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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

521. Which work was published first ?
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A. Blakes Songs of Innocence

B. Lord Byrons Don Juan

C. Sir Walter Scotts Ivanhoe

D. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

522. Andrea Del Sarto is a poem written by_________________?
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A. Browning

B. Tennyson

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Keats

523. We find Subjective Elements in ?
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A. Wordsworth

B. Shelley

C. Keats

D. All

524. H.D.s poem Oread reads: WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir. To which of the following categories does this poem belong ?
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A. Imagist poetry

B. Objectivist poetry

C. Futurist poetry

D. Vorticist poetry

525. Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry_______________?
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A. John Milton

B. William Wordsworth

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. William Shakespeare

526. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?
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A. John Greenleaf Whittier

B. William Carlos Williams

C. George Herbert

D. Robert Browning

527. Macbeth and Oedipus is by_________________?
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A. W. H. Auden

B. Nicoll

C. Earnest Jones

D. Freud

528. Adam Bede is a______________?
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A. Poem

B. none of these

C. Play

D. Novel

529. Who propounds the touchstone method_______________?
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A. Dryden

B. Shelley

C. Arnold

D. Pope

530. What did Robert Frosts father do ?
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A. teacher

B. farmer

C. black-smith

D. journalist

531. Violet Cristoforo was honored for collecting what kind of poetry in her anthology May Sky ?
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A. American G.I. poetry from German prisoner of war camps

B. Jewish dissident poetry from the gulags in Siberia

C. Haiku poetry from the Japanese internment camps in the US

D. Love sonnets from the Nazi death camps

532. Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?
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A. Dramatic Lyrics

B. None of these

C. Dramatic Monologue

D. Tragic Drama

533. The period of English literature from 1660to the end of the century is called_____________?
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A. Restoration Period

B. Jacobean Period

C. Renaissance

D. Romantic Age

534. In Wallace Stevenss poem The Man on the Dump, one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?
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A. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context

B. The failed attempt of modern poetry

C. Old poetry

D. The broken dreams of the American migr community in Paris

535. Synecdoche refers to the term_____________?
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A. Self-contradictory speech

B. long speech

C. a thing stands for whole thing

D. pity and fear

536. The poem Wind is written by________________?
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A. Sylvia Plath

B. Shelley

C. John Ashbery

D. Ted Hughes

537. The poem Dulce et Decorum Est ends with the following lines: My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori. Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
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A. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.

B. distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.

C. Brookes inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize

D. These lines suggest the authors anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.

E. All of the above

538. Maggie is the central character in George Eliots________________?
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A. The Mill on the Floss

B. Silas Morner

C. Adam Bede

D. Middle March

539. Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists ?
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A. Striving for concentrated expression and imagery

B. Total freedom in choosing the subject

C. Reliance on the language of common speech

D. Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms

540. Which of the following best describes the reasons why World War I had a profound impact on modern poetry ?
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A. The devastation wrought by World War I was so enormous that it put Europes cultural and political norms and values into question.

B. The mechanized killing, which took place on a massive scale during World War I, made it necessary to reflect about the effects of technological progress.

C. World War I was the first global conflict where the distinction between combatants and civilians was erased, and this had a devastating effect on the European psyche.

D. Both A and B

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