english literature MCQs – Page 287

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5721. which of these is not certain about Chaucer ?
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A. his birth date

B. his fathers name

C. none of the above

D. his death year

5722. In which work do you read: Beauty is truth, truth beauty. ?
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A. Bright Star

B. La Bell Dame Sans Merci

C. Adonais

D. Ode on a Grecian Urn

5723. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
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A. wit

B. naturalism

C. sprezzatura

D. gusto

5724. Which of the following is not generally considered to be a neoclassical poet ?
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A. Ben Jonson

B. Alexander Pope

C. Henry Vaughan

D. John Dryden

5725. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection ?
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A. the heroic couplet

B. free verse

C. blank verse

D. the ode

5726. Which of the following statements accurately reflects the status of England, its people, and its language in the early sixteenth century ?
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A. Intending his Utopia for an international intellectual community, Thomas More wrote in Latin, since English had no prestige outside of England.

B. English travelers often returned from the Continent with foreign fashions, much to the delight of moralists.

C. English travelers were not obliged to learn French, Italian, or Spanish during their explorations of the Continent.

D. English was fast supplanting Latin as the second language of most European intellectuals.

5727. Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
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A. none of the above

B. Seamus Heaney

C. W. B. Yeats

D. James Joyce

5728. Who became the first prime minister of Great Britain in the reign of George II ?
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A. Henry St. John

B. Robert Harley

C. Robert Walpole