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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

7001. Which British philosopher of the Romantic era despised monarchies, believed that the best form of government was no government at all, and argued that change can only come from people treating each other with sincerity and benevolence ?
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. John Locke

C. William Godwin

D. Edmund Burke

7002. Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey explores ________________?
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A. The beauty of the natural world

B. The way in which ones psychological state changes over time

C. The failures of Romanticism

D. Coleridges addiction to drugs

7003. Shelleys Hymn to Intellectual Beauty suggests that _________________?
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A. The source of beauty cannot be known, and that beauty can only be felt

B. Anything that is intellectual cannot be beautiful

C. Beauty can be understood only through metaphysics

D. Beauty is missing from the world

7004. The final line of We Are Seven is: And said, Nay we are seven. This line suggests that________________?
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A. The little girl is insane or delusional

B. The little girls siblings have not died

C. The little girl herself is dead

D. The little girl refuses to cast the dead out of her life.

7005. Who refers to poetry as an imitation of nature ?
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. William Wordsworth

C. Percy Shelley

D. William Hazlitt

7006. Shelleys Ode to Psyche is narrated by __________________?
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A. Cupid

B. The author of the poem

C. Shelleys childhood self

D. Psyche

7007. Which long Romantic poem opens with the line oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze ?
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A. Don Juan

B. Childe Harolds Pilgrimage

C. The Prelude

D. Rime of the Ancient Mariner

7008. Which poet would be most likely to compose a poem using the language of common, ordinary people ?
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A. Percy Shelley

B. Lord Byron

C. John Keats

D. William Wordsworth

7009. The general tone and attitude of Byrons Don Juan would be best described as ______________?
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A. Ironic and satirical

B. Humorless and stark

C. Strange and haunting

D. Dramatic and dark

7010. One of the central themes of Wordsworths Peter Bell is _________________?
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A. A dark voyage into madness

B. Eternal youth

C. How nature can render someone good

D. How nature can corrupt someone

7011. Referring to poets as unacknowledged legislators of the world suggests that_____________?
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A. Most Romantic poets were politicians

B. Poets actually help the world grow and develop

C. Hardly anyone actually reads Romantic poetry

D. Poets have no actual effect upon the world

7012. Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Lord Byron

C. John Keats

D. Percy Shelley

7013. Which of the following was responsible for Samuel Taylor Coleridges mental decline ?
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A. His experiences during the French Revolution

B. The end of his friendship with Wordsworth

C. His addiction to opium

D. His physical battle with gout

7014. A tortured, dark-spirited, wry, and intellectual protagonist would most likely be found in a poem by______________?
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A. John Keats

B. Lord Byron

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

7015. In Rime of the Ancient Mariner, who is the he referred to in the lines A sadder and a wiser man\He rose the morrow morn. ?
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A. The Ancient Mariner

B. Life-in-Death

C. The Wedding Guest

D. The ships captain

7016. Which of the following statements would you most likely NOT see in a Romantic poem ?
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A. Familure acts are beautiful through love

B. A little learning is a dangerous thing

C. Truth is stranger than fiction

D. Truth is beauty

7017. The lines The loveliest and the last\The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew\Died on the promise of the fruit are from a poem honoring________________?
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Percy Shelley

C. Lord Byron

D. John Keats

7018. Which Romantic poet would be the least likely to write a piece of literary criticism ?
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A. Lord Byron

B. William Hazlitt

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Percy Shelley

7019. Which poet would most likely express an adherence to atheism in his writing ?
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A. William Blake

B. William Wordsworth

C. Percy Shelley

D. John Keats

7020. Which Romantic poet died relatively unknown but would become famous posthumously, in the 19th century ?
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. William Blake

C. Lord Byron

D. William Wordsworth

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