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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

421. James Joyces narrative technique is known as______________?
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A. Objective Co-relative

B. psycho-analysis

C. Symbolism and Mysticism

D. stream of consciousness

422. Browning is famous for his______________?
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A. Narrative ballads

B. Dramatic Monologues

C. Blank Verse

D. Sensory images

423. Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
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A. King Alfred the Great

B. Francis Bacon

C. Geoffery Chaucer

D. Henry Fielding

424. has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments_____________?
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A. None of these

B. Metaphor

C. Hyperbole

D. Rhetoric

425. In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?
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A. None of these

B. The best nature poet

C. The representative poet of Romantic Age

D. The representative poet of Victorian Age

426. The Poet Laureate is_________________?
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A. a winner of Noble Prize in Poetry

B. the court poet of England

C. the best poet of the country

D. a classical poet

427. Of Human Bondage is written by_____________?
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A. James Joyce

B. W.B. Yeats

C. Somerset Maugham

D. Philip Sydney

428. Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly ?
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A. Pride and Prejudice

B. The Daffodils

C. Culture and Anarchy

D. To a skylark

429. Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book ?
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A. He was born in Missouri and traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world before he moved to New York City.

B. He moved to New York from Alabama and the stark contrast between these places deeply influenced his writing.

C. He spent most of his life in Washington, DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained literary fame.

D. He was a native New Yorker who did not travel much but who was keenly aware of New Yorks complexity and diversity.

430. Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ?
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A. Shelley

B. Wordsworth

C. Keats

D. Browning

431. O Captain! My Captain! is a poem written by______________?
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A. Mark Twain

B. Robert Frost

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Walt Whitman

432. According to Professor Hammer, which of the following characteristics did Langston Hughes share with modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost ?
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A. Hughes was very conscious that he

B. an American poet, and this profoundly influenced his writing.

C. Hughes wrote about the legacy of the American Civil War and its long-term cultural consequences.

D. Hughes introduced new subject-matter and new language into poetry.

E. Both A and C

433. The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?
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A. Bitterness and revenge

B. None of these

C. Friendship and benevolence

D. Hatred and jealousy

434. In which century was Piers Plowman written ?
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A. 14th

B. 10th

C. 12th

D. 11th

435. Who is called the Mock heroic poet ?
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A. Jonathan Swift

B. Edmund Walter

C. Alexander Pope

D. Dr. Samuel Johnson

436. Beauty is truth, truth is beauty is stated by_____________?
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A. Jane Austine

B. Keats

C. Charles Lamb

D. Shelley

437. A poem mourning someones death is called______________?
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A. Fable

B. None of these

C. Elegy

D. Epic

438. One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevenss poem Sunday Morning consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ?
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A. Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation

B. The ideal of courtly love

C. The alchemical concept of the philosophers stone

D. The Renaissance concept of humanism

439. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.- Who told it ?
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A. Bacon

B. Spenser

C. Chaucer

D. Shakespeare

440. The Merchant of Venice Written by Shakespeare is________________?
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A. a drama

B. a poem

C. A novel

D. a short story

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