english literature MCQs – Page 203

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

4041. Macbeth and Oedipus is by_________________?
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A. Earnest Jones

B. Freud

C. Nicoll

D. W. H. Auden
4042. Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly ?
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A. To a skylark

B. Culture and Anarchy

C. The Daffodils

D. Pride and Prejudice

4043. Jane Austen is the writer of__________________?
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A. Rebecca

B. Emma

C. Jane Eyre

D. Ramona

4044. Who is called the Mock heroic poet ?
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A. Alexander Pope

B. Jonathan Swift

C. Edmund Walter

D. Dr. Samuel Johnson

4045. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are written by________________?
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A. P.B. Shelley

B. William Blake

C. John Keats

D. John Milton
4046. Who is the author of The Origin of Species ?
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A. A. Pope

B. Charles Darwin

C. O. Goldsmith

D. T. Hardy

4047. Who is the writer of Harold ?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. William Shakespeare

C. George Bernard Shaw

D. A. Lord Tennyson
4049. What do you mean by Phonetics ?
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A. study of language and rules

B. study of insects

C. study of speech sounds

D. study of meaning and syntax

4050. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet ?
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A. a song for mourning

B. a two line stanza

C. a poem of lamentation

D. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
4051. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?
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A. 1000 years ago

B. 1500 years ago

C. 3000 years ago

D. 2000 years ago
4052. Written in March is a poem composed by_______________?
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A. William Congreve

B. William Shakespeare

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

4053. April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliots__________________?
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A. The Hollow men

B. Prufrock

C. The Wasteland

D. East Coker

4054. Lycidas is written by_____________?
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A. Thomas Hardy

B. Henry Fielding

C. Alexander Pope

D. John Milton
4055. Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare ?
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A. John Milton

B. Lord Tennyson

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. All of them

4056. Shaws Man and Superman is an example of___________?
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A. Romantic Comedy

B. Comedy of Errors

C. Comedy of Ideas

D. Comedy of Manners

4058. Andrea Del Sarto is a poem written by_________________?
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A. Tennyson

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Browning

D. Keats

4060. In Memoriam by Tennyson is________________?
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A. an elegy

B. a lyric

C. a collection of elegies

D. a dramatic lyric