A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is__
A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is__
(a) an epic
(b) an allegory
(c) a metaphor
(d) personification B
A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is__
(a) an epic
(b) an allegory
(c) a metaphor
(d) personification B
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
Who wrote the famous poetic line ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine’?
(a) Pope
(b) Shelley
(c) Keats
(d) Dryden
A mornful poem written on the death of someone’s love is called__
(a) homage
(b) ode
(c) elegy
(d) saga
Addison and Steele are known for__
(a) Lyrical Ballad
(b) The Mirror
(c) The Spectator
(d) Biographia Literaria
‘A critic and lexicographer’ applies to __
(a) Bradly
(b) Coleridge
(c) Johnson
(d) Hazlitt
. An epic is based on__ performed by a hero.
(a) heroic deeds
(b) a narrative
(c) intervention
(d) trifle subjects
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
A novel in the form of letters is called ___
(a) picaresque novel
(b) novelette
(c) non-fiction novel
(d) epistolary novel
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
Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Man” is a-
(a) Novel
(b) Treatise
(c) Short Story
(d) Poem
Who wrote first English dictionary?/ Who is the author of the first English dictionary?
(a) Boswell
(b) Ben Jonson
(c) Samuel Johnson
(d) Milton
Goethe is the greatest poet of___
(a) Germany
(b) Russia
(c) England
(d) France
Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work–
(a) The Rape of the Lock
(b) Spectator
(c) The Deserted Village
(d) Man was made to mourn
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness in the desert air.’-
(a) Shelly
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Thomas Gray
(d) Keats
A lexicographer is a person who writes–
(a) Novels
(b) Dictionaries
(c) Graphs
(d) Medical books
Paradise Regained is an epic written by–
(a) Homer
(b) Tagore
(c) Dante
(d) Milton
Who has written the poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”?
(a) Thomas Gray
(b) P.B. Shelley
(c) Robert Frost
(d) Y.B.Yeats
‘Restoration period’ in English literature refers to –
(a) 1560
(b) 1660
c) 1760
d) 1866
The Romantic Age began with the publication of-
(a) Lyrical Ballads
(b) My Last Duchess
(c) A Tale of Two Cities
(d) Canonization
‘To err is human, to forgive is divine’ is written by-
(a) Tennyson
(b) W. Blake
(c) Milton
(d) Pope
Who was the famous mock-heroic poet in English literature?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) John Milton
(c) Alexander Pope
(d) Lord Tennyson
The First English novel, Pamela has been written by-
(a) Daniel Defoe
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) Samuel Richardson
(d) Sir Walter Scott
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first published in-
(a) the t half of th century
(b) the d half of th century
(c) the t half of th century
(d) the th century
‘A little learning is a dangerous thing’ is a quotation from-
(a) Oscar wilds
(b) Alfred Tennyson
(c) Alexander Pope
(d) Voltaire
Who is considered to be the father of English novel?
(a) Francis Bacon
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer
(c) King Alfred the Great
(d) Henry Fielding
Who wrote ‘Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise’?
(a) Robert Frost
(b) George Orwell
(c) Thomas Gray
(d) John Milton
Who is famous for his elegies?
(a) Robert Browning
(b) Lord Byron
(c) Thomas Gray
(d) Thomas Paine
Who wrote ‘Gulliver’s Travels’?
(a) R. L. Stevenson
(b) Daniel Defoe
(c) Jonathan Swift
(d) D. H. Lawrence
‘A Voyage of Lilliput’ is written by–
(a) R. L Stevenson
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Jonathan Swift
(d) William Wordsworth
Jonathan Swift is the author of-
(a) The Old man and the Sea
(b) A Doll’s House
(c) Robinson Crusoe
(d) Gulliver’s Travels
The first English Dictionary was compiled by–
(a) Izaak Walton
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Samuel Butler
(d) Sir Thomas Browne
Edmund Burke belonged to-
(a) th century
(b) th century
(c) th century
(d) th century
‘Paradise Regained’ is an epic by-
(a) John Keats
(b) P.B. Shelly
(c) John Milton
(d) William Blake
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(a) Thomas Gray
(b) Alfred Tennyson
(c) John Milton
(d) John Keats
Who of the following is a famous epic poet in English literature? / Of the following authors who wrote an epic?
(a) Jane Mansfield
(b) John Milton
(b) William Cowper
(d) William Shakespeare
‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ is written by-
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) Thomas Gray
(c) John Keats
(d) W. B. Yeats
‘Paradise Lost’ attempted to—-
(a) Justify the ways of man to God
(b) Justify the ways of God to man
(c) Show that the Satan and god have equal power
(d) Explain why good and evil are necessary.
Who is the composer of ‘Paradise Lost’?
(a) John Keats
(b) Lord Byron
(c) S.T. Coleridge
(d) John Milton
‘Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.’ Who said this and where?
(a) Satan in “Paradise Lost”
(b) Stain in “Paradise Regained”
(c) Adam in ‘Paradise Lost’
(d) Adam in ‘Paradise Regained’
‘Paradise Lost’ is a/an —-
(a) short story
(b) epic poem
(c) play
(d) lyrical poem
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness in the desert air.’-
(a) Shelly
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Thomas Gray
(d) Keats
‘Lycidas’ was written by
(a) Thomas Gray
(b) Alfred Tennyson
(c) John Milton
(d) John Keats
The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope?
(a) epic
(b) ballad
(c) Mock Heroic poem
(d) elegy