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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

501. Who wrote Kubla Khan ?
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A. Coleridge

B. Wordsworth

C. Shelley

D. Keats

502. Who is the author of the book Around the World in Eighty Days ?
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A. H. G. Wells

B. Jules Verne

C. Charles Dickens

D. Mark Twain

503. Which of the following events increased the appeal of communism among American intellectuals both black and white in the years between 1918 and 1939 ?
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A. The Great Depression

B. Hitlers invasion of Poland in 1939

C. The Russian Civil War

D. World War I

504. defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature ?
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A. Shakespeare

B. Coleridge

C. Dryden

D. Dr. Johnson

505. In Poem Daffodils Sprightly Dance means________________?
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A. lively dance

B. nice dance

C. ugly dance

D. nonsense dance

506. Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by_______________?
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A. T. S. Eliot

B. None of these

C. Shelley

D. Oscar Wilde

507. Who is the writer of The Caroline Period ?
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A. Cynewulf

B. Caedmon

C. Dante

D. Robert Herrick

508. Henry Higgins is a character in________________?
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A. saint joan

B. none of these

C. Candida

D. Pygmalion

509. In his essay The Symbolism of Poetry, William Butler Yeats argues that which of the following is the purpose of rhythm ?
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A. To amplify and clarify the indistinct emotions created by metaphorical symbols

B. To prolong the moment of contemplation

C. To make poetry new

D. To counteract the forces of dispersal inherent in metaphorical language

510. The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the____________?
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A. Enlightenment

B. Reformation

C. aristocracy

D. New Age

511. Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Cranes poem Legend, Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: As silent as a mirror is believed/ Realities plunge in silence by /I am not ready for repentance; according to Professor Hammer, Cranes refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following ?
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A. His political views

B. His will to imaginative freedom

C. His will to sexual freedom

D. Both B and C

512. In analyzing T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?
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A. Implicit dialogue with the future

B. A meditation on contradictions

C. Overheard inner speech

D. Objective correlative

513. Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?
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A. Samuel Johnson

B. Robert Browning

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. John Donne

514. Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnolds poem Dover Beach is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?
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A. was composed between WW I and WW II.

B. employs free verse.

C. has an undertow of nihilism.

D. is chauvinistic about British exceptionalism.

515. This work was written before the other three choices ?
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A. Julian of Norwhichs Book of Showings

B. Chaucers Canterbury Tales

C. Sir Thomas Mores Utopia

D. Bedes An Ecclesiastical History of the English People

516. Modern age is an age of______________?
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A. All of the above

B. Conflicts and Controversies

C. Subjectivity

D. Pessimism and Cynicism

517. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
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A. Elizabethan

B. None of these

C. Romantic

D. Victorian

518. He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. William Shakespeare

C. Sir Thomas Malory

D. Sir Philip Sidney

519. Who have written the book The Godfather
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A. Francis Ford Coppola

B. Mark Winegardner

C. Marlon Brando

D. Mario Puzo

520. World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event ?
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A. Wilfred Owen

B. Oscar Wilde

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Siegfried Sassoon

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