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Default English Literature MCQs for Lecturer-ship through SPSC

1. The earliest surviving work in English Literature is

Ans: Caedmon's Hymn

2. The epic poem Beowulf consists

Ans: 3182 alliterative lines

3. Which epic poem from old English Literature has been declared the national epic poem of England?

Ans: Beowulf Epic Poem

4. The epic poem Beowulf is written in

Ans: Scandinavian Script

5. Who wrote the epic poem Beowulf?

Ans: Anonymous

6. The Old English "Martyrology" is a Merican collection of

Ans: Hagiographies

7. Eynsham was a prolific 10th-century writer of

Ans: Hagiographies and Homilies

8. The earliest English poet whose name is known is;

Ans: Caedmon

9. King Alfred's reign ended in

Ans: 9th century

10. In the battle of Maldon in 991, The Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent

Ans: Vikings' Invasion

11. "The Wanderer" is an old English poem that consists

Ans: 115 Lines of alliterative verse

12. A poem that mourns a loss, or has the more general meaning of a simply sorrowful piece of writing is
called;

Ans: Elegy

13. The English Literature is generally seen as beginning with the;

Ans: Epic Poem Beowulf

14. Normans conquered the England in

Ans: 1066

15. Which language became the standard language of courts, parliament and polite society during the
reign of Normans?

Ans: Law French

16. Who translated the Bible in the Middle English Period?

Ans: Wycliffe

17. Which pre-Reformation movement rejected many of the distinctive teachings of the Roman Catholic
Church?

Ans: The Lollard Movement

18. The term "Lollard" refers to whom?

Ans: The followers of John Wycliffe

19. A prominent theologian who was dismissed from the University of Oxford in 1381 for criticism of the
Church was;

Ans: John Wycliffe

20. Middle English Period lasts up till the;

Ans: 1470

21. Patience and Purity are alliterative poems written by;

Ans: Sir Gawain

22. What is the term "Chancery Standard" meant in English Literature?

Ans: A form of London-based English

23. Where is the Geoffrey Chaucer buried in?

Ans: Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey

24. Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for his;

Ans: Canterbury Tales

25. The first recorded association of Valentine's Day is in Chaucer's;

Ans: Parliament of Fouls

26. Who was the personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer?

Ans: John Gower

27. Which book is believed to be the first published book written by a woman in the English language?
Ans: Revelation of Divine Love

28. William Caxton invented the printing press in

Ans: 1476

29. Pilgrim's progress is a famous allegory of medieval period written by;

Ans: John Bunyan

30. Renaissance is usually regarded as beginning in 14th-century in;

Ans: Italy

31. The term Renaissance in English Literature means

Ans: Re-birth

32. The English Renaissance was actually the;

Ans: Cultural and Artistic Movement

33. John Florio was an excellent;

Ans: Linguist and Lexicographer

34. Sonnet was introduced into English Literature from

Ans: Italian Literature

35. The Faerie Queene, an epic poem was written by

Ans: Edmund Spencer

36. The defense of the poetry is the work of

Ans: Sir Philip Sidney

37. What is significant about "Gorboduc" the first verse drama in English Literature?

Ans: Blank Verse was used in it for the first time ever

38. Reign of the Elizabeth-I started in

Ans: 1558
39. Reign of the James-I started in

Ans: 1603

40. Thomas Wyatt is one of the earliest English poet of

Ans: Renaissance Age

41. Who is known as the poets' poet in English Literature?

Ans: Edmund Spencer

42. Sonnet is a

Ans: 14-lines poem

43. What is called the first eight lines of Sonnet?

Ans: Octave

44. What is called the last six lines of Sonnet?

Ans: Sestet

45. What is the rhyming scheme of Octave in sonnet?

Ans: a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a

46. What is the rhyming scheme of sestet in sonnet?

Ans: : c-d-e-c-d-e or c-d-c-c-d-c.

47.William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe were

Ans:Elizabethan age playwrights.

48. Dr. Faustus is the very famous play, written by

Ans: Christopher Marlowe

49. The Alchemist, comedy was written by

Ans: Ben Johnson

50. The 'Table Alphabeticall' is believed to be first ever dictionary in English language was written in
1604 by;

51. What is the meaning of “Renaissance” ?

Rebirth, revival and re-awaking

Ans; Robert Cawdrey

52. English Civil War was fought during the reign of

Ans: King Charles I

53. Who was the last great poet of the age of renaissance?

Ans. John Milton

54. John Milton got blind at the age of

Ans. 40

55. The most dominant figure of the age of Restoration is

Ans. John Dryden

56. The first ever significant female novelist was

Ans. Aphra Behn

57. The first official/formal poet laureate is believed to be

Ans. John Dryden

58. Who introduced Alexdandrine and Triplet into english poetry for the first time?

Ans. John Dryden

59. The age of enlightenment which started in 18th century is also known as

Ans. Age of reason/Augustan age

60. Which english poet is most discussed after Shakespeare?

Ans. Robert Burns

61. What is the meaning of the term "Magnum Opus"?

Ans: Master Piece

62. Which English poet was born with deformed feet?

Ans: Lord Byron

63. Which drug did Samuel Taylor Coleridge use to take?

Ans: Opium

64. Name the English poet, who got blind at the age of 40.

Ans: John Milton

65. Which Irish poet, dramatist and novelist was accused of porns and sodomite.

Ans: Oscar Wild

66. Democracy is the tyranny of majority. Who said this?

Ans: JS Mill

67. Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, for the people and by the people. Whose statement is
this?

Ans: Oscar Wilde

68. Due to which unique quality Oscar Wilde is so famous?

Ans: Hard Hitting Quotations

69. Man can be destroyed but can't be defeated. These words are taken from

Ans: Old Man and the Sea

70. How Ernest Hemingway was died?

Ans: He had killed himself/Suicided.

71. Gulliver's Travels is the Magnum opus of

Ans: Jonathon Swift

72. Who is believed as the father of English Literature?

Ans: Geoffrey Chaucer

73. How many total stories are there in The Canterbury Tales?

Ans: 24

74. King James Bible that was first ever bible written in English Language, published in

Ans: 1611

75. Renaissance Movement is believed to be started first in fourteenth century in

Ans: Italy

76. Who is credited to introduce sonnet in English Literature?

Ans: Thomas Wyatt.

77. Who has written one of the all times best novel war and piece?

Ans: Leo Tolstoy ( a Russian novelist)

78. Name the very famous French novelist who wrote Madame Bovary?

Ans: Gastave Flaubert

79. How many total acts are in Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer' Night's Dream?

Ans: Five

80. Who is considered the most significant auther after Shakespeare in English Literature?

Ans: John Milton

81. Who uttered these words “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all” ?

John Keats

82. Which was Marlowe’s first play ?

Tamburlaine

83. To which theater was Christopher Marlow associated with ?

English Renaissance theatre

84. What was the first published title of Christopher Marlow’s play The Jew of Malta ?

The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta

85. The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by ?

Wyclif

86. Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance ?

15th

87. Renaissance first came to the ?

Italy
88. Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus’ character at the beginning
of the play ?

arrogant

89. Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance ?

Spencer

90. “On his blindness”, a collection of sonnets is written by ?

John Milton

91. “The Prince Of Poets in his time”, on whom grave the inscription is written ?

Edmund Spencer

92. What is Faerie Queene ?

An allegory

93. Who wrote “Holy Sonnets” ?

John Donne

94. Who wrote “The Massacre at Paris” ?

Christopher Marlowe

95. Which famous work of John Milton’s was based on the fall of man ?

Paradise Lost

96. What is the meaning of Milton’s work Samson Agonistes ?

Wrestler

97. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?

How do I love thee

98. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry

Meter

99. The repetition of similar ending sounds

Rhyme
100. Applying human qualities to non-human things

Personification

101. The repetition of beginning consonant sound

Alliteration

102. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as

metaphor

103. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

simile

104. Using words or letters to imitate sounds

onomatopoeia

105. a description that appeals to one of the five senses

imagery

106. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters

narrative

107. A poem with no meter or rhyme

free verse

108. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme

lyric

109. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

Iambic pentameter

110. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?

William Carlos Williams

111. Who wrote this famous line: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/ Thou art more lovely and
more temperate…'

Shakespeare
112. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?

The 12th

113. From which of Shakespeare's plays is this famous line: 'Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it,
sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night'

Romeo and Juliet

114. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

Acrostic

115. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?

Robert Burns

116. How has Stephen Dunn been described in 'the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?

A poet of middleness

117. 'The Cambridge school' refers to a group who emerged when?

The 1960's

118. Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?

Ottowa

119. Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?

Skeptical & Impressionistic

120. Which Welsh poet wrote "Under Milk Wood?"

Dylan Thomas

121. Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

Geoffrey Chaucer

122. Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles?"

Arthur Conan Doyle

123. ___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?

Camille

124. Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

125. Who wrote "Ten Little Niggers?"

Agatha Christie

126. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?

The Poor Man and the Lady & The Return of Native

127. Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, Wine, and Snuff?"

John Keats

128. "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death
into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden."This is an extract from:

Paradise Lost

129. William Shakespeare was born in the year:

1564

130. Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale?'

William Shakespeare

131. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.

132. What is the word for a "play on words"?

pun

133. Which represents an example of alliteration?

Peter Piper Picked Peppers

134. What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

Onomatopoeia

135. The theme is ...?

the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.

136. Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem.

theme, purpose, form, and mood.

137. Which is not a poetry form?

tale

138. Which is an example of a proverb?

You can't have your cake and eat it, too

139. Which is an exaggeration?

Hyperbole

140. Who has defined 'poetry' as a fundamental creative act using languages?

Dylan Thomas

141. What is a sonnet?

A poem of fourteen lines

142. What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?

Prosody

143. Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?

Hyperbole

144. There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by - This is a couplet from the Bailiff's
Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?

Synecdoche

145. Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?

Arabic

146. Complete this Shakespearan line - Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:

Impediments

147. Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?

a. Jintishi
148. What is the title of the poem that begins thus - 'What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to
stand and stare'?

Leisure

149. Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?

William Wordsworth

150. What is a funny poem of five lines called?

Limerick

151. How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?

A game of knowledge

152. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?

War poems

153. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?

St Louis

154. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?

Sylvia Plath

155. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?

28

156. In what form did Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' first become known?

A radio play

157. The magazine 'Contemporary Poetry and Prose' was inspired by which exhibition?

The Surrealist Exhibition

158. Why did 'Poetry Quarterly' cease publication in 1953?

Owner convicted of fraud

159. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?

Novelist

160. Of which poet was it said 'Even if he's not a great poet, he's certainly a great something'?
Kipling

161. Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?

the Anglo-Saxons

162. Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman
Conquest in 1066?

French

163. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in
French, English, and German literatures?

Arthur

164. Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting
business in Parliament and in court of law?

fourteenth

165. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?

Edward III

166. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?

Geoffrey Chaucer

167. What was vellum?

parchment made of animal skin

168. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:

the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

169. What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?

a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

170. Who was the first English Christian king?

Ethelbert

171. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood
vengeance?
everlasting shame

172. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:

admiration and elegiac sympathy.

173. The use of "whale-road"for sea and "life-house"for body are examples of what literary technique,
popular in Old English poetry?

kenning

174. Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry?

Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.

175. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?

ironic understatement

176. How did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern
France?

his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

177. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?

Dutch

178. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance"emerged, initially apply?

a work written in the French vernacular

179. Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to

the clergy

180. What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain?

the reign of King Arthur

181. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for

women who have chosen to live as religious recluses

182. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering"of Middle English literature is
evident in the works of which of the following writers?

the Gawain poet

183. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?

The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

184. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?

Dante's Divine Comedy

185. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

William Langland

186. What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?

the War of the Roses

187. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?

the morality play

188. Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true?

She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.

189. Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir
Lancelot?

Sir Thomas Malory

190. Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first work?

The Spanish Tragedy

191. Marlowe born in________

1564

192. In "the tragic history of Doctor Faustus". Faustus was a :

German scholar

193. Who wrote "The Massacre at Paris"?

Christopher Marlowe

194. After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem "Hero and Leander"?

George Chapman

195. Who succeeded Lyly?

Robert Greene

196. Which of the Marlowe's plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash?

The tragedy of Dido and Queen of Carthage..

197. Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?

Thomas lodge

198. The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as:

The Paston letters

199. Who wrote "Holy Sonnets"?

John Donne

200. Who wrote following lines:

201. "........ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls
for thee."

John Donne

202. "On his blindness", a collection of sonnets is written by:

John Milton

203. "Paradise lost" was lost by:

Eve & Adam

204. In "Paradise regained" who regained the paradise?

Jesus

205. Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest
rank of living writers?

The Shepherd's calendar

206. Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to --------------------------------------?

Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle

207. John Donne's "The Anniversaries" is a:

An elegy in two parts

208. Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?

Spencer

209. During Spencer's visit to his Kinsfolk in Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures
as__________________ much of his work:

Rosalind

210. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?

Homer

211. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?

Allen Tate

212. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third sections from?

Dante

213. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land?

Sysyphus

214. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?

guardian

215. Estella is the daughter of?

Joe Gargery

216. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?

Unto This Last

217. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

Catholicism

218. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?

humour and pathos

219. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?
The Bible

220. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?

Satan

221. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?

Gertrude

222. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?

Ralph and Jack

223. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a

lawyer

224. What does the ‘I’ stand for in the following line?

‘To Carthage then I came’

Augustine

225. The following lines are an exampl of.............image.

‘The river sweats Oil and tar’

erotic

226. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?

Vanity Fair

227. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?

Zeus

228. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?

Hopkins

229. Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?

Swinburne

230. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?

The Tempest
231. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?

Act III, Scene I

232. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor

Gonzalo

233. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?

Or, What you Will

234. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.

Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?

Hamlet

235. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?

Earl of Northumberland

236. Paradise Lost was originally written in?

eight books

237. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

Wickham

238. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?

S. T. Coleridge

239. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?

Philip Pip

240. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?

Mexico

241. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?

Lord of the Flies

242. Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
Mrs. Morel

243. Vanity Fair is a novel by?

W. M. Thackeray

244. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?

Keats

245. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?

The White Peacock

246. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?

Dorothy

247. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics?

Wordsworth

248. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

249. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—

P. B. Shelley

250. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?

Leigh Hunt

251. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?

1833

252. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?

Keats

253. Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London?

Charles Lamb

254. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
T. S. Eliot

255. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?

A. H. Hallam

256. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?

Robert Browning

257. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?

Atalanta in Calydon

258. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History is a course of?

five lectures

259. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?

Cromwell

260. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially
Turner?

Modem Painters

261. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?

B. Disraeli

262. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—

D. G. Rossetti

263. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?

OttavaRima

264. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?

Earl of Surrey

265. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?

Matthew Arnold

266. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him
falsely true.”
Oxymoron

267. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?

Sailing to Byzantium

268. Who is Pip’s friend in London?

Jaggers

269. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?

A thief

270. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from?

William Shakespeare

271. “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.” Who speaks the
lines given above in Twelfth Night?

Sir Toby Belch

272. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Milton’s?

Spirit of revolt

273. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge”?

Wordsworth

274. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?

Duke

275. What was the cause of William’s death in Sons and Lovers?

Pneumonia

276. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream?

Kubla Khan

277. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to theWest Wind’?

Terza rima

278. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?

John Ruskin

279. Tracts for the Times relates to?

The Oxford Movement

280. The Chartist Movement sought?

Protection of the political rights of the working class

281. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?

Coleridge

282. Who was “Fortinbras”?

Son to the king of Norway

283. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?

Five

284. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” The above lines have
been taken from?

The Second Coming

285. The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is?

Sensuousness

286. The key-note of Browning’s philosophy of life is?

optimism

287. The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means?

Tailor Repatched

288. “Epipsychidion” is composed by?

Shelley

289. “The better part of valour is discretion” occurs in Shakespeare’s—?

Henry IV, Pt I

290. Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton?

Paradise Lost

291. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work?

Graham Greene

292. Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?

‘First Impressions’

293. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures

Pride and Prejudice

294. ‘There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” The line given above occurs in

Hamlet

295. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes?

John Ruskin

296. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s greatest?

comic figures

297. That Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it, was said by?

Blake

298. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in
vain’?

Matthew Arnold

299. Essays of Ella are?

practically autobiographical fragments

300. The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ is?

Women’s Education and Rights

301. Thackeray’s “Esmond” is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of?

the Medieval age

302. Oedipus Complex is?

a son’s attraction towards his mother

303. “My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect.” Who
wrote this?

D. H. Lawrence

304. Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play?

Twelfth Night

305. “The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.” This line occurs in?

The Tempest

306. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a?

Domestic novel

307. ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This line occurs in the poem?

Immortality Ode

308. Wordsworth calls himself ‘a Worshipper of Nature’ in his poem—

Tintern Abbey

309. When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’ was first published in 1802, it had only?

Stanzas I toV

310. Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel “Great Expectations”?

Direct or epic method

311. Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’?

Coleridge

312. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary descendant of?

Keats

313. To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply?

“The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.”

Hamlet

314. Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is included in?

Dramatis Personae

315. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of?

Royal Society of Literature

316. Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?

Sandition

317. Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout her life in “Great Expectations”?

She was arrogant

318. W. B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in the year?

1923

319. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced by the?

French Revolution

320. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the?

Romantic revival

321. ‘O, you are sick of self-love’ Who is referred to in these words in Twelfth Night?

Malvolio

322. Hamlet is?

a passionate lover

323. Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims; ‘Brave, new, world!’?

Miranda

324. Paradise Lost shows an influence of?

Christianity and the Renaissance

325. The style of Paradise Lost is?

more Latin than most poems

326. In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?
Darcy

327. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower?

Polonius

328. Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Pt I contains his?

patriotism

329. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The
majority of English literary periods are named after:

Monarchs or political events

330. Which period of literature came first?

Restoration

331. In what language did Shakespeare write?

Modern English

332. Jane Austen wrote during this period.

Regency

333. Which work was published first?

Blake’s "Songs of Innocence"

334. Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?

Beowulf

335. Who wrote first?

Howard, Earl of Surrey

336. Which work was completed last?

John Milton's "Paradise Lost"

337. One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who?

Sir Walter Scott

338. The Bronte sisters wrote during this period.

Victorian
339. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the
20th century?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

340. This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century.

Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"

341. Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century?

Thomas Carew

342. Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the
Restoration period?

The French Revolution

343. Which of the following literary sub-periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period?

Jacobean Age

344. Which of the following periods of English literature came last?

The Commonwealth Period

345. This work was written before the other three choices.

Bede's "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"

346. World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have
been touched by that event?

Oscar Wilde

347. The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the:

Enlightenment

348. The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as:

Moliere

349. The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was:

Aphra Behn
350. In which century was Piers Plowman written?

14th

351. Geoffrey Chaucer served which king?

Edward III

352. The 18th century work 'Tom Jones" was written by whom?

Henry Fielding

353. In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to write for which publication?

The Time's Literary Supplement

354. Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' takes place over what period of time?

24 hours

355. What was the nationality of Oscar Wilde?

Irish

356. Who wrote the poem "Requiem"?

Robert Louis Stevenson

357. the prevailing feature of Chaucer's humour is its

urbanity

358. Who is the first great English critic-poet?

Sir Philip Sidney

359. HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by

Thomas gray

360. Who wrote the poem 'The Seven Ages'?

William Shakespeare

361. Who write the story "Story Teller" ?

Saki
362. Who wrote: "Reader, I married him."?

Charlotte Bronte

363. Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."?

William Butler Yeats

364. In which work do you read: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."?

The Second Coming

365. Who wrote: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?

John Keats

366. In which work do you read: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?

Ode on a Grecian Urn

367. Who wrote: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree..."?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

368. In which work do you read: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree..."?

Kubla Khan

369. A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?

Opium

370. Who wrote: "I would prefer not to."?

Herman Melville

371. Who wrote: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and
debt."?

Henrik Ibsen

372. In which work do you read: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on
borrowing and debt."?

A Doll's House

373. Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!"?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

374. In which work do you read: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty,
and despair!"?

Ozymandias

375. Who wrote: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive."?

Robert Browning

376. In which work do you read: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were
alive."?

My Last Duchess

377. Who wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."?

T.S. Eliot

378. In which work do you read: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."?

Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock

A "classic" book is usually one that possesses what quality?

379. It has universal appeal, It can stand the test of time & It makes connections.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities?

London and Paris

380. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city?

New York City

381. Which book was not written by Jane Austen?

Sense and Suspensibility

382. What is Shakespeare's longest play?

Hamlet

383. The poem 'The Battle of Maldon' celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who
was it between

Danes and English

384. The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch?
Elizabeth Tudor

385. Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel?

Vanity Fair

386. How many children were there in the Bronte family?

387. Who composed The Preludes?

William Wordsworth

388. Who is termed as "The Morning Star of Renaissance"?

Chaucer

389. Who began the tradition of revenge play ?

Thomas kyd

390. How many lines are there in a Sonnet?

14

391. What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet?

Capulet And Montague

392. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?

Albatross

393. What was the name of the Bronte sister?s only brother?

Branwell

394. In which county was Jane Austin born?

Hampshire

395. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?

Great Expectations

396. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early
years?
Liberals & Radicals

397. Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true?

Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.

Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.

398. What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings?

enclosure

399. Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free
operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not
interfere in any person's pursuit of their personal interests?

laissez-faire

400. What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song:
"Men of England" and England in 1819?

the Peterloo Massacre

401. Who applied the term "Romantic" to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830?

English historians half a century after the period ended. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads
of 1798, thus demonstrating the "spirit of the age," which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended
on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

402. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's
claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as "the
spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"?

the lyric poem written in the first person

403. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as
well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but
also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?

William Wordsworth

404. What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called "mesmerism," one of the "occult"
practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness?

hypnotism
405. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when
Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution?

biblical reverence

406. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic
era?

London Magazine & The Edinburgh Review

407. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by "legitimate" drama?

The play was spoken.

408. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists
wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own
era?

Jane Austen

409. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

410. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the

bard

411. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to "'Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and 'Wagons'!"?

Wordsworth's devotion to the ordinary and everyday

412. Wordsworth described all good poetry as

the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

413. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as
well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but
also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?

William Wordsworth

414. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?

opium, dreams & childhood

415. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?

Immanuel Kant
416. Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary?

George III

417. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832?

about half of middle class men

almost all working class men

all women

418. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn
of the Romantic era?

Too many of its readers were women.

It required less skill than other genres.

It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.

Too many of its authors were women.

419. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are?

William Godwin's Caleb Williams

420. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form?

the fragment

421. Who exemplified the role of the "peasant poet(s)"?

John Clare & Robert Burns

422. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in
flux?

Jane Austen

423. Which ruler's reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era?

Queen Victoria

424. Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth
century?
Tokyo

425. By 1890, what percentage of the earth's population was subject to Queen Victoria?

25%

426. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by "Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe"?

Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

427. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation?

The lower middle classes

428. Elizabeth Barrett's poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on
the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s?

child labor

429. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?

the rich and the poor

430. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period's contentment with the
burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change?

Anthony Trollope

431. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria?

To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament
to the private East India Company.

432. What does the phrase "White Man's Burden," coined by Kipling, refer to?

the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world

433. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism?

a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest
number

434. Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like
they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated?

geology, evolution& discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances

435. Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the
immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire?
the India Mutiny in 1857

the Boer War in the south of Africa

the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

the Irish Question

436. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism?

William Morris, John Ruskin & Karl Marx

437. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the
Victorian era?

studied melancholy and aestheticism

438. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era?

the Women's Suffrage Act

439. Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The Princess address?

the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the

440. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson's The Princess.

Man for the field and woman for the _____: hearth;

Man for the sword and for the _____ she: needle;

Man with the head and woman with the _____: heart;

Man to command and woman to _____.obey

441. What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels?

the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail

the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society

442. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics?

The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

443. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry
and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way?
the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the
poem.

sound as a means to express meaning

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

444. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as "the special and opportune art of the modern
world"?

nonfiction prose

445. What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose?

a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

446. For what do Matthew Arnold's moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater's aesthetic
investment together pave the way?

modern literary criticism

447. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions?

W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Oscar Wilde & Robert Corrigan

448. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement
which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism?

art for art's sake

449. What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling
compulsory?

the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed

450. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?

Eminent Victorians & The Way of All Flesh

451. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker
Sigmund Freud associated?

psychoanalysis

452. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine
human identity in radically new ways?
Sigmund Freud, Sir James Frazer & Friedrich Nietzsche

453. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the
twentieth century?

the creation of the internet

454. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra
Pound?

an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and
clarity of imagery

455. What characteristics of seventeenth-century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of

modernist poets and critics?

its intellectual complexity & its union of thought and passion

456. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more _______ but less _______ than older
modernists such as Eliot and Pound.

radical; inventive

457. Which poet could be described as part of "The Movement" of the 1950s?

Thom Gunn & Philip Larkin

458. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916?

the southern counties of Ireland

459. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature?

stream of consciousness

460. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel?

narrative realism

461. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new "mythical method" in place of the old "narrative
method" and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about "making
the modern world possible for art"?

James Joyce's Ulysses

462. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the
heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist writers?

George Orwell
463. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory?

Paul Scott's Staying On

464. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928.

1960

465. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre?

the Irish National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre

466. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the
Cathedral and The Cocktail Party?

religious symbolism and society comedy

467. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?

"nothing happens-twice"

468. What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and perform work that was
politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear of censorship?

the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain's office in 1968

469. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of
censorship in 1968?

The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

The emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists

The diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

470. What did Henry James describe as "loose baggy monsters"?

novels
Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Literature

Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Poetry

Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Language

Geoffrey Chaucer = The Morning Star of the Renaissance

Geoffrey Chaucer = The First National Poet

Venerable Bede = The Father of English Learning.

Venerable Bede = The Father of EnglishHistory

King Alfred the Great = The Father of English Prose

Aeschylus = The Father of Tragedy

Nicholas Udall = The First English Comedy Writer

Edmund Spenser = The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)

Edmund Spenser = The Child of Renaissance

Edmund Spenser = The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation

Gutenberg = The Father of Printing

William Caxton = Father of English Press

Francis Bacon = The Father of English Essay

John Wycliffe = The Morning Star of the Reformation

Christopher Marlowe = The Father of English Tragedy

William Shakespeare = Bard of Avon

William Shakespeare = The Father of English Drama

William Shakespeare = Sweet Swan of Avon William Shakespeare = The Bard

Robert Burns = The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)

Robert Burns = The National Poet of Scotland Robert Burns = Rabbie

Robert Burns = The Ploughman Poet

William Dunber = The Chaucer of Scotland

John Dryden = Father of English criticism

William of Newbury = Father of Historical Criticism

John Donne = Poet of love John Donne = Metaphysical poet

John Milton = Epic poet John Milton = The great master of verse

John Milton = Lady of the Christ College

John Milton = Poet of the Devil’s Party

John Milton = Master of the Grand style

John Milton = The Blind Poet of England

Alexander Pope = Mock heroic poet

William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature

William Wordsworth = The High Priest of Nature

William Wordsworth = The Poet of Nature William Wordsworth = The Lake Poet

William Wordsworth = Poet of Childhood.

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The subjugation of Women (1869) is an important text of:

John Mill
Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?

Maud

The line “she dwells with Beauty – Beauty that must be” occurs in Keats’

Ode on Melancholy

Negative Capability to Keats, means

To empathize

“Art for arts sake” found its true adherent in:

Wilde

It as the best of times, it was the worst of time, it was the worst – the opening of Dickens’

A Tales of Two Cities

The character of Little Neil is a creation of:

Dickens

“Idylls of the King” is illustration of Tennyson’s deep interest in:

The role of the king

Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?

Wordsworth
Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous?

Wordsworth

The image of the femme fatale dominates the poetry of:

Keats

Little Time is a character in Hardy’s

Jude the Obscure

Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley?

Adonis

The moral choice is everything in the works of:

Dickens

Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy?

Unto this Last

Which one of the following poets named the Romantic poet as the “pond poets”?

Southey

The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:

The Crimean War

The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to write:

The Grecian Urn

Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a:

Dramatic Lyrics

Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?

Southey

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is

A tragedy

Earnest Hamingway has written

Old Man and the Sea

Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?

Jonathan Swift

Which of the following is not a dramatist?

Byron

Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?

Dr. Faustus

E. M. Foster is a

Novelist
“The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by:

Charles Dickens

Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?

Charlotte Bronte

After whom is the Elizabethan Age named?

Elizabeth-I

What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?

The Prelude

A poem mourning someone’s death is called:

Elegy

Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare?

Merchant of Venice

Who wrote “The Second Coming”?

W. B. Yeats

What period in English Literature is called the “Augustans Age”?

Early 18th Century

Which play among the following plays is not blank verse?

Pygmalion

Which one of the following writers is not woman?

Robert Browning

Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?

Claudius

Who kills Macbeth in the play “Macbeth”?

Macduff

Which is the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies?

King Lear

Who is the heroine of Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”?

Ophelia

Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from:

Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface

Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use?

An "airy fairy"

Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects:

The creation of an original philosophy

Byron’s Poetry is ambiguous and has a vividness of phrasing which sometimes reaches the point of
abstraction:

True

"English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" is a satirical attack on contemporary writers who had annoyed
Byron.

True

In 1850, Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate.

True

Mary Anne Evans is the same person as George Eliot.

True

Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural.

False

The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was:

Shakespeare

Shelly was a firm believer in all of the following except:

Human conduct based on conviction

Shelley’s poetry used all of the following components for themes except:

Worship of God
The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to:

Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

Charles Lamb’s "Dream Children" is notable for its:

Whimsical Pathos

The Victorian age can be dated by which of the following events and years:

Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901)

Which of the following works ‘had the greatest influence on the Victorian Age?

Tennyson’s "In memoriam"

In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success:

The Novel

Identify the sources of the quotations listed below:

"Hail to thee blithe spirit"

"To a sky Lark"

"Spirit of beauty that dost consecrate"

"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"

"Paint/Must never hope to reproduce the- faint Halfflush that dies along her throat".

"May Last Duchess"

" Where are the songs of Spring? Ay,- where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too

"Ode to Autumn"

"Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu",

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting"

"Intimations of Immortality’ (Ode)

"A hand may first and then a lip be kist;

"Don Juan"

For my part, to such doings I’m a stranger"

"My hair is grey, but not with years, nor grew it white, In a single night"

"The Prisoner of Chillon"

Who wrote "Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’?

Palmer D.J.

Which. of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?

Pygmalion

Who is the author of ‘After Strange Gods’?

Eliot
Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet’?

Claudius

Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?

Ophelia

After whom the Elizabethan Age is named:

Elizabeth I

Who wrote ‘Common Pursuit’?

Leavis, F.R.

‘ Paradise Lost is an epic by:

Milton

"After Apple Picking" is written by:

Robert Frost

Old Man and the Sea was written by:

Earnest Hemingway

"Intellectual Beauty" is written by:

P.B.Shelley
Who wrote "20th Century Views"?

Abrahams, M. H.

‘Desert Places’ is a:

Poem

The University Wits were:

Playwrights

William Shakespeare was Born in:

1564

Francis Bacon died in:

1626

The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:

The Restoration

Who wrote "The Pilgrim’s Progress"?

John Bunyan

‘‘The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of:

Jonathan Swift

The abstract theory of utilitarianism is the theme of Dicken’s novel:

Hard Times
The one remains, the many change and pass;

Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadows fly;

Shelley’s Adonis

Name the character of a novel of Thomas Hardy, which is much like Oedipus, King Lear and Faust.

Tess.

She can not fade, though thou hast not the bliss,

For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ode on a Grecian Urn

‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream
world’, is the theme of Tennyson’s:

The Lotos - Eaters

Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s novel:

The Mill on the Floss

"In all things, in all natures, in the stars,

This active principle abides,"

Identify the poet and his peculiar belief that can be understood from the above lines.

William Wordsworth as he was of the opinion that in this universe ‘nature’ is the point of focus for
everything.

“Thy, Damnation, Slunbreth, Not”

Name the writer, his book and the character who uttered/wrote these words.
Writer – Thomas Hardy

Book – Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Character – a young man who is traveling the countryside painting scripture on the sides of barns walks

In Memoriam by Tennyson is:

an elegy

The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was written by:

Blake

‘Unto This Last’ is a book written by:

Ruskin on moral reforms

Mathew Arnold said: “An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”, about:

Shelley

For whom it is said: “sensuousness is a paramount bias of his genius”:

Keats

“Meeting at Night” by Browning is a:

Monologue

A pioneer is psychological analysis in fiction is:

G. Eliot
“Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty’s form Glasses itself in tempest”.

The above line occur in Byron’s:

Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Oceans

Dickens gives a tragic picture of the French Revolution in his novel:

A Tale of Two Cities

Love of political freedom, always the noblest of Byron’s passions, inspired him to write:

The prisoner of Chillon

An aesthetic delight in art and a streak of extreme sadistic cruelty can be observed in Browning’s Poem:

Pippa Passes

Edward Fitzgerald’s “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” inspired Browning to write:

Rabbi Ben Ezra

Shakespeare uses soliloquy for:

revelation of character

‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a:

Satire

Hemingway wrote:

The Sun also Rises

The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is

Elizabeth

‘Hyperion’ by Keats may be classified as:

An Epic

T. S. Eliot wrote:

The Waste Land

G.B. Shaw’s principles of criticism are similar to those of:

Karl Marx

“The Waste Land’ is:

Blank verse

Yeats poetry possess the imaginative mysticism of:

Criticism

Who considers Hamlet to be an Artistic failure

Eliot

Which influence is shown in the work of Shaw?

French
Eliot shows a bent towards

Romanticism

Mrs. Dalloway is the masterpiece of:

V. Woolf

The Central Figure among the Victorian Poets is:

Tennyson

Browning is known for his:

Dramatic Monologue

Which novel is written by D. H. Lawrence?

Sons and Lovers

The ‘Arcadia’ by Sir Philip Sydney is a:

Romance

‘The Faerie Queene’ was written by:

Spenser

‘The Crowns of Wild Olive’ was written by:

Ruskin

David Copper Field, Hard Times and Little Dorrit, all were written by:
Dickens

‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement?

Wordsworth

“A long poem is a combination of short poems.” Who has held the above opinion?

Wordsworth

Rabbi Ben Ezra was written by?

Browning

In 1857, Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford delivered his inaugural lecture in

English

The second generation of the romantic poets (Shelley, Byron and Keats) was dead by:

1825

The Advertisement added to the Lyrical Ballads was published in:

1798

Hero and Hero Worship was written by:

Carlyle

Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria?

In Memoriam
Hardy’s Nature is:

Indifferent

Does the personal name Lucy (in Wordsworth’s poetry) stands for

Dorothy

‘Who knows but the world many end to-night.’ In which of Browning’s poems the above line appears?

The Last Ride together

The Prelude was written in”

None of these

The Crown of Wild Olive is written by:

Ruskin

Oscar Wilde believed in:

Aestheticism

‘Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.’ Who has written these lines?

Wordsworth

When was the poem Tintern Abbey written?

1798

The correct date of French Revolution:

1789

Human situation in Hardy’s novels is controlled by:

Fate

"Prophets of Nature ……………………. What we have loved Other will love …………….”

In which poem by Wordsworth do these lines appear?

One Summer Evening

“But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these lines appear?

Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)

Fortinbras is a character of the play:

Hamlet

Who wrote preface to Shakespeare:

Dr. Johnson

The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is also called:

Hamartia

The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare

Dramatic monologue

Who is believed to be suffering from Oedipus Complex:

Oedipus
Whose comedies are called ‘Comedies of Mask’:

Bernard Shaw’s

Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd

Backett

Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway’s Waste Land?

None of these

Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by:

Wordsworth

Which is called the Victorian Age:

19th Century

A poem which consists of fourteen line is called:

A Sonnet

‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by”

T. S. Eliot

‘End Game’ is written by:

Beckett
My soul had been a lawn besprinkled O’er with flowers, and Stirring Shades, and baffled dreams is an
example of:

Metaphor

Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of:

Alliteration

‘Pleasant Pain’ is an example of”

Oxymoron

Which of the plays is not written by T. S. Eliot?

The importance of being Earnest

Which of the novels is not written by Jane Austen?

Adam Bede

‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:

A Poem

‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:

Pygmalion

Who said ‘The true opposite of Poetry is not Prose but Science’.

Coleridge

“The first in beauty should be first in might” … is the line spoken in Hyperion by:

Hyperion
The Eve of St. Agnes is written by:

Keats

Adonis is modeled on:

Bion’s lament for Adonis

Hardy is a:

Pessimist

Who is one of the lake poets:

Coleridge

Ernest De Selincourt is the editor of:

The Prelude

Who usually caricatures his characters?

Dickens

Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by:

T. S. Eliot

‘Hebrew Melodies’ is written by:

Byron
‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that must die’ is a line from

Ode to Melancholy

‘A Little Girl Lost’ is written by:

Blake

The first eight lines of a sonnet are called

Octave

The Revolt of Islam is a:

Lyrical Drama

The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called

Alliteration

‘The child is the father of man’ is a line from Wordsworth’s:

My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky.

‘Lady Windermere’s fan’ is written by:

Oscar Wilde

Who wrote ‘Tales From Shakespeare’?

Charles Lamb and his sister

‘East Coker’ is written by:

T. S. Eliot

In which poem lies the line ‘The One remain, the many change and pass’?

Adonis

OF all his predecessors, the following exerted a direct influence upon Shakespeare.

Lyly and Marlowe

Shakespeare has written

Comedies, Tragedies & Historical Plays

Jane Austen’s other writings are:

Sense and Sensibility, Emma & Persuasion

Texts like Waiting for Godot are:

Ageless

“We are such stuff as dreams are made”. Whose words are these.

Shakespeare

The only play by Shakespeare which confirms to the classical unities is:

Twelfth Night

Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were:

European
‘Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind’ who has said these words:

Lord Chesterfield

Arms and the Man – a novel is written by:

George Bernard Shaw

‘Proper study of Mankind is man’ – who has said these words:

Pope

‘Supernaturalism’ was an important feature of the poetry of:

Coleridge

‘Sweet Hellen make me immortal with kiss’. Who has said these words?

Marlow

Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads:

Wordsworth

The word renaissance means:

Rebirth

‘Of Studies’ an essay is written by:

Francis Bacon
Spenser was:

a poet

All is well that ends well is a:

Comedy

The second shortest play of Shakespeare is:

Much ado about nothing

‘Paradise Lost’ is written by:

Milton

‘Money is a tie of all ties. It is a tie which ties and unties all ties’ is quotation from

Of Money

Hellenism of Keats connotes:

his love of Greek culture and art

The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ occurs in which one of Keats’ following poems:

Ode to Grecian Urn

In his poetry Tennyson is:

The representative poet of Victorian Age

Thomas Hardy is:

A fatalist
Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s:

The Mill on the Floss

Which of following Books consists of Ruskin’s lectures:

The Crown of wild olive

Who described poetry as “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”:

Wordsworth

‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by:

Carlyle

The French Revolution took place in:

None of these

‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by:

T. S. Eliot

“David Copperfield” was written by:

Dickens

Who said this “Poetry is the Criticism of life”:

Arnold
‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:

Shelley

‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:

Tennyson

‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

Oscar Wilde

The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by:

Mill

Ruskin is famous for:

A social reformer

Stephen Guest is an important Character in One of the following novels of George Eliot:

The Mill on the Floss

‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by:

Wordsworth

‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by:

Browning

Frost is:

Poet of Country life

Who said these words in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ … “No one should be alone in their old age”

Santiago

Santiago is an illustration of:

Hemingway’s philosophy of life

The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are:

Friendship and benevolence

Gulliver was expelled from the land of Yahoos because he was considered

he hated their king

Yeats was

Victorian poet & a modern poet

‘How can we know the dancer from the dance’? This line written by Yeats is taken from:

The Second Coming

T. S. Eliot was

Classicist

Shakespeare other than dramas also wrote

Poems

Shakespeare was born in:

1564

Pure tragedies written by Shakespeare are:

Four

Shakespeare died in:

1616

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published in:

1602

Hamlet was killed by:

Learteus

The kind Claudius was killed by:

Hamlet

Jane Austen’s main theme in her novels especially in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:

Love and marriage

Who is the major male character in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

Mr. Darcy
Who represents Pride in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

None of these

Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

Miss Elizabeth

Byron wrote ‘Childe Harold’ in:

1812

Which English romantic poet admired Pope:

Byron

The poem “the Triumph of life” was written by:

Shelley

‘Songs of Experience’ written by Blake was published in:

1794

‘The Excursion’ was written by:

(Wordsworth)

The Last Ride Together was written by:

Browning
‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:

Dickens

‘Adam Bede’ is a novel written by

George Eliot

‘The Ring and the Book’ is a poem written by:

Browning

‘The Lotus-Eaters’ was written by

Tennyson

‘The Art for Art sake’ theory was presented by:

Oscar Wilde

‘The Old Familiar Faces’ was written by:

Charles Lamb

‘The Stone of Venice’ was written by:

Ruskin

Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter’.

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist?

Keats

‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by

Browning

‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

Oscar Wilde

Which of the following novels of Hardy has ‘clymn’ as the main male character?

None of these

The principle of political Economy was the main theme of the writings of:

J. S. Mill

Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon Heath’ as the background of the story?

Return of the Native

It is for the world to decide whether you are a poet or not. For whom these words are meant:

Frost

Earnest Hemingway in addition to ‘Old Man and the Sea’ bad written:

A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls & Death in the Afternoon

All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s

Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s

“I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed to:

Miranda in the ‘Tempest’

“None of thou shalt be my paramour” these words are attributed to:

Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus

“Lyrical ballads” were published by:

Both Coleridge and Wordsworth

The proper study of mankind in man. This line is taken from the work of:

Pope

There is no man like Showman. These views were held by:

Thomas Carlyle

Famous romantic poets were

Six

‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from

Merchant of Venice

A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is composed by:

Keats
Your plan is a good one if a girl only wants to be married. Who said these words?

Charlotte

In Chapter XVI the word muffled in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:

Confused

Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland.

In 1906

To err is human, forgive is divine. Who has said these words:

a) Pope

Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes it origin from emotions recollected in
tranquility. Who has given the description of the poetry?

Wordsworth

Jane Austen in addition to, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ had also written:

Emma, Sense and Sensibility & Persuasion

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had __________ Daughters.

Five

Father of antiquities were:

Socrates, Aristotle & Plato

Restoration period was known as the age of :

satire
Who is famous for representing London in his novels.

Dickens

Great Expectations was published in:

1860-1

Jane Eyre was written by:

C. Bronte

Who was a known aesthete?

Huxley

"In Memoriam" is :

an elegy

Tennyson was:

a Victorian

Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?

Ruskin

A dominant theme in Hardy's novels is:

( fatalism
"The Recluse" was written by:

Worsdworth

Dorothy was the gifted sister of:

Wordsworth

"The Frankenstein" is a novel by:

Mrs. Shelley

An element of the supernatural is present in the poetry of :

Coleridge

Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of :

(a) Childe Harolde

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by:

Coleridge

Adonias, Prometheus and "The triumph of life" are some of the beautiful poems by:

Shelley

"The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:

Ruskin

Mr. Rochester is the major character of:

Jane Eyre

In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope", "Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used as backdrop:

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

"The Wuthering Heights" is a famous novels written by:

Emile Bronte

Who has defined tragedy as “an imitation of an action”?

Aristotle

In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment is this?

Bradley

A poet is a man speaking to men says?

Wordsworth

Hermione is the heroine of Shakespeare in:

The Winter’s Tale

“Gyre” is a favorite symbol with

Yeats

Who is labeled as misanthropist?

Swift
‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ is written by:

T. S. Eliot

‘Nothing more real than nothing’ are the words of?

Beckett

‘Earth is the right place for Love and I do not know where it is likely to go better.’ These lines are from:

Birches

‘Lapis Lazuli’ is a poem written by:

W. B. Yeats

Which of the plays has an epilogue?

Devils’ Disciple

‘I care for life, for humanity, and you are a part of it.’ Whose words are these?

Huggins

Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in:

1923

Whose work is called ‘mock utopia’?

Swift’s
The Waste Land was published by Eliot in:

1922

Feminine Ending is:

a metrical device

‘Persona’ is

the actor in a play

A Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare is a:

Comedy

‘Preface to Shakespeare’ is written by:

Dr. Johnson

‘Songs of Experience’ was written by:

Blake

‘The Prelude’ was composed by:

Wordsworth

Which writing includes the manifesto of Romantic poetry?

Lyrical Ballads

Who does consider ‘love’ as a transcending power handling all things into beauty?

Keats
Who did write an epic on the growth of his own mind?

Wordsworth

Who was more under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy of life?

Shelley

“The Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” appear in:

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Lord Byron was born in:

1788

Tennyson talks about the equality of women in:

The Princess

Pauline was written by:

Browning

Which Victorian Poet is called the psychologist?

Browning

‘The last Essays of Elia’ was written by:

Lamb
Hazlitt’s intellectual awakening had been stimulated by:

Shakespeare

Paul David and Pip are the three notable descriptions of sensitive, nervous childhood in the works of:

Dickens

Which of the following novelists is known for his Satire in the Victorian literature?

Thackeray

Amongst the following, who is considered to be the “pioneer of the novel of female emancipation”?

Charlotte Bronte

The world of “Lady Shallot” belongs to the:

Victorian era

Egden Heath forms the back-drop of which of the following novels by Hardy?

Return of the Native

“Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty” This line has been taken from:

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Upon Wartminister Bridge, written by Wordsworth is:

Sonnet

B. Shaw confessed to be a disciple of:

Ibsen
Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and Super Man are written by:

Shaw

Which of the following was written by Shakespeare?

The Rape of Lucrece

Who wrote Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost?

Milton

The Rape of the Lock is a:

Parody

The Dunciad, Essay on Man, Epistles are all written by:

Pope

Who said … “expression ought to be the dress of the thought”?

Coleridge

What kind of books are Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders?

Travel-books

Who believed that Shakespeare did much better in Comedy than in tragedy?

Johnson
Who wrote The Vicar of Wake Field?

Goldsmith

‘Cervantes’ is a character in:

Don Quixote

Parson Adams and Squire Western are creations of:

Fielding

Mr. Bennet is one of Jane Austen’s characters in:

Pride and Prejudice

The Prelude is written in:

Blank Verse

In whose poetry do we find – ‘a love of nature, simplicity and faith in the dignity of the humblest’?

Wordsworth

Who among the Romantic poets chores the ‘Super natural’ as his theme?

Coleridge

Which poet is not always bound up with the reformer?

Tennyson
The Common Sojourn of Byron, Shelley, Keats was:

Lake district

Childe Harold was written by:

Byron

Pleasure and joy in Beauty become a feast of the scenes in the poetry of:

Keats

The Nurse’s Song was written by:

Blake

William Wordsworth was born in:

1770

Byron’s first published collection was called:

Hours of Idleness

The Essay of Elia was written by:

Charles Lamb

Shelley’s final unfinished poem was:

The Triumph of life

Lyrical Ballads are jointly composed by:

Wordsworth and Coleridge

On liberty was written by:

Mill

“Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer flies … yet remain
free …” This was said by:

Ruskin

Macaulay lived from

1800 - 1859

Macaulay represented:

Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment

Stones of Venice was written by:

Ruskin

Browning is famous for his:

Dramatic Monologues

In Memoriam was written in:

1849 , byTennyson
“Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,

Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without

Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together”. Who said this?

Browning

Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in:

1850

Dickens was from a:

Lower middle class origin

George Eliot’s real name was:

Marian Evans

George Eliot was an:

Atheist

Under the Greenwood Tree is a:

Tale of rustic life

The Professor was the first novel by:

Charlotte Bronte

______________ is called the first romantic critic.

Longinus
_______________ defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature.

Dryden

‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by:

Carlyle

The period of English literature from 1660 to the end of the century is called:

Restoration Period

‘Stream of Consciousness’ is the phrase first used by:

William James

______________ consists of nine-eight five foot iambic lines followed by an iambic line of six fed with
rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc:

Spenserian Stanza

A phrase, line or lines repeated at intervals during a poem and especially at the end of a stanza is called:

Refrain

Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an example of:

Comedy of Ideas

‘Verslibre’ is called as:

Free Verse
Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other is called:

Parallelism

‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by:

Earnest Jones

‘Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, May Sweep to my
revenge’ is a speech from.

Hamlet

‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by:

W. H. Auden

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are:

Husband and wife

The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by:

Keats

‘The Olive Tree’ is a collection of essays by:

Huxley

The poem “Wind” is written by:

Ted Hughes

‘Egotistical Sublime’ is a phrase coined by:

Keats
‘Apologie for Poetrie’ is written by:

Philip Sidney

‘I count religion but a childish toy’ is a line from Marlowe’s play:

The Jew of Malta

Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate in:

1843

Who suggested Shelley to “Curb your magnanimity and be more of a poet’?

Keats

The lines ‘The one remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadow
fly; are composed by:

Shelley

‘On Pathetic Fallacy’ was written by:

Ruskin

The 1805 text of ‘The Prelude’ is edited by:

Ernest De Selin Court

‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by:

Walter Scott
__________ the quality when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any
irritable reaching after fact and reason’ ___ is:

Scepticism

‘The Quarterly Review’ was founded by:

Coleridge

‘Mansfield Park’ is a novel by:

Jane Austen

‘I am half sick of shadows’ is a line said by:

Tennyson

Adonais is an elegy on the death of:

John Keats

‘Poetry is the criticism of life’ is a view about poetry by:

Arnold

‘The Pickwick Papers’ by Dickens was published in:

1837

‘On Heroes and Hero-worship is written by:

Carlyle
Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Trollope are:

Novelists

‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written by:

Darwin

Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For Arts’ Sake:

Walter Pater

“Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will”, is a
statement by:

Shelley

‘A woman of no importance’ is a ______ by Oscarwilde:

Comedy

George Eliot and T.S. Eliot are:

Contemporary writers

In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by:

Bradley

“How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: To hell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!

Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:

Laertes
Aspect of the Novel is written by:

E.M. Forster

Lotos Eaters is a poem by:

Tennyson

‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:

T.S. Eliot

William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:

1949

G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:

1925

‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:

W.B. Yeats

‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:

T.S. Eliot

‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:

D.H. Lawrence

The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is:
Titus Andronicus

‘If music be the food of love, play on,

give me excess of it, that Surfeiting

The appetite may sicken and die?

is a speech from

Twelfth Night

An elaborate classical form in which one Shepherd – Singer laments the death of another is called:

Pastoral Elegy

The poets who believe that a hard, clear image was essential to verse are called:

Imagists

A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called:

Hyperbole

Rhymed decasyllables, nearly always in iambic Pentameters rhymed in Pairs are called:

Heroic Couplet

An exhortatory speech, usually delivered to a crowd to incite them to some action is:

Harangue

‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is an example of:

Synaesthesia
Drama which seeks to mirror life with the utmost fidelity is called:

Realistic

When Leontes discovers the identity of Perdita in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ is an example of:

Discovery

Ode to West Wind was written by

Shelley

Keats was born in

1795

Dream Children was written by

Charles Lamb

'Picture of Dorian Gray ' was written by

Oscar Wild

Ruskin belonged to (which age)

Victorian Age

Wordsworth lived from

1770-1850
'Heroes and hero worship' was written by

Thomas Carlyle

' Fair seed time had my soul' is from

The Prelude

Great Expectation was written by

Dickens

Lotus eaters is written by

Tennyson

Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are

Essayists

'My Last Duchess' was written by

Browning

Emily Bronte is the writer of

Wuthering heights

'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' is a definition of poetry by

Wordsworth

'Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter' is a line from
Ode on a Grecian Urn

'Waverley' was written by

Scott

'We are Seven' is written by

None of these (William Wordsworth)

'Past and Present' is written by

Carlyle

'Modern Painters' is written by

Ruskin

Byron is the writer of

Don Juan

Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?

Beckett

To the Light House” is written by:

None of these (Virginia Woolf)

I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:

Hamlet
“Ullyses” is written by:

James Joyce

Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:

Pride and Prejudice

“Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:

None of these (Tennyson)

“Thought Fox” is written by:

Ted Hughes

“Major Barbra” is written by:

Shaw

Lilliput is a character from:

Gulliver’s Travels

“Fire and Ice” is written by:

Frost

Swift belong to:

Augustan age
The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:

King Lear

“Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:

Keats

“I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:

Eliot

“Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:

The Second coming

“Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:

None of these (Mending Wall)

‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:

The Wasteland

“A Farewell to Arms” is written by:

Hemmingway

“A passage to India” is written by:

Forester

. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of __________ age

Romantic

S.T. Coleridge was born in

1772

Wordsworth settled in

Lake District

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written by:

Byron

Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by:

Shelley

Hyperion is a/an __________ poem

Epic

Romanticism expressed a restlessness of

Soul

Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are novels written by

Jane Austen
Shelley is remembered as a _______ poet

Lyric

Keats is prominently a man of:

Sensations

As a moralist J. S. Mill develops the doctrine of:

Utilitarianism

Charles Dickens was born in

1812

Charles Dickens is known for being

Idealist

Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by:

C. Bronte

Emile Bronte’s verse reveals a conscious

Pantheism

The Mayor of Caster Bridge was written by:

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of:

Architect

The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by:

Oscar Wilde

Ruskin was born in:

1819

__________ is a novel by Miss Burney

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Novelist

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Yeats

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Default English Literature MCQs for Lecturer-ship through SPSC

1. The earliest surviving work in English Literature is

Ans: Caedmon's Hymn

2. The epic poem Beowulf consists

Ans: 3182 alliterative lines

3. Which epic poem from old English Literature has been declared the national epic poem of England?

Ans: Beowulf Epic Poem

4. The epic poem Beowulf is written in

Ans: Scandinavian Script

5. Who wrote the epic poem Beowulf?

Ans: Anonymous

6. The Old English "Martyrology" is a Merican collection of

Ans: Hagiographies

7. Eynsham was a prolific 10th-century writer of

Ans: Hagiographies and Homilies

8. The earliest English poet whose name is known is;

Ans: Caedmon

9. King Alfred's reign ended in

Ans: 9th century

10. In the battle of Maldon in 991, The Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent

Ans: Vikings' Invasion

11. "The Wanderer" is an old English poem that consists

Ans: 115 Lines of alliterative verse

12. A poem that mourns a loss, or has the more general meaning of a simply sorrowful piece of writing is
called;
Ans: Elegy

13. The English Literature is generally seen as beginning with the;

Ans: Epic Poem Beowulf

14. Normans conquered the England in

Ans: 1066

15. Which language became the standard language of courts, parliament and polite society during the
reign of Normans?

Ans: Law French

16. Who translated the Bible in the Middle English Period?

Ans: Wycliffe

17. Which pre-Reformation movement rejected many of the distinctive teachings of the Roman Catholic
Church?

Ans: The Lollard Movement

18. The term "Lollard" refers to whom?

Ans: The followers of John Wycliffe

19. A prominent theologian who was dismissed from the University of Oxford in 1381 for criticism of the
Church was;

Ans: John Wycliffe

20. Middle English Period lasts up till the;

Ans: 1470

21. Patience and Purity are alliterative poems written by;

Ans: Sir Gawain

22. What is the term "Chancery Standard" meant in English Literature?

Ans: A form of London-based English

23. Where is the Geoffrey Chaucer buried in?

Ans: Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey

24. Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for his;

Ans: Canterbury Tales

25. The first recorded association of Valentine's Day is in Chaucer's;

Ans: Parliament of Fouls

26. Who was the personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer?

Ans: John Gower

27. Which book is believed to be the first published book written by a woman in the English language?

Ans: Revelation of Divine Love

28. William Caxton invented the printing press in

Ans: 1476

29. Pilgrim's progress is a famous allegory of medieval period written by;

Ans: John Bunyan

30. Renaissance is usually regarded as beginning in 14th-century in;

Ans: Italy

31. The term Renaissance in English Literature means

Ans: Re-birth

32. The English Renaissance was actually the;

Ans: Cultural and Artistic Movement

33. John Florio was an excellent;

Ans: Linguist and Lexicographer

34. Sonnet was introduced into English Literature from

Ans: Italian Literature

35. The Faerie Queene, an epic poem was written by

Ans: Edmund Spencer

36. The defense of the poetry is the work of

Ans: Sir Philip Sidney

37. What is significant about "Gorboduc" the first verse drama in English Literature?

Ans: Blank Verse was used in it for the first time ever

38. Reign of the Elizabeth-I started in

Ans: 1558

39. Reign of the James-I started in

Ans: 1603

40. Thomas Wyatt is one of the earliest English poet of

Ans: Renaissance Age

41. Who is known as the poets' poet in English Literature?

Ans: Edmund Spencer

42. Sonnet is a

Ans: 14-lines poem

43. What is called the first eight lines of Sonnet?

Ans: Octave

44. What is called the last six lines of Sonnet?

Ans: Sestet

45. What is the rhyming scheme of Octave in sonnet?

Ans: a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a

46. What is the rhyming scheme of sestet in sonnet?

Ans: : c-d-e-c-d-e or c-d-c-c-d-c.

47.William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe were

Ans:Elizabethan age playwrights.

48. Dr. Faustus is the very famous play, written by

Ans: Christopher Marlowe

49. The Alchemist, comedy was written by

Ans: Ben Johnson

50. The 'Table Alphabeticall' is believed to be first ever dictionary in English language was written in
1604 by;

51. What is the meaning of “Renaissance” ?

Rebirth, revival and re-awaking

Ans; Robert Cawdrey

52. English Civil War was fought during the reign of

Ans: King Charles I

53. Who was the last great poet of the age of renaissance?

Ans. John Milton

54. John Milton got blind at the age of

Ans. 40

55. The most dominant figure of the age of Restoration is

Ans. John Dryden

56. The first ever significant female novelist was

Ans. Aphra Behn

57. The first official/formal poet laureate is believed to be

Ans. John Dryden

58. Who introduced Alexdandrine and Triplet into english poetry for the first time?

Ans. John Dryden

59. The age of enlightenment which started in 18th century is also known as

Ans. Age of reason/Augustan age

60. Which english poet is most discussed after Shakespeare?

Ans. Robert Burns

61. What is the meaning of the term "Magnum Opus"?

Ans: Master Piece

62. Which English poet was born with deformed feet?

Ans: Lord Byron

63. Which drug did Samuel Taylor Coleridge use to take?

Ans: Opium

64. Name the English poet, who got blind at the age of 40.

Ans: John Milton

65. Which Irish poet, dramatist and novelist was accused of porns and sodomite.

Ans: Oscar Wild

66. Democracy is the tyranny of majority. Who said this?

Ans: JS Mill

67. Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, for the people and by the people. Whose statement is
this?

Ans: Oscar Wilde

68. Due to which unique quality Oscar Wilde is so famous?

Ans: Hard Hitting Quotations

69. Man can be destroyed but can't be defeated. These words are taken from

Ans: Old Man and the Sea

70. How Ernest Hemingway was died?

Ans: He had killed himself/Suicided.

71. Gulliver's Travels is the Magnum opus of

Ans: Jonathon Swift

72. Who is believed as the father of English Literature?

Ans: Geoffrey Chaucer

73. How many total stories are there in The Canterbury Tales?

Ans: 24

74. King James Bible that was first ever bible written in English Language, published in

Ans: 1611

75. Renaissance Movement is believed to be started first in fourteenth century in

Ans: Italy

76. Who is credited to introduce sonnet in English Literature?

Ans: Thomas Wyatt.

77. Who has written one of the all times best novel war and piece?

Ans: Leo Tolstoy ( a Russian novelist)

78. Name the very famous French novelist who wrote Madame Bovary?

Ans: Gastave Flaubert

79. How many total acts are in Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer' Night's Dream?

Ans: Five

80. Who is considered the most significant auther after Shakespeare in English Literature?

Ans: John Milton

81. Who uttered these words “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all” ?

John Keats

82. Which was Marlowe’s first play ?

Tamburlaine

83. To which theater was Christopher Marlow associated with ?

English Renaissance theatre

84. What was the first published title of Christopher Marlow’s play The Jew of Malta ?
The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta

85. The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by ?

Wyclif

86. Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance ?

15th

87. Renaissance first came to the ?

Italy

88. Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus’ character at the beginning
of the play ?

arrogant

89. Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance ?

Spencer

90. “On his blindness”, a collection of sonnets is written by ?

John Milton

91. “The Prince Of Poets in his time”, on whom grave the inscription is written ?

Edmund Spencer

92. What is Faerie Queene ?

An allegory

93. Who wrote “Holy Sonnets” ?

John Donne

94. Who wrote “The Massacre at Paris” ?

Christopher Marlowe

95. Which famous work of John Milton’s was based on the fall of man ?

Paradise Lost

96. What is the meaning of Milton’s work Samson Agonistes ?

Wrestler

97. Which poem ends 'I shall but love thee better after death'?

How do I love thee

98. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry

Meter

99. The repetition of similar ending sounds

Rhyme

100. Applying human qualities to non-human things

Personification

101. The repetition of beginning consonant sound

Alliteration

102. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as

metaphor

103. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

simile

104. Using words or letters to imitate sounds

onomatopoeia

105. a description that appeals to one of the five senses

imagery

106. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters

narrative

107. A poem with no meter or rhyme

free verse

108. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme

lyric
109. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

Iambic pentameter

110. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?

William Carlos Williams

111. Who wrote this famous line: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/ Thou art more lovely and
more temperate…'

Shakespeare

112. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?

The 12th

113. From which of Shakespeare's plays is this famous line: 'Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it,
sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night'

Romeo and Juliet

114. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

Acrostic

115. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?

Robert Burns

116. How has Stephen Dunn been described in 'the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?

A poet of middleness

117. 'The Cambridge school' refers to a group who emerged when?

The 1960's

118. Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?

Ottowa

119. Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?

Skeptical & Impressionistic

120. Which Welsh poet wrote "Under Milk Wood?"

Dylan Thomas

121. Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

Geoffrey Chaucer

122. Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles?"

Arthur Conan Doyle

123. ___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?

Camille

124. Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

125. Who wrote "Ten Little Niggers?"

Agatha Christie

126. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?

The Poor Man and the Lady & The Return of Native

127. Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, Wine, and Snuff?"

John Keats

128. "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death
into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden."This is an extract from:

Paradise Lost

129. William Shakespeare was born in the year:

1564

130. Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale?'

William Shakespeare

131. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.

132. What is the word for a "play on words"?

pun

133. Which represents an example of alliteration?

Peter Piper Picked Peppers

134. What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

Onomatopoeia

135. The theme is ...?

the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.

136. Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem.

theme, purpose, form, and mood.

137. Which is not a poetry form?

tale

138. Which is an example of a proverb?

You can't have your cake and eat it, too

139. Which is an exaggeration?

Hyperbole

140. Who has defined 'poetry' as a fundamental creative act using languages?

Dylan Thomas

141. What is a sonnet?

A poem of fourteen lines

142. What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?

Prosody

143. Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?

Hyperbole

144. There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by - This is a couplet from the Bailiff's
Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?

Synecdoche
145. Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?

Arabic

146. Complete this Shakespearan line - Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:

Impediments

147. Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?

a. Jintishi

148. What is the title of the poem that begins thus - 'What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to
stand and stare'?

Leisure

149. Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?

William Wordsworth

150. What is a funny poem of five lines called?

Limerick

151. How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?

A game of knowledge

152. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?

War poems

153. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?

St Louis

154. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?

Sylvia Plath

155. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?

28

156. In what form did Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' first become known?

A radio play
157. The magazine 'Contemporary Poetry and Prose' was inspired by which exhibition?

The Surrealist Exhibition

158. Why did 'Poetry Quarterly' cease publication in 1953?

Owner convicted of fraud

159. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?

Novelist

160. Of which poet was it said 'Even if he's not a great poet, he's certainly a great something'?

Kipling

161. Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?

the Anglo-Saxons

162. Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman
Conquest in 1066?

French

163. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in
French, English, and German literatures?

Arthur

164. Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting
business in Parliament and in court of law?

fourteenth

165. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?

Edward III

166. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?

Geoffrey Chaucer

167. What was vellum?

parchment made of animal skin

168. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:
the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

169. What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?

a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

170. Who was the first English Christian king?

Ethelbert

171. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood
vengeance?

everlasting shame

172. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:

admiration and elegiac sympathy.

173. The use of "whale-road"for sea and "life-house"for body are examples of what literary technique,
popular in Old English poetry?

kenning

174. Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry?

Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.

175. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?

ironic understatement

176. How did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern
France?

his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

177. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?

Dutch

178. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance"emerged, initially apply?

a work written in the French vernacular

179. Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to

the clergy
180. What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain?

the reign of King Arthur

181. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for

women who have chosen to live as religious recluses

182. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering"of Middle English literature is
evident in the works of which of the following writers?

the Gawain poet

183. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?

The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

184. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?

Dante's Divine Comedy

185. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

William Langland

186. What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?

the War of the Roses

187. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?

the morality play

188. Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true?

She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.

189. Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir
Lancelot?

Sir Thomas Malory

190. Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first work?

The Spanish Tragedy

191. Marlowe born in________

1564
192. In "the tragic history of Doctor Faustus". Faustus was a :

German scholar

193. Who wrote "The Massacre at Paris"?

Christopher Marlowe

194. After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem "Hero and Leander"?

George Chapman

195. Who succeeded Lyly?

Robert Greene

196. Which of the Marlowe's plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash?

The tragedy of Dido and Queen of Carthage..

197. Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?

Thomas lodge

198. The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as:

The Paston letters

199. Who wrote "Holy Sonnets"?

John Donne

200. Who wrote following lines:

201. "........ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls
for thee."

John Donne

202. "On his blindness", a collection of sonnets is written by:

John Milton

203. "Paradise lost" was lost by:

Eve & Adam

204. In "Paradise regained" who regained the paradise?

Jesus

205. Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest
rank of living writers?

The Shepherd's calendar

206. Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to --------------------------------------?

Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle

207. John Donne's "The Anniversaries" is a:

An elegy in two parts

208. Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?

Spencer

209. During Spencer's visit to his Kinsfolk in Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures
as__________________ much of his work:

Rosalind

210. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?

Homer

211. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?

Allen Tate

212. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third sections from?

Dante

213. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land?

Sysyphus

214. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?

guardian

215. Estella is the daughter of?

Joe Gargery
216. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?

Unto This Last

217. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

Catholicism

218. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?

humour and pathos

219. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?

The Bible

220. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?

Satan

221. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?

Gertrude

222. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?

Ralph and Jack

223. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a

lawyer

224. What does the ‘I’ stand for in the following line?

‘To Carthage then I came’

Augustine

225. The following lines are an exampl of.............image.

‘The river sweats Oil and tar’

erotic

226. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?

Vanity Fair

227. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?
Zeus

228. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?

Hopkins

229. Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?

Swinburne

230. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?

The Tempest

231. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?

Act III, Scene I

232. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor

Gonzalo

233. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?

Or, What you Will

234. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.

Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?

Hamlet

235. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?

Earl of Northumberland

236. Paradise Lost was originally written in?

eight books

237. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

Wickham

238. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?

S. T. Coleridge
239. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?

Philip Pip

240. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?

Mexico

241. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?

Lord of the Flies

242. Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?

Mrs. Morel

243. Vanity Fair is a novel by?

W. M. Thackeray

244. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?

Keats

245. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?

The White Peacock

246. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?

Dorothy

247. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics?

Wordsworth

248. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

249. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—

P. B. Shelley

250. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?

Leigh Hunt
251. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?

1833

252. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?

Keats

253. Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London?

Charles Lamb

254. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?

T. S. Eliot

255. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?

A. H. Hallam

256. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?

Robert Browning

257. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?

Atalanta in Calydon

258. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History is a course of?

five lectures

259. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?

Cromwell

260. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially
Turner?

Modem Painters

261. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?

B. Disraeli

262. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—

D. G. Rossetti

263. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
OttavaRima

264. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?

Earl of Surrey

265. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?

Matthew Arnold

266. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him
falsely true.”

Oxymoron

267. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?

Sailing to Byzantium

268. Who is Pip’s friend in London?

Jaggers

269. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?

A thief

270. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from?

William Shakespeare

271. “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.” Who speaks the
lines given above in Twelfth Night?

Sir Toby Belch

272. In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Milton’s?

Spirit of revolt

273. Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge”?

Wordsworth

274. Twelfth Night opens with the speech of?

Duke
275. What was the cause of William’s death in Sons and Lovers?

Pneumonia

276. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream?

Kubla Khan

277. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to theWest Wind’?

Terza rima

278. The phrase ‘Pathetic fallacy’ is coined by?

John Ruskin

279. Tracts for the Times relates to?

The Oxford Movement

280. The Chartist Movement sought?

Protection of the political rights of the working class

281. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?

Coleridge

282. Who was “Fortinbras”?

Son to the king of Norway

283. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?

Five

284. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” The above lines have
been taken from?

The Second Coming

285. The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is?

Sensuousness

286. The key-note of Browning’s philosophy of life is?

optimism
287. The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means?

Tailor Repatched

288. “Epipsychidion” is composed by?

Shelley

289. “The better part of valour is discretion” occurs in Shakespeare’s—?

Henry IV, Pt I

290. Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton?

Paradise Lost

291. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work?

Graham Greene

292. Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?

‘First Impressions’

293. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures

Pride and Prejudice

294. ‘There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” The line given above occurs in

Hamlet

295. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes?

John Ruskin

296. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s greatest?

comic figures

297. That Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it, was said by?

Blake

298. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in
vain’?

Matthew Arnold

299. Essays of Ella are?

practically autobiographical fragments

300. The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ is?

Women’s Education and Rights

301. Thackeray’s “Esmond” is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of?

the Medieval age

302. Oedipus Complex is?

a son’s attraction towards his mother

303. “My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect.” Who
wrote this?

D. H. Lawrence

304. Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play?

Twelfth Night

305. “The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.” This line occurs in?

The Tempest

306. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a?

Domestic novel

307. ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This line occurs in the poem?

Immortality Ode

308. Wordsworth calls himself ‘a Worshipper of Nature’ in his poem—

Tintern Abbey

309. When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’ was first published in 1802, it had only?

Stanzas I toV

310. Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel “Great Expectations”?

Direct or epic method

311. Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’?

Coleridge

312. D. G. Rossetti was a true literary descendant of?

Keats

313. To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply?

“The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom.”

Hamlet

314. Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is included in?

Dramatis Personae

315. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of?

Royal Society of Literature

316. Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?

Sandition

317. Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout her life in “Great Expectations”?

She was arrogant

318. W. B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in the year?

1923

319. The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced by the?

French Revolution

320. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the?

Romantic revival

321. ‘O, you are sick of self-love’ Who is referred to in these words in Twelfth Night?

Malvolio

322. Hamlet is?

a passionate lover
323. Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims; ‘Brave, new, world!’?

Miranda

324. Paradise Lost shows an influence of?

Christianity and the Renaissance

325. The style of Paradise Lost is?

more Latin than most poems

326. In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?

Darcy

327. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower?

Polonius

328. Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Pt I contains his?

patriotism

329. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The
majority of English literary periods are named after:

Monarchs or political events

330. Which period of literature came first?

Restoration

331. In what language did Shakespeare write?

Modern English

332. Jane Austen wrote during this period.

Regency

333. Which work was published first?

Blake’s "Songs of Innocence"

334. Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?

Beowulf

335. Who wrote first?

Howard, Earl of Surrey

336. Which work was completed last?

John Milton's "Paradise Lost"

337. One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who?

Sir Walter Scott

338. The Bronte sisters wrote during this period.

Victorian

339. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the
20th century?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

340. This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century.

Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"

341. Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century?

Thomas Carew

342. Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the
Restoration period?

The French Revolution

343. Which of the following literary sub-periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period?

Jacobean Age

344. Which of the following periods of English literature came last?

The Commonwealth Period

345. This work was written before the other three choices.

Bede's "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"

346. World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have
been touched by that event?
Oscar Wilde

347. The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the:

Enlightenment

348. The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as:

Moliere

349. The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was:

Aphra Behn

350. In which century was Piers Plowman written?

14th

351. Geoffrey Chaucer served which king?

Edward III

352. The 18th century work 'Tom Jones" was written by whom?

Henry Fielding

353. In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to write for which publication?

The Time's Literary Supplement

354. Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' takes place over what period of time?

24 hours

355. What was the nationality of Oscar Wilde?

Irish

356. Who wrote the poem "Requiem"?

Robert Louis Stevenson

357. the prevailing feature of Chaucer's humour is its

urbanity

358. Who is the first great English critic-poet?

Sir Philip Sidney

359. HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by

Thomas gray

360. Who wrote the poem 'The Seven Ages'?

William Shakespeare

361. Who write the story "Story Teller" ?

Saki

362. Who wrote: "Reader, I married him."?

Charlotte Bronte

363. Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."?

William Butler Yeats

364. In which work do you read: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."?

The Second Coming

365. Who wrote: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?

John Keats

366. In which work do you read: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?

Ode on a Grecian Urn

367. Who wrote: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree..."?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

368. In which work do you read: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree..."?

Kubla Khan

369. A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?

Opium

370. Who wrote: "I would prefer not to."?

Herman Melville
371. Who wrote: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and
debt."?

Henrik Ibsen

372. In which work do you read: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on
borrowing and debt."?

A Doll's House

373. Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!"?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

374. In which work do you read: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty,
and despair!"?

Ozymandias

375. Who wrote: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive."?

Robert Browning

376. In which work do you read: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were
alive."?

My Last Duchess

377. Who wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."?

T.S. Eliot

378. In which work do you read: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."?

Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock

A "classic" book is usually one that possesses what quality?

379. It has universal appeal, It can stand the test of time & It makes connections.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities?

London and Paris

380. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city?

New York City

381. Which book was not written by Jane Austen?

Sense and Suspensibility

382. What is Shakespeare's longest play?

Hamlet

383. The poem 'The Battle of Maldon' celebrates events which took place in the 10th century, but who
was it between

Danes and English

384. The Faerie Queene was written during the reign of which monarch?

Elizabeth Tudor

385. Becky sharp was the heroine in which novel?

Vanity Fair

386. How many children were there in the Bronte family?

387. Who composed The Preludes?

William Wordsworth

388. Who is termed as "The Morning Star of Renaissance"?

Chaucer

389. Who began the tradition of revenge play ?

Thomas kyd

390. How many lines are there in a Sonnet?

14

391. What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet?

Capulet And Montague

392. Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?

Albatross
393. What was the name of the Bronte sister?s only brother?

Branwell

394. In which county was Jane Austin born?

Hampshire

395. In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?

Great Expectations

396. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early
years?

Liberals & Radicals

397. Which statement(s) about inventions during the Industrial Revolution are true?

Hand labor became less common with the invention of power-driven machinery.

Steam, as opposed to wind and water, became a primary source of power.

398. What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings?

enclosure

399. Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free
operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not
interfere in any person's pursuit of their personal interests?

laissez-faire

400. What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song:
"Men of England" and England in 1819?

the Peterloo Massacre

401. Who applied the term "Romantic" to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830?

English historians half a century after the period ended. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads
of 1798, thus demonstrating the "spirit of the age," which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended
on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination?

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

402. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's
claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as "the
spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"?
the lyric poem written in the first person

403. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as
well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but
also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?

William Wordsworth

404. What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called "mesmerism," one of the "occult"
practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness?

hypnotism

405. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when
Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution?

biblical reverence

406. Which of the following periodical publications (reviews and magazines) appeared in the Romantic
era?

London Magazine & The Edinburgh Review

407. According to a theater licensing act, repealed in 1843, what was meant by "legitimate" drama?

The play was spoken.

408. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists
wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own
era?

Jane Austen

409. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?

Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

410. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the

bard

411. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to "'Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and 'Wagons'!"?

Wordsworth's devotion to the ordinary and everyday

412. Wordsworth described all good poetry as

the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

413. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as
well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet's time, but
also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?

William Wordsworth

414. Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?

opium, dreams & childhood

415. Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?

Immanuel Kant

416. Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary?

George III

417. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832?

about half of middle class men

almost all working class men

all women

418. Which of the following charges were commonly leveled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn
of the Romantic era?

Too many of its readers were women.

It required less skill than other genres.

It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.

Too many of its authors were women.

419. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are?

William Godwin's Caleb Williams

420. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form?

the fragment

421. Who exemplified the role of the "peasant poet(s)"?

John Clare & Robert Burns

422. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in
flux?

Jane Austen

423. Which ruler's reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era?

Queen Victoria

424. Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth
century?

Tokyo

425. By 1890, what percentage of the earth's population was subject to Queen Victoria?

25%

426. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by "Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe"?

Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

427. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation?

The lower middle classes

428. Elizabeth Barrett's poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on
the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s?

child labor

429. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?

the rich and the poor

430. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period's contentment with the
burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change?

Anthony Trollope

431. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria?

To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament
to the private East India Company.

432. What does the phrase "White Man's Burden," coined by Kipling, refer to?
the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world

433. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism?

a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest
number

434. Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like
they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated?

geology, evolution& discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances

435. Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the
immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire?

the India Mutiny in 1857

the Boer War in the south of Africa

the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865

the Irish Question

436. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism?

William Morris, John Ruskin & Karl Marx

437. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the
Victorian era?

studied melancholy and aestheticism

438. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era?

the Women's Suffrage Act

439. Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The Princess address?

the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the

440. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson's The Princess.

Man for the field and woman for the _____: hearth;

Man for the sword and for the _____ she: needle;

Man with the head and woman with the _____: heart;

Man to command and woman to _____.obey

441. What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels?

the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail

the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society

442. What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics?

The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

443. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry
and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way?

the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the
poem.

sound as a means to express meaning

perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

444. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as "the special and opportune art of the modern
world"?

nonfiction prose

445. What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose?

a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

446. For what do Matthew Arnold's moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater's aesthetic
investment together pave the way?

modern literary criticism

447. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions?

W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Oscar Wilde & Robert Corrigan

448. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement
which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism?

art for art's sake

449. What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling
compulsory?

the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
450. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?

Eminent Victorians & The Way of All Flesh

451. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker
Sigmund Freud associated?

psychoanalysis

452. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine
human identity in radically new ways?

Sigmund Freud, Sir James Frazer & Friedrich Nietzsche

453. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the
twentieth century?

the creation of the internet

454. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra
Pound?

an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and
clarity of imagery

455. What characteristics of seventeenth-century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of

modernist poets and critics?

its intellectual complexity & its union of thought and passion

456. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more _______ but less _______ than older
modernists such as Eliot and Pound.

radical; inventive

457. Which poet could be described as part of "The Movement" of the 1950s?

Thom Gunn & Philip Larkin

458. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916?

the southern counties of Ireland

459. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature?

stream of consciousness
460. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel?

narrative realism

461. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new "mythical method" in place of the old "narrative
method" and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about "making
the modern world possible for art"?

James Joyce's Ulysses

462. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the
heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist writers?

George Orwell

463. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory?

Paul Scott's Staying On

464. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928.

1960

465. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre?

the Irish National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre

466. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the
Cathedral and The Cocktail Party?

religious symbolism and society comedy

467. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?

"nothing happens-twice"

468. What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and perform work that was
politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear of censorship?

the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain's office in 1968

469. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of
censorship in 1968?

The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

The emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists

The diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

470. What did Henry James describe as "loose baggy monsters"?

novels
Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Literature

Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Poetry

Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Language

Geoffrey Chaucer = The Morning Star of the Renaissance

Geoffrey Chaucer = The First National Poet

Venerable Bede = The Father of English Learning.

Venerable Bede = The Father of EnglishHistory

King Alfred the Great = The Father of English Prose

Aeschylus = The Father of Tragedy

Nicholas Udall = The First English Comedy Writer

Edmund Spenser = The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)

Edmund Spenser = The Child of Renaissance

Edmund Spenser = The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation

Gutenberg = The Father of Printing

William Caxton = Father of English Press

Francis Bacon = The Father of English Essay

John Wycliffe = The Morning Star of the Reformation

Christopher Marlowe = The Father of English Tragedy

William Shakespeare = Bard of Avon

William Shakespeare = The Father of English Drama

William Shakespeare = Sweet Swan of Avon William Shakespeare = The Bard

Robert Burns = The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)

Robert Burns = The National Poet of Scotland Robert Burns = Rabbie

Robert Burns = The Ploughman Poet

William Dunber = The Chaucer of Scotland

John Dryden = Father of English criticism

William of Newbury = Father of Historical Criticism

John Donne = Poet of love John Donne = Metaphysical poet

John Milton = Epic poet John Milton = The great master of verse

John Milton = Lady of the Christ College

John Milton = Poet of the Devil’s Party

John Milton = Master of the Grand style

John Milton = The Blind Poet of England

Alexander Pope = Mock heroic poet

William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature

William Wordsworth = The High Priest of Nature

William Wordsworth = The Poet of Nature William Wordsworth = The Lake Poet

William Wordsworth = Poet of Childhood.

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The subjugation of Women (1869) is an important text of:

John Mill

Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?

Maud

The line “she dwells with Beauty – Beauty that must be” occurs in Keats’

Ode on Melancholy

Negative Capability to Keats, means

To empathize

“Art for arts sake” found its true adherent in:

Wilde

It as the best of times, it was the worst of time, it was the worst – the opening of Dickens’

A Tales of Two Cities

The character of Little Neil is a creation of:

Dickens

“Idylls of the King” is illustration of Tennyson’s deep interest in:

The role of the king

Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?

Wordsworth

Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous?

Wordsworth

The image of the femme fatale dominates the poetry of:

Keats

Little Time is a character in Hardy’s

Jude the Obscure

Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley?

Adonis

The moral choice is everything in the works of:

Dickens

Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy?

Unto this Last

Which one of the following poets named the Romantic poet as the “pond poets”?

Southey

The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:

The Crimean War

The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to write:

The Grecian Urn

Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a:

Dramatic Lyrics

Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?

Southey

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is

A tragedy

Earnest Hamingway has written

Old Man and the Sea

Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?

Jonathan Swift
Which of the following is not a dramatist?

Byron

Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?

Dr. Faustus

E. M. Foster is a

Novelist

“The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by:

Charles Dickens

Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?

Charlotte Bronte

After whom is the Elizabethan Age named?

Elizabeth-I

What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?

The Prelude

A poem mourning someone’s death is called:

Elegy

Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare?

Merchant of Venice

Who wrote “The Second Coming”?

W. B. Yeats

What period in English Literature is called the “Augustans Age”?

Early 18th Century

Which play among the following plays is not blank verse?

Pygmalion

Which one of the following writers is not woman?

Robert Browning

Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?

Claudius

Who kills Macbeth in the play “Macbeth”?

Macduff

Which is the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies?

King Lear

Who is the heroine of Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”?

Ophelia

Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from:

Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface

Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use?

An "airy fairy"

Wordsworth’s Poetry always reflects:

The creation of an original philosophy

Byron’s Poetry is ambiguous and has a vividness of phrasing which sometimes reaches the point of
abstraction:

True

"English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" is a satirical attack on contemporary writers who had annoyed
Byron.

True

In 1850, Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate.

True

Mary Anne Evans is the same person as George Eliot.

True

Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural.

False
The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was:

Shakespeare

Shelly was a firm believer in all of the following except:

Human conduct based on conviction

Shelley’s poetry used all of the following components for themes except:

Worship of God

The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to:

Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

Charles Lamb’s "Dream Children" is notable for its:

Whimsical Pathos

The Victorian age can be dated by which of the following events and years:

Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) to death of Queen Victoria (1901)

Which of the following works ‘had the greatest influence on the Victorian Age?

Tennyson’s "In memoriam"

In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success:

The Novel

Identify the sources of the quotations listed below:

"Hail to thee blithe spirit"

"To a sky Lark"

"Spirit of beauty that dost consecrate"

"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"

"Paint/Must never hope to reproduce the- faint Halfflush that dies along her throat".

"May Last Duchess"

" Where are the songs of Spring? Ay,- where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too

"Ode to Autumn"

"Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu",

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting"

"Intimations of Immortality’ (Ode)

"A hand may first and then a lip be kist;

"Don Juan"

For my part, to such doings I’m a stranger"

"My hair is grey, but not with years, nor grew it white, In a single night"

"The Prisoner of Chillon"

Who wrote "Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’?

Palmer D.J.

Which. of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?

Pygmalion

Who is the author of ‘After Strange Gods’?

Eliot

Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet’?

Claudius

Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?

Ophelia

After whom the Elizabethan Age is named:

Elizabeth I

Who wrote ‘Common Pursuit’?

Leavis, F.R.

‘ Paradise Lost is an epic by:

Milton
"After Apple Picking" is written by:

Robert Frost

Old Man and the Sea was written by:

Earnest Hemingway

"Intellectual Beauty" is written by:

P.B.Shelley

Who wrote "20th Century Views"?

Abrahams, M. H.

‘Desert Places’ is a:

Poem

The University Wits were:

Playwrights

William Shakespeare was Born in:

1564

Francis Bacon died in:

1626

The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:

The Restoration

Who wrote "The Pilgrim’s Progress"?

John Bunyan

‘‘The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of:

Jonathan Swift

The abstract theory of utilitarianism is the theme of Dicken’s novel:

Hard Times

The one remains, the many change and pass;

Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadows fly;

Shelley’s Adonis

Name the character of a novel of Thomas Hardy, which is much like Oedipus, King Lear and Faust.

Tess.

She can not fade, though thou hast not the bliss,

For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ode on a Grecian Urn

‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream
world’, is the theme of Tennyson’s:

The Lotos - Eaters

Philip Waken, Aunt Pallet and Tom Tulliver are the characters of G. Eliot’s novel:

The Mill on the Floss

"In all things, in all natures, in the stars,

This active principle abides,"

Identify the poet and his peculiar belief that can be understood from the above lines.

William Wordsworth as he was of the opinion that in this universe ‘nature’ is the point of focus for
everything.

“Thy, Damnation, Slunbreth, Not”

Name the writer, his book and the character who uttered/wrote these words.

Writer – Thomas Hardy

Book – Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Character – a young man who is traveling the countryside painting scripture on the sides of barns walks

In Memoriam by Tennyson is:

an elegy

The poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was written by:

Blake

‘Unto This Last’ is a book written by:

Ruskin on moral reforms

Mathew Arnold said: “An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain”, about:

Shelley
For whom it is said: “sensuousness is a paramount bias of his genius”:

Keats

“Meeting at Night” by Browning is a:

Monologue

A pioneer is psychological analysis in fiction is:

G. Eliot

“Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty’s form Glasses itself in tempest”.

The above line occur in Byron’s:

Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Oceans

Dickens gives a tragic picture of the French Revolution in his novel:

A Tale of Two Cities

Love of political freedom, always the noblest of Byron’s passions, inspired him to write:

The prisoner of Chillon

An aesthetic delight in art and a streak of extreme sadistic cruelty can be observed in Browning’s Poem:

Pippa Passes

Edward Fitzgerald’s “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” inspired Browning to write:

Rabbi Ben Ezra

Shakespeare uses soliloquy for:

revelation of character

‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a:

Satire

Hemingway wrote:

The Sun also Rises

The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is

Elizabeth

‘Hyperion’ by Keats may be classified as:

An Epic

T. S. Eliot wrote:

The Waste Land

G.B. Shaw’s principles of criticism are similar to those of:

Karl Marx

“The Waste Land’ is:

Blank verse

Yeats poetry possess the imaginative mysticism of:

Criticism

Who considers Hamlet to be an Artistic failure

Eliot

Which influence is shown in the work of Shaw?

French

Eliot shows a bent towards

Romanticism

Mrs. Dalloway is the masterpiece of:

V. Woolf

The Central Figure among the Victorian Poets is:

Tennyson

Browning is known for his:

Dramatic Monologue

Which novel is written by D. H. Lawrence?

Sons and Lovers

The ‘Arcadia’ by Sir Philip Sydney is a:

Romance
‘The Faerie Queene’ was written by:

Spenser

‘The Crowns of Wild Olive’ was written by:

Ruskin

David Copper Field, Hard Times and Little Dorrit, all were written by:

Dickens

‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement?

Wordsworth

“A long poem is a combination of short poems.” Who has held the above opinion?

Wordsworth

Rabbi Ben Ezra was written by?

Browning

In 1857, Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford delivered his inaugural lecture in

English

The second generation of the romantic poets (Shelley, Byron and Keats) was dead by:

1825

The Advertisement added to the Lyrical Ballads was published in:

1798

Hero and Hero Worship was written by:

Carlyle

Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria?

In Memoriam

Hardy’s Nature is:

Indifferent

Does the personal name Lucy (in Wordsworth’s poetry) stands for

Dorothy

‘Who knows but the world many end to-night.’ In which of Browning’s poems the above line appears?

The Last Ride together

The Prelude was written in”

None of these

The Crown of Wild Olive is written by:

Ruskin

Oscar Wilde believed in:

Aestheticism
‘Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.’ Who has written these lines?

Wordsworth

When was the poem Tintern Abbey written?

1798

The correct date of French Revolution:

1789

Human situation in Hardy’s novels is controlled by:

Fate

"Prophets of Nature ……………………. What we have loved Other will love …………….”

In which poem by Wordsworth do these lines appear?

One Summer Evening

“But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these lines appear?

Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)

Fortinbras is a character of the play:

Hamlet

Who wrote preface to Shakespeare:

Dr. Johnson
The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is also called:

Hamartia

The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare

Dramatic monologue

Who is believed to be suffering from Oedipus Complex:

Oedipus

Whose comedies are called ‘Comedies of Mask’:

Bernard Shaw’s

Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd

Backett

Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway’s Waste Land?

None of these

Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by:

Wordsworth

Which is called the Victorian Age:

19th Century

A poem which consists of fourteen line is called:

A Sonnet

‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by”

T. S. Eliot

‘End Game’ is written by:

Beckett

My soul had been a lawn besprinkled O’er with flowers, and Stirring Shades, and baffled dreams is an
example of:

Metaphor

Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of:

Alliteration

‘Pleasant Pain’ is an example of”

Oxymoron

Which of the plays is not written by T. S. Eliot?

The importance of being Earnest

Which of the novels is not written by Jane Austen?

Adam Bede

‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:

A Poem
‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:

Pygmalion

Who said ‘The true opposite of Poetry is not Prose but Science’.

Coleridge

“The first in beauty should be first in might” … is the line spoken in Hyperion by:

Hyperion

The Eve of St. Agnes is written by:

Keats

Adonis is modeled on:

Bion’s lament for Adonis

Hardy is a:

Pessimist

Who is one of the lake poets:

Coleridge

Ernest De Selincourt is the editor of:

The Prelude

Who usually caricatures his characters?

Dickens

Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by:

T. S. Eliot

‘Hebrew Melodies’ is written by:

Byron

‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that must die’ is a line from

Ode to Melancholy

‘A Little Girl Lost’ is written by:

Blake

The first eight lines of a sonnet are called

Octave

The Revolt of Islam is a:

Lyrical Drama

The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called

Alliteration

‘The child is the father of man’ is a line from Wordsworth’s:

My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky.

‘Lady Windermere’s fan’ is written by:

Oscar Wilde

Who wrote ‘Tales From Shakespeare’?

Charles Lamb and his sister

‘East Coker’ is written by:

T. S. Eliot

In which poem lies the line ‘The One remain, the many change and pass’?

Adonis

OF all his predecessors, the following exerted a direct influence upon Shakespeare.

Lyly and Marlowe

Shakespeare has written

Comedies, Tragedies & Historical Plays

Jane Austen’s other writings are:

Sense and Sensibility, Emma & Persuasion

Texts like Waiting for Godot are:

Ageless

“We are such stuff as dreams are made”. Whose words are these.
Shakespeare

The only play by Shakespeare which confirms to the classical unities is:

Twelfth Night

Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were:

European

‘Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind’ who has said these words:

Lord Chesterfield

Arms and the Man – a novel is written by:

George Bernard Shaw

‘Proper study of Mankind is man’ – who has said these words:

Pope

‘Supernaturalism’ was an important feature of the poetry of:

Coleridge

‘Sweet Hellen make me immortal with kiss’. Who has said these words?

Marlow

Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads:

Wordsworth

The word renaissance means:

Rebirth

‘Of Studies’ an essay is written by:

Francis Bacon

Spenser was:

a poet

All is well that ends well is a:

Comedy

The second shortest play of Shakespeare is:

Much ado about nothing

‘Paradise Lost’ is written by:

Milton

‘Money is a tie of all ties. It is a tie which ties and unties all ties’ is quotation from

Of Money

Hellenism of Keats connotes:

his love of Greek culture and art

The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ occurs in which one of Keats’ following poems:

Ode to Grecian Urn

In his poetry Tennyson is:

The representative poet of Victorian Age

Thomas Hardy is:

A fatalist

Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s:

The Mill on the Floss

Which of following Books consists of Ruskin’s lectures:

The Crown of wild olive

Who described poetry as “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”:

Wordsworth

‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by:

Carlyle

The French Revolution took place in:

None of these
‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by:

T. S. Eliot

“David Copperfield” was written by:

Dickens

Who said this “Poetry is the Criticism of life”:

Arnold

‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:

Shelley

‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:

Tennyson

‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

Oscar Wilde

The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by:

Mill

Ruskin is famous for:

A social reformer

Stephen Guest is an important Character in One of the following novels of George Eliot:

The Mill on the Floss

‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by:

Wordsworth

‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by:

Browning

Frost is:

Poet of Country life

Who said these words in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ … “No one should be alone in their old age”

Santiago

Santiago is an illustration of:

Hemingway’s philosophy of life

The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are:

Friendship and benevolence

Gulliver was expelled from the land of Yahoos because he was considered

he hated their king

Yeats was

Victorian poet & a modern poet

‘How can we know the dancer from the dance’? This line written by Yeats is taken from:
The Second Coming

T. S. Eliot was

Classicist

Shakespeare other than dramas also wrote

Poems

Shakespeare was born in:

1564

Pure tragedies written by Shakespeare are:

Four

Shakespeare died in:

1616

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published in:

1602

Hamlet was killed by:

Learteus
The kind Claudius was killed by:

Hamlet

Jane Austen’s main theme in her novels especially in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:

Love and marriage

Who is the major male character in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

Mr. Darcy

Who represents Pride in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

None of these

Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

Miss Elizabeth

Byron wrote ‘Childe Harold’ in:

1812

Which English romantic poet admired Pope:

Byron

The poem “the Triumph of life” was written by:

Shelley

‘Songs of Experience’ written by Blake was published in:

1794
‘The Excursion’ was written by:

(Wordsworth)

The Last Ride Together was written by:

Browning

‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:

Dickens

‘Adam Bede’ is a novel written by

George Eliot

‘The Ring and the Book’ is a poem written by:

Browning

‘The Lotus-Eaters’ was written by

Tennyson

‘The Art for Art sake’ theory was presented by:

Oscar Wilde

‘The Old Familiar Faces’ was written by:

Charles Lamb
‘The Stone of Venice’ was written by:

Ruskin

Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter’.

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist?

Keats

‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by

Browning

‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

Oscar Wilde

Which of the following novels of Hardy has ‘clymn’ as the main male character?

None of these

The principle of political Economy was the main theme of the writings of:

J. S. Mill

Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon Heath’ as the background of the story?

Return of the Native

It is for the world to decide whether you are a poet or not. For whom these words are meant:
Frost

Earnest Hemingway in addition to ‘Old Man and the Sea’ bad written:

A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls & Death in the Afternoon

All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s

Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s

“I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed to:

Miranda in the ‘Tempest’

“None of thou shalt be my paramour” these words are attributed to:

Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus

“Lyrical ballads” were published by:

Both Coleridge and Wordsworth

The proper study of mankind in man. This line is taken from the work of:

Pope

There is no man like Showman. These views were held by:

Thomas Carlyle

Famous romantic poets were

Six

‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from

Merchant of Venice

A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is composed by:

Keats

Your plan is a good one if a girl only wants to be married. Who said these words?

Charlotte

In Chapter XVI the word muffled in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:

Confused

Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland.

In 1906

To err is human, forgive is divine. Who has said these words:

a) Pope

Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes it origin from emotions recollected in
tranquility. Who has given the description of the poetry?

Wordsworth

Jane Austen in addition to, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ had also written:

Emma, Sense and Sensibility & Persuasion

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had __________ Daughters.

Five

Father of antiquities were:

Socrates, Aristotle & Plato

Restoration period was known as the age of :

satire

Who is famous for representing London in his novels.

Dickens

Great Expectations was published in:

1860-1

Jane Eyre was written by:

C. Bronte

Who was a known aesthete?

Huxley

"In Memoriam" is :

an elegy

Tennyson was:
a Victorian

Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?

Ruskin

A dominant theme in Hardy's novels is:

( fatalism

"The Recluse" was written by:

Worsdworth

Dorothy was the gifted sister of:

Wordsworth

"The Frankenstein" is a novel by:

Mrs. Shelley

An element of the supernatural is present in the poetry of :

Coleridge

Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of :

(a) Childe Harolde

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by:

Coleridge
Adonias, Prometheus and "The triumph of life" are some of the beautiful poems by:

Shelley

"The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:

Ruskin

Mr. Rochester is the major character of:

Jane Eyre

In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope", "Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used as backdrop:

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

"The Wuthering Heights" is a famous novels written by:

Emile Bronte

Who has defined tragedy as “an imitation of an action”?

Aristotle

In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment is this?

Bradley

A poet is a man speaking to men says?

Wordsworth
Hermione is the heroine of Shakespeare in:

The Winter’s Tale

“Gyre” is a favorite symbol with

Yeats

Who is labeled as misanthropist?

Swift

‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ is written by:

T. S. Eliot

‘Nothing more real than nothing’ are the words of?

Beckett

‘Earth is the right place for Love and I do not know where it is likely to go better.’ These lines are from:

Birches

‘Lapis Lazuli’ is a poem written by:

W. B. Yeats

Which of the plays has an epilogue?

Devils’ Disciple

‘I care for life, for humanity, and you are a part of it.’ Whose words are these?
Huggins

Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in:

1923

Whose work is called ‘mock utopia’?

Swift’s

The Waste Land was published by Eliot in:

1922

Feminine Ending is:

a metrical device

‘Persona’ is

the actor in a play

A Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare is a:

Comedy

‘Preface to Shakespeare’ is written by:

Dr. Johnson

‘Songs of Experience’ was written by:

Blake
‘The Prelude’ was composed by:

Wordsworth

Which writing includes the manifesto of Romantic poetry?

Lyrical Ballads

Who does consider ‘love’ as a transcending power handling all things into beauty?

Keats

Who did write an epic on the growth of his own mind?

Wordsworth

Who was more under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy of life?

Shelley

“The Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” appear in:

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Lord Byron was born in:

1788

Tennyson talks about the equality of women in:

The Princess

Pauline was written by:

Browning

Which Victorian Poet is called the psychologist?

Browning

‘The last Essays of Elia’ was written by:

Lamb

Hazlitt’s intellectual awakening had been stimulated by:

Shakespeare

Paul David and Pip are the three notable descriptions of sensitive, nervous childhood in the works of:

Dickens

Which of the following novelists is known for his Satire in the Victorian literature?

Thackeray

Amongst the following, who is considered to be the “pioneer of the novel of female emancipation”?

Charlotte Bronte

The world of “Lady Shallot” belongs to the:

Victorian era

Egden Heath forms the back-drop of which of the following novels by Hardy?

Return of the Native

“Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty” This line has been taken from:

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Upon Wartminister Bridge, written by Wordsworth is:

Sonnet

B. Shaw confessed to be a disciple of:

Ibsen

Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and Super Man are written by:

Shaw

Which of the following was written by Shakespeare?

The Rape of Lucrece

Who wrote Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost?

Milton

The Rape of the Lock is a:

Parody

The Dunciad, Essay on Man, Epistles are all written by:

Pope

Who said … “expression ought to be the dress of the thought”?

Coleridge

What kind of books are Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders?

Travel-books

Who believed that Shakespeare did much better in Comedy than in tragedy?

Johnson

Who wrote The Vicar of Wake Field?

Goldsmith

‘Cervantes’ is a character in:

Don Quixote

Parson Adams and Squire Western are creations of:

Fielding

Mr. Bennet is one of Jane Austen’s characters in:

Pride and Prejudice

The Prelude is written in:

Blank Verse

In whose poetry do we find – ‘a love of nature, simplicity and faith in the dignity of the humblest’?

Wordsworth
Who among the Romantic poets chores the ‘Super natural’ as his theme?

Coleridge

Which poet is not always bound up with the reformer?

Tennyson

The Common Sojourn of Byron, Shelley, Keats was:

Lake district

Childe Harold was written by:

Byron

Pleasure and joy in Beauty become a feast of the scenes in the poetry of:

Keats

The Nurse’s Song was written by:

Blake

William Wordsworth was born in:

1770

Byron’s first published collection was called:

Hours of Idleness
The Essay of Elia was written by:

Charles Lamb

Shelley’s final unfinished poem was:

The Triumph of life

Lyrical Ballads are jointly composed by:

Wordsworth and Coleridge

On liberty was written by:

Mill

“Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer flies … yet remain
free …” This was said by:

Ruskin

Macaulay lived from

1800 - 1859

Macaulay represented:

Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment

Stones of Venice was written by:

Ruskin

Browning is famous for his:

Dramatic Monologues

In Memoriam was written in:

1849 , byTennyson

“Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,

Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without

Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together”. Who said this?

Browning

Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in:

1850

Dickens was from a:

Lower middle class origin

George Eliot’s real name was:

Marian Evans

George Eliot was an:

Atheist
Under the Greenwood Tree is a:

Tale of rustic life

The Professor was the first novel by:

Charlotte Bronte

______________ is called the first romantic critic.

Longinus

_______________ defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature.

Dryden

‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by:

Carlyle

The period of English literature from 1660 to the end of the century is called:

Restoration Period

‘Stream of Consciousness’ is the phrase first used by:

William James

______________ consists of nine-eight five foot iambic lines followed by an iambic line of six fed with
rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc:

Spenserian Stanza

A phrase, line or lines repeated at intervals during a poem and especially at the end of a stanza is called:
Refrain

Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an example of:

Comedy of Ideas

‘Verslibre’ is called as:

Free Verse

Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other is called:

Parallelism

‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written by:

Earnest Jones

‘Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, May Sweep to my
revenge’ is a speech from.

Hamlet

‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by:

W. H. Auden

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are:

Husband and wife

The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by:

Keats
‘The Olive Tree’ is a collection of essays by:

Huxley

The poem “Wind” is written by:

Ted Hughes

‘Egotistical Sublime’ is a phrase coined by:

Keats

‘Apologie for Poetrie’ is written by:

Philip Sidney

‘I count religion but a childish toy’ is a line from Marlowe’s play:

The Jew of Malta

Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate in:

1843

Who suggested Shelley to “Curb your magnanimity and be more of a poet’?

Keats

The lines ‘The one remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadow
fly; are composed by:

Shelley

‘On Pathetic Fallacy’ was written by:

Ruskin
The 1805 text of ‘The Prelude’ is edited by:

Ernest De Selin Court

‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by:

Walter Scott

__________ the quality when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any
irritable reaching after fact and reason’ ___ is:

Scepticism

‘The Quarterly Review’ was founded by:

Coleridge

‘Mansfield Park’ is a novel by:

Jane Austen

‘I am half sick of shadows’ is a line said by:

Tennyson

Adonais is an elegy on the death of:

John Keats

‘Poetry is the criticism of life’ is a view about poetry by:

Arnold
‘The Pickwick Papers’ by Dickens was published in:

1837

‘On Heroes and Hero-worship is written by:

Carlyle

Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Trollope are:

Novelists

‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written by:

Darwin

Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For Arts’ Sake:

Walter Pater

“Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will”, is a
statement by:

Shelley

‘A woman of no importance’ is a ______ by Oscarwilde:

Comedy

George Eliot and T.S. Eliot are:

Contemporary writers
In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by:

Bradley

“How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: To hell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!

Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:

Laertes

Aspect of the Novel is written by:

E.M. Forster

Lotos Eaters is a poem by:

Tennyson

‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:

T.S. Eliot

William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:

1949

G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:

1925

‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:

W.B. Yeats
‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:

T.S. Eliot

‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:

D.H. Lawrence

The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is:

Titus Andronicus

‘If music be the food of love, play on,

give me excess of it, that Surfeiting

The appetite may sicken and die?

is a speech from

Twelfth Night

An elaborate classical form in which one Shepherd – Singer laments the death of another is called:

Pastoral Elegy

The poets who believe that a hard, clear image was essential to verse are called:

Imagists

A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called:

Hyperbole

Rhymed decasyllables, nearly always in iambic Pentameters rhymed in Pairs are called:
Heroic Couplet

An exhortatory speech, usually delivered to a crowd to incite them to some action is:

Harangue

‘Hearing’ a colour or ‘Seeing’ a smell is an example of:

Synaesthesia

Drama which seeks to mirror life with the utmost fidelity is called:

Realistic

When Leontes discovers the identity of Perdita in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ is an example of:

Discovery

Ode to West Wind was written by

Shelley

Keats was born in

1795

Dream Children was written by

Charles Lamb

'Picture of Dorian Gray ' was written by

Oscar Wild
Ruskin belonged to (which age)

Victorian Age

Wordsworth lived from

1770-1850

'Heroes and hero worship' was written by

Thomas Carlyle

' Fair seed time had my soul' is from

The Prelude

Great Expectation was written by

Dickens

Lotus eaters is written by

Tennyson

Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are

Essayists

'My Last Duchess' was written by

Browning
Emily Bronte is the writer of

Wuthering heights

'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' is a definition of poetry by

Wordsworth

'Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter' is a line from

Ode on a Grecian Urn

'Waverley' was written by

Scott

'We are Seven' is written by

None of these (William Wordsworth)

'Past and Present' is written by

Carlyle

'Modern Painters' is written by

Ruskin

Byron is the writer of

Don Juan

Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?

Beckett
To the Light House” is written by:

None of these (Virginia Woolf)

I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:

Hamlet

“Ullyses” is written by:

James Joyce

Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:

Pride and Prejudice

“Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:

None of these (Tennyson)

“Thought Fox” is written by:

Ted Hughes

“Major Barbra” is written by:

Shaw

Lilliput is a character from:

Gulliver’s Travels
“Fire and Ice” is written by:

Frost

Swift belong to:

Augustan age

The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:

King Lear

“Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:

Keats

“I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:

Eliot

“Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:

The Second coming

“Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:

None of these (Mending Wall)

‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:

The Wasteland

“A Farewell to Arms” is written by:

Hemmingway

“A passage to India” is written by:

Forester

. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of __________ age

Romantic

S.T. Coleridge was born in

1772

Wordsworth settled in

Lake District

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written by:

Byron

Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by:

Shelley

Hyperion is a/an __________ poem

Epic
Romanticism expressed a restlessness of

Soul

Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are novels written by

Jane Austen

Shelley is remembered as a _______ poet

Lyric

Keats is prominently a man of:

Sensations

As a moralist J. S. Mill develops the doctrine of:

Utilitarianism

Charles Dickens was born in

1812

Charles Dickens is known for being

Idealist

Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by:

C. Bronte
Emile Bronte’s verse reveals a conscious

Pantheism

The Mayor of Caster Bridge was written by:

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of:

Architect

The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by:

Oscar Wilde

Ruskin was born in:

1819

__________ is a novel by Miss Burney

Evelina

In Greek tragedy irony and ____________ are fused into one.

Satire

Joseph Andrews was written by

Fielding

Shakespeare was born in

1564
‘The Wheel of Fire’ a criticism was written by

W. Knight

Kubla Khan was written by

Coleridge

G. B. Shaw began his literary career first as:

Novelist

W. B. Yeats was born in

1865

Jane Austen’s Work is transfused with the spirit of

Classicism

The Waste Land by T. S. Elliot is an

Elegy

Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was originally written in

French

The ________ age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art:

Romantic
Maud and In memoriam were written by

Tennyson

Tennyson was born in

1809

. ___________ has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments

Hyperbole

Keats’ aestheticism was later turned into

Pre-Raphaelitism

_________ is the animating force in the work of C. Bronte

Idealism

The Wilde Swans at Coole is first great collection of poems of

Yeats

T. S. Eliot was born in

1888

Jane Eyre was written by

Bronte

Ophelia, Julia , Viola, Imogene are the characters created by

Shakespeare

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