English Literature

Time: 18 Minutes
Marks: 30
Serial Question
1 What is a funny poem of five lines called ?
a) Quartet
b) Limerick
c) Sixtet
d) Haiku
Ans: 2
2 The sentence Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind? expresses
a) Hyperbole
b) Interrogation
c) Command
d) Wonder
Ans: 4
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
Ans: 4
4 The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as-
a) Personification
b) onnomatopoeia
c) alliteration
d) rhyme
Ans: 3
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
Ans: 1
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
Ans: 4
7 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,
Ans: 1
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
Ans: 1
9 Caroline period of English literature refers to -
a) 1558-1603
b) 1603-1625
c) 1625-1649
d) 1649-1660
Ans: 3
10 Who among the following is not an Irish writer?
a) Oscar Wilde
b) James Joyce
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Sir Arthur Conan Doyel
Ans: 4
11 Who among the following is not an american writer?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Robert Frost
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Ernest Hemingway
Ans: 3
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
Ans: 4
13 Speech is silver, but silence is gold- is an example of -
a) Antithesis
b) Apostrophe
c) Assonance
d) Anaphora
Ans: 1
14 My name is Ozymandias, King of King- is an example of
a) Irony
b) Litotes
c) Anaphora
d) Hyperbole
Ans: 1
15 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
Ans: 4
16 Who was both a poet and a priest ?
a) William Blake
b) John Milton
c) William Cowper
d) George Herbert
Ans: 4
17 Who of the following is not a romantic poet?
a) P.B Shelly
b) Charles Lamb
c) Alexander Pushkin
d) John Milton
Ans: 4
18 In which century was the Age of Sensibility period ?
a) 17th Century
b) 18th Century
c) 19th Century
d) 20th Century
Ans: 2
19 Who is the poet of the Victorian poet ?
a) Helen Keller
b) Matthew Arnold
c) Lord Byron
d) Thomas Gray
Ans: 2
20 Charles Dickens belongs to-
a) Romantic Age
b) Victorian Age
c) Puritan Age
d) Modern Age
Ans: 2
21 Who is the father of modern English Literature?
a) G.B Shaw
b) William Shakespeare
c) P.B Shelley
d) William Wordsworth
Ans: 1
22 The first English Dictionary was compiled by -
a) Dr. Samuel Jonson
b) Samuel Butler
c) Sir Thomas Brown
d) Thomas Gray
Ans: 1
23 The greatest modern English Dramatist is -
a) William Shakespeare
b) G.B Shaw
c) P.B Shelley
d) S.T Coleridge
Ans: 2
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
Ans: 3
25 Who among the following is not an american writer?
a) William Faulkner
b) Robert Frost
c) Boris Pasternak
d) Ernest Hemingway
Ans: 3
26 Restoration period in English literature refers to -
a) 1560-1660
b) 1660-1700
c) 1760-1790
d) 1866-1880
Ans: 2
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