miscellaneous literature MCQs – Page 10

Practise focused miscellaneous literature questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

miscellaneous literature Mcqs

181. Undo this Button is a line from Shakespeares________________?
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A. Julius Caeser

B. King Lear

C. Hamlet

D. Othello

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

B. Salman Rushdie

C. Jhumpa Lahiri

D. R.K. Narayan

183. 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

184. 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

185. 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

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

B. Sophocles

C. Shakespeare

D. Euripedes

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

B. Charles Lamb

C. Emily Dickinson

D. William Hazlitt

188. Byrons journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem_______________?
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A. Childe Heralds Pilgrimage

B. cain

C. Don Juan

D. the prisoner of Chillon

189. 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

190. 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

191. Exiles is a______________?
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A. Novel

B. Play

C. Poem

D. Short Story

192. 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

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

B. English

C. Irish

D. French

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

B. Paradise Lost

C. Doctor Faustus

D. Hamlet

195. 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

196. T. Hardy is_______________?
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A. A satirist

B. A social reformer

C. A fatalist

D. A lover of nature

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

B. Milton

C. Charles Dickens

D. Wordsworth

198. T. Hardy is______________?
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A. A satirist

B. A fatalist

C. None of these

D. A lover of nature

199. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.- Who told it ?
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A. Chaucer

B. Shakespeare

C. Spenser

D. Bacon

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

B. Robert Browning

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Samuel Johnson

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