English Literature

Writers by period & Others

Time: 12 Minutes
Marks: 20

ID Question
1 Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
a)  Francis Bacon
b)  Geoffrey Chaucer
c)  King Alfred the Great
d)  Henry Fielding
2 Who among the following is not novelist?
a)  Thomas More
b)  Jane Austen
c)  Joseph Conrad
d)  Mathew Arnold
3 Who is Samuel Jonson ?
a)  Novelist
b)  Essayist
c)  Dramatist
d)  Critics
4 Emily Bronte is a -
a)  Poet
b)  Critic
c)  Novelist
d)  Dramatist
5 One of the four mentioned below is not a novelist of Modern Age in Englsih language . Who is he ?
a)  H.G Wells
b)  Charles Dickens
c)  Rudyard Kipling
d)  T.S Elliot
6 Who is called the father of both the regional and the historical novel ?
a)  Walter Scott
b)  Henry Fielding
c)  Daniel Defoe
d)  Samuel Richardson
7 Who is the father of Modern English Poetry ?
a)  Cynewulf
b)  Geofrrey Chaucer
c)  Robert Browning
d)  T.S Elliot
8 Who is called the father of Modern English Criticism?
a)  Alexander Pope
b)  Ben Jonson
c)  Sir Thomas Wyatt
d)  John Dryden
9 Who is the father of English Learning ?
a)  Alfred the Great
b)  Chaucer
c)  Venerable Bede
d)  John Wycliffe
10 What was the real name of the great American short-story writer, O Henry ?
a)  Samuel L Clemens
b)  William Sydney Porter
c)  Fitz-James O Brien
d)  William Huntington Wright
11 Virginia Woolf belogns to -
a)  The Edwardian Period
b)  The Gerogian Period
c)  The Post Modern Period
d)  None of them
12 Who among the following is not belongs to Agustan Periodr?
a)  Daniel Defoe
b)  Jonathan Swift
c)  William Congreve
d)  Henry Fielding
13 Who is called the father of Revenge Tragedy ?
a)  Ben Jonson
b)  John Done
c)  Thomas Kyd
d)  G.B Shaw
14 Who among the following is not dramatist ?
a)  Nicholas Udall
b)  Thomas Kyd
c)  John Wbster
d)  Edmund Burke
15 Robert browning belongs to-
a)  Romantic Age
b)  Victorian Age
c)  Puritan Age
d)  Modern Age
16 Who is the poet of the Victorian poet ?
a)  Helen Keller
b)  Matthew Arnold
c)  Lord Byron
d)  Thomas Gray
17 In which century was the Victorian period ?
a)  17th Century
b)  18th Century
c)  19th Century
d)  20th Century
18 Who was both a poet and a priest ?
a)  William Blake
b)  John Milton
c)  William Cowper
d)  George Herbert
19 Who is the most famous satirist in English literature ?
a)  Alexander Pope
b)  Jonathan Swift
c)  William Wordsworth
d)  Butler
20 Alone, alone, all, alone Alone on a wide, wide sea. is an example of -
a)  Assonance
b)  Aside
c)  Anaphora
d)  Apostrophe
21 Who among the following is not an Irish writer?
a)  Oscar Wilde
b)  W.B Yeats
c)  Samuel Beckett
d)  Sir Walter Scott
22 The Elizabethan period of English literature refers to -
a)  1558-1603
b)  1603-1625
c)  1625-1649
d)  1649-1660