miscellaneous literature MCQs – Page 12

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

miscellaneous literature Mcqs
221. Who is called the Mock heroic poet ?
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A. Alexander Pope

B. Jonathan Swift

C. Edmund Walter

D. Dr. Samuel Johnson

222. 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
223. 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

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

B. William Shakespeare

C. George Bernard Shaw

D. A. Lord Tennyson
225. In which century was Piers Plowman written ?
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A. 12th

B. 10th

C. 11th

D. 14th
226. 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

227. 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
228. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?
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A. 1000 years ago

B. 1500 years ago

C. 3000 years ago

D. 2000 years ago
229. Written in March is a poem composed by_______________?
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A. William Congreve

B. William Shakespeare

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

230. April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliots__________________?
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A. The Hollow men

B. Prufrock

C. The Wasteland

D. East Coker

231. Lycidas is written by_____________?
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A. Thomas Hardy

B. Henry Fielding

C. Alexander Pope

D. John Milton
232. Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare ?
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A. John Milton

B. Lord Tennyson

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. All of them

233. Shaws Man and Superman is an example of___________?
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A. Romantic Comedy

B. Comedy of Errors

C. Comedy of Ideas

D. Comedy of Manners

234. Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind.-Example of ?
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A. Simile

B. Couplet

C. Conceit

D. Metaphor

235. Andrea Del Sarto is a poem written by_________________?
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A. Tennyson

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Browning

D. Keats

236. Keats widespread appeal is to the Readers interest in the supernatural ?
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A. TRUE

B. False

C. both A and B

D. none of these

237. In Memoriam by Tennyson is________________?
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A. an elegy

B. a lyric

C. a collection of elegies

D. a dramatic lyric

238. Who was American poet ?
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A. John Milton

B. John Keats

C. Robert Frost

D. Robert Herrick

239. Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
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A. Chaucers period

B. Anglo-Norman

C. Middle Age

D. Anglo-Saxon
240. Who was a friend of John Milton ?
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A. Andrew Marvell

B. John Donne

C. John Dryden

D. Alexander Pope