Grammar Point

☯️ What is a sentence? বাক্য কি?

✅ A sentence is a group of words that makes a statement and can be followed by a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
The principal elements of a sentence are the
* verb
* subject of the verb
* dircet object of the verb or complement of the verb.

On the other hand, many sentences have only a verb and a subject.

Indirect object and modifiers are another important element of a sentence.

To be continued.....

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# # English Literature এর উপর 129 টি এমসিকিউ** BCS , Primary, 18th NTRCA এর প্রয়োজন***

1. What is a funny poem of five lines called? A) Quartet b) Limerick c) Sestet d) Haiku Answer: b
2. A poem of fourteen line is called- a) Elegy b) Ode c) Sonnet d) Ballad answer: c
3. An Elegy is a___ a) hymn b) limerick c) poem of lamentation d) satire answer: c
4. “ Epic” means- a) a prose composition b) a romance c) a novel d) A long narrative poem Answer: d
5. ‘ Ballad’ is __ a) a kind of short narrative poem b) a kind of short condoling c) a kind of short love poem d) a rhyme verse answer: a
6. ‘ Blank verse’ is a kind of verse __ a) having no rhyming end b) having blanks in the verse c) having no significance d) having no rhythmic flow answer: a
7. ‘Sonnet’ is a lyric poem of ____ a) 12 lines b) 24 lines c) 14 lines d) 10 lines answer: c
8. A ‘ canto’ is ____ a) an act of a play b) a part of a play c) a chapter of a novel d) a division of an epic answer: d
9. ‘ Limerick’ is ___ a) a love poem b) a kind of short narrative-poem c) A form of light verse d) A form of one-act play Answer: b
10. Which of the following means___ “ A song of mourning” , a) lyric b) parody c) elegy d) ballad Answer: c
11. The climax of a plot is what happens_ a) in the beginning b) at the height c) at the end d) in the confrontation answer: b
12. “ Protagonist” indicates _ a) the villain in a plat b) the leading character of actor in a play c) the clown in a play d) the stage-director of a play answer: b
13. What is catastrophe? A) the comical end of dramatic events b) the tragic end of dramatic events c) the comic and tragic end of the play d) none of them Answer: b
14. A person who write about his own life_ a) a diary b) a biography c) a chronicle d) an autobiography answer: d
15. A fantasy is__ a) an imaginary b) a funny film c) a real life event d) a funny place answer: a
16. The literary term “ euphemism” means—a) vague idea b) In offensive expression c) a sonnet d) wise saying Answer: b
17. A person who write and edits dictionaries is called_ a) lexicographer b) angiographer c) lithographer d) topographer answer: a
18. A speech without any previous preparation? A) extempore b) deliberately c) pseudonym d) philistine answer: a
19. “ A Machiavellian character” is__ a) an honest person b) scheming person c) a adventurous person d) learned person answer: b
20. The “ poet laureate” is _ a) the best poet of the country b) a winner of Nobel prize in literature c) the court poet of England d) A classical poet answer: c
21. Haiku is a kind of ____
a) short story b) Epic c) poetry d) novel answer: c
22. A serious play with a sad ending is called a____
a) comedy b) farce c) melodrama d) tragedy answer: d
23. The term “Fiction” is related to ____
a) fact b) friction c) faction d) Imagination answer: d
24. The concluding part of a literary work is called____
a) Epigraph b) Epitaph c) Conclusion d) Epilogue answer: d
25. ‘ Melodrama’ is a kind of play of __
a) violent and sensational themes b) historical themes c) philosophical themes d) pathetic themes Answer: a
26. A song expressing grief, lamentation, and mourning is known as___ a) dirge b) sonnet c) ballad d) all of them answer: a
27. ‘ A travelogue’ is a ___ a) travel guide b) travel map c) a piece of writing about travel b) a kind of travel sickness answer: c
28. Metaphor is a comparison is between ___ a) two things b) two similar things c) two dissimilar things d) two criteria answer: c
29. In the sentence “ the man is a mad” like a poor intruder is an example of__ a) simile b) metaphor c) alliteration d) assonance answer: b
30. “ The glow of the tube light was as bright as the sun shine” the figure of the speech used here a/ an ___ a) simile b) metaphor c) personification d) alliteration answer: c
31. “ Mina’s lovely voice was music to our ears” is an example of__ a) metaphor b) metonym c) simile d) symbol answer: a
32. A hyperbole is a/ an ___ a) authentic statement of something b) overstatement of something c) understatement of something d) hesitant statement of something answer: b
33. “ Ten thousand saw I at a glance” is a figure of speech known as __ a) hyperbole b) litotes c) irony d) satire answer: a
34. A long speech by one actor in a play or movie is called____ a) Dialogue b) Monologue c) Prologue d) Epilogue Answer: b
35. A closing speech in a play, often delivered after the completion of the main action is called__ a) a monologue b) an epilogue c) a prologue d) a dialogue Answer: b
36. Animal can speak in a____ a) mock-epic b) lampoon c) parable d) fable answer: d
37. “A speech or piece of wring expressing praise” is related to____ a) epic b) Eulogy c) sonnet d) none of them Answer: a
38. Soliloquy” means- a) to memorise b) talking c) action of speech d) rehearsal answer: b
39. A myth is ____ a) an adventurous b) a mysterious c) a detective d) a legend answer: d
40. “ Myth” means the story of ___ a) the old time heroes b) the civilization c) the childhood d) the ancient history answer: d
41. “ Phoenix” means- a) A mythological bird b) a kind of eagle c) a God of Greek mythology d) a leopard answer: a
42. “ Renaissance” means- a) the revival learning b) the revival of hard task c) the revival of life d) the revival of a new country answer:
43. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition? A) the Epic b) The Comic c) the Ocult d) The tragic Answer: c
44. Epics are divided into ___ types. A) two b) three c) four d) five answer: a
The identification of Literary figures..
45. ‘ to, two, too’ are an example of _____ a) homophone b) homonym c) oxymoron d) none of them
46. “ Fly, right, can” are an example of ____ a) homophone b) homonym c) oxymoron d) all of them
47. “ love and hate, living and dead” are the example of ____ a) oxymoron b) simile c) metaphor d) homonym answer: a
48. “ Life is a broken winged bird” is an example of ___ a) simile b) metaphor c) alliteration d) personification answer: b
49. “ I wandered Lonely as a cloud” is an example of ____ a) simile b) metaphor c) personification d) Alliteration answer: a
50. Who wrote the poem “ Ulysses”? a) Robert Browning b) Alfred Tennyson c) George Herbert d) Charles Dickens Answer: b
51. T.S. Eliot was born in .......... a) Ireland b) England c) Wales d) USA answer: b
52. The poem “ The Waste Land” is written by..... a) T.S. Eliot b) Charles Dickens c) G.B. Shaw d) none Answer: a
53. Who wrote the short ‘ The Gift of the Magi’? a) William Wordsworth b) Robert Frost c) Jane Austen d) O’ Henry Answer: d
54. “Animal Farm” was written by_______ a) Daniel Defoe b) George Orwell c) Hemmingway d) Jonathan Swift Answer: b
55. Who is the author of “ For Whom the Bell Tolls’? a) Charles Dickens b) Homer c) Lord Tennyson d) Ernest Hemingway Answer: d
56. Who is the author of “The sun Also Rises”? a) H.G wells b) George Orwell c) Ernest Hemingway d) Thomas Hardy answer: c
57. “ Man and Superman” was written by____ a) G.B Shaw b) Lord Byron c) Charles Dickens d) P.B. Shelley Answer: a
58. “ Things Fall Apart” was written by_____ a) W.B. Yeats b) Chinua Achebe c) Wole Soyinka d) V.S Naipaul Answer: b
59. Who writes” Waiting for Godot” ? a) Bertolt Bercht b) Samuel Beckett c) Henric Ibsen d) Samuel Butler answer: b
60. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by_____ a) Mathew Arnold b) Robert Browning c) John Milton d) W. B. Yeats Answer: c
61. Who is the author of “ Gulliver’s Travels’ ? a) Shakespeare b) Shelley c) Keats d) Jonathan Swift Answer: d
62. Who is the author of the book ‘ Robinson Crusoe’? a) R.L Stevenson b) Daniel Defoe c) Janathan Swift d) John Milton Answer: c
63. “ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”- is a_____ a) play b) short story c) novel d) poem answer: d
64. “ Ode on a Grecian Urn’___ who is the poet of the poem? A) Wordsworth b) Shelley c) John Keats d) Byron Answer: c
65. “ If winter comes, can spring be far behind”? this line was written by____ a) Wordsworth b) Keats c) Shelley d) Byron Answer: c
66. Who is the author of ‘ Pride and Prejudice” ? a) Emily Bronte b) Charlotte Bronte c) Jane Austen d) Charles Dickens Answer: c
67. ‘ A Tale of Two Cities” is a novel by ____ a) Dickens b) Scott c) Thackeray d) Fielding Answer: a
68. “ A Tale of Two Cities” refers to. A) London and Washington b) London and Paris c) London and Rome d) London and Berlin Answer: b
69. Who is the poet of the “ Victorian Age” ? a) Hellen Keller b) Matthew c) Shakespeare d) Robert Browning Answer: b
70. Shakespeare is known mostly for his...... a) poetry b) novels c) autobiography d) plays Answer: d
71. “ David Copperfield” is a/an_______ novel. A) Victorian b) Elizabethan c) Romantic d) Modern Answer: a
72. Who is an essayist? A) J.S. Mill b) Charles Dickens c) Francis Bacon d) W. H. Newman answer: c
73. W.B. Yeats a/an _____ poet. A) American b) Irish c) English d) Scottish answer: b
74. Who is not a romantic poet? A) S.T Coleridge b) P.B Shelley c) John Keats d) T.S. Eliot answer: d
75. Who is a modern novelist? A) Bernard Shaw b) D H Lawrence c) Miller d) Ibsen answer: b
76. Who is called “the poet of beauty” in English literature? A) P.B. Shelley b) Lord Byron c) John Keats d) None of them answer: c
77. The most famous satirist in English literature is____ a) Jonathan Swift b) Alexander Pope c) John Keats d) Shakespeare
78. Most important feature of a romantic poetry is___ a) Beauty b) Nature c) Subjectivity d) Imagination answer: c
79. ‘ Lyrical Ballads” was published in the year___ a) 1798 b) 1770 c) 1779 d) 1775 answer: a
80. “ Elizabethan Tragedy” centred on___ a) revenge b) nature c) love d) War
81. “ Ophelia” is an important character in the Shakespearean play? A) Macbeth b) Hamlet c) The Tempest d) King Lear Answer: b
82. Which is known as Shakespeare’s Swang song? A) Hamlet b) Macbeth c) The Tempest d) Twelfth Night answer: c
83. Who has written the play ‘ Volpone’? a) John Webster b) Ben Jonson c) John Keats d) Christopher answer: b
84. Who was the English Epic poet? A) John Keats b) John Milton c) William Wordsworth d) Lord Tennyson answer: b
85. ‘ A Voyage of Lilliput’ is written by____ a) R. L. Stevenson b) Thomas Hardy c) Jonathan Swift d) William Wordsworth c
86. Who wrote “ The Way of the World”? a) Alexander Pope b) John Dryden c) John Bunyan d) William Congreve answer: d
87. “ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is written by___ a) William Wordsworth b) Thomas Gray c) John Keats d) W.B Yeats answer: b
88. William Blake was a____ a) poet b) painter c) philosopher d) poet and a painter answer: d
89. The poem “ The Solitary Reaper” is written by ____ a) W.H. Auden b) W. Wordsworth c) W.B. Yeats d) Ezra Pound answer: b
90. One of the following was a Romantic poet ___ a) Tennyson b) Arnold c) Shelly d) Browning answer: c
91. Who wrote ‘ The Gerontion ‘ ? a) T.S. Eliot b) W.B Yeats c) Mathew Arnold d) Robert Browning answer: a
92. The play ‘ The Spanish Tragedy’ is written by a) Thomas Kyd b) Christopher Marlowe c) Shakespeare d) Ben Jonson answer: a
93. Who wrote ‘ Man and Superman’? a) G. B. Shaw b) Thomas Hardy c) Ernest Hemingway d) Charles Dickens answer” a
94. Who was not a Victorian poet? A) Matthew Arnold b) Alexander Pope c) Robert Browning d) Alfred Tennyson answer: b
95. Who wrote ‘ Biographia Literaria’ ? a) Lord Byron b) P.B Shelley c) S.T. Coleridge d) Charles Lamb answer: c
96. Riders to the Sea is_ a) an epic poem b) a novella c) a one act play d)a theatrical adaption of a poem answer: c
97. Who wrote ‘ beauty is truth, truth beauty? a) Shakespeare b) Wordsworth c) Keats d) Eliot answer: c
98. The period from AD 1066 to 1500 is known as __ a) The old English Period b) The Middle English Period c) The Anglo Saxon Period d) The Victorian Period answer: b
99. Which was the oldest period in English Literature? A) Anglo-Norman b) Anglo-Saxon c) Middle d) Chaucer’s Period answer: b
100. In which century was the Victorian Period? A) 17th century b) 18th century c) 19th century d) 20th century answer: c
101. Who was the greatest modern American short story writer? A) E. Hemingway b) S. Bellow c) O’ Henry d) W.A Longfellow answer: c
102. Who was Poet of sensuousness? A) P. B. Shelley b) Wordsworth c) John Keats d) Byron answer: c
103. Who wrote “ Candida” ? a) James Joyce b) Shakespeare c) G. B Shaw d) Arthur Miller answer: c
104. Find the odd-man-out- a) The Bluest Eye b) Sula c) As I Lay Dying d) A Mercy answer: c
105. Who wrote “ Paradise Regained” ? a) P. B Shelley b) John Milton c) Shakespeare d) G. B. Shaw answer: b
106. Who wrote “ Animal Farm” ? a) T. Moore b) G. Orwell c) P. B. Shelley d) none of them answer: b
107. ‘ A Voyage of Lilliput’ was written by __ a) John Keats b) Byron c) Thomas Hardy d) Jonathan Swift answer: d
108. Who are the University wits? A) Thomas Kyd b) John Lyly c) Robert Greene d) All of them Answer: d
109. Who was called the ‘ Poet of poets’ in English Literature? A) Michael Drayton b) Edmund Spenser c) Sir Thomas Moor d) John Keats
110. Who wrote ‘ Utopia’? a) Edmund Spencer b) John Keats c) W. B. Yeats d) Shakespeare Anser: a
111. ‘ Othello’ is a Shakespeare’s play about ___ a) A Jew b) A Roman c) A Turk d) A Moor Answer: d
112. Who wrote “ Prometheus Unbound”? a) Coleridge b) Keats c) Byron d) Shelley Answer: d
113. “ Ode to the West Wind” was written by ___ a) Keats b) Shelley c) Coleridge d) Browning Answer: b
114. Who wrote “ Ode on a Grecian Urn”? a) Wordsworth b) Shelley c) Shakespeare d) Keats Answer: d
115. Moby Dick deals with___ a) a white whale b) a black whale c) a white crow d) a black crow Answer: a
116. Who wrote “ The Falcon”? a) Browning b) Tennyson c) Eliot d) Thackeray Answer: b
117. The poem “ The Patriot” was written by ____ a) Alfred Tennyson b) Robert Browning c) Mathew Arnold d) John Donne Answer: b
118. Gladstone said “ Justice delayed, Justice ____” . a) buried b) hurried c) denied d) all of them Answer: c
119. Who was known as Dramatic Monologue In English Literature? A) Robert Browning b) John Keats c) W.B. Yeats d) William Shakespeare Answer: a
120. Who wrote “ Great Expectations”? a) Charles Dickens b) Shelley b) G. B. Shaw c) Eliot d) Tennyson Answer: a
121. “ Pip” is a character of ____ a) Hamlet b) Great Expectations c) Man and Superman d) Jane Eyre Answer: b
122. Who wrote “ The Scholar Gipsy , Dover Beach”? a) John Keats b) W.B. Yeats c) Matthew Arnold d) Eliot Answer: c
123. Who wrote ‘ Moby Dick’? a) Walt Whitman b) Herman Melville c) Shaw d) Robert Frost Answer: b
124. “____ I could not stop for death.” Was written by Emily Dickinson. A) After b) Because c) While d) When Answer: b
125. George Bernard Shaw wrote____ a) Candida b) Man and Superman c) Arms and the Man d) All of them Answer: d
126. “ Heart of Darkness” written by Joseph Conrad is a ___. A) drama b) poem c) Novel d) story Answer: c
127. Who wrote “ The Gift of the Magi”? a) O. Henry b) Shaw c) Milton d)
128. Who wrote “ Lord of the flies”? a) William Gerald Golding b) O. Henry c) Matthew Arnold d) George Bernard Shaw Answer: a
129. “ Death of a Salesman” was written by ____ a) Arthur Asher Miller b) Saul Bellow c)
1. What is a funny poem of five lines called? A) Quartet b) Limerick c) Sestet d) Haiku Answer: b
2. A poem of fourteen line is called- a) Elegy b) Ode c) Sonnet d) Ballad answer: c
3. An Elegy is a___ a) hymn b) limerick c) poem of lamentation d) satire answer: c
4. “ Epic” means- a) a prose composition b) a romance c) a novel d) A long narrative poem Answer: d
5. ‘ Ballad’ is __ a) a kind of short narrative poem b) a kind of short condoling c) a kind of short love poem d) a rhyme verse answer: a
6. ‘ Blank verse’ is a kind of verse __ a) having no rhyming end b) having blanks in the verse c) having no significance d) having no rhythmic flow answer: a
7. ‘Sonnet’ is a lyric poem of ____ a) 12 lines b) 24 lines c) 14 lines d) 10 lines answer: c
8. A ‘ canto’ is ____ a) an act of a play b) a part of a play c) a chapter of a novel d) a division of an epic answer: d
9. ‘ Limerick’ is ___ a) a love poem b) a kind of short narrative-poem c) A form of light verse d) A form of one-act play Answer: b
10. Which of the following means___ “ A song of mourning” , a) lyric b) parody c) elegy d) ballad Answer: c
11. The climax of a plot is what happens_ a) in the beginning b) at the height c) at the end d) in the confrontation answer: b
12. “ Protagonist” indicates _ a) the villain in a plat b) the leading character of actor in a play c) the clown in a play d) the stage-director of a play answer: b
13. What is catastrophe? A) the comical end of dramatic events b) the tragic end of dramatic events c) the comic and tragic end of the play d) none of them Answer: b
14. A person who write about his own life_ a) a diary b) a biography c) a chronicle d) an autobiography answer: d
15. A fantasy is__ a) an imaginary b) a funny film c) a real life event d) a funny place answer: a
16. The literary term “ euphemism” means—a) vague idea b) In offensive expression c) a sonnet d) wise saying Answer: b
17. A person who write and edits dictionaries is called_ a) lexicographer b) angiographer c) lithographer d) topographer answer: a
18. A speech without any previous preparation? A) extempore b) deliberately c) pseudonym d) philistine answer: a
19. “ A Machiavellian character” is__ a) an honest person b) scheming person c) a adventurous person d) learned person answer: b
20. The “ poet laureate” is _ a) the best poet of the country b) a winner of Nobel prize in literature c) the court poet of England d) A classical poet answer: c
21. Haiku is a kind of ____
a) short story b) Epic c) poetry d) novel answer: c
22. A serious play with a sad ending is called a____
a) comedy b) farce c) melodrama d) tragedy answer: d
23. The term “Fiction” is related to ____
a) fact b) friction c) faction d) Imagination answer: d
24. The concluding part of a literary work is called____
a) Epigraph b) Epitaph c) Conclusion d) Epilogue answer: d
25. ‘ Melodrama’ is a kind of play of __
a) violent and sensational themes b) historical themes c) philosophical themes d) pathetic themes Answer: a
26. A song expressing grief, lamentation, and mourning is known as___ a) dirge b) sonnet c) ballad d) all of them answer: a
27. ‘ A travelogue’ is a ___ a) travel guide b) travel map c) a piece of writing about travel b) a kind of travel sickness answer: c
28. Metaphor is a comparison is between ___ a) two things b) two similar things c) two dissimilar things d) two criteria answer: c
29. In the sentence “ the man is a mad” like a poor intruder is an example of__ a) simile b) metaphor c) alliteration d) assonance answer: b
30. “ The glow of the tube light was as bright as the sun shine” the figure of the speech used here a/ an ___ a) simile b) metaphor c) personification d) alliteration answer: c
31. “ Mina’s lovely voice was music to our ears” is an example of__ a) metaphor b) metonym c) simile d) symbol answer: a
32. A hyperbole is a/ an ___ a) authentic statement of something b) overstatement of something c) understatement of something d) hesitant statement of something answer: b
33. “ Ten thousand saw I at a glance” is a figure of speech known as __ a) hyperbole b) litotes c) irony d) satire answer: a
34. A long speech by one actor in a play or movie is called____ a) Dialogue b) Monologue c) Prologue d) Epilogue Answer: b
35. A closing speech in a play, often delivered after the completion of the main action is called__ a) a monologue b) an epilogue c) a prologue d) a dialogue Answer: b
36. Animal can speak in a____ a) mock-epic b) lampoon c) parable d) fable answer: d
37. “A speech or piece of wring expressing praise” is related to____ a) epic b) Eulogy c) sonnet d) none of them Answer: a
38. Soliloquy” means- a) to memorise b) talking c) action of speech d) rehearsal answer: b
39. A myth is ____ a) an adventurous b) a mysterious c) a detective d) a legend answer: d
40. “ Myth” means the story of ___ a) the old time heroes b) the civilization c) the childhood d) the ancient history answer: d
41. “ Phoenix” means- a) A mythological bird b) a kind of eagle c) a God of Greek mythology d) a leopard answer: a
42. “ Renaissance” means- a) the revival learning b) the revival of hard task c) the revival of life d) the revival of a new country answer:
43. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition? A) the Epic b) The Comic c) the Ocult d) The tragic Answer: c
44. Epics are divided into ___ types. A) two b) three c) four d) five answer: a
The identification of Literary figures..
45. ‘ to, two, too’ are an example of _____ a) homophone b) homonym c) oxymoron d) none of them
46. “ Fly, right, can” are an example of ____ a) homophone b) homonym c) oxymoron d) all of them
47. “ love and hate, living and dead” are the example of ____ a) oxymoron b) simile c) metaphor d) homonym answer: a
48. “ Life is a broken winged bird” is an example of ___ a) simile b) metaphor c) alliteration d) personification answer: b
49. “ I wandered Lonely as a cloud” is an example of ____ a) simile b) metaphor c) personification d) Alliteration answer: a
50. Who wrote the poem “ Ulysses”? a) Robert Browning b) Alfred Tennyson c) George Herbert d) Charles Dickens Answer: b
51. T.S. Eliot was born in .......... a) Ireland b) England c) Wales d) USA answer: b
52. The poem “ The Waste Land” is written by..... a) T.S. Eliot b) Charles Dickens c) G.B. Shaw d) none Answer: a
53. Who wrote the short ‘ The Gift of the Magi’? a) William Wordsworth b) Robert Frost c) Jane Austen d) O’ Henry Answer: d
54. “Animal Farm” was written by_______ a) Daniel Defoe b) George Orwell c) Hemmingway d) Jonathan Swift Answer: b
55. Who is the author of “ For Whom the Bell Tolls’? a) Charles Dickens b) Homer c) Lord Tennyson d) Ernest Hemingway Answer: d
56. Who is the author of “The sun Also Rises”? a) H.G wells b) George Orwell c) Ernest Hemingway d) Thomas Hardy answer: c
57. “ Man and Superman” was written by____ a) G.B Shaw b) Lord Byron c) Charles Dickens d) P.B. Shelley Answer: a
58. “ Things Fall Apart” was written by_____ a) W.B. Yeats b) Chinua Achebe c) Wole Soyinka d) V.S Naipaul Answer: b
59. Who writes” Waiting for Godot” ? a) Bertolt Bercht b) Samuel Beckett c) Henric Ibsen d) Samuel Butler answer: b
60. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by_____ a) Mathew Arnold b) Robert Browning c) John Milton d) W. B. Yeats Answer: c
61. Who is the author of “ Gulliver’s Travels’ ? a) Shakespeare b) Shelley c) Keats d) Jonathan Swift Answer: d
62. Who is the author of the book ‘ Robinson Crusoe’? a) R.L Stevenson b) Daniel Defoe c) Janathan Swift d) John Milton Answer: c
63. “ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”- is a_____ a) play b) short story c) novel d) poem answer: d
64. “ Ode on a Grecian Urn’___ who is the poet of the poem? A) Wordsworth b) Shelley c) John Keats d) Byron Answer: c
65. “ If winter comes, can spring be far behind”? this line was written by____ a) Wordsworth b) Keats c) Shelley d) Byron Answer: c
66. Who is the author of ‘ Pride and Prejudice” ? a) Emily Bronte b) Charlotte Bronte c) Jane Austen d) Charles Dickens Answer: c
67. ‘ A Tale of Two Cities” is a novel by ____ a) Dickens b) Scott c) Thackeray d) Fielding Answer: a
68. “ A Tale of Two Cities” refers to. A) London and Washington b) London and Paris c) London and Rome d) London and Berlin Answer: b
69. Who is the poet of the “ Victorian Age” ? a) Hellen Keller b) Matthew c) Shakespeare d) Robert Browning Answer: b
70. Shakespeare is known mostly for his...... a) poetry b) novels c) autobiography d) plays Answer: d
71. “ David Copperfield” is a/an_______ novel. A) Victorian b) Elizabethan c) Romantic d) Modern Answer: a
72. Who is an essayist? A) J.S. Mill b) Charles Dickens c) Francis Bacon d) W. H. Newman answer: c
73. W.B. Yeats a/an _____ poet. A) American b) Irish c) English d) Scottish answer: b
74. Who is not a romantic poet? A) S.T Coleridge b) P.B Shelley c) John Keats d) T.S. Eliot answer: d
75. Who is a modern novelist? A) Bernard Shaw b) D H Lawrence c) Miller d) Ibsen answer: b
76. Who is called “the poet of beauty” in English literature? A) P.B. Shelley b) Lord Byron c) John Keats d) None of them answer: c
77. The most famous satirist in English literature is____ a) Jonathan Swift b) Alexander Pope c) John Keats d) Shakespeare
78. Most important feature of a romantic poetry is___ a) Beauty b) Nature c) Subjectivity d) Imagination answer: c
79. ‘ Lyrical Ballads” was published in the year___ a) 1798 b) 1770 c) 1779 d) 1775 answer: a
80. “ Elizabethan Tragedy” centred on___ a) revenge b) nature c) love d) War
81. “ Ophelia” is an important character in the Shakespearean play? A) Macbeth b) Hamlet c) The Tempest d) King Lear Answer: b
82. Which is known as Shakespeare’s Swang song? A) Hamlet b) Macbeth c) The Tempest d) Twelfth Night answer: c
83. Who has written the play ‘ Volpone’? a) John Webster b) Ben Jonson c) John Keats d) Christopher answer: b
84. Who was the English Epic poet? A) John Keats b) John Milton c) William Wordsworth d) Lord Tennyson answer: b
85. ‘ A Voyage of Lilliput’ is written by____ a) R. L. Stevenson b) Thomas Hardy c) Jonathan Swift d) William Wordsworth c
86. Who wrote “ The Way of the World”? a) Alexander Pope b) John Dryden c) John Bunyan d) William Congreve answer: d
87. “ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is written by___ a) William Wordsworth b) Thomas Gray c) John Keats d) W.B Yeats answer: b
88. William Blake was a____ a) poet b) painter c) philosopher d) poet and a painter answer: d
89. The poem “ The Solitary Reaper” is written by ____ a) W.H. Auden b) W. Wordsworth c) W.B. Yeats d) Ezra Pound answer: b
90. One of the following was a Romantic poet ___ a) Tennyson b) Arnold c) Shelly d) Browning answer: c
91. Who wrote ‘ The Gerontion ‘ ? a) T.S. Eliot b) W.B Yeats c) Mathew Arnold d) Robert Browning answer: a
92. The play ‘ The Spanish Tragedy’ is written by a) Thomas Kyd b) Christopher Marlowe c) Shakespeare d) Ben Jonson answer: a
93. Who wrote ‘ Man and Superman’? a) G. B. Shaw b) Thomas Hardy c) Ernest Hemingway d) Charles Dickens answer” a
94. Who was not a Victorian poet? A) Matthew Arnold b) Alexander Pope c) Robert Browning d) Alfred Tennyson answer: b
95. Who wrote ‘ Biographia Literaria’ ? a) Lord Byron b) P.B Shelley c) S.T. Coleridge d) Charles Lamb answer: c
96. Riders to the Sea is_ a) an epic poem b) a novella c) a one act play d)a theatrical adaption of a poem answer: c
97. Who wrote ‘ beauty is truth, truth beauty? a) Shakespeare b) Wordsworth c) Keats d) Eliot answer: c
98. The period from AD 1066 to 1500 is known as __ a) The old English Period b) The Middle English Period c) The Anglo Saxon Period d) The Victorian Period answer: b
99. Which was the oldest period in English Literature? A) Anglo-Norman b) Anglo-Saxon c) Middle d) Chaucer’s Period answer: b
100. In which century was the Victorian Period? A) 17th century b) 18th century c) 19th century d) 20th century answer: c
101. Who was the greatest modern American short story writer? A) E. Hemingway b) S. Bellow c) O’ Henry d) W.A Longfellow answer: c
102. Who was Poet of sensuousness? A) P. B. Shelley b) Wordsworth c) John Keats d) Byron answer: c
103. Who wrote “ Candida” ? a) James Joyce b) Shakespeare c) G. B Shaw d) Arthur Miller answer: c
104. Find the odd-man-out- a) The Bluest Eye b) Sula c) As I Lay Dying d) A Mercy answer: c
105. Who wrote “ Paradise Regained” ? a) P. B Shelley b) John Milton c) Shakespeare d) G. B. Shaw answer: b
106. Who wrote “ Animal Farm” ? a) T. Moore b) G. Orwell c) P. B. Shelley d) none of them answer: b
107. ‘ A Voyage of Lilliput’ was written by __ a) John Keats b) Byron c) Thomas Hardy d) Jonathan Swift answer: d
108. Who are the University wits? A) Thomas Kyd b) John Lyly c) Robert Greene d) All of them Answer: d
109. Who was called the ‘ Poet of poets’ in English Literature? A) Michael Drayton b) Edmund Spenser c) Sir Thomas Moor d) John Keats
110. Who wrote ‘ Utopia’? a) Edmund Spencer b) John Keats c) W. B. Yeats d) Shakespeare Anser: a
111. ‘ Othello’ is a Shakespeare’s play about ___ a) A Jew b) A Roman c) A Turk d) A Moor Answer: d
112. Who wrote “ Prometheus Unbound”? a) Coleridge b) Keats c) Byron d) Shelley Answer: d
113. “ Ode to the West Wind” was written by ___ a) Keats b) Shelley c) Coleridge d) Browning Answer: b
114. Who wrote “ Ode on a Grecian Urn”? a) Wordsworth b) Shelley c) Shakespeare d) Keats Answer: d
115. Moby Dick deals with___ a) a white whale b) a black whale c) a white crow d) a black crow Answer: a
116. Who wrote “ The Falcon”? a) Browning b) Tennyson c) Eliot d) Thackeray Answer: b
117. The poem “ The Patriot” was written by ____ a) Alfred Tennyson b) Robert Browning c) Mathew Arnold d) John Donne Answer: b
118. Gladstone said “ Justice delayed, Justice ____” . a) buried b) hurried c) denied d) all of them Answer: c
119. Who was known as Dramatic Monologue In English Literature? A) Robert Browning b) John Keats c) W.B. Yeats d) William Shakespeare Answer: a
120. Who wrote “ Great Expectations”? a) Charles Dickens b) Shelley b) G. B. Shaw c) Eliot d) Tennyson Answer: a
121. “ Pip” is a character of ____ a) Hamlet b) Great Expectations c) Man and Superman d) Jane Eyre Answer: b
122. Who wrote “ The Scholar Gipsy , Dover Beach”? a) John Keats b) W.B. Yeats c) Matthew Arnold d) Eliot Answer: c
123. Who wrote ‘ Moby Dick’? a) Walt Whitman b) Herman Melville c) Shaw d) Robert Frost Answer: b
124. “____ I could not stop for death.” Was written by Emily Dickinson. A) After b) Because c) While d) When Answer: b
125. George Bernard Shaw wrote____ a) Candida b) Man and Superman c) Arms and the Man d) All of them Answer: d
126. “ Heart of Darkness” written by Joseph Conrad is a ___. A) drama b) poem c) Novel d) story Answer: c
127. Who wrote “ The Gift of the Magi”? a) O. Henry b) Shaw c) Milton d)
128. Who wrote “ Lord of the flies”? a) William Gerald Golding b) O. Henry c) Matthew Arnold d) George Bernard Shaw Answer: a
129. “ Death of a Salesman” was written by ____ a) Arthur Asher Miller b) Saul Bellow c)