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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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2
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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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3
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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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4
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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
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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
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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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7
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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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8
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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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9
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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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10
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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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11
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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
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A Modest Proposal was written by -
a)  Ben Jonson
b)  THomas Gray
c)  T.S Eliot
d)  Jonathan Swift
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13
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Who wrote Ulysses ?
a)  Robert Brwoning
b)  Alfred Tennyson
c)  Robert Herrick
d)  John Donne
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14
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What types of work Shooting an Elephant ?
a)  Novel
b)  Poem
c)  Short Story
d)  Prose
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15
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The Tin Drum was written by-
a)  Harold Pinter
b)  Gunter Grass
c)  Joseb Conrad
d)  Oscar Wilde
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16
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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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17
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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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18
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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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19
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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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20
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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
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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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22
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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
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The Alchemist was written by-
a)  Ben Jonson
b)  Jonathan Swift
c)  William Blake
d)  Thomas Gray
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24
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The Light House was written by -
a)  John Milton
b)  Edgar Allan Poe
c)  Ben Johnson
d)  William Blake
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25
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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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26
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'Justice delayed is justice denied' was stated by ---
a)  Churchill
b)  Emerson
c)  Shakespeare
d)  Gladstone
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27
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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
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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
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What is the term for the use of words that imitate sounds?
a)  Metaphor
b)  Personification
c)  Onomatopoeia
d)  Simile
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30
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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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