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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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2
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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
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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
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The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as-
a)  Personification
b)  onnomatopoeia
c)  alliteration
d)  rhyme
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5
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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
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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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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
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Caroline period of English literature refers to -
a)  1558-1603
b)  1603-1625
c)  1625-1649
d)  1649-1660
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10
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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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11
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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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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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13
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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
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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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17
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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
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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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Who is the poet of the Victorian poet ?
a)  Helen Keller
b)  Matthew Arnold
c)  Lord Byron
d)  Thomas Gray
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Charles Dickens belongs to-
a)  Romantic Age
b)  Victorian Age
c)  Puritan Age
d)  Modern Age
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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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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
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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
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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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25
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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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