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03. Choose the right answer: Chaucer is the representative poet of-
14th century
07. The Canterbury Tales is as alive and---today as it was nearly 600 years ago.
-- appealing
10. Who translated the Bible into English for the first time?
-- John Wycliffe
-- John Wycliffe
15. The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the city of—
-- Florence
-- an Italian
-- Italy
22. Who wrote the plays “The Tempest‟ and “The Mid Summer Night‟s Dream”?
-- William Shakespeare
-- King Lear
26. William Shakespeare was an English dramatist and poet of the----- century.
-- sixteenth
-- The Tempest
-- a comedy
-- Hamlet
33. „Macbeth‟ is —
-- a play
41. The poem „Under the Green Wood Tree‟ was written by—
-- William Shakespeare
-- As You Like It
47. „To be or not to be that is the question‟ From which novel the above sentence has
been taken?
-- Hamlet
-- Tempest
54. Hamlet is __
-- a tragedy by Shakespeare
-- William Shakespeare
57. Who wrote the world famous tragic play „King Lear‟?
-- Shakespeare
-- Epic
66. Shakespeare‟s Macbeth is a ------
--Tragedy
-- William Shakespeare
68. Shakespeare was famous for all but one of the following ----
-- Bourgeois Drama
-- Christopher Marlowe
72. The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the country of—
-- Italy
76. Where is expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our, ends?'
-- In Hamlet
-- Edmund Spenser
78. Who wrote an epic „The Faerie Queen‟?
-- Edmund Spenser
-- Edmund Spenser
83. Which of the following school of literature is connected with a medical theory?
-- Comedy of humours
85. Why is the poet so sad to see the Daffodils in „The Daffodils‟?
-- The poet is sad because the flowers remind him of his own death.
89. Which two things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to
-- cauliflower
-- Samuel Johnson
-- Cowley
-- Alfred Tennyson
-- Andrew Marvell
-- Andrew Marvell
98. The poem 'To His Coy Mistress' was written by-
-- Andrew Marvell
-- John Donne
100. 'The Good Morrow' is a poem by-
-- John Donne
-- John Donne
-- John Donne
a religious poem
-- George Herbert
-- George Herbert
-- George Herbert
110. 'Frailty, Thy name is woman'-- in which of the following plays you find this?
-- Hamlet
111. 'Sweet are the uses of adversity' was stated by---
-- Shakespeare
-- Hamlet
113. 'Good face is the best letter of recommendation' was stated by--
-- Queen Elizabeth
-- Robert Herrick
115. 'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; writing an exact man' Who
said this?
-- Bacon
116. 'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed
and digestd.' Said-
-- Francis Bacon
120. 'All the perfumes of Arabian will not sweeten this little hand's is a quotation
from--
-- Macbeth
121. Who said 'Cowards die many times before their death.
-- Shakespeare
-- Tempest
-- Julius Caeser
-- Hamlet
125. 'Blow, Blow thou winter wind/ Thu art not so unkind As man‟s ingratitude;/
They tooth is not so keen,
Although they breath be rude.'
These are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?
-- W. Shakespeare
128. Who is known as the father of English poetry? /Who is called the father of
English Poetry?
-- Chaucer
138. The sentence 'Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind?' expresses—
-- wonder
-- soliloquy
150. Comedy is -
-- a lignt play with a happy ending.
-- William Shakespeare
159. 'Phoenix' is __
-- a mythical bird regenerating from ashess
-- Christopher Marlowe
-- a story writer
-- Novelist
168. "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late" was said by-
-- Shakespeare
03. Who wrote the famous poetic line 'To err is human, to forgive is divine'?
-- Pope
06. 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' Who said this and where?
-- Satan in "Paradise Lost"
08. Who of the following is a famous epic poet in English literature? / Of the
following authors who wrote an epic?
-- John Milton
-- John Milton
10.Who wrote 'Lycidas'?
-- John Milton
-- Alexander Pope
21. The First English novel, Pamela has been written by-
-- Samuel Richardson
-- Alexander Pope
24. Who is considered to be the father of English novel?
-- Henry Fielding
26. Who wrote first English dictionary?/ Who is the author of the
-- Alexander Pope
34. Who has written the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
-- Thomas Gray
40. A 'canto' is -
-- a division of an epic
narrator.
-- an omniscient
43. A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is__
-- an allegory
03. Which of the following writers belongs to the Romantic period in English
literature?
-- S.T. Coleridge
04. The Romantic age in English literature began with the publication of---.
-- Preface of Lyrical Ballads
05. Ballad is —
-- a kind of short lyrical poem
06. 'Child is the father of man' is taken from the poem of---.
-- W. Wordsworth
-- 1798-1832
-- William Blake
17. Who among the following is not a novelist?
-- Blake
18. One of the four mentioned below is not poet of Romantic age-
-- William Blake
a Cloud dancing?
-- There was a strong wind
daffodils with—
-- the stars of the milky way
25. In 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' the daffodils gave the poet.
28. In "The Solitary Reaper" what does the word solitary mean?
-- romantic
44. The phrase "trunk less legs" in the poem "Ozymandias" refers
-- legs without body
48. In Shelly's "Ozymandias" frown, and sneer of cold command" are seen on—.
-- Shattered visage
51. A famous English poet who was professionally known as man of medicine is--
-- Keats
-- P B Shelley
56. Who is called the 'poet of beauty'?
-- John Keats
Kings"?
Ozymandias himself
-- Keats
-- Lord Byron
72. Who is the author of 'Pride and Prejudice'? / Pride and Prejudice' is
written by--
-- Jane Austen
77. 'If winter comes, can spring be far behind?' These lines were written by_
-- Shelley
79. 'Our Sweetest songs are those that tell of a sadest thoughts is a
81. 'The Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?'
Who is the poet of these lines?
-- P. B. Shelley
87. 'The music in my heart I bore/ Long after it was heard no more.' These lines are
from the poem---
-- The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth
88. Identify the Poet of the verse: 'Our sweetest songs are those that
101. "The waves beside them danced" (from 'I wandered lonely as a
109. In the poem "Ozymandias", The phrase "king of kings" is an example of-
irony
known to be -
simile
111. Whose dying words were, 'Crito, I owe a cock to Asceleping; will you remember
to the debt’.
Socretes
112. The 'merit' in the sentence 'The boy showed his merit by making twenty mistakes
in ten minutes' is an example of -
irony
113. The sentence, "Death, thou shalt not die'' is an example of__.
-- parsonification
-- Alfred Tennyson
-- Matthew Arnold
27. Who wrote the two famous novels, 'David Copperfield' and 'A Tale of
Two Cities'?
-- Charles Dickens
32. Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one of the following-
-- Treasure Islam
34. One of the four mentioned below is not a novelist of Modern Age in English
Language. Who is he?
-- Charles Dickens
37. 'War and Peace' an epic late of Napoleonic invasion is written by-
-- Leo Tolstoy
mentioned as an 'enemy'?
-- forest
44. 'You may fool some of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the
people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all time' was stated by-
-- Abraham Lincoln
45. 'Give me good mothers, I will give you a good nation' was the observation of-
Napoleon
50. Robert Browning was a ___ poet. Fill in the gap with appropriate word.
-- Victorian