Miscellaneous Literature Mcqs - Set 12

1)   The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?

a. Lyrical Ballads
b. My Last Duchess
c. A Tale of Two Cities
d. Canonization
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Lyrical Ballads

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2)   ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Who is the poet of the poem ?

a. Wordsworth
b. Shelley
c. Shakespeare
d. Keats
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ANSWER: Keats

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3)   Who is the author of the book ’Around the World in Eighty Days’ ?

a. Jules Verne
b. H. G. Wells
c. Mark Twain
d. Charles Dickens
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ANSWER: Jules Verne

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4)   The literary work ‘Kubla khan’ is_______________?

a. a history by Vincent Smith
b. a verse by Coleridge
c. a drama by Oscar Wilde
d. a short story by Somerset Maugham
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ANSWER: a verse by Coleridge

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5)   Who is the first modern novelist ?

a. Samuel Richardson
b. Samuel Johnson
c. Samuel Beckett
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Samuel Richardson

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6)   Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’ ?

a. Edmund Walter
b. Jonathan Swift
c. Alexander Pope
d. Dr. Samuel Johnson
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Alexander Pope

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7)   What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?

a. Imagination
b. Modernism
c. Post-modernism
d. None of the above
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ANSWER: Imagination

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8)   A poem mourning someone’s death is called______________?

a. Fable
b. Epic
c. Elegy
d. None of these
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ANSWER: Elegy

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9)   Who is the father of English Literature ?

a. Roger Bacon
b. Robert Browning
c. Geoffrey Chaucer
d. Cynewulf
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Geoffrey Chaucer

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10)   A poem of fourteen lines is called________________?

a. Elege
b. Sonnet
c. Ode
d. Epic
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ANSWER: Sonnet

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11)   Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare ?

a. Christopher Marlowe
b. Lord Tennyson
c. John Milton
d. All of them
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe

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12)   Henry Higgins is a character in________________?

a. Pygmalion
b. saint joan
c. Candida
d. none of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Pygmalion

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13)   ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by______________?

a. Ruskin
b. Carlyle
c. Mill
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Carlyle

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14)   The kind Claudius was killed by________________?

a. Laerteus
b. Hamlet
c. Horatio
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hamlet

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15)   Who is the writer of ‘Harold’ ?

a. George Bernard Shaw
b. A. Lord Tennyson
c. Christopher Marlowe
d. William Shakespeare
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A. Lord Tennyson

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16)   “Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind.”-Example of ?

a. Simile
b. Conceit
c. Metaphor
d. Couplet
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Couplet

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17)   Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?

a. Francis Bacon
b. Geoffery Chaucer
c. King Alfred the Great
d. Henry Fielding
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Henry Fielding

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18)   Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?

a. Arobinda Adigha
b. Salman Rushdie
c. Arundhoti Roy
d. Kiron Dishai
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Arobinda Adigha

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19)   Who propounds “the touchstone method”_______________?

a. Arnold
b. Shelley
c. Pope
d. Dryden
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Arnold

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20)   ‘The Alchemist’ is written by_______________?

a. Ben Johnson
b. Samuel Johnson
c. Marlowe
d. None of them
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ben Johnson

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