English Literature

Literary terms & Others

Time: 12 minute
Marks: 20

ID Question
1 Who among the following is not university wits?
a)  Robert Greene
b)  Thomas Nashe
c)  Thomas Hardy
d)  Thomas Lodge
2 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. It is an example of -
a)  Anaphora
b)  Apostrophe
c)  Assonance
d)  Anecdote
3 Romantic period of English literature refers to -
a)  1700-1798
b)  1798-1832
c)  1832-1901
d)  1901-1939
4 Who among the following is not Sckottish writer?
a)  R.L Stevenson
b)  Sir Arthur Conan Doyel
c)  William Congreve
d)  Sir Walter Scott
5 Hey! Guess who the new Newton of our school is ? - An example of -
a)  Alliteration
b)  Allegory
c)  Allusion
d)  personification
6 The Neo-classical period of English literature refers to -
a)  1660-1798
b)  1798-1832
c)  1832-1901
d)  1901-1939
7 Ballad is -
a)  a kind of short narrative poem
b)  a kind of short condoling poem
c)  a kind of short love poem
d)  a rhymic verse
8 Protagonist indicates -
a)  the villain in a play
b)  the leading character or actor in a play
c)  the clown in a play
d)  the stage-director or a play
9 Melodrama is a kind of play of -
a)  violent and sensational themes
b)  historical themes
c)  philosophical themes
d)  pathetics themes
10 The comparision of unlike things the words like or as is known to be-
a)  metaphor
b)  simile
c)  alliteration
d)  personification
11 The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as-
a)  Personification
b)  onnomatopoeia
c)  alliteration
d)  rhyme
12 What is an epic ?
a)  a prose composition
b)  a romance
c)  a sonnet
d)  a long poem
13 Which one is a Metaphor ?
a)  He is as good as his father
b)  He is the sort of the family
c)  She sing like a cuckoo
d)  She feels that life is a fashion show