English Literature

Time: 12 minute
Marks: 20
Serial Question
1 Who among the following is not university wits?
a) Robert Greene
b) Thomas Nashe
c) Thomas Hardy
d) Thomas Lodge
Ans: 3
2 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. It is an example of -
a) Anaphora
b) Apostrophe
c) Assonance
d) Anecdote
Ans: 2
3 Romantic period of English literature refers to -
a) 1700-1798
b) 1798-1832
c) 1832-1901
d) 1901-1939
Ans: 2
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
Ans: 3
5 Hey! Guess who the new Newton of our school is ? - An example of -
a) Alliteration
b) Allegory
c) Allusion
d) personification
Ans: 3
6 The Neo-classical period of English literature refers to -
a) 1660-1798
b) 1798-1832
c) 1832-1901
d) 1901-1939
Ans: 1
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
Ans: 1
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
Ans: 2
9 Melodrama is a kind of play of -
a) violent and sensational themes
b) historical themes
c) philosophical themes
d) pathetics themes
Ans: 1
10 The comparision of unlike things the words like or as is known to be-
a) metaphor
b) simile
c) alliteration
d) personification
Ans: 2
11 The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as-
a) Personification
b) onnomatopoeia
c) alliteration
d) rhyme
Ans: 3
12 What is an epic ?
a) a prose composition
b) a romance
c) a sonnet
d) a long poem
Ans: 4
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
Ans: 4