy ?

0

A. S. T. Coleridge
B. P. B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. Lord Byron

What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem ?

0

A. The Canterbury Tales

B. Don Juan
C. The Prelude
D. None of these

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

0

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

‘I wandered Lonely as a cloud’ is an example of______________?

0

A. symbol
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Metonymy

In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment
is this ?
0

A. Bradley
B. Dr. Johnson
C. Nicoll
D. None of these

Who accuses Arnold of “high pamphleteering ?”

0

A. Eliot
B. Pater
C. I. A. Richards
D. F. R. Leavis

Who is the author of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ ?

0

A. William Wordsworth
B. S. T. Coleridge
C. W. Somerset Maugham
D. Sir Walter Scott

Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were______________?

0

A. European
B. Indians
C. American
D. None of these

William Blake’s /Songs of ‘counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’ ?

0

A. Love
B. childhood
C. Inexperience
D. Innocence

What is the term Utopia ?

0
A. a hat of a king
B. a day dreamer
C. a lotus eater
D. an ideal state which does not exist in real

‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by________________?

0

A. John Ruskin
B. Carlyle
C. Bacon
D. Lamb

‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by_______________?

0

A. Wordsworth
B. Keats
C. None of these
D. All of these

Who is the writer of the poem ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ ?

0

A. William Shakespeare
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Robert Browning

The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written by_______________?

0

A. R. K. Narayan
B. Edin Blyton
C. Rudyard Kipling
D. H. G. Wells

Who is the author of ‘The Rape of Bangladesh’ ?

0

A. Anthony Mascarenhas
B. Mathew Arnold
C. G. B. Shaw
D. Alexander Dumas

‘Renaissance’ means___________________?
0

A. the revival of learning

B. the revival of hard task
C. the revival of life
D. the revival of new country

The central idea of ‘Ozymandias’ is that______________?

0

A. all things, both great and small,will perish

B. man is mortal,art immortal
C. imagination is stronger than fact
D. history repeats

In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is
a remark by________________?
0

A. Nicoll
B. Goddord
C. Bradley
D. Coleridge

Which year William Shakespeare was born ?

0

A. 1564 AD
B. 1773 AD
C. 1809 AD
D. 1923 AD

‘Lapis Lazuli’ is __________________?

0

A. A Poem
B. Drama
C. None of these
D. A Poem

In “The Gift of the Magi” Della is presented as_____________?

0

A. a loving wife
B. a snobbish wife
C. a hypocritical wife
D. a sacrificing wife

Who wrote the book ‘Lord Jim: A Tale ?

0

A. Oscar Wilde
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Rudyard Kipling

Lord Byron was born in________________?

0

A. 1788
B. 1789
C. 1790
D. 1791

Who wrote the poem ‘Solitary Reaper’ ?

0

A. William Wordsworth
B. P. B Shelley
C. Lord Byron
D. John Keats

Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ?

0

A. Roger Bacon
B. Robert Browning
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Cynewulf

Hardy is a__________________?
0

A. Pessimist
B. Meliorist
C. Mystic
D. None of these

The University Wits were_______________?

0
A. Poets
B. Playwrights
C. Novelists
D. None of these

______________is the school of literary writings is a medical theory ?

0

A. Comedy of Manners
B. Theater of the Absurd
C. Heroic Tragedy
D. Comedy of Humours

Emile Zola is a famous__________________?

0

A. English novelist
B. American Novelist
C. Irish novelist
D. French Novelist

All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in
Shakespeare’s__________________?
0

A. Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s

B. Shakespeare’s Tempest
C. Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.
D. None of these

‘Prometheus Unbound’ is a lyrical drama by__________________?

0

A. Shelley
B. Shakespeare
C. Sophocles
D. Euripedes

‘Elegy’ is______________________?
0

A. Historical poem
B. figurative story
C. song of lamentation
D. short story
‘The Lotus…Eaters’ was written by________________?
0

A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. Blake
D. None of these

Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?

0

A. Keats
B. Donne
C. William Blake
D. Spenser

T. Hardy is_______________?
0

A. A social reformer
B. A satirist
C. A fatalist
D. A lover of nature

‘The Medal’ by John Dryden is a/an________________?

0

A. play
B. satire
C. prose
D. translation

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

0

A. The Seven Lamps

B. Unto this Last
C. The Stones of Venice
D. None of these

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

0

A. sentimental
B. practical
C. irresponsible
D. romantic

What do you mean by Stanza ?

0

A. a division of drama
B. a division of novel
C. a division of story
D. a subdivision of a poem

The poet of ‘Romantic Age’ is_______________?

0

A. D.H. Lawrence
B. John Milton
C. John Keats
D. None of these

Who is the writer of the poem ‘Nun Priest’s Tale’ ?

0

A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Cynewulf
C. Robert Browning
D. Shelley

Who is the author of ‘Animal Farm’ ?

0

A. Thomas More
B. George Orwell
C. Boris Pasternak
D. Charles Dickens

What is an Epic ?
0

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

Childe Harold was written by_______________?

0
A. Byron
B. Shelley
C. Tennyson
D. None of these

Shaw died at the age of_______________?

0

A. 75
B. 95
C. 105
D. none of these

Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?

0

A. similar things
B. dissimilar things
C. elaborate comparison
D. contradictory things

Who wrote the book ‘Ivan Hoe’ ?

0

A. O’ Henry
B. R L Stevenson
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. Sir Walter Scott

In which age is ‘The Puritan Period’ included ?

0

A. The Renaissance
B. The Non-classical
C. The Romantic
D. The Modern

The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was_________________?

0

A. Sons and Lovers

B. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
C. Women in Love
D. The Rainbow

Shakespeare was born in_______________?

0

A. 1570
B. 1564
C. 1590
D. None of these

In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is________________?

0

A. an ordinary man
B. a high ranking man
C. a sacrilegious man
D. none of these

Adonis is modeled on________________?

0

A. Bion’s lament for Adonis

B. Lycidas
C. In Memoriam
D. None of these

Who is the writer of ‘Lorna Doone’ ?

0

A. H.G. Wells
B. Blackmore
C. T. S. Eliot
D. Jane Austen

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

0

A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Julius Caeser

Which one is not a science fiction writer_________________?

0

A. H. G. Wells
B. Victor Hugo
C. Hugo Gernsback
D. Jules Verne
‘Love and Friendship’ is written by___________________?
0

A. Francis Bacon
B. Jane Austen
C. Jonathan Swift
D. None

‘Paradise Lost’ was written by__________________?

0

A. Mathew
B. Robert Browning
C. John Milton
D. W B Yeats

Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________?

0

A. Columbia University
B. Yale University
C. New York University
D. Harvard University

What the term Elegy refers ?

0

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

Who is the author of the novel ‘The Golden Age’ ?

0

A. Tahmima Anam
B. Pearl S. Bark
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Jane Austen

’Picture of Dorian Gray ’ was written by__________________?

0

A. Oscar Wild
B. Hardy
C. George Eliot
D. None of these

Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in_______________?

0

A. 1843 b…1844
B. 1845
C. 1846
D. none of these

What do you mean by Archaism ?

0

A. modern mode of words

B. up-to-date words
C. literary words
D. obsolete words

Catharsis refers to the term_______________?

0

A. characters in play
B. animals in play
C. sympathy to others
D. arouse of pity and fear

The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was_______________?
0

A. Dante
B. Shakespeare
C. Wordsworth
D. Shelley

When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born ?

0

A. 1809
B. 1810
C. 1811
D. 1812

Who wrote ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ ?

0
A. John Lyly
B. Thomas Kyd
C. Robert Green
D. Christopher Marlowe

Byron’s journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first
two cantos of his poem_______________?
0

A. cain
B. Childe Herald’s Pilgrimage
C. Don Juan
D. the prisoner of Chillon

“Justice delayed is justice denied” was stated by______________?

0

A. Shakespeare
B. Emerson
C. Gladstone
D. Disraeli

The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________?

0

A. Hardy
B. Eliot
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Dickens

Firdausi was the poet of________________?

0

A. Persian
B. English
C. French
D. Italy

‘Adela’ is a character from_______________?

0

A. A Passage to India
B. Paradise Lost
C. Hamlet
D. Doctor Faustus
“Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will”,
is a statement by______________?
0

A. Wordsworth
B. Shelley
C. Coleridge
D. Arnold

Who is the author of ‘India Wins Freedom’ ?

0

A. Ghandhi
B. Nehru
C. Jinnah
D. Abul Kalam Azad

Edmund Spenser is a_________________?

0

A. poet
B. dramatist
C. artist
D. scientist

Who is the writer of ‘The Ring of the Book’ ?

0

A. Shelley
B. Robert Browning
C. William Shakespeare
D. Wordsworth

Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?

0

A. Charles Lamb
B. Jane Austen
C. William Hazlitt
D. Oliver Goldsmith

Who is the writer of ‘The Two Voices’ ?

0

A. A. Lord Tennyson
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. William Shakespeare
D. Christopher Marlowe

Who is known as the national poet of England_________________?

0

A. William Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. William Shakespeare
D. T. S. Eliot

‘Paradise Lost’ was written by________________?

0

A. Shakespeare
B. Milton
C. Coleridge
D. Keats

The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as___________________?

0

A. The Age of Classicism

B. The Restoration
C. The age of Milton
D. None of these

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

0

A. the first half of 19th century

B. the first half of 18th century
C. the 2nd half of 18th century
D. 19th century

Who wrote “Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’ ?

0

A. A.C. Bradley
B. Palmer D.J.
C. Dr.Johnsofl
D. None of these

The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by_____________?

0
A. Ruskin
B. Lamb
C. Mill
D. Oscar Wilde

Who is the writer of the poem ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’ ?

0

A. Shelley
B. William Shakespeare
C. Wordsworth
D. Robert Browning

Find the Odd man out ?

0

A. Ulysses
B. The Falcon
C. The Virginians
D. On Liberty

‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is a poem written by______________?

0

A. Robert Frost
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Mark Twain
D. Walt Whitman

Modern age is an age of______________?

0

A. Pessimism and Cynicism

B. Conflicts and Controversies
C. Subjectivity
D. All of the above

The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was______________?

0

A. Nell Gwynn
B. Aphra Behn
C. Lady Teazle
D. Ann Hathaway
The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is
called the____________?
0

A. aristocracy
B. New Age
C. Reformation
D. Enlightenment

Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on “The
Literature of the British Empire” ?
0

A. Rudyard Kipling
B. Edward Fitzgerald
C. Charlotte Bronte
D. Any of these

Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?

0

A. The Elizabethan Age

B. The Commonwealth Period
C. The Jacobean Age
D. The Middle English Period

He was not a Renaissance writer________________?

0

A. William Shakespeare
B. Sir Philip Sidney
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. Sir Thomas Malory

Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century ?

0

A. John Skelton
B. William Shakespeare
C. Sir Thomas Wyatt
D. Thomas Carew

Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until
the 20th century ?
0
A. Christina Rossetti
B. Gerard Manley Hopkins
C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
D. Ted Hughes

Who wrote first ?

0

A. George Eliot
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Howard, Earl of Surrey
D. William Shakespeare

Which work was published first ?

0

A. Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”

B. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
C. Lord Byron’s “Don Juan”
D. Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe”

Which period of literature came first ?

0

A. Regency
B. Victorian
C. Romantic
D. Restoration

The Bronte sisters wrote during this period______________?

0

A. Regency
B. Restoration
C. Romantic
D. Victorian

Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?

0

A. Restoration
B. Victorian
C. Middle English
D. Regency

Who wrote the poem ’The Seven Ages’ ?

0

A. John Milton
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Edward Gibbon

The prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour is its__________________?

0

A. urbanity
B. crudity
C. triviality
D. sanctity

What was the nationality of OscarWilde ?

0

A. Irish
B. Scottish
C. French
D. English

In 1905, VirginiaWoolf began to write for which publication ?

0

A. The Time’s Literary Supplement

B. The Lady’s Home Journal
C. Strand Magazine
D. Reader Magazine

On liberty was written by_______________?

0

A. Carlyle
B. Macaulay
C. Godwin
D. Mill

Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ?

0

A. Richard III
B. James 1
C. Edward III
D. Henry II
Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s________________?
0

A. Adam Bede
B. Middle March
C. The Mill on the Floss
D. Silas Morner

What do you mean by Burlesque ?

0

A. a satiric caricature of the characters

B. a drama
C. a satiric person
D. an allegorical statement

Who served as an Irish senator for two terms? A___________ Wilde?

0

A. Shaw
B. Ibsen
C. Yeats
D. none of these

‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement ?
0

A. Shelly
B. De Quincey
C. Wordsworth
D. None of these

In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest
success_______________?
0

A. Epic Poetry
B. Lyric Poetry
C. The Essay
D. The Novel

‘Essays of Elia’ was written by______________?

0

A. William Hazlitt
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Emily Bronte
D. Charles Lamb

Romanticism is mainly connected with______________?

0

A. excitement and sensation

B. love and beauty
C. job and tiredness
D. expectation and depression

What do you mean by Beast Fable ?

0

A. a fictional story of animal characters

B. a short story
C. a long narrative prose
D. a soft style epic

Who wrote ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ ?

0

A. Shakespeare
B. wordsworth
C. John Keats
D. Eliot

The Poet Laureate is_________________?

0

A. the best poet of the country

B. a winner of Noble Prize in Poetry
C. the court poet of England
D. a classical poet

Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by___________?

0

A. Shakespeare
B. Marlowe
C. Oscar Wilde
D. T.S. Eliot

Who wrote ‘Kubla Khan’ ?

0
A. Coleridge
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Keats

The Professor was the first novel by________________?

0

A. Emily Bronte
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Anne Bronte
D. Jane Austen

Who wrote the fantasy novel ’The Lord of the Rings’ ?

0

A. J. R. R. Tolkien
B. Peter Jackson
C. C. S. Lewis
D. J. K. Rowling

Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans ?

0

A. Jane Austen
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. George Eliot
D. Joseph Conrad

Who said ‘Cowards die many times before their death’ ?

0

A. Shakespeare
B. Franklin
C. Carlyle
D. Alexander Pope

Who is the hero of Paradise Regained_______________?

0

A. Christ
B. Satan
C. The Paritan Church
D. None of these

Jane Austen’s other writings are______________?

0

A. Sense and Sensibility

B. Emma
C. Persuasion
D. All of these

What is anthology ?
0

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

What is a plot ?
0

A. an idea about writing

B. the choice of words
C. choice of poem
D. arrangement of the incidents

Utopia is an ideal state written by_______________?

0

A. Thomas Gray
B. William Shakespeare
C. George Bernard Shaw
D. Thomas More

The ‘Poet Laureate’ is______________?

0

A. the best poet of the country

B. a winner of the Noble Prize in poetry
C. the Court Port England
D. a classical poet

The poem ‘The Patriot’ is written by_______________?

0

A. Alfred Tennyson
B. Robert Browning
C. Mathew Arnold
D. John Donne
has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments_____________?
0

A. Hyperbole
B. Metaphor
C. Rhetoric
D. None of these

The literary work of ‘Kubla Khan’ is_________________?

0

A. a history by Vincent Smith

B. a verse by Coleridge
C. a drama by Oscar Wilde
D. a short story by Somerset Maugham

Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry ?

0

A. John Keats
B. William Wordsworth
C. William Blake
D. Thomas Gray

Yeats was______________?
0

A. Victorian poet
B. a modern poet
C. Both
D. None of these

Who is the writer of The Caroline Period ?

0

A. Robert Herrick
B. Caedmon
C. Dante
D. Cynewulf

defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature ?

0

A. Dr. Johnson
B. Shakespeare
C. Dryden
D. Coleridge

The ‘Merchant of Venice’ Written by Shakespeare is________________?

0

A. A novel
B. a short story
C. a poem
D. a drama

James Joyce’s narrative technique is known as______________________?

0

A. stream of consciousness
B. psycho-analysis
C. Objective Co-relative
D. Symbolism and Mysticism

Who have written the book ’The Godfather’

0

A. Mario Puzo
B. Francis Ford Coppola
C. Marlon Brando
D. Mark Winegardner

James Joyce’s narrative technique is known as______________?

0

A. stream of consciousness
B. psycho-analysis
C. Objective Co-relative
D. Symbolism and Mysticism

The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?

0

A. Friendship and benevolence

B. Bitterness and revenge
C. Hatred and jealousy
D. None of these

The beginning of the renaissance may be traced to the city____________?

0
A. Venice
B. London
C. Paris
D. Florence

A poem which consists of fourteen line is called________________?

0

A. A Sonnet
B. An Ode
C. A ballad
D. None of these

‘Written in March’ is a poem composed by_______________?

0

A. William Wordsworth
B. William Congreve
C. William Blake
D. William Shakespeare

Who is an American author ?

0

A. R.W. Emerson
B. H.D. Thoreau
C. Henry W. Longfellow
D. All 4

Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work_________________?

0

A. The Rape of Lock

B. The Deserted Village
C. Spectator
D. Man was made to mourn

‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is an example of______________?

0

A. Oxymoron
B. Synaesthesia
C. Sensuousness
D. Contrast

Who is the writer of The Restoration Period ?

0

A. Robert Herrick
B. Jeremy Taylor
C. John Dryden
D. Thomas Hobbes

“The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of_____________?

0

A. Jonathan Swift
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Oliver ‘Goldsmith
D. None of these

Adam Bede is a______________?

0

A. Play
B. Novel
C. Poem
D. none of these

On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared_________________?

0

A. The Hound of the Baskervilles

B. The Sign of the Four
C. The Valley of Fear
D. A Study in Scarlet

Who is the author of “The Origin of Species” ?

0

A. Charles Darwin
B. A. Pope
C. T. Hardy
D. O. Goldsmith

‘I count religion but a childish toy’ is a line from Marlowe’s play______________?

0

A. Dr. Faustus
B. The Jew of Malta
C. Tamburlaine
D. Edward II
In Poem Daffodils ‘Sprightly Dance’ means________________?
0

A. ugly dance
B. nonsense dance
C. lively dance
D. nice dance

What do you mean by Phonetics ?

0

A. study of speech sounds

B. study of language and rules
C. study of insects
D. study of meaning and syntax

Who is the author of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ ?

0

A. John Gay
B. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
C. Dylan Thomas
D. Somerset Maugham

Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?

0

A. Samuel Johnson
B. John Donne
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Robert Browning

“Tales from Shakespeare” is written by________________?

0

A. Shakespeare
B. Lamb
C. Lawrence
D. Mary Anne Evans

What is ‘Parable’ ?
0

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

What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?

0

A. having no rhyming end

B. having no rhythmic flow
C. having no significance
D. having no blanks in the verse

“In Memoriam” is _______________?

0

A. an ode
B. an elegy
C. a sonnet
D. neither

Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of

age______________?
0

A. Victorian
B. Elizabethan
C. Romantic
D. None of these

T. Hardy is______________?
0

A. A satirist
B. A fatalist
C. A lover of nature
D. None of these

The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?

0

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

‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Who is the poet of the poem ?

0
A. Wordsworth
B. Shelley
C. Shakespeare
D. Keats

Who is the author of the book ’Around the World in Eighty Days’ ?
0

A. Jules Verne
B. H. G. Wells
C. Mark Twain
D. Charles Dickens

The literary work ‘Kubla khan’ is_______________?

0

A. a history by Vincent Smith

B. a verse by Coleridge
C. a drama by Oscar Wilde
D. a short story by Somerset Maugham

Who is the first modern novelist ?

0

A. Samuel Richardson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Samuel Beckett
D. None of the above

Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’ ?

0

A. Edmund Walter
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Alexander Pope
D. Dr. Samuel Johnson

What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?

0

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

A poem mourning someone’s death is called______________?

0

A. Fable
B. Epic
C. Elegy
D. None of these

Who is the father of English Literature ?

0

A. Roger Bacon
B. Robert Browning
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Cynewulf

T. Hardy is______________?
0

A. A satirist
B. A fatalist
C. A lover of nature
D. None of these

The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?

0

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

‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Who is the poet of the poem ?

0

A. Wordsworth
B. Shelley
C. Shakespeare
D. Keats

Who is the author of the book ’Around the World in Eighty Days’ ?
0

A. Jules Verne
B. H. G. Wells
C. Mark Twain
D. Charles Dickens
The literary work ‘Kubla khan’ is_______________?
0

A. a history by Vincent Smith

B. a verse by Coleridge
C. a drama by Oscar Wilde
D. a short story by Somerset Maugham

Who is the first modern novelist ?

0

A. Samuel Richardson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Samuel Beckett
D. None of the above

Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’ ?

0

A. Edmund Walter
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Alexander Pope
D. Dr. Samuel Johnson

What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?

0

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

A poem mourning someone’s death is called______________?

0

A. Fable
B. Epic
C. Elegy
D. None of these

Who is the father of English Literature ?

0

A. Roger Bacon
B. Robert Browning
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Cynewulf

Who of the following is a playwright ?

0

A. Dickens
B. Frost
C. W.B. Yeats
D. G.B. Shaw

‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by_______________?

0

A. Blake
B. Byron
C. Tennyson
D. Walter Scott

Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use ?

0

A. A “member of the plumy race”

B. A “bird”
C. A “tenant of the sky”
D. An “airy fairy”

Who is called the father of English Poetry ?

0

A. Milton
B. Wordsworth
C. G. Chaucer
D. Charles Dickens

‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by_________________?

0

A. W. H. Auden
B. Earnest Jones
C. Nicoll
D. Freud

The novel ‘Talisman’ is written by_______________?

0
A. Jane Austen
B. Charles Dickens
C. Sir Walter Scott
D. Oliver Goldsmith

Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?

0

A. 1000 years ago

B. 1500 years ago
C. 2000 years ago
D. 3000 years ago

Eliot was influenced by___________________?

0

A. Ezra Pound
B. Shaw
C. Hardy
D. none of these

‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ was stated by__________________?

0

A. Valtaire
B. Shakespeare
C. Milton
D. Tolstoy

Jane Austen is the writer of__________________?

0

A. Jane Eyre
B. Ramona
C. Emma
D. Rebecca

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

0

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

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published in________________?

0

A. 1602
B. 1608
C. 1610
D. None of these

Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an example of___________?

0

A. Comedy of Errors
B. Comedy of Manners
C. Comedy of Ideas
D. Romantic Comedy

Which was the oldest period in English literature ?

0

A. Anglo-Norman
B. Anglo-Saxon
C. Chaucer’s period
D. Middle Age

Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by_______________?

0

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

“After Apple Picking” is written by_______________?

0

A. Robert Browning
B. Robert Frost
C. both A and B
D. none of these

Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ?
0

A. Shelley
B. Browning
C. Wordsworth
D. Keats
Who is famous for representing London in his novels ?
0

A. Thackeray
B. Hardy
C. Dickens
D. W. Scott

‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’ are written by________________?

0

A. P.B. Shelley
B. John Keats
C. John Milton
D. William Blake

‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by_________________?

0

A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. Keats
D. T. S. Eliot

‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s__________________?

0

A. The Wasteland
B. The Hollow men
C. East Coker
D. Prufrock

What do you mean by Heroic Couplet ?

0

A. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter

B. a two line stanza
C. a poem of lamentation
D. a song for mourning

‘The Age of Chaucer’ ranges from_______________?

0

A. 1340-1385
B. 1240-1300
C. 1340-1400
D. 1340-1399

‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by________________?

0

A. Arnold
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Shelley
D. None of these

The poem “Wind” is written by________________?

0

A. Shelley
B. John Ashbery
C. Sylvia Plath
D. Ted Hughes

Who is the author of “Around the World in Eighty Days” ?

0

A. Jules Verne
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Charles Kingsley
D. Thomas Hood

Synecdoche refers to the term_____________?

0

A. a thing stands for whole thing

B. pity and fear
C. Self-contradictory speech
D. long speech

Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry_______________?

0

A. William Shakespeare
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. John Milton
D. William Wordsworth

“Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.”- Who told
it ?
0
A. Shakespeare
B. Chaucer
C. Spenser
D. Bacon

In Memoriam by Tennyson is________________?

0

A. an elegy
B. a collection of elegies
C. a lyric
D. a dramatic lyric

Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by___________?

0

A. Shelley
B. Coleridge
C. Wordsworth
D. None of these

‘Lycidas’ is written by_____________?

0

A. Alexander Pope
B. Henry Fielding
C. Thomas Hardy
D. John Milton

Browning is famous for his______________?

0

A. Sensory images
B. Dramatic Monologues
C. Narrative ballads
D. Blank Verse

We find Subjective Elements in ?

0

A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. All

Who wrote ‘Hard Times’ and ‘A tale of two Cities’ ?

0

A. John Milton
B. Charles Dickens
C. John Webster
D. Daniel Defoe

Who was American poet ?

0

A. Robert Frost
B. John Keats
C. John Milton
D. Robert Herrick

Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?

0

A. 1340 AD
B. 1341 AD
C. 1342 AD
D. 1343 AD

Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________?

0

A. 102
B. 154
C. 163
D. 194

Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural ?

0

A. True
B. False
C. both A and B
D. none of these

Who was more under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy of life ?

0

A. Byron
B. Browning
C. Shelley
D. Keats
Famous romantic poets were_____________?
0

A. Five
B. Four
C. Six
D. None of these

From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains in ISBN (International Standard Book
Number)?
0

A. 9
B. 10
C. 13
D. 15

Which one of the following is a comedy ?

0

A. All’s Well that Ends Well

B. Hamlet
C. Timon of Athens
D. Antony and Cleopatra

Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?

0

A. Dramatic Monologue
B. Dramatic Lyrics
C. Tragic Drama
D. None of these

Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize__________________?

0

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

In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?

0

A. The representative poet of Victorian Age

B. The representative poet of Romantic Age
C. The best nature poet
D. None of these

Who was a friend of John Milton ?

0

A. John Donne
B. John Dryden
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Alexander Pope

Who wrote ‘Crime and Punishment’ ?

0

A. Shelley
B. Tolstoy
C. Byron
D. Dostoyevsky

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?

0

A. Architect
B. Engraver
C. Sculptor
D. None of these

What did Robert Frost’s father do ?

0

A. teacher
B. journalist
C. black-smith
D. farmer

‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel by_______________?

0

A. Dickens
B. Thackeray
C. Scott
D. Fielding

The period of English literature from 1660to the end of the century is
called_____________?
0
A. Renaissance
B. Jacobean Period
C. Restoration Period
D. Romantic Age

Find the Odd man out ?

0

A. Tom Jones : Henry Fielding

B. Roxana: Daniel Defoe
C. The Good-nature man: Oliver Goldsmith
D. All for Love: John Milton

Which is called the Victorian Age______________?

0

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

Which one of the following writers is not woman ?

0

A. Emily Bronte
B. Jane Austen
C. Robert Browning
D. None of these

Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by_______________?

0

A. E. Bronte
B. J. Austen
C. C. Bronte
D. None of these

Who is the writer of ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ ?

0

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Christopher Marlowe
C. A. Lord Tennyson
D. William Shakespeare

James Joyce’s famous novel_____________?

0

A. Roots
B. Ulysses
C. Tom Jones
D. Rebecca

‘On Heroes and Hero…worship is written by________________?

0

A. Huxley
B. Carlyle
C. Ruskin
D. Mill

One of the following was a Romantic poet______________?

0

A. Tennyson
B. Arnold
C. Shelley
D. Browning

‘Of Human Bondage’ is written by_____________?

0

A. Somerset Maugham
B. James Joyce
C. W.B. Yeats
D. Philip Sydney

The Rape of the Lock is a_______________?

0

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

“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” is stated by_____________?

0

A. Keats
B. Shelley
C. Jane Austine
D. Charles Lamb
What do you mean by Quatrain ?
0

A. a poem of fourteen lines

B. a stanza of fourteen lines
C. a stanza of six lines
D. a stanza of four lines

Who is the author of ‘A Brief History of Time’ ?

0

A. Albert Einstein
B. Stephen Hawking
C. Jagadish Chandra Basu
D. Isaac Newton

“But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these
lines appear ?
0

A. We Are Seven (Wordsworth)

B. Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
C. Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)
D. None of these

The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known

as______________?
0

A. Caleron
B. Corneille
C. Couperin
D. Moliere

World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not
have been touched by that event ?
0

A. T.S. Eliot
B. Siegfried Sassoon
C. Wilfred Owen
D. Oscar Wilde

This work was written before the other three choices ?

0
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”

Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
0

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

Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during
the Restoration period ?
0

A. Charles II was restored to the throne

B. The French Revolution
C. The Great Fire of London
D. The Exclusion Bill Crisis

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

0

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”

Which work was completed last ?

0

A. John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

B. George Herbert’s “The Temple”
C. William Shakespeare’s “Tempest”
D. Ben Jonson’s “Volpone”

Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
0

A. Beowulf
B. Canterbury Tales
C. The Domesday Book
D. Sons and Lovers
In what language did Shakespeare write ?
0

A. Middle English
B. German
C. Old English
D. Modern English

Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often
convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?
0

A. The leading characteristic of the age

B. Monarchs or political events
C. The primary author of the age
D. The language of the age

One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
0

A. John Milton
B. Thomas Otway
C. Sir Walter Scott
D. John Dryden

Who write the story “Story Teller” ?

0

A. William Wordsworth
B. William Shakespeare
C. Thomas Grey
D. Saki

HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by_______________?

0

A. Thomas gray
B. Alexander Pope
C. Edward gibbon
D. William Blake

Who wrote the poem “Requiem” ?

0

A. Robert Louis Stevenson

B. William Shakespeare
C. Samuel Johnson
D. John Milton

Joyce’s novel ’Ulysses’ takes place over what period of time ?

0

A. A week
B. 24 hours
C. A lifetime
D. 6 months

The 18th century work ’Tom Jones” was written by whom ?

0

A. Samuel Johnson
B. Henry Fielding
C. John Donne
D. Tobias Smollett

In which century was Piers Plowman written ?

0

A. 14th
B. 12th
C. 10th
D. 11th