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English literature MCQ (SET-08)
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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 |