english literature MCQs – Page 18

Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

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

341. In 1905, VirginiaWoolf began to write for which publication ?
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A. Reader Magazine

B. The Ladys Home Journal

C. Strand Magazine

D. The Times Literary Supplement

342. The 18th century work Tom Jones was written by whom ?
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A. John Donne

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Tobias Smollett

D. Henry Fielding

343. On liberty was written by_______________?
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A. Godwin

B. Carlyle

C. Macaulay

D. Mill

344. Who is the author of The Origin of Species ?
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A. Charles Darwin

B. A. Pope

C. O. Goldsmith

D. T. Hardy

345. Professor Hammer argues that Hart Cranes poem Voyages is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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A. Ezra Pounds Cantos

B. Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers

C. T.S. Eliots The Waste Land

D. T.S. Eliots A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

346. Which period of literature came first ?
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A. Victorian

B. Regency

C. Restoration

D. Romantic

347. James Joyces narrative technique is known as______________________?
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A. stream of consciousness

B. Objective Co-relative

C. psycho-analysis

D. Symbolism and Mysticism

348. In T.S. Eliots essay called Tradition and Individual Talent, he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following ?
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A. Continual transformation of the personality

B. Continual identification with the past

C. Continual expansion of the personality and its diverse elements

D. Continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality

349. Who is the writer of Harold ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. A. Lord Tennyson

D. Christopher Marlowe

350. Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
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A. The Restoration

B. The Age of Sensibility

C. Jacobean Age

D. The Augustan Age

351. Famous romantic poets were_____________?
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A. Six

B. None of these

C. Five

D. Four

352. The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?
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A. My Last Duchess

B. Lyrical Ballads

C. Canonization

D. A Tale of Two Cities

353. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a late-Victorian poet ?
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A. Amy Lowell

B. Alfred Tennyson

C. John Milton

D. Allen Ginsberg

354. The Conduct of the Allies is a famous work of_____________?
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A. Samuel Johnson

B. None of these

C. Oliver Goldsmith

D. Jonathan Swift

355. The Bronte sisters wrote during this period______________?
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A. Regency

B. Restoration

C. Victorian

D. Romantic

356. All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings who made this statement ?
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A. Wordsworth

B. Shelly

C. De Quincey

D. None of these

357. Ezra Pounds Canto XIV opens with the line Io venni in luogo dogni luce muto [I came to a place devoid of light]. This creates a connection between the Canto and which of the following works ?
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A. Thomas Manns Doctor Faustus

B. Dantes Divine Comedy

C. Goethes Faust

D. Miltons Paradise Lost

358. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by_______________?
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A. C. Bronte

B. J. Austen

C. E. Bronte

D. None of these

359. Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry ?
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A. Thomas Gray

B. John Keats

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

360. The poem The Patriot is written by_______________?
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A. John Donne

B. Mathew Arnold

C. Robert Browning

D. Alfred Tennyson

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