english literature MCQs – Page 196

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

3901. What is anthology ?
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A. fish cultivation

B. collection of insects

C. collection of poems

D. study of poetry

3902. Who is the author of Man and Superman ?
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A. Charles Dickens

B. Leo Tolstoy

C. George Bernard Shaw

D. W. Shakespeare

3903. Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry ?
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A. John Keats

B. William Blake

C. William Wordsworth

D. Thomas Gray

3904. Who wrote the fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings ?
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A. Peter Jackson

B. C. S. Lewis

C. J. K. Rowling

D. J. R. R. Tolkien
3906. Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
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A. Say bad thing, about others

B. The ability to sympathize with other

C. None of these

D. To empathize
3907. Who is the writer of the poem A Grammarians Funeral ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. Wordsworth

C. Robert Browning

D. Shelley

3908. Who wrote the book Ivan Hoe ?
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A. Sir Walter Scott

B. R L Stevenson

C. O Henry

D. Ernest Hemingway

3911. Who is the author of For Whom the Bell Tolls ?
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A. Charles Dickens

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Homer

D. Lord Tennison

3912. What is an Epic ?
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A. a prose composition

B. a short poem

C. a historical poem

D. a long narrative poem
3913. Which period of literature came first ?
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A. Victorian

B. Regency

C. Romantic

D. Restoration
3914. Who is the writer of The Ring of the Book ?
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A. Robert Browning

B. Wordsworth

C. William Shakespeare

D. Shelley

3916. Find the Odd man out ?
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A. Ulysses : James Joyce

B. Riders to the Sea : John Millington Synge

C. A Full Moon in March : W. B. Yeats

D. Drama of Ideas : T. S. Eliot
3917. Who accuses Arnold of high pamphleteering ?
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A. F. R. Leavis

B. Pater

C. Eliot

D. I. A. Richards

3918. George Bernard Shaw is_________________?
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A. a modern painter

B. a playwright

C. a historian

D. a film-maker

3919. Who wrote Beauty is truth, truth beauty ?
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A. Eliot

B. John Keats

C. wordsworth

D. Shakespeare

3920. Who is the hero of Paradise Regained_______________?
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A. The Paritan Church

B. Christ

C. Satan

D. None of these