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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

401. Ode on a Grecian Urn Who is the poet of the poem ?
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A. Shelley

B. Wordsworth

C. Shakespeare

D. Keats

402. Who is the hero of Paradise Regained_______________?
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A. Christ

B. The Paritan Church

C. None of these

D. Satan

403. The Poet Laureate is______________?
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A. the best poet of the country

B. a classical poet

C. the Court Port England

D. a winner of the Noble Prize in poetry

404. What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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A. a short story

B. a fictional story of animal characters

C. a soft style epic

D. a long narrative prose

405. April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliots__________________?
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A. Prufrock

B. The Wasteland

C. East Coker

D. The Hollow men

406. Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughess poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers ?
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A. Similar to Hart Crane and Whitman, Hughes uses a personal and universal I to address issues of history, race, and identity.

B. The poem is an indictment of racial prejudice in Harlem.

C. The poem is an analytical exploration of racial differences in the United States.

D. Hughes uses a universal speaker for an exploration of a profound racial divide between blacks and whites.

407. Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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A. Ezra Pound

B. none of these

C. Hardy

D. Shaw

408. Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughess poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers ?
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A. It is a meditation on the alienation of the modern person from nature.

B. It is a meditation on the communal and historical aspects of individual identity.

C. It is a meditation on the cultural isolation of African Americans in New England.

D. It is a meditation on the poets personal experience of assimilation.

409. What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frosts poem Out, Out and John Greenleaf Whittiers poem Telling the Bees ?
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A. They both address the theme of death.

B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.

C. They are both set in rural New England.

D. All of these answers

410. Who was American poet ?
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A. John Keats

B. Robert Frost

C. Robert Herrick

D. John Milton

411. Which of the following was an important influence on Charles Reznikoffs shift away from romantic rhetoric ?
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A. His study of ancient history

B. His study of medicine

C. His study of law

D. His study of Sanskrit

412. Romanticism is mainly connected with______________?
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A. job and tiredness

B. excitement and sensation

C. expectation and depression

D. love and beauty

413. Poetry is defined as Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling by___________?
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A. None of these

B. Coleridge

C. Wordsworth

D. Shelley

414. Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 Futurist Manifesto ?
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A. Vladimir Mayakovsky

B. Aleksander Wat

C. Umberto Boccioni

D. Filippo Marinetti

415. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?
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A. Monarchs or political events

B. The leading characteristic of the age

C. The language of the age

D. The primary author of the age

416. Which of the following poets did NOTwrite about his experiences in World War II ?
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A. Keith Douglas

B. Wilfred Owen

C. Karl Shapiro

D. Randall Jarrell

417. Who of the following is a playwright ?
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A. G.B. Shaw

B. Frost

C. Dickens

D. W.B. Yeats

418. Who is called the father of English Poetry ?
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A. Milton

B. G. Chaucer

C. Wordsworth

D. Charles Dickens

419. What is Parable ?
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A. an allegorical story usually containing

B. none of the above

C. a sense of distress

D. the basic unit of a composition

E. oral lesson

420. One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
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A. John Milton

B. Thomas Otway

C. Sir Walter Scott

D. John Dryden

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