4001. Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
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A. dissimilar things

B. contradictory things

C. similar things

D. elaborate comparison

4002. Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ?
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A. James 1

B. Edward III

C. Henry II

D. Richard III

4003. Renaissance means___________________?
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A. the revival of hard task

B. the revival of life

C. the revival of new country

D. the revival of learning
4004. Undo this Button is a line from Shakespeares________________?
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A. Julius Caeser

B. King Lear

C. Hamlet

D. Othello

4005. Satanic Verses is written by__________________?
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A. Arundhuti Roy

B. Salman Rushdie

C. Jhumpa Lahiri

D. R.K. Narayan

4006. What do you mean by Hyperbole ?
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A. an overriding view

B. a long narrative poem

C. an overstatement about something

D. a long verse

4007. Who is the author of the famous book The Judgment is_______________?
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A. Kuldip Nayer

B. Nelson Mandela

C. Amartya Sen

D. Anthony Mascarenhas

4008. What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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A. a fictional story of animal characters

B. a long narrative prose

C. a soft style epic

D. a short story

4009. Prometheus Unbound is a lyrical drama by__________________?
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A. Shelley

B. Sophocles

C. Shakespeare

D. Euripedes

4010. Essays of Elia was written by______________?
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A. Emily Bronte

B. Charles Lamb

C. Emily Dickinson

D. William Hazlitt

4012. The line Beauty is truth, truth beauty occurs in which one of Keats following poems_______________?
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A. Ode to Psyche

B. Ode to Nightingale

C. Ode to Grecian Urn

D. None of these

4013. What is a plot ?
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A. choice of poem

B. an idea about writing

C. arrangement of the incidents

D. the choice of words

4014. Exiles is a______________?
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A. Novel

B. Play

C. Poem

D. Short Story

4015. Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
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A. arouse of pity and fear

B. sympathy to others

C. characters in play

D. animals in play

4016. What was the nationality of OscarWilde ?
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A. Scottish

B. English

C. Irish

D. French

4017. Adela is a character from_______________?
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A. A Passage to India

B. Paradise Lost

C. Doctor Faustus

D. Hamlet

4018. defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature ?
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A. Dryden

B. Shakespeare

C. Coleridge

D. Dr. Johnson

4019. T. Hardy is_______________?
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A. A satirist

B. A social reformer

C. A fatalist

D. A lover of nature

4020. Who is called the father of English Poetry ?
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A. G. Chaucer

B. Milton

C. Charles Dickens

D. Wordsworth

4021. T. Hardy is______________?
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A. A satirist

B. A fatalist

C. None of these

D. A lover of nature

4023. Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?
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A. John Donne

B. Robert Browning

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Samuel Johnson

4024. Synecdoche refers to the term_____________?
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A. a thing stands for whole thing

B. Self-contradictory speech

C. pity and fear

D. long speech

4026. We find Subjective Elements in ?
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A. Keats

B. All

C. Wordsworth

D. Shelley

4028. One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
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A. Thomas Otway

B. John Dryden

C. Sir Walter Scott

D. John Milton

4029. The novel Talisman is written by_______________?
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A. Sir Walter Scott

B. Charles Dickens

C. Oliver Goldsmith

D. Jane Austen

4030. Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period ?
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A. The French Revolution

B. Charles II was restored to the throne

C. The Great Fire of London

D. The Exclusion Bill Crisis

4031. The literary work Kubla khan is_______________?
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A. a short story by Somerset Maugham

B. a verse by Coleridge

C. a history by Vincent Smith

D. a drama by Oscar Wilde

4032. The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?
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A. My Last Duchess

B. Lyrical Ballads

C. Canonization

D. A Tale of Two Cities

4033. The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?
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A. Bitterness and revenge

B. None of these

C. Hatred and jealousy

D. Friendship and benevolence
4034. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by_______________?
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A. E. Bronte

B. J. Austen

C. C. Bronte

D. None of these

4036. Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?
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A. Dramatic Monologue

B. None of these

C. Dramatic Lyrics

D. Tragic Drama

4038. Who is the father of English Literature ?
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A. Roger Bacon

B. Cynewulf

C. Robert Browning

D. Geoffrey Chaucer
4039. What is Parable ?
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A. the basic unit of a composition

B. a sense of distress

C. an allegorical story usually containing

D. none of the above

E. oral lesson

4040. What do you mean by Quatrain ?
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A. a poem of fourteen lines

B. a stanza of fourteen lines

C. a stanza of four lines

D. a stanza of six lines

4041. Macbeth and Oedipus is by_________________?
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A. Earnest Jones

B. Freud

C. Nicoll

D. W. H. Auden
4042. Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly ?
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A. To a skylark

B. Culture and Anarchy

C. The Daffodils

D. Pride and Prejudice

4043. Jane Austen is the writer of__________________?
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A. Rebecca

B. Emma

C. Jane Eyre

D. Ramona

4044. Who is called the Mock heroic poet ?
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A. Alexander Pope

B. Jonathan Swift

C. Edmund Walter

D. Dr. Samuel Johnson

4045. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are written by________________?
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A. P.B. Shelley

B. William Blake

C. John Keats

D. John Milton
4046. Who is the author of The Origin of Species ?
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A. A. Pope

B. Charles Darwin

C. O. Goldsmith

D. T. Hardy

4047. Who is the writer of Harold ?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. William Shakespeare

C. George Bernard Shaw

D. A. Lord Tennyson
4049. What do you mean by Phonetics ?
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A. study of language and rules

B. study of insects

C. study of speech sounds

D. study of meaning and syntax

4050. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet ?
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A. a song for mourning

B. a two line stanza

C. a poem of lamentation

D. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter