📚English Literature MCQs
English Literature MCQs
496 MCQs61
Which of the following traditions was particularlyimportant in Hart Crane’s modernist poetry ?
AFrench Classicism
BBritish Romanticism
CAmerican Romanticism
DGerman Romanticism
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Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrell’s 1945 poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” ?
AThe poem contrasts the image of a child in its mother’s womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.
BThe poem praises those technological achievements which protect human life in wartime.
CThe poem uses images of the apocalypse to criticize the cruelty of war.
DThe poem presents the war as a natural part of the perennial cycles of human history.
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According to Professor Hammer, which of the following characteristics did Langston Hughes share with modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost ?
AHughes was very conscious that he was an American poet, and this profoundly influenced his writing.
BHughes wrote about the legacy of the American Civil War and its long-term cultural consequences.
CHughes introduced new subject-matter and new language into poetry.
DBoth A and C
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A poem of fourteen lines is called________________?
AElege
BSonnet
COde
DEpic
65
Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare ?
AChristopher Marlowe
BLord Tennyson
CJohn Milton
DAll of them
66
Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
ABeowulf
BCanterbury Tales
CThe Domesday Book
DSons and Lovers
67
In what language did Shakespeare write ?
AMiddle English
BGerman
COld English
DModern English
68
Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?
AThe leading characteristic of the age
BMonarchs or political events
CThe primary author of the age
DThe language of the age
69
One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
AJohn Milton
BThomas Otway
CSir Walter Scott
DJohn Dryden
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Who write the story “Story Teller” ?
AWilliam Wordsworth
BWilliam Shakespeare
CThomas Grey
DSaki