Solved MCQs on english Litrature.

1)Repetition of same vowel sound ? Assonance 2)The poet who used extensive alliteration ? Keats 3)Wuthering heights written by...

1)Repetition of same vowel sound ?

Assonance

2)The poet who used extensive alliteration ?

Keats

3)Wuthering heights written by ?

Emily Brontë

4)The poem “Byzantium” is written about ?

Imaginary city

5)Carl sadburg born at ?

Illinois

6)T.S Eliot was ?

American by birth; British from 1927

7)Wasteland of Eliot is dedicated to ?

Ezra Pound

8)Shakespeare acted in one of plays of ?

Ben johnson

9)Elizabeth Sewell born in ?

England

10) Linguistics is combination of ______ words ?

Two

11)Sound produced with obstruction of air ?

consonant

12)Semantics meaning ?

“Study of meanings”

13)Word language consists of two_____ words

Latin

14)Simon is character in one of ________ novels

Golding

15)”Everyman in his humour” written by ?

Ben johnson

16) Caretaker written by ?

Pinter

17)Waiting for Godot’s originol language ?

French

18) Stream of consciousness ?

Virginia woolf

19) “Sejanus” is satirical tragedy by ?

Ben johnson

20)Unified sensibility ?

Donne

21)Winding Stair is poem by ?

W.B.Yeats

22) Synaethesia

Unification of senses

23) Time machine-the invisible man written by ?

H.G Wells

24)The egoist written by ?

George Meredith

25) Hardy’s own classification of novels?

Three

26)George Eliot wrote Adam Bede at age of ?

40

27)Age of George Eliot ?

Victorian

28) Chaucer was ?

sarcastic poet

29)Renaissance period ?

1550-1660

30)King Lear written in ?

1603 to 1606

31)17th century’s historical event ?

Civil war

32)Paradise lost was written in ?

1667

33)1660 – 1790 is rise of ?

I chose “Drama” but it’s not confirm.Kindly confirm it

34)Literature became secular towards end of ?

18th century

35)Tragicomedy of Shakespeare is also called ?

Reconciliation play

36)Type of literature,art or music is called ?

Genre

37)Enthusiastic addiction to study of Greek and Roman antiquity led to ?

None (Because it led to hellenism,romantism)

38)Prospero was protagonist of ?

The Tempest

39)Age of Pope is called?

Augusten

40)Metaphysical poet is essay by ?

T.S Eliot

41) Treatise on liberty written by ?

Martin Luther

42)Figure of speech,exaggeration for emphasis ?

Rhetoric

43) Adonis written for ?

Keats

44)Songs of innocence and experience belong to ?

William Blake

45)Original title of Pride and Prejudice

First Impressions

46)Shelley’s first work?

Queen Mab

47)First writer of Picaresque novel ?

I chose Thackeray.Kindly confirm it.

48)The road not taken by Frost is included in his collection ?

Mountain Interval

49)Bacon was intellectually great but morally weak.Who said this ?

?

50)Swift’s irony fused into ?

humour

51)Nothing is beneath science,nor above science.who said ?

I chose Russell

52)Bird in “Ancient mariner” ?

Albatross

53) Milton got blind in age of ?

43

54)Hemingway’s nick in later age ?

Papa

55)Donne’s faith ?

Protestant

56)John Keats gave up career of ____ to become a poet

medicine

57) Poet who studied at Cambridge but got no degree ?

ST Colerdige

58) Which century is most important epoch in intellectual history ?

14th

59)During age of Chaucer,England passed through ?

Medievalism

60)Marlow’s primitive tragedy ?

Tamberlaine

61)Shakespeare comedy rival ?

Ben Jonson

62)Shakespeare comedy contain continental and ?

Mediterranean

63) Shakespeare’s heroines have ?

Feminine traits

64)Who emerged as philosopher in “Merchant of Venice” ?

Portia

65) Which play started with incident of ship wreck ?

?

66)Sir Gwain and Green knight poems were written in ___ age

67)Process of introducing new words ?

Coinage

68)War between flesh and spirit in which novel of Hardy ?

Jude of the Obscure

69)Norman conquest in ?

1066

70)Queen Elizabeth descended throne from ?
1. Robert Stuart 2. Robert…. 3. James Stuart

71)University wits estimated literary period is little more than …….. years.

10 years, 8 years, 7 years, 6 years

72)Brazen

“Shy”

73)Capricious

“Recollect”

74)Extrinsic

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75)fluster

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76) Obdurate

submissive

Synonyms

77)Truncate

shorten

78)Impetuous

“irrational”

79)nincompoop

Foolish

80)Elocution

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81)Ulysses poem was written by?

Tennyson

82)Far fetched metaphor ?

Conceit

83)Because I couldnot stop for death written by ?

Emily Dickinson

84)Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were?

Husband and wife

85. People do not exist in _______but in functioning______

Isolation,communities

86. The military censors______passages in letters that they thought might_____ security.
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87. Only a ____person could be ______to the suffering of people

88. Volcanic rock very often looks shiny because it had been _____

Igneous

89. Fire station had been gone on______ at once
To

90) antonym of callous is