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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

21. Name the English poet of 18th century whose works included Rape of the Lock, Dunciad and Essay on Man?
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A. None of these

B. Alexander Pope

C. Winston Churchill

D. Nelson Mandela

22. The meaning a word within a language?
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A. Sense

B. Essence

C. Sense

D. Common Sense

23. _______ is a term denotes historical perspective for studying language ?
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A. Synchrony

B. Diachrony

C. Both a and b

D. None of these

24. Which was the first novel of Thomas Hardy published in 1871?
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A. A Pair of Blue

B. The Return of the Native

C. None of these

D. Desperate Remedies

25. The phrase Pathetic fallacy is coined by _________________?
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A. John Ruskin

B. Coleridge

C. Milton

D. Carlyle

26. The study of relationships between two or more languages and the investigation whether the common languages have a common ancestor is called___________?
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A. Psycho linguistics

B. None of these

C. >Comparative linguistics

D. Sociolinguistics

27. A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time
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A. Diachrony

B. N. O. T

C. Paradigmatic

D. Synchrony

28. Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species ?
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A. Noam Chomsky

B. Ferdenand de Sassure

C. Albert Chomsky

D. Noah Webster

29. Longinus asserts that nothing contributes more to loftiness of tone in writing than _________?
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A. Grandeur Thought

B. Impassioned Utterance

C. Genuine Emotion

D. Splendour Style

30. Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?
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A. None of these

B. Enoch Powel

C. Noam Chomsky

D. Sassure

31. The author of The Bluest Eyes (1970) is__________?
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A. Sylvia Plath

B. Toni Morrison

C. Chinua Achebe

D. Ahmed Sulman Rushdie

32. There are ______ vowel sounds in English IPA.
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A. 19

B. 21

C. 22

D. 20

33. __________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe the actual use of language in concrete situations
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A. N. O. T

B. Parole

C. Performance

D. Paradigmatic

34. The author of novel The Lord of the rings is ____________?
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A. R. R. Tolkien

B. Thomas Hardy

35. By sublimity Longiuns means a certain distinction and excellence in ____________?
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A. Puerility

B. Imitation

C. Composition

D. Pleasure

36. Shame (1983) is written by__________?
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A. None of these

B. Ahmed Salman Rushdie

C. Chinua Achebe

D. Toni Morrison

37. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.
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A. Both b and c

B. Diachrony/Synchrony

C. Acceptable/Unacceptable

D. N. O. T

38. Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?
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A. Two Gentlemen of Verona

B. Faustus

C. The Tempest

D. The Winters Tale

39. Noam Chomsky was born in _________?
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A. 9-Dec-28

B. 10-Dec-28

C. December 7, 1928

D. 8-Dec-28

40. The theory of Biolinguistics is given by__________?
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A. Noam Chomsky

B. Enoch Powell

C. Steven Pinker

D. Ferdenand De Sassure

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