#91 EL MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS TEST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE #901 TO 910

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901.

But at my back I always hear
Times winged chariot hurrying near
And YOnder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.

These golden lines from Marvell, metaphorically refer to:

a) birth b) youth c) marriage d) death.

902. 'Essay on Criticism' is a poetic work of:

a) Alexander Pope b) Dr. Samuel Johnson c) T.S. Eliot d) S.T. Coleridge.

903.

The one remains,
The many change and pass,
Heaven's light for ever shines,
Earth's shadows fly.

are the golden lines of:

a) Shakespeare b) Sheldon c) Shelley d) Pope.

904. Which of the following does Structuralism considers in a literary work:

a) Biographic details of author b) Political/social environment c) Sentences, sounds, text, words d) reader's perceptions.

905. Who among the following saw, 'a literary work as a manifestation of a literary system'?

a) Derrida b) Ferdinand Saussure c) Stanley Fish d) Widdowson.

906. Who among the following writers, questioned the New Criticism locating meaning of a text from its formal features instead of author's intention or reader's response?

a) Gerard Genette b)Ferdinand Saussure c) Richards. d) Stanley Fish.

907. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the Stylistics of Widdowson?

a) Checks contextual and denotative meanings in texts b) Checks semantic and syntactic deviations c) checks biographic details of author d) permits foregrounding (deliberate errors and repetition of sounds, to draw attention of readers).

908. Texts of which Century have verb-endings and word-forms, which are difficult to understand now?

a) 14th Century b) 15th C. c) 16th C. d) 17th C.

909. Find out the odd man out:

a) Simile b) Metaphor c) Personification d) Onomatopoeia.

910. Which is the most common-place in orators, among the following?

a) Epigram b) Euphemism c) Rhetoric Questions d) Personification.

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911. 'Every man out of his humor' is a satirical comedy by:

a) Ben Jonson b) Dr. Samuel Johnson c) Alexander Pope d) John Dryden.

912. Which of the following writes expounded the conceptive of "Collective Unconscious"?

a) Carl Gustav Jung b) Karl Marx c) Sigmond Freud d) Mark Twain.

913. 'The Rivals' is a play by:

a) G.B. Shaw b) Christopher Marlow c) Richard B. Sheridan d) P.B. Shelley.

914. Crediting inanimate objects with feelings and human traits may be called:

a) Intentional Fallacy b) Affective Fallacy. c) Historical Fallacy d) Pathetic Fallacy.

915. 'Eminent Victorians' is a work by:

a) S.T. Coleridge b) Dr. Samuel Johnson c) John Dryden d) Lytton Strachey.

916. Joseph Conrad is the author of:

a) The Oldman and the Sea b) Of human bondage c)Lord Jim d) Moby Dick.

917. 'The Power and the Glory' is a novel by:

a) Somerset Maugham b) Graham Greene c) Joseph Conrad d) G.B. Shaw.

918.

The Sun is behind me
Nothing has changed since I began
My eye has permitted no change
I am going to keep things like this.

are poetic lines from 'Hawk Roosting' by:

a) Ted Hughes b) Dylan Thomas c) W.B. Yeats d) T.S. Eliot.

919. 'We may regard those words as truly noble and sublime which please all and please always' -- this prescription is from:

a) Horace b) Longinus c) Plato d) Socrates.

920. 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love' is a poem by:

a) Christopher Marlowe b) Christina Rosetti c) Tennyson d) Wordsworth.

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921. 'Man will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest'. - This is a golden quotation from the writer:

a) Derrida b) Diderot c) Donne d) Dryden.

922. Which of the following authors can be clearly considered as an existentialist?

a) R.W. Emerson b) Bertrand Russel c) Jean Paul Sartre d) Mark Twain.

923. 'Idylls of the King' are stories by:

a) Milton b) Shakespeare c) Tennyson d) Wordsworth.

924. 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' - author is:

a) Browning b)Dante c) Joyce c) LOuis Carrol.

925. 'A narrative of an intuitive revelation' may be called:

a) Epicure b) Epigraph c) Epiphany d) Epitaph.

926. Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare :

a) King Lear b) Macbeth c) Othello d) St. Joanes.

927. 'The Scarlet Letter' - author is:

a) Hawthorne b)H.D. Thoreau c) Joyce d) Mark Twain.

928. 'Belief in God through evidence from reason' rather than Bible may be classified as:

a) Atheism b) Agnosticism c) Deism d) Rationalism.

929. Which of the following is not true in 'New Criticism':

a) Stress on meaning b) Stress on author's personality c) Ignoring readers' perceptions d)Support to images, sounds and words.

930. which of the following linquists dealt with 'Structuralism':
a) Boulton b) Brooks c) Showater d) Gerard Genette.

#94 EL MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS TEST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE #931 TO 940

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931. Which of the following writers in his 'Prefaces' revolted against the institution of Marriage?

a) George Bernard Shaw b) Robert Frost c) Virginia Woolf d) Walt Whitman.

932. 'Mending Wall' is a poem by:

a) Emily Dickinson b) Robert Frost c) Walt Whitman d) Edgar Allan Poe.

933. An exclamatory song (often) addressed to a dead person, in the middle of a poem, may be referred to as:

a) Elegy b) Ode c) Aria d) Apostrophe.

934. Which of the following writers tried to combat 'smasmodic tendencies' in poetry?

a) Arnold b) Brooks c) Coleridge d) Derrida.

935. In which following literary ages, can Tennyson be rightly classified?

a) Neo-classicism b) Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern.

936. Which of the following Victorian poets laid stress on 'Spiritual Development'?

a) Christina Rosetty b) Tennyson c) Browning d) Arnold.

937. Which of the following writers experimented with 'living in woods and working with own hands'?

a) Henry David Thoreau b) Henry Jones c) Hawthorne d) Walt Whitman.

938. 'The Hairy Ape' - author is?

a) Ernst Hemingway b) S.T. Coleridge c) R.W. Emerson d) Eugene O`neil.

939. Which of the following writer's famous novel supports the theme of 'Art for Art's sake'?

a) Jane Austen b) Herman Malville c) Ernst Hemingway d) Somerset Maugham.

940. Which of the following authors did not write about 'Sea-faring life'?

a) Ernst Hemingway b) S.T. Coleridge c) R.W. Emerson d) Herman Malville.

#95 EL MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS TEST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE #941 TO 950

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941. Das Capita is a work by :

a)Rousseau b) Karl Marx c) Voltaire d) Magini.

942. "Das Capita" was written in the literary age of:

a) Neo-classical b)Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern.

943. Which of the following literary ages is called "Age of Philistinism (Love of material pleasures and things with little concern for culture)" ?

a) Neo-classical b)Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern.

944. Which of the following writers do not belong to the Victorian Age?

a) Arnold b) Browning c) Ruskin d) Wordsworth.

945. During which literary age, criticism as "Criticism of Life" was dominant?

a) Neo-classical b)Romantic c) Victorian d) Modern.

946. Which of the following literary critics supported the idea of "Art is for Art sake" ?

a) Arnold b) Carlyle c) Oscar Wilde d) Ruskin.

947. "Tradition and Individual talent" is a work of literary criticism by:

a) Arnold b) Coleridge c) Walter Pater d) T.S. Eliot.


948. Which literary critic said that Shakespeare could not say things plainly in the directest language?

a) Matthew Arnold b) Walter Pater c) T.S. Eliot d) Oscar Wilde.

949. Which of the following writer's style could not be wholly classified as grand style?

a)Dante b) Homer c) Keats d) Milton.

950. Which of the following writers lived both during the Age of Romanticism and Victorian Age?

a) Carlyle b) Walter Pater c) Oscar Wilde d) Ruskin.

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951. Which American writer considered calamity, drudgery, exasperation and want as instructors in ELOQUENCE and WISDOM?

a) Emily Dickinson b) Ralph Waldo Emerson c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

952. Another name for the art/science of interpretation is:

a) Epistemology b) Epiphany c) Hermeneutics d) Semantics.

953. Which of the following writers did not criticise religion?

a) R.W. Emerson b) Emily Dickinson c) Matthew Arnold d) John Milton.

954. Solecism is a term which is concerned with errors of:

a) grammar and idiom b) facts c) use of embellished style d) errors of metre.

955. Which of the following writers did not suffer from impaired vision?

a) Emily Dickinson b) John Milton c)Robert Hayden d) Edgar Allan Poe.

956. The Raven is a poem by:

a)Edgar Allan Poe b) Robert Frost c) Walt Whitman d) T.S. Eliot.

957. Which of the following is a playwright?

a) Bernard Melamud b) Henry David Thoreau c) Tennessee Williams d) R.W. Emerson.

958. The Oldman and the Sea is a novel by:

a) Ernest Hemingway b) Bernard Melamud c) Somerset Maugham d) Herman Melville.

959. Which school of criticism does not bother about the historical and personal details of a writer?

a)Neo-Classical b) Romantic c) Victorian d) New Criticism.

960. Biographia Literaria is a work of criticism by:

a) Dr. Samuel Johnson b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge c) Wordsworth d) Arnold.

#97 EL MULTIPLE CHOICES QUESTIONS TEST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE #961 TO 970

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961. Which of the following ancient literary critics, attached great importance to use of CHORUS in drama:

a) Aristotle b) Horace c) Plato d) Longinus.

962. Which of the following ancient critics laid great stress on SUBLIMITY AND TRANSCENDENCE?

a) Aristotle b) Horace c) Plato d) Longinus.

963. Which of the following ancient critics saw EPIPHANY (Vision of manifestation of superhuman being) in poetry?

a) Aristotle b) Horace c) Plato d) Longinus.


964. "Oedipus Rex" is a Greek play by:
a) Shakespeare b) Seneca c) Socratese d) Sophocles.

965. Which of the following Romantic poets is considered as a great admirer of Plato?

a) Byron b) Carlyle c) Coleridge d) Shelley.

966. Which of the following Greek philosophers considered: "Poets were holy creatures who compose while possessed with a divine frenzy" ?

a) Aristotle b) Horace c) Plato d) Socrates.

967. Which of the following Romantic poets compared a poet's mind to a fading char coal?

a) Byron b) Carlyle c) Coleridge d) Shelley.

968. Which philosopher did conclude that a poet was an inspired angel?

a) Aristotle b) Horace c) Plato d) Socrates.

969. Which of the following is not a Platonic value?

a) Poetry involves imitation.
b) Poetry should be examined from the point of view of uncompromising morality.
c) Poet's mind is like a faded char coal.
d) Poetry does not aim at contributing to human welfare.

970. Aristotle's poetics omitted to discuss which of the following?

a) Drama b) Epics c) Lyrical poetry d) Tragedies.

#98 EL MULTIPLE CHOICES QUESTIONS TEST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE #971 TO 980

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971. "Friends make a pretence of following to the grave, but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back in life and living people and things they understand." -- These golden words are from the pen of the American poet:

a)Emily Dickinson b) Ezra Pound c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

972. Which of the following poets rightly declared: "Earth is the right place to live"?

a)Emily Dickinson b) Ezra Pound c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

973. In American Literature, Mark Twain represented the period of:

a) Colonialism b) Nationalism c) Renaissance d) Realism.

974. Which of the following is not a feature of the American LIterature, during the World Wars period:

a) Economic depression b) Theatrical activity c) Transcendentalism d) Writing of Novels.

975. Which of the following American writers argued against "Organised Religion"?

a) Emily Dickinson b) T.S. Eliot c) R.W. Emerson d) Phyles Wheatley.

976. The first American Poet to use "Free verse" in his poetry was:

a) Emily Dickinson b) Ezra Pound c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

977. Ars Poetics is a work of literary criticism by:

a) Aristotle b) Horace c) Plato d) Longinus.

978. "An Apology for Poetry" is a work of literary criticism by:

a) Coleridge b) Horace c) Philip Sydney d) Shelley.

979. "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" is a poem by the American Poet:

a) Phylis Wheatley b) Emily Dickinson c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

980. " ... The SOUL selects her own society, Then shuts the door ..." are poetry lines from an American Poet who most of hisher life in solitude:

a) Emily Dickinson b) Phylis Wheatley c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

#99 MULTIPLE CHOICES QUESTIONS TEST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE #981 TO 990

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981. Which writer wrote about writers: "Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourselves ignorant of his understanding."

a) Coleridge b) Carlyle c) Wordsworth d) Byron.

982. A father expected his son to be great in business, because the son was great in sports. This scenario can be seen in the drama "The Death of a Salesman" by:-

a) Arthur Miller b) J.M. Synge c) George Bernard Shaw d) Eugee O'Neill.

983. Which of the following writers exposed that "Economic mobility in US is a myth".

a) Arthur Miller b) J.M. Synge c) George Bernard Shaw d) Eugee O'Neill.

984. "A man must partly give up being a man with women-folk." This wisdom is a part of the poem "Home Burial" by:

a) Emily Dickinson b) Ezra Pound c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

985. Which of the following poets employed "allusiveness" to books of other writers to an optimum level:

a) Emily Dickinson b) S.T. Coleridge c) T.S. Eliot d) William Wordsworth.

986. Robert Frosts poem "Birches" has a theme of:

a) love b)mourning c) nostalgia d) religion.

987. The American Civil War Period (Presidentship of Abraham Lincoln) falls under the literary age:

a) Colonialism b) Nationalism c) Realism d) Romanticism.

988. Which of the following writer/poet was associated with transcendentalism?
a) Emily Dickinson b)Henry David Thoreau c) Robert Frost d) Mark Twain.

989. Which of the following is not an American writer?
a) Robert Penn Warren b) Edgar Allan Poe c) Walt Whitman d) Viriginia Woolf.

990. The author of the novel "Moby Dick" is
a) Herman Melville b) Eugene O'Neill c)Robert Penn Warren d) Arthur Miller.

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#100 MULTIPLE CHOICES QUESTIONS TEST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE #991 TO 1000

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991. Who among the following is an Epic Poet?

a) Shakespeare b) Milton c) Wordsworth d) Christopher Marlow e) None of these.

992. Who among the following is NOT a dramatist?

a) T.S. Eliot b) George Bernard Shaw c) Shakespeare d) Virginia Woolf. e) None of these

993. Which of the following supported the Republicanism (British Parliament) and incurred the wrath of royalists?

a) Shakespeare b) John Milton c) John Dryden d) Samuel Johnson e) None of these

994. Which of the following authored the first English Dictionary?

a) Dr. Samuel Johnson b) Ben Jonson c) John Dryden d) Shakespeare e) None of these.


995. "A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG" - the author of the essay is:

a) Charles Lamb b) Charles Dickens c) Oliver Goldsmith d) Ben Jonson e) NOne of these.

996. "THE MAN IN BLACK" - author is:

a) Charles Lamb b) Charles Dickens c) Oliver Goldsmith d) Ben Jonson e) NOne of these.

997. T.S. ELIOT received his Nobel Prize in Literature for his:

a) plays b) poetry c) prose d) criticism e) None of these.

998. Which of the following is not an American writer?

a) Emerson b) Frost c) Thoreau d) Virginia Woolf e) None of these

999. "The School of NeoClassism" in English literature professed:

a) Imagination b) Reason c) Irony d) Text-centric criticism e) None of these

1000. "Language is the dress of thought" is a quote of:

a) Dr. Samuel Johnson b) Ben Jonson c) John Dryden d) Shakespeare e) None of these.