Que- The literary work '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- Who is the first modern novelist ?
a. Samuel Richardson
b. Samuel Johnson
c. Samuel Beckett
d. None of the above
Answer- Samuel Richardson
Que- Who is called the 'Mock heroic poet' ?
a. Edmund Walter
b. Jonathan Swift
c. Alexander Pope
d. Dr. Samuel Johnson
Answer- Alexander Pope
Que- What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?
a. Imagination
b. Modernism
c. Post-modernism
d. None of the above
Answer- Imagination
Que- A poem mourning someone's death is called______________?
a. Fable
b. Epic
c. Elegy
d. None of these
Answer- Elegy
Que- Who is the father of English Literature ?
a. Roger Bacon
b. Robert Browning
c. Geoffrey Chaucer
d. Cynewulf
Answer- Geoffrey Chaucer
Que- A poem of fourteen lines is called________________?
a. Elege
b. Sonnet
c. Ode
d. Epic
Answer- Sonnet
Que- Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare ?
a. Christopher Marlowe
b. Lord Tennyson
c. John Milton
d. All of them
Answer- Christopher Marlowe
Que- Henry Higgins is a character in________________?
a. Pygmalion
b. saint joan
c. Candida
d. none of these
Answer- Pygmalion
Que- Hero and Hero worship' was written by______________?
a. Ruskin
b. Carlyle
c. Mill
d. None of these
Answer- Carlyle
Que- The kind Claudius was killed by________________?
a. Laerteus
b. Hamlet
c. Horatio
d. None of these
Answer- Hamlet
Que- Who is the writer of 'Harold' ?
a. George Bernard Shaw
b. Lord Tennyson
c. Christopher Marlowe
d. William Shakespeare
Answer- Lord Tennyson
Que- Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind.-Example of ?
a. Simile
b. Conceit
c. Metaphor
d. Couplet
Answer- Couplet
Que- Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
a. Francis Bacon
b. Geoffery Chaucer
c. King Alfred the Great
d. Henry Fielding
Answer- Henry Fielding
Que- Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?
a. Arobinda Adigha
b. Salman Rushdie
c. Arundhoti Roy
d. Kiron Dishai
Answer- Arobinda Adigha
Que- Who propounds "the touchstone method"_______________?
a. Arnold
b. Shelley
c. Pope
d. Dryden
Answer- Arnold
Que- The Alchemist' is written by_______________?
a. Ben Johnson
b. Samuel Johnson
c. Marlowe
d. None of them
Answer- Ben Johnson
Que- Who of the following is a playwright ?
a. Dickens
b. Frost
c. W.B. Yeats
d. G.B. Shaw
Answer- G.B. Shaw
Que- The Lay of the Last Minstrel' is written by_______________?
a. Blake
b. Byron
c. Tennyson
d. Walter Scott
Answer- Walter Scott
Que- Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use ?
a. A "member of the plumy race"
b. A "bird"
c. A "tenant of the sky"
d. An "airy fairy"
Answer- An "airy fairy"
Que- Who is called the father of English Poetry ?
a. Milton
b. Wordsworth
c. G. Chaucer
d. Charles Dickens
Answer- G. Chaucer
Que- Macbeth and Oedipus' is by_________________?
a. W. H. Auden
b. Earnest Jones
c. Nicoll
d. Freud
Answer- W. H. Auden
Que- The novel 'Talisman' is written by_______________?
a. Jane Austen
b. Charles Dickens
c. Sir Walter Scott
d. Oliver Goldsmith
Answer- Sir Walter Scott
Que- Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?
a. 1000 years ago
b. 1500 years ago
c. 2000 years ago
d. 3000 years ago
Answer- 2000 years ago
Que- Eliot was influenced by___________________?
a. Ezra Pound
b. Shaw
c. Hardy
d. none of these
Answer- Ezra Pound
Que- Sweet are the uses of adversity' was stated by__________________?
a. Valtaire
b. Shakespeare
c. Milton
d. Tolstoy
Answer- Shakespeare
Que- Jane Austen is the writer of__________________?
a. Jane Eyre
b. Ramona
c. Emma
d. Rebecca
Answer- Emma
Que- 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- To a skylark
Que- Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' was published in________________?
a. 1602
b. 1608
c. 1610
d. None of these
Answer- 1602
Que- Shaw's 'Man and Superman' is an example of___________?
a. Comedy of Errors
b. Comedy of Manners
c. Comedy of Ideas
d. Romantic Comedy
Answer- Comedy of Ideas
Que- Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
a. Anglo-Norman
b. Anglo-Saxon
c. Chaucer's period
d. Middle Age
Answer- Anglo-Saxon
Que- Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by_______________?
a. Shelley
b. Oscar Wilde
c. T. S. Eliot
d. None of these
Answer- T. S. Eliot
Que- After Apple Picking is written by_______________?
a. Robert Browning
b. Robert Frost
c. both A and B
d. none of these
Answer- Robert Frost
Que- Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ?
a. Shelley
b. Browning
c. Wordsworth
d. Keats
Answer- Wordsworth
Que- Who is famous for representing London in his novels ?
a. Thackeray
b. Hardy
c. Dickens
d. W. Scott
Answer- Dickens
Que- Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regained' are written by________________?
a. P.B. Shelley
b. John Keats
c. John Milton
d. William Blake
Answer- John Milton
Que- Andrea Del Sarto' is a poem written by_________________?
a. Tennyson
b. Browning
c. Keats
d. T. S. Eliot
Answer- Browning
Que- 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- The Wasteland
Que- 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- a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
Que- The Age of Chaucer' ranges from_______________?
a. 1340-1385
b. 1240-1300
c. 1340-1400
d. 1340-1399
Answer- 1340-1400
Que- The Metaphysical Poets' is a critical essay by________________?
a. Arnold
b. T. S. Eliot
c. P.B. Shelley
d. None of these
Answer- T. S. Eliot
Que- The poem "Wind" is written by________________?
a. Shelley
b. John Ashbery
c. Sylvia Plath
d. Ted Hughes
Answer- Ted Hughes
Que- Who is the author of "Around the World in Eighty Days" ?
a. Jules Verne
b. Christopher Marlowe
c. Charles Kingsley
d. Thomas Hood
Answer- Jules Verne
Que- Synecdoche refers to the term_____________?
a. a thing stands for whole thing
b. pity and fear
c. Self-contradictory speech
d. long speech
Answer- a thing stands for whole thing
Que- Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry_______________?
a. William Shakespeare
b. Geoffrey Chaucer
c. John Milton
d. William Wordsworth
Answer- Geoffrey Chaucer
Que- Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.- Who told it ?
a. Shakespeare
b. Chaucer
c. Spenser
d. Bacon
Answer- Bacon
Que- In Memoriam by Tennyson is________________?
a. an elegy
b. a collection of elegies
c. a lyric
d. a dramatic lyric
Answer- an elegy
Que- Poetry is defined as 'Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' by___________?
a. Shelley
b. Coleridge
c. Wordsworth
d. None of these
Answer- Wordsworth
Que- Lycidas' is written by_____________?
a. Alexander Pope
b. Henry Fielding
c. Thomas Hardy
d. John Milton
Answer- John Milton
Que- Browning is famous for his______________?
a. Sensory images
b. Dramatic Monologues
c. Narrative ballads
d. Blank Verse
Answer- Dramatic Monologues