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