miscellaneous literature MCQs – Page 11

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

miscellaneous literature Mcqs
201. 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

202. Who propounds the touchstone method_______________?
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A. Pope

B. Arnold

C. Dryden

D. Shelley

203. We find Subjective Elements in ?
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A. Keats

B. All

C. Wordsworth

D. Shelley

204. Who was more under the influence of Godwins philosophy of life ?
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A. Browning

B. Shelley

C. Byron

D. Keats

205. 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

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

B. Charles Dickens

C. Oliver Goldsmith

D. Jane Austen

207. 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

208. 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

209. 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

210. 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
211. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by_______________?
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A. E. Bronte

B. J. Austen

C. C. Bronte

D. None of these

212. Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________?
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A. 163

B. 154

C. 194

D. 102

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

B. None of these

C. Dramatic Lyrics

D. Tragic Drama

214. The beginning of the renaissance may be traced to the city____________?
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A. London

B. Florence

C. Paris

D. Venice

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

B. Cynewulf

C. Robert Browning

D. Geoffrey Chaucer
216. 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

217. 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

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

B. Freud

C. Nicoll

D. W. H. Auden
219. 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

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

B. Emma

C. Jane Eyre

D. Ramona