📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
496 MCQs51
Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?
AArobinda Adigha
BSalman Rushdie
CArundhoti Roy
DKiron Dishai
52
Who propounds “the touchstone method”_______________?
AArnold
BShelley
CPope
DDryden
53
Who of the following is a playwright ?
ADickens
BShaw
CW.
DG.
54
‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by_______________?
ABlake
BByron
CTennyson
DWalter Scott
55
Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use ?
AA “member of the plumy race”
BA “bird”
CA “tenant of the sky”
DAn “airy fairy”
56
Who is called the father of English Poetry ?
AMilton
BWordsworth
CG. Chaucer
DCharles Dickens
57
‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by_________________?
AW. H. Auden
BEarnest Jones
CNicoll
DFreud
58
Which of the following features of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” make it classifiable as a Victorian poem ?
AIt has a regular rhyme scheme (aa/bb/cc/dd…), which is sustained throughout the poem.
BIt is primarily a narrative poem.
CIt is concerned with conventional 19thcentury relations between a man and a woman.
DAll of these answers
59
Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?
Aemploys free verse.
Bhas an undertow of nihilism.
Cis chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.”
Dwas composed between WW I and WW II.
60
Which of the following statements best characterizes the role played by Gertrude Stein in American modernism ?
AStein was a crucially important figure in the Paris émigré community.
BStein was primarily a muse for modernist poets.
CStein was a proponent of low modernism.
DStein was an opponent of vanguard trends.