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The Neo-classical period of English literature refers to -
a) 1660-1798
b) 1798-1832
c) 1832-1901
d) 1901-1939
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A statement that appears to contradict itself define as
a) Oxymoron
b) Paradox
c) Simile
d) Metaphor
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Who among the following is not dramatist ?
a) Nicholas Udall
b) Thomas Kyd
c) John Wbster
d) Edmund Burke
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Who is famous for his elegies ?
a) Robert Brwoning
b) Lord Byron
c) Thomas Gray
d) Thomas Pain
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5 |
Who of the following is not a victorian poet?
a) Alfred Tennyson
b) Matthew Arnold
c) Alexander Pope
d) Robert Browning
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6 |
Speech is silver, but silence is gold- is an example of -
a) Antithesis
b) Apostrophe
c) Assonance
d) Anaphora
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Blank verse is a kind of verse -
a) having blanks in the verse
b) having no rhyming end
c) having no significance
d) having no meaning
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so - is a famous dialogue from
a) Macbeth
b) Othello
c) Julias Caeser
d) Hamlet
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In which play would you find the character Lady Capulet?
a) Romeo and Juliet
b) The Tempest
c) Twelfth Night
d) None of them
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Who wrote under the pseudonym Immerito ?
a) Charles Dickens
b) Edmund Spenser
c) G.B Shaw
d) Robert Frost
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Who has written the play Volpone?
a) George Bernard Shaw
b) Ben Jonson
c) William Shakespeare
d) Christopher Marlowe
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12 |
A Modest Proposal was written by -
a) Ben Jonson
b) THomas Gray
c) T.S Eliot
d) Jonathan Swift
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13 |
Who wrote Ulysses ?
a) Robert Brwoning
b) Alfred Tennyson
c) Robert Herrick
d) John Donne
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14 |
What types of work Shooting an Elephant ?
a) Novel
b) Poem
c) Short Story
d) Prose
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15 |
The Tin Drum was written by-
a) Harold Pinter
b) Gunter Grass
c) Joseb Conrad
d) Oscar Wilde
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Who is Eric Arthur Blair?
a) O Henry
b) George Orwell
c) Oscar Wilde
d) Harold Pinter
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Who wrote The Three Musketeers ?
a) Alexander Dumas
b) John Stuart MIill
c) Mark Twain
d) Samuel Butler
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Which of the following books was written by Toni Morrison ?
a) The Lost Symbol
b) The Common Good
c) The Bluest Eye
d) Dog Years
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Who wrote The Definition of Love ?
a) John Donne
b) Andrew Marvel
c) John Keats
d) W.B Yeats
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The Solitary Reaper was written by -
a) W.H Auden
b) W.Wordsworth
c) W.B Yeats
d) Ezra Pound
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21 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls was written by-
a) Charles Dickens
b) Earnest Hamingway
c) Robert Frost
d) G.B Shaw
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Poet of sensuousness-
a) P.B Shelly
b) John Keats
c) S.T Coleridge
d) William Wordsworth
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23 |
The Alchemist was written by-
a) Ben Jonson
b) Jonathan Swift
c) William Blake
d) Thomas Gray
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24 |
The Light House was written by -
a) John Milton
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Ben Johnson
d) William Blake
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25 |
P.B Shelley's Adonais is an elegy on the death of -
a) John Milton
b) John Keats
c) S.T Coleridge
d) Lord Byron
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'Justice delayed is justice denied' was stated by ---
a) Churchill
b) Emerson
c) Shakespeare
d) Gladstone
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All for love's is drama written by_____
a) John Dryden
b) John Bunyan
c) William Congreve
d) Francis Bacon
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28 |
Who wrote the picaresque novel titled Tom Jones?
a) Samuel Richardson
b) Henry Fielding
c) Horace Walpole
d) Laurence Steme
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29 |
What is the term for the use of words that imitate sounds?
a) Metaphor
b) Personification
c) Onomatopoeia
d) Simile
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What is the term for a comparison between two things without using like or as?
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Personification
d) Allusion
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