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  • Description: English literature is the study of literature written in the English language and dates back more than five centuries. Learn more about the history of English literature; key time periods including Middle English, Renaissance, and Restoration; examples of famous authors and their works; and the importance and impact of English literature.

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Q176: ‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from

 A) Merchant of Venice
 B) Two gentleman of Verona
 C) Midsummer’s Night Dream
 D) Anthony and Cleopatra

Q177: “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:

 A) Shakespeare
 B) Yeats
 C) Eliot
 D) Auden
 E) None of these

Q178: Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist?

 A) Keats
 B) Shelley
 C) Wordsworth
 D) None of these

Q179: ‘Apologie for Poetrie’ is written by:

 A) Arnold
 B) Philip Sidney
 C) Pope
 D) Dryden
 E) None of these

Q180: The poem “Wind” is written by:

 A) Shelley
 B) John Ashbery
 C) Sylvia Plath
 D) Ted Hughes
 E) None of these

Q181: Hyperion is a/an __________ poem

 A) Elegy
 B) Epic
 C) Ode
 D) Lyric
 E) None of these

Q182: ‘Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, May Sweep to my revenge’ is a speech from.

 A) Lear
 B) Macbeth
 C) Othello
 D) Hamlet
 E) None of these

Q183: “I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed to:

 A) Miranda in the ‘Tempest’
 B) Portia in ‘Merchant of Venice’
 C) Lady Macbath in ‘Macbeth’
 D) None of these

Q184: ‘Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind’ who has said these words:

 A) Carlyle
 B) Bacon
 C) Mantaine
 D) None of these

Q185: “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:

 A) Revelation
 B) Mending
 C) Pasture
 D) Birches
 E) None of these

Q186: Hamlet was killed by:

 A) Polonius
 B) Learteus
 C) Claudius
 D) None of these

Q187: ‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:

 A) Pygmalion
 B) Candida
 C) Getting Married
 D) None of these

Q188: ‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:

 A) Wordsworth
 B) Coleridge
 C) Shelley
 D) None of these

Q189: Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ is an example of:

 A) Comedy of Errors
 B) Comedy of Manners
 C) Comedy of Ideas
 D) Romantic Comedy
 E) None of these

Q190: ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

 A) Oscar Wilde
 B) Browning
 C) Blake
 D) None of these

Q191: ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is a poem written by:

 A) Hopkins
 B) W. B. Yeats
 C) Larkin
 D) None of these

Q192: Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate in:

 A) 1817
 B) 1839
 C) 1843
 D) 1849
 E) None of these

Q193: ‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

 A) Byron
 B) Wordsworth
 C) Oscar Wilde
 D) None of these

Q194: T. Hardy is:

 A) A social reformer
 B) A satirist
 C) A fatalist
 D) A lover of nature
 E) None of these

Q195: ‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:

 A) Blake
 B) Byron
 C) Tennyson
 D) None of these

Q196: “Gyre” is a favorite symbol with

 A) T. S. Eliot
 B) Yeats
 C) Emily Dickenson
 D) None of these

Q197: Who described poetry as “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”:

 A) Shelley
 B) Wordsworth
 C) Coleridge
 D) Arnold
 E) None of these

Q198: The first eight lines of a sonnet are called

 A) Octave
 B) Sestet
 C) Refrain
 D) None of these

Q199: Which of following Books consists of Ruskin’s lectures:

 A) Modern painters
 B) The Stones of Venice
 C) The Crown of wild olive
 D) None of these

Q200: ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by:

 A) Arnold
 B) T. S. Eliot
 C) Shelley
 D) None of these




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