Q: Who wrote the famous poetic line ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine’?

• A: Pope
• B: Shelley
• C: Keats
• D: Dryden

Correct Answer: A

Q: A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is__

• A: an epic
• B: an allegory
• C: a metaphor
• D: personification B

Correct Answer: (d) personification B

Q: What is the meaning of the word ‘Dirge’?

• A: a kind of sonnet sequence
• B: a son expressing patriotic sentiment
• C: a long verse telling about an adventure
• D: a song expressing grief lamentation and mourning

Correct Answer: D

Q: A novel in the form of letters is called ___

• A: picaresque novel
• B: novelette
• C: non-fiction novel
• D: epistolary novel

Correct Answer: D

Q: The narrator of a novel written in the third person is called narrator.

• A: a dedicated
• B: an evanscent
• C: a ubiquitous
• D: an omniscient

Correct Answer: D

Q: . An epic is based on__ performed by a hero.

• A: heroic deeds
• B: a narrative
• C: intervention
• D: trifle subjects

Correct Answer: A

Q: A ‘canto’ is –

• A: an act of a play
• B: a part of play
• C: a chapter of a novel
• D: a division of an epic

Correct Answer: D

Q: ‘A critic and lexicographer’ applies to __

• A: Bradly
• B: Coleridge
• C: Johnson
• D: Hazlitt

Correct Answer: C

Q: A mornful poem written on the death of someone’s love is called__

• A: homage
• B: ode
• C: elegy
• D: saga

Correct Answer: C

Q: Addison and Steele are known for__

• A: Lyrical Ballad
• B: The Mirror
• C: The Spectator
• D: Biographia Literaria

Correct Answer: C

Q: ‘Restoration period’ in English literature refers to –

• A: 1560
• B: 1660
• C: 1760
• D: 1866

Correct Answer: B

Q: Who is considered to be the father of English novel?

• A: Francis Bacon
• B: Geoffrey Chaucer
• C: King Alfred the Great
• D: Henry Fielding

Correct Answer: D

Q: Who has written the poem

• A: Thomas Gray
• B: P.B Shelley
• C: Robert Frost
• D: W.B Yeats

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Q: Paradise Regained is an epic written by–

• A: Homer
• B: Tagore
• C: Dante
• D: Milton

Correct Answer: D

Q: Who was the famous mock-heroic poet in English literature?

• A: Lord Byron
• B: John Milton
• C: Alexander Pope
• D: Lord Tennyson

Correct Answer: C

Q: A lexicographer is a person who writes–

• A: Novels
• B: Dictionaries
• C: Graphs
• D: Medical books

Correct Answer: B

Q: Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work–

• A: The Rape of the Lock
• B: Spectator
• C: The Deserted Village
• D: Man was made to mourn

Correct Answer: A

Q: Full many a flower is…

• A: Shelly
• B: Wordsworth
• C: Thomas Gray
• D: Keats

Correct Answer: C

Q: Who wrote first English dictionary?/ Who is the author of the first English dictionary?

• A: Boswell
• B: Ben Jonson
• C: Samuel Johnson
• D: Milton

Correct Answer: C

Q: Goethe is the greatest poet of___

• A: Germany
• B: Russia
• C: England
• D: France

Correct Answer: A