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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

4321. How has Stephen Dunn been described in the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry ?
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A. Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness

B. One of the leading prairie poets

C. A poet of middleness

D. Has some distinction as a critic

4322. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters_______________?
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A. lyric

B. free verse

C. none of the above

D. narrative

4323. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme______________?
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A. free verse

B. none of the above

C. narrative

D. lyric

4324. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word ?
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A. Alliterative

B. Acrostic

C. Haiku

D. Epic

4325. In Ulysses, Joyce retells which ancient story ?
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A. Virgils The Aeneid

B. Sophocless Antigone

C. Homers The Odyssey

D. Homers The Iliad

4326. Harold Nicholson described which poet as Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners ?
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A. John Greenleaf Whittier

B. Walt Whitman

C. T. S. Elliot

D. e. e. Cummings

4327. In Ulysses, which character best exemplifies anti-Semitism ?
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A. Gabriel Conroy

B. Molly Ivors

C. Mr. Deasy

D. Leopold Bloom

4328. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor ?
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A. A simile is more descriptive.

B. A simile must use animals in the comparison.

C. No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.

D. A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesnt.

4329. How does Queen Gertrude die ?
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A. Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.

B. Poisoned by drinking from Hamlets cup.

C. Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.

D. Drowns in the river outside the castle.

4330. Which of the following themes are developed in Finnegans Wake ?
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A. All of the Above

B. the movement of time

C. married relationships

D. dreams

4331. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
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A. Toronto

B. Denver

C. Cuba

D. St Louis

4332. What is the earliest surviving European poem ?
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A. The Gilgamesh epic

B. The Homeric epic

C. The Hesiodic ode

D. The Deluge epic

4333. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books ?
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A. None of the above

B. Chollttee

C. The Return of Native

D. The Poor Man and the Lady

4334. The theme is_____________?
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A. an address

B. an character

C. the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.

D. a plot.

4335. Who says forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race ?
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A. Molly Bloom

B. Gabriel Conroy

C. says forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race?

D. Leopold Bloom

E. Stephen Dedalus

4336. In order to become an artist, what does Stephen Dedalus sacrifice from his life ?
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A. his chance for isolation

B. his ability to flee Ireland

C. his individual consciousness

D. his relationship with his family and friends

4337. Of which poet was it said Even if hes not a great poet, hes certainly a great something ?
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A. Kipling

B. Elliot

C. Cummings

D. Brooke

4338. In The Dubliners, which best describes the order of the story arc ?
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A. adolescence, maturity, childhood

B. childhood, adolescence, maturity, public life

C. childhood, maturity, adolescence

D. childhood, adolescence, maturity

4339. Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood ?
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A. Richard Burton

B. Anthony Hopkins

C. Tom Jones

D. Dylan Thomas

4340. Please identify the text from which then must any what you like in the power of empthoo comes ?
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A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

B. Finnegans Wake

C. Araby

D. The Dead

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