A sonnet is a lyric poem of—
A sonnet is a lyric poem of—
(a) 12 lines
(b) 24 lines
(c) 14 lines
(d) 10 lines
A sonnet is a lyric poem of—
(a) 12 lines
(b) 24 lines
(c) 14 lines
(d) 10 lines
A sonnet is a poem having— lines.
(a) sixteen
(b) ten
(c) twelve
(d) fourteen
Which is the oldest period in English Literature?
(a) Anglo-Norman
(b) Anglo-Saxon
(c) Chaucer\’s Period
(d) Middle
The main feature of the Renaissance is—
(a) Humanism
(b) Utopia
(c) Polyolbian
(d) Opus Majas
Which of the following is a play by Shakespeare-.
(a) King Lear
(b) The Duchess of Malfi
(c) Candida
(d) Waiting for Godot
William Shakespeare was an English dramatist and poet of the—– century.
(a) fifteenth
(b) sixteenth
(c) fourteenth
(d) seventeenth
Which of the following plays is by William Shakespeare?
(a) Desire Under the Elms
(b) Measure for Measure
(c) Pygmalion
(d) Cocktail Party
Andrew Marvell was a-
(a) Metaphysical poet
(b) Victorian poet
(c) Romantic poet
(d) Modern poet
‘Shakespeare’ is the writer of—
(a) The Tempest
(b) The Idea of University
(c) The Hairy Ape
(d) Riders to the Sea
Who, among the following playwrights, is Shakespeare’s
contemporary/ belong to Elizabethan period?
(a) Arthur Miller
(b) Marlowe
(c) Samuel Beckett
Shakespeare was not__.
(a) a dramatist
(b) a playwright
(c) a poet
(d) a story writer
Which of the following is not true about Shakespeare?
(a) Poet
(b) Playwright
(c) Novelist
(d) Actor
William Shakespeare wrote-
(a) sonnets, tragedies and comedies
(b) sonnets, plays and essays
(c) sonnets, plays and novels
(d) sonnets, novels and epics
In Shakespearean tragedy, the hero is __
(a) an ordinary man
(b) a high ranking man
(c) a sacrilegious man
(d) none of these
Ben Jonson introduced-
(a) allegory
(b) heroic drama
(c) comedy of manners
(d) comedy of humours
\”Better three hours too soon than a minute too late\” was said by-
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Wordsworth
(c) O Henry
(d) Edgar Allan Poe
When a speaker speaks his thoughts aloud, it is called-
(a) aside
(b) monody
(c) soliloquy
(d) negative capability
Melodrama- is a kind of play of-
(a) violent and sensational themes
(b) historical themes
(c) philosophical themes
(d) pathetic themes
What is catastrope?
(a) The comical end of dramatic events
(b) The tragic end of dramatic events
(c) The comic tragic end of the play
(d) None of the above
Who translated ‘The New Testament’?
(a) Langland
(b) John Wycliffe
(c) Layaman
(d) Touci
‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is written by __
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Virginia Woolf
What is an act in a play?
(a) a unit of act on with no change of place or time
(b) the rising action of a play
(c) a major division in the action of a play
(d) conversation of character is in a play
‘Renaissance’ means —
(a) the revival of learning
(b) the revival of hard task
(c) the revival of life
(d) the revival of new country
Who is the ‘University Wits’ in the following list?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Thomas Gray
(c) Robert Greene
(d) Dryden
Renaissance কথাটির অর্থ কি?
(ক) মৃত্যু
(খ) বার্ধক্য
(গ) পৌঢ়ত্ব
(ঘ) নবজীবন
‘Phoenix’ is __
(a) an imaginary bullock
(b) a mythical bird
(c) a mythical bird regenerating from ashes
(d) a dead mythical bird
The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the city of—
(a) Venice
(b) London
(c) Paris
(d) Florence
Soliloquy means –
(a) to memorise
(b) talking to oneself
(c) action of speech
(d) rehearsal of a play
What is the meaning of ‘Soliloquy’?
(a) action of body
(b) action of speech
(c) to memorira part
(d) long self speech by an actor
A drama is a/an —
(a) novel retold in dialogue
(b) magical performnces on the stage
(c) fairy tale
(d) story translated into action
A tragedy does not have ____
(a) a tragic hero
(b) a plot
(c) an act
(d) an octave-sestet division
Comedy is –
(a) a light play with a happy ending.
(b) an amusing play with a serious ending.
(c) a serious play with a humorous ending.
(d) a plays that shows terrible things in a way that is intended to be funny.
A comedy does not have__
(a) a happy ending
(b) a plot
(c) catharsis
(d) comic element
The hero or central character of a literary work is __
(a) Villain
(b) Protagonist
(c) Antagonist
(d) Chorus
Protagonist-indicates__
(a) the villain in a play
(b) the leading character or actor in a play
(c) the clown in a play
(d) the stage-director of a play.
The Canterbury Tales is as alive and—today as it was nearly600 years ago.
(a) appealing
(b) fruitful
(c) repelling
(d) enhanting
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote—
(a) Canterbury Tales
(b) Piers Plowman
(c) Morte d’ Arthur
(d) The Maid’s Tragedy
Who translated the Bible into English for the first time?
(a) Nicolas Udall
(b) Thomas Norton
(c) John Wycliffe
(d) Edmund Spenser
Who said Cowards die many times before their death.
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Franklin
(c) Carlyle
(d) Alexander Pope
Calliban is a Character in—
(a) King Lear
(b) Tempest
(c) Man and Superman
(d) Othello
Brutus is a famous character of Shakespeare in—
(a) King Lear
(b) Julius Caeser
(c) The Tempest
(d) Hamlet
Who is the father of Modern English Poetry?
(a) Cynewulf
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer
(c) Robert Browning
(d) None of the above
Ophelia is an important character in the Shakespearean play?
(a) Macbeth
(b) The Tempest
(c) Hamlet
(d) King Lear
‘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?
(a) J. Webstar
(b) C. Marlowe
(c) W. Shakespeare
(d) Lord Bacon
Who is called the poet of poets?
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer
(b) Edmund Spenser
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) William Shakespeare
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(a) Doctor Faustus
(b) The Merchant of Venice
(c) The Way of the World
(d) Arms and the Man
Who is known as the father of English poetry? /Who is called the father of English Poetry?
(a) Milton
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Chaucer
(d) Charles Dickens
Who is considered to be the father of English Poem?
(a) William Langland
(b) Thomas Moore
(c) Rozer Bacon
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.’ is taken from-
(a) Hamlet
(b) King Lear
(c) Macbeth
(d) Othello
Who wrote “The Spanish Tragedy”?
(a) John Lyly
(b) Thomas Kyd
(c) Robert Green
(d) Christopher Marlowe
Robert Herrick was an English–
(a) Novelist
(b) Historian
(c) Poet
(d) Dramatist
A poem of fourteen lines is called—
(a) Elege
(b) Sonnet
(c) Ode
(d) Epic
‘The Canterbury Tales’ are told by-
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer
(b) Wycliffe
(c) Boccaccio
(d) Thomas Barth
‘Cowards die many times before their death’ বাক্যটি শেক্সপিয়ারের কোন নাটক হতে উদ্বৃত হয়েছে?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Julius Caesar
(c) Hamlet
(d) Othello
The Flea- by John Donne is-
(a) a romantic poem
(b) an Elegy
(c) a religious poem
(d) an Ode
‘Fair daffodils! We weep to see/ You haste away so soon; As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon. Who is the writer to these beautiful lines?
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) Robert Herrick
(c) William Blake
(d) John Keats
Who was both a poet and a Priest?
(a) Andrew Marvell
(b) George Herbert
(c) Edmund Spencer
(d) Robert Browning
‘All the perfumes of Arabian will not sweeten this little hand’s is a quotation from—
(a) Hamlet
(b) Othelo
(c) Macbeth
(d) King Lear
Who wrote the poem ‘The Collar’?
(a) George Herbert
(b) John Donne
(c) Edmund Spenser
(d) Alfred Tennyson
The poem ‘Easter Wings’ written by-
(a) Andrew Marvell
(b) G. Herbert
(c) John Keats
(d) S.T Coleridge
Choose the right answer: Chaucer is the representative poet of-
(a) 17th century
(b) 14th century
(c) 16 the century
(d) 18th century
Cowards die___ before their death.
(a) much time
(b) many time
(c) enough time
(d) many times
Who is known as the father of English poetry? Who is called
the father of English Poetry?
(a) Milton
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Chaucer
‘Frailty, Thy name is woman’– in which of the following plays
you find this?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Romeo and Juliet
(c) Hamlet
‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ was stated by—
(a) Valtaire
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Milton
(d) Tolstoy
‘To be or not to be’ is the beginning of a famous soliloquy from-
(a) Paradise Lost
(b) Romeo & Juliet
(c) Hamlet
(d) Shahnama
‘Good face is the best letter of recommendation’ was stated by–
(a) Queen Victoria
(b) Queen Elizabeth
(c) Anne
(d) Queen Marry
‘Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; writing an exact man’ Who said this?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Bacon
(c) Keats
(d) Kyd
‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digestd.’ Said-
(a) Joseph
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Francis Bacon
‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ this quotation from Shakespeare’s-
(a) Hamlet
(b) Otherllo
(c) Merchant of Venice
(d) Julius Caesar
Who is called the \’poet of love\’?
(a) Andrew Marvell
(b) John Donne
(c) John Keats
(d) Shakespeare
In ‘To Daffodils’, human life is compared with:
(a) “Sunset”
(b) “flowing river”
(c) “Morning’s dew”
(d) “Graying hair”
“Hasting day” in To Daffodils means-
(a) fast day
(b) quiet day
(c) finishing day
(d) hurriedly passing day
Which two things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to human beings and daffodils?
(a) rising sun, moon
(b) summer’s morning’s dew
(c) spring, summer
(d) hasting day, even song
In the poem ‘To Daffodils’ the poet weeps over—
(a) loss of beautiful flower
(b) loss caused to environment
(c) loss of sweet scent
(d) Short-lived human life
Which word seems out of place?
(a) rose
(b) lily
(c) cauliflower
(d) daffodil
The last line of “To daffodils” is
(a) Ne’er to be seen again
(b) Vanish like summer’s rain
(c) Ne’re to be found again
(d) As quack a growth of meet decay
Who used the term \’The Metaphysical poet\’?
(a) Edmund Spencer
(b) John Donne
(c) Samuel Johnson
(d) Andrew Marvell
Who is a Metaphysical poet?
(a) Cowley
(b) Thomas Kyd
(c) Ben Johnson
(d) John Webster
Who is not called the Metaphysical poet?
(a) John Donne
(b) Andrew Marvell
(c) G. Herbert
(d) Tennyson
Who was a friend of John Milton?
(a) John Donne
(b) John Dryden
(c) Andrew Marvell
(d) Alexander Pope
Who wrote the poem \’The Definition of Love.\’
(a) Marvell
(b) John Donne
(c) W.B Yeats
(d) John Keats
The poem \’To His Coy Mistress\’ was written by-
(a) Keats
(b) Andrew Marvell
(c) John Milton
(d) Shakespeare
Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets?
(a) Samuel Johnson
(b) John Donne
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer
(d) Robert Browning
\’The Good Morrow\’ is a poem by-
(a) Marvell
(b) W.B. Yeats
(c) John Donne
(d) Browning
Who wrote the poem \’The Sun Rising\’?
(a) John Donne
(b) Lord Byron
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) None of them
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is an example of –
(a) Symbol
(b) Metaphor
(c) Simile
(d) Metonymy
Who wrote ‘The Ruins of Time’?
(a) Philip Sidney
(b) Chapman
(c) Spenser
(d) Thomas Hardy
Who among the following was an English Renaissance Poet?
(a) John Donne
(b) Robert Browning
(c) John Milton
(d) Sir Philip Sidney
Who wrote ‘An Apology for Poetry’?
(a) P. B Shelly
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Sir Philip Sidney
(d) John Donne
Which of the following school of literature is connected with a medical theory?
(a) Comedy of Manners
(b) Theatre of Absurd
(c) Heroic Tragedy
(d) Comedy of humours
‘Silent Woman’ written by—
(a) J. Ruskin
(b) Ben Jonson
(c) Kalidas
(d) Munishi Prem Chand
‘Dr. Faustus’ was written by–
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Marlowe
(d) John Webster
Christopher Marlowe is Shakespeare’s
(a) Successor
(b) predecessor
(c) contemporary
(d) mentor
What is the full name of the tragedy ‘Dr. Faustus’?
(a) The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
(b) The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus
(c) The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus
(d) Doctor Faustus
The beginning of the Renaissance may be traced to the country of—
(a) Germany
(b) England
(c) France
(d) Italy