Que- Who wrote 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' ?
a. Shakespeare
b. wordsworth
c. John Keats
d. Eliot
Answer- John Keats
Que- The Poet Laureate is_________________?
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
Answer- the court poet of England
Que- Murder in the Cathedral' is a play written by___________?
a. Shakespeare
b. Marlowe
c. Oscar Wilde
d. T.S. Eliot
Answer- T.S. Eliot
Que- Who wrote 'Kubla Khan' ?
a. Coleridge
b. Shelley
c. Wordsworth
d. Keats
Answer- Coleridge
Que- The Professor was the first novel by________________?
a. Emily Bronte
b. Charlotte Bronte
c. Anne Bronte
d. Jane Austen
Answer- Charlotte Bronte
Que- Who wrote the fantasy novel 'The Lord of the Rings' ?
a. J. R. R. Tolkien
b. Peter Jackson
c. S. Lewis
d. J. K. Rowling
Answer- J. R. R. Tolkien
Que- Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans ?
a. Jane Austen
b. Charlotte Bronte
c. George Eliot
d. Joseph Conrad
Answer- George Eliot
Que- Who said 'Cowards die many times before their death' ?
a. Shakespeare
b. Franklin
c. Carlyle
d. Alexander Pope
Answer- Shakespeare
Que- Who is the hero of Paradise Regained_______________?
a. Christ
b. Satan
c. The Paritan Church
d. None of these
Answer- Christ
Que- Jane Austen's other writings are______________?
a. Sense and Sensibility
b. Emma
c. Persuasion
d. All of these
Answer- All of these
Que- What is anthology ?
a. collection of poems
b. collection of insects
c. fish cultivation
d. study of poetry
Answer- collection of poems
Que- What is a plot ?
a. an idea about writing
b. the choice of words
c. choice of poem
d. arrangement of the incidents
Answer- arrangement of the incidents
Que- Utopia is an ideal state written by_______________?
a. Thomas Gray
b. William Shakespeare
c. George Bernard Shaw
d. Thomas More
Answer- Thomas More
Que- The 'Poet Laureate' is______________?
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
Answer- the Court Port England
Que- The poem 'The Patriot' is written by_______________?
a. Alfred Tennyson
b. Robert Browning
c. Mathew Arnold
d. John Donne
Answer- Robert Browning
Que- has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments_____________?
a. Hyperbole
b. Metaphor
c. Rhetoric
d. None of these
Answer- Hyperbole
Que- The literary work of 'Kubla Khan' is_________________?
a. a history by Vincent Smith
b. a verse by Coleridge
c. a drama by Oscar Wilde
d. a short story by Somerset Maugham
Answer- a verse by Coleridge
Que- Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry ?
a. John Keats
b. William Wordsworth
c. William Blake
d. Thomas Gray
Answer- William Wordsworth
Que- Yeats was______________?
a. Victorian poet
b. a modern poet
c. Both
d. None of these
Answer- Both
Que- Who is the writer of The Caroline Period ?
a. Robert Herrick
b. Caedmon
c. Dante
d. Cynewulf
Answer- Robert Herrick
Que- defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature ?
a. Dr. Johnson
b. Shakespeare
c. Dryden
d. Coleridge
Answer- Dryden
Que- The 'Merchant of Venice' Written by Shakespeare is________________?
a. A novel
b. a short story
c. a poem
d. a drama
Answer- a drama
Que- James Joyce's narrative technique is known as______________________?
a. stream of consciousness
b. psycho-analysis
c. Objective Co-relative
d. Symbolism and Mysticism
Answer- stream of consciousness
Que- Who have written the book 'The Godfather'
a. Mario Puzo
b. Francis Ford Coppola
c. Marlon Brando
d. Mark Winegardner
Answer- Mario Puzo
Que- James Joyce's narrative technique is known as______________?
a. stream of consciousness
b. psycho-analysis
c. Objective Co-relative
d. Symbolism and Mysticism
Answer- stream of consciousness
Que- The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?
a. Friendship and benevolence
b. Bitterness and revenge
c. Hatred and jealousy
d. None of these
Answer- Friendship and benevolence
Que- The beginning of the renaissance may be traced to the city____________?
a. Venice
b. London
c. Paris
d. Florence
Answer- Florence
Que- A poem which consists of fourteen line is called________________?
a. A Sonnet
b. An Ode
c. A ballad
d. None of these
Answer- A Sonnet
Que- Written in March' is a poem composed by_______________?
a. William Wordsworth
b. William Congreve
c. William Blake
d. William Shakespeare
Answer- William Wordsworth
Que- Who is an American author ?
a. R.W. Emerson
b. H.D. Thoreau
c. Henry W. Longfellow
d. All 4
Answer- All 4
Que- Poet Alexander Pope's famous work_________________?
a. The Rape of Lock
b. The Deserted Village
c. Spectator
d. Man was made to mourn
Answer- The Rape of Lock
Que- Hearing' a colour or 'Seeing' a smell is an example of______________?
a. Oxymoron
b. Synaesthesia
c. Sensuousness
d. Contrast
Answer- Synaesthesia
Que- Who is the writer of The Restoration Period ?
a. Robert Herrick
b. Jeremy Taylor
c. John Dryden
d. Thomas Hobbes
Answer- John Dryden
Que- Adam Bede is a______________?
a. Play
b. Novel
c. Poem
d. none of these
Answer- Novel
Que- On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared_________________?
a. The Hound of the Baskervilles
b. The Sign of the Four
c. The Valley of Fear
d. A Study in Scarlet
Answer- A Study in Scarlet
Que- Who is the author of "The Origin of Species" ?
a. Charles Darwin
b. Pope
c. T. Hardy
d. O. Goldsmith
Answer- Charles Darwin
Que- 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- The Jew of Malta
Que- In Poem Daffodils 'Sprightly Dance' means________________?
a. ugly dance
b. nonsense dance
c. lively dance
d. nice dance
Answer- lively dance
Que- 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- study of speech sounds
Que- Who is the author of 'Sherlock Holmes' ?
a. John Gay
b. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
c. Dylan Thomas
d. Somerset Maugham
Answer- Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
Que- Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?
a. Samuel Johnson
b. John Donne
c. Geoffrey Chaucer
d. Robert Browning
Answer- John Donne
Que- Tales from Shakespeare is written by________________?
a. Shakespeare
b. Lamb
c. Lawrence
d. Mary Anne Evans
Answer- Lamb
Que- 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- an allegorical story usually containing
Que- 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- having no rhyming end
Que- In Memoriam is _______________?
a. an ode
b. an elegy
c. a sonnet
d. neither
Answer- an elegy
Que- Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
a. Victorian
b. Elizabethan
c. Romantic
d. None of these
Answer- Romantic
Que- T. Hardy is______________?
a. A satirist
b. A fatalist
c. A lover of nature
d. None of these
Answer- A fatalist
Que- The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?
a. Lyrical Ballads
b. My Last Duchess
c. A Tale of Two Cities
d. Canonization
Answer- Lyrical Ballads
Que- Ode on a Grecian Urn' Who is the poet of the poem ?
a. Wordsworth
b. Shelley
c. Shakespeare
d. Keats
Answer- Keats
Que- Who is the author of the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days' ?
a. Jules Verne
b. H. G. Wells
c. Mark Twain
d. Charles Dickens
Answer- Jules Verne