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english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

1. Period in English Literature from 1901 to 1910 is called___________?
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A. The Post Modern

B. The Pre-Raphaelites

C. The Edwardian Period

D. The Georgian Period

2. There are ______ consonant sounds in English IPA.
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A. 23

B. 25

C. 24

D. 22

3. According to Longinus, the queen of figures is ___________?
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A. None

B. Hyperbole

C. Metaphor

D. Apostrophe

E. Simile

4. Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speakers linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?
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A. Ferdenand De Sassure

B. Leon Battista Alberti

C. Noam Chomsky

D. Enoch Powell

5. In Chaucers Legend of Good Women, how many legends are there?
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A. None of these

B. 9

C. 7

D. 8

6. Who wrote The Colossus in 1960?
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A. Sylvia Plath

B. Ahmed Sulman Rushdie

C. Chinua Achebe

D. Toni Morrison

7. The Syntactic Structures is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?
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A. 1959

B. 1960

C. 1958

D. 1957

8. Father of modern linguistics is ________?
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A. Noam Chomsky

B. Ferdenand De Sassure

C. None of these

D. Both A and B

9. Thomas Chatterton was _____ years old when he dies.
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A. 17

B. 18

C. 19

D. 16

10. Who called Chaucer the father of English literature?
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A. John Dryden

B. Dr johson

C. M ArnaldB

D. T S Eliot

11. Morphology is the branch of linguistics which deals with
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A. The study of the structure of sounds and symbols.

12. Novel Animal Farm was written by___________?
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A. Shakespeare

B. None of these

C. William Hudson

D. George Orwell

13. The Canterbury Tales is written by ___________?
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A. William Langland

B. Julian of Norwich

C. John Gower

D. Geoffrey Chaucer

14. The system of communication within a community.
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A. N. O. T

B. Parole

C. Langue

D. Paradigmatic

15. The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?
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A. Sociolinguistics

B. Psycholinguisctics

C. None of these

D. Biolinguistics

16. The study of signs is termed as_________?
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A. Parole

B. Paradigmatic

C. Semiotics

D. Semantics

17. Altruist describes:
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A. A person who hates mankind

B. A lover of mankind.

C. One who is lover of beauty.

D. One who never stops.

18. Reflections on Language is a book written by Noam Choamsky in__________?
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A. 1976

B. 1975

C. 1988

D. 1977

19. Longinus establishes that the most beautiful of meters is __________?
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A. None

B. Iambic Pentameter

C. Dactylic Hexameter

D. Torchaic Octameter

20. Chomsky developed Transformational-Generative Grammar in________?
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A. 1951

B. 1950

C. 1953

D. 1952

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