English Literature MCQs

English Literature MCQs
 Name the English Poet of 18th century whose works included Rape of the Lock, Dunciad and
Essay on Man?
Answer: Alexander Pope
 Thomas chatterton was _____ years old when he dies.
Ans: 17
 Who worte ‘the colossus’ in 1960?
Ans: Sylvia Plath
 The author of the bluest eyes 1970 is ?
Ans: Toni Morrison
 Shame 1983 is written by?
Ans: Ahmed Salman Rushdie
 In chaucer’s Legend of Good Women, how many legends are there?
Ans: (9)
 Period in english literature from 1901 to 1910 is called?
Ans: the Edwardian Period
 The meaning a word within a Language?
Ans: sense
 The term implicature might refer to?
Ans: Conversational structure
 Who called Chaucer the Father of English Literature?
Ans: John Dryden
 How many language did chaucer know?
Ans: four
 In which language the stories of Canterbury tale are written?
Ans: Middle English
 Of which poet was it said ' even if he is not a great poet, he is certainly a great somethig’?
Ans: kipling
 Why did ‘poetry Quarterly’ cease publication in 1953?

Ans: owner convicted of fruad
 In what form did Dylan Thomas’s ‘under Milk Wood’ first become known
Ans” a radio Play
 Ted Hughes was married to which american poetess?
Ans: sylvia Plath
 Sasson and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
Ans: war Poems
 What is a funny poem of five Line called?
Ans: Limerick
 What is the title of a poem that begins thus – ‘what is this life, if full of care, we have no time to
stand and stare?
Ans: Leisure
 Altruist describes:
Ans: a lover of mankind
 Novel animal farm was written by?
Ans: George Orwell
 The study of signs is termed as?
Ans: semiotics
 The system of communication within a community?
Ans: Langue
 The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in
which we acquire language is ?
Ans: Psycholinguistics
 There are __ consonate sounds in English IPA.
Ans: 24
 There are ___ vowel sound in English IPA.
Ans: 20
 Noam chomsky was born in?
Ans: dec 7, 1928

 Father of modern Linguistic ?
Ans: Noam chomsky
 The theory of biolanguistics is given by?
Ans: Noam Chomsky
 Chomsky developed Transformational Generative Grammar in ?
Ans: 1950
 Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which
enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by?
Ans: noam Chomsky
 What is a term that denotes historical perspective for studying language?
Ans: Diachrony
 Reflection on language is a book written in 1975?
Ans: Noam Chomsky
 Morphology is the branch of lingusitics which deals with?
Ans: the study of the structure of the words
 Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in ?
Ans: 1999
 Earnest Hemingway got nobel prize for?
Ans: old man and the sea
 Which is called the Golden period of Eng Literature?
Ans: Elizabethan age
 Thomas Hardy is a poet and a ?
Ans: Novelist
 Who is a 19th century women novelist?
Ans: George Eliot
 Who is the famous women novelist in Victorian age?
Ans: George Eliot
 What is the first great work of english literature?
Ans : The Epic of Gilgamesh

 Who is the author of the book ‘ as u like it’?
Ans: William Shakespear
 Who uttered these words” beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all?
Ans: John Keats
 Harriet Jacobs wrote incidents in the life of a slave girl to show?
Ans: how Females were affected by slavery
 Native Son was written by?
Ans: Richard Wright
 The importance of Freedom’s Journal was?
Ans: the first Aferican American Newspaper
 Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind of Poet?
Ans: a performance Poet
 who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with “ what happens to
a dream deffered?
Ans: Langston Hughes
 Charles W. Chesnutt used Verncular speech to?
Ans: Challenge American stereotypes about Race
 Who is the author of Novel passing?
Ans: Nella Larsen
 Phillis Wheatley’s Poetry is considered?
Ans: typical of Colonial Poetry
 Tennyson wrote?
Ans: the Lotus Eaters
 Tennyson was a?
Ans: Vectorian
 The author of “Heaven and Earth”?
Ans: Lord Byron
 The world’s Longest Running Play is?
Ans: the Mousetrape

 Diction means
Ans: choice of words for writing
 How many chapters are in the Quran?
Ans: 114
 Who is the writer fo the Augustan Period?
Ans: Samuel Richardson
 Famous Irish Poet and Dramatist is
Ans: W.B Yeats
 What is Epistolary Novel?
Ans: a novel of correspondence among the characters
 A person who writes about his own life writes?
Ans: an autobiography
 Wordsworth is a ___ poet?
Ans: Romantic
 Who is called the Bird od Avon?
Ans: Shakespear
 “to be, or not to be, that is the question”- where do u find this quotation?
Ans: Hamlet
 George Bernad Shaw is ?
Ans: a Playwright
 Comedy of Errors written by ?
Ans: william Shakespear
 What is Beowulf?
Ans: it is the first Long Poem in English
 William shakespear was born in?
Ans: 1564 AD
 Lord Byron was born in?
Ans: 1788
 Who is the first great modernist of English Literature?

Ans: Cynewulf
 Emile Zola is a famous?
Ans: French Novelist
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Answer: Alexander Pope

 Thomas chatterton was _____ years old when he dies.

 Who worte ‘the colossus’ in 1960?

Ans: Sylvia Plath

 The author of the bluest eyes 1970 is ?

Ans: Toni Morrison

 Shame 1983 is written by?

Ans: Ahmed Salman Rushdie

 In chaucer’s Legend of Good Women, how many legends are there?

 Period in english literature from 1901 to 1910 is called?

Ans: the Edwardian Period

 The meaning a word within a Language?

 The term implicature might refer to?

Ans: Conversational structure

 Who called Chaucer the Father of English Literature?

Ans: John Dryden

 How many language did chaucer know?

 In which language the stories of Canterbury tale are written?

Ans: Middle English

 Why did ‘poetry Quarterly’ cease publication in 1953?

Ans” a radio Play

 Ted Hughes was married to which american poetess?

Ans: sylvia Plath

 Sasson and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?

Ans: war Poems

 What is a funny poem of five Line called?

Ans: a lover of mankind

 Novel animal farm was written by?

Ans: George Orwell

 The study of signs is termed as?

 The system of communication within a community?

 There are __ consonate sounds in English IPA.

 There are ___ vowel sound in English IPA.

 Noam chomsky was born in?

Ans: dec 7, 1928

Ans: Noam chomsky

 The theory of biolanguistics is given by?

Ans: Noam Chomsky

 Chomsky developed Transformational Generative Grammar in ?

Ans: noam Chomsky

 What is a term that denotes historical perspective for studying language?

 Reflection on language is a book written in 1975?

Ans: Noam Chomsky

 Morphology is the branch of lingusitics which deals with?

Ans: the study of the structure of the words

 Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in ?

 Earnest Hemingway got nobel prize for?

Ans: old man and the sea

 Which is called the Golden period of Eng Literature?

Ans: Elizabethan age

 Thomas Hardy is a poet and a ?

 Who is a 19th century women novelist?

Ans: George Eliot

 Who is the famous women novelist in Victorian age?

Ans: George Eliot

 What is the first great work of english literature?

Ans : The Epic of Gilgamesh

Ans: William Shakespear

Ans: John Keats