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What is a funny poem of five lines called ?
a) Quartet
b) Limerick
c) Sixtet
d) Haiku
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The sentence Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind? expresses
a) Hyperbole
b) Interrogation
c) Command
d) Wonder
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3 |
What is the meaning the word Dirge?
a) a kind of sonnet sequence
b) a song expressing patrotic sentiment
c) a long verse elling about an adventure
d) a song expressing grief, lementation and mourning
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4 |
The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as-
a) Personification
b) onnomatopoeia
c) alliteration
d) rhyme
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5 |
A person writes the story of his own life it is called
a) an autobiography
b) a biograph
c) a diary
d) a chronology
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6 |
Who is Walt Whitman?
a) National poet of Italy
b) Natonal poet of Germany
c) National poet of Russia
d) National poet of America
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Which of the following chronologically in order -
a) Chaucer , Spencer, Shelley, Sunbury
b) Sir Thomas More, Caedmon, John Donne,Edmund Spenser
c) Sir Thomas More, , John Donne,Edmund Spenser,Sir Thomas Malory
d) Edmund Spenser ,Sir Thomas More, John Lydgate, John Donne,
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8 |
Of the following who is the most translated author of the world ?
a) V.I Lenin
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) Agantha Cristie
d) Mao Tse Tung
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9 |
Caroline period of English literature refers to -
a) 1558-1603
b) 1603-1625
c) 1625-1649
d) 1649-1660
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10 |
Who among the following is not an Irish writer?
a) Oscar Wilde
b) James Joyce
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Sir Arthur Conan Doyel
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Who among the following is not an american writer?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Robert Frost
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Ernest Hemingway
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12 |
Every day, every night, in every way , I am getting better and better - An example of -
a) Alliteration
b) Allegory
c) Allusion
d) Anaphora
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Speech is silver, but silence is gold- is an example of -
a) Antithesis
b) Apostrophe
c) Assonance
d) Anaphora
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14 |
My name is Ozymandias, King of King- is an example of
a) Irony
b) Litotes
c) Anaphora
d) Hyperbole
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One of the four mentioned below is not a prose writer. Who is he ?
a) Jhon Wycliffe
b) Sir Thomas Malory
c) Jermy Taylor
d) Thomas More
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Who was both a poet and a priest ?
a) William Blake
b) John Milton
c) William Cowper
d) George Herbert
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Who of the following is not a romantic poet?
a) P.B Shelly
b) Charles Lamb
c) Alexander Pushkin
d) John Milton
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18 |
In which century was the Age of Sensibility period ?
a) 17th Century
b) 18th Century
c) 19th Century
d) 20th Century
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19 |
Who is the poet of the Victorian poet ?
a) Helen Keller
b) Matthew Arnold
c) Lord Byron
d) Thomas Gray
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20 |
Charles Dickens belongs to-
a) Romantic Age
b) Victorian Age
c) Puritan Age
d) Modern Age
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21 |
Who is the father of modern English Literature?
a) G.B Shaw
b) William Shakespeare
c) P.B Shelley
d) William Wordsworth
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22 |
The first English Dictionary was compiled by -
a) Dr. Samuel Jonson
b) Samuel Butler
c) Sir Thomas Brown
d) Thomas Gray
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23 |
The greatest modern English Dramatist is -
a) William Shakespeare
b) G.B Shaw
c) P.B Shelley
d) S.T Coleridge
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24 |
Which of the following ages in literary history is the latest?
a) The Agustan age
b) The Victorian age
c) The Georgian age
d) THe Restoration age
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Who among the following is not an american writer?
a) William Faulkner
b) Robert Frost
c) Boris Pasternak
d) Ernest Hemingway
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Restoration period in English literature refers to -
a) 1560-1660
b) 1660-1700
c) 1760-1790
d) 1866-1880
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