Most repeated English Literature MCQs taken from the past papers for the preparation literature exams.
English Literature MCQs
The period of maturation, intellectual growth, and social graces during the Renaissance is called the:
A. aristocracy
B. Enlightenment
C. Reformation
D. New Age
E. None of these
“Idylls of the King” is illustration of Tennyson’s deep interest in:
A. Medieval legends
B. The role of the king
C. Hero worship
D. The contemporary condition
Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?
A. Blake
B. Byron
C. Wordsworth
D. Keats
The technique of dramatic monologue is used by Victorian poet
A.T ennys on
B. Arnold
C. Browning
D. Elizabeth
The pioneer or torch bearer of modern poetry
A. Y eats
B. A.E .Hous eman
c . T.S. Eliot
D. Ezra Pound
___ literary sub-periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period?
A. The Restoration
B. The Augustan Age
C. Jacobean Age
D. The Age of Sensibility
Periods of English literature which came last?
A. The Commonwealth Period
B. The Elizabethan Age
C. The Jacobean Age
D. The Middle English Period
Which of the following work was published first?
A. Lord Byron’s “Don Juan”
B. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
C. Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”
D. Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe”
E. None of these
___ was not a Renaissance writer
A. William Shakespeare
B. Sir Philip Sidney
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. Sir Thomas Malory
The subjugation of Women (1869) is an important text of:
A. George Eliot
B. Byron
C. John Mill
D. Hardy
