English Literature

Literature Previous Question

Time: 8 Minutes
Marks: 15

ID Question
1 Who is the University Wits in the following list ?
a)  William Shakespeare
b)  THomas Gray
c)  Robert Greene
d)  Jhon Dryden
2 The Spanish Tragedy is written by ?
a)  Thomas Kyd
b)  William Shakespeare
c)  Cristopher Marlowe
d)  Ben Johnson
3 What is an act in a play?
a)  a unit of act on with no change of place or time
b)  the rising action of a play
c)  a major division in the action of a play
d)  conversation of character is in a play
4 Paradise Regained is an epic by -
a)  Jhon Keats
b)  P.B Shelly
c)  Jhon Milton
d)  William Blake
5 Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and wste its sweetnes in the desert air- Stated by ?
a)  Thomas Gray
b)  Keats
c)  Wordsworth
d)  Shelly
6 Death,thou shalt not die -is an example of-
a)  Simile
b)  metaphor
c)  irony
d)  personification
7 Who was a Poet Laureate after William Wordsworth ?
a)  Alfred Tennyson
b)  Ben Jonson
c)   Jhon Dryden
d)  Edmund Spenser
8 The Return of the native is written by-
a)  Aldus Huxley
b)  Alexander Dumas
c)  Somerset Maugham
d)  Thomas Hardy
9 Gerontion is a poem by-
a)  T.S Eliot
b)  W.B Yeats
c)  Mattew Arnold
d)  Robert Browning
10 Who is a Metaphysical poet ?
a)  Cowley
b)  Thomas Kyd
c)  Ben Johnson
d)  John Webster
11 Jacobean Period of English Literature refers to -
a)  1558-1603
b)  1625-1649
c)  1603-1625
d)  1649-1660
12 Which of the following is not a poetic tradition ?
a)  The Epic
b)  The Comic
c)  The Tragic
d)  The Occult
13 The Faerie Queene is a -
a)  Elegy
b)  Epic
c)  Sonnet
d)  Poem
14 Good face is the best letterof recommendation was stated by -
a)  Queen Vitoria
b)   Queen Elizabeth
c)  Queen Anne
d)  Queen Marry
15 Who is the poet of victorian age ?
a)  Lord Byron
b)  THomas Gray
c)  Matthew Arnold
d)  None of them