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1. A Shakespearean Sonnet has two parts. The first has ___ lines and the second part has ___ lines.
(a) 10, 4
(b) 8, 6
(c) 12, 2
(d) 6, 8
✅ Answer: (c) 12, 2
2. The second part of a Shakespearean Sonnet is called:
(a) Hexagon
(b) Triplet
(c) Sestet
(d) Couplet
✅ Answer: (d) Couplet
3. Shakespeare wrote ___ sonnets.
(a) 120
(b) 154
(c) 144
(d) 164
✅ Answer: (b) 154
4. Milton wrote ___ sonnets.
(a) 20
(b) 32
(c) 24
(d) 28
✅ Answer: (c) 24
5. A Petrarchan Sonnet has two parts. They are:
(a) Octave and Sestet
(b) Octavius and Perius
(c) Petrarchus and Sion
(d) Octopus and Quadrains
✅ Answer: (a) Octave and Sestet
6. Shakespeare has immortalised his love for his ___ in his sonnets.
(a) Wife
(b) Dark Lady
(c) Black Beauty
(d) White Lady
✅ Answer: (b) Dark Lady
7. "They also serve who only stand and wait." This line is from:
(a) Delia
(b) On His Blindness
(c) Diana
(d) On His Deceased Wife
✅ Answer: (b) On His Blindness
8. Name the poet who paid a tribute to Napoleon in an ode.
(a) Tennyson
(b) Byron
(c) Keats
(d) Robert Herrick
✅ Answer: (b) Byron
9. Who wrote an ode to himself?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Gray
(c) Milton
(d) Ben Jonson
✅ Answer: (d) Ben Jonson
10. "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is from:
(a) Ode to Duty
(b) Ode to Melancholy
(c) Ode to Evening
(d) Ode to the West Wind
✅ Answer: (d) Ode to the West Wind
11. The most important feature of an ode is:
(a) Longer than a lyric
(b) Exalted subject matter
(c) Form of address
(d) Serious and dignified poetic composition
✅ Answer: (d)
12. A Pindaric Ode has three parts:
(a) Poster, Aposter, Pastel
(b) Cannon, Affective, Allonym
(c) Strophe, Antistrophe, Epode
(d) Acronym, Anagram, Ampersand
✅ Answer: (c)
13. "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!" refers to:
(a) West Wind
(b) Skylark
(c) Cuckoo
(d) Nightingale
✅ Answer: (b) Skylark
14. "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird." Poet:
(a) John Keats
(b) P. B. Shelley
(c) Lord Byron
(d) John Donne
✅ Answer: (a) John Keats
15. The lieutenant of Satan in Paradise Lost is:
(a) Beelzebub
(b) Mephistophiles
(c) Mammon
(d) Morpheus
✅ Answer: (a) Beelzebub
16. Hero of Spenser's Faerie Queene:
(a) King Charles
(b) King Arthur
(c) King George
(d) King Richard
✅ Answer: (b) King Arthur
17. Paradise Lost contains:
(a) Six books
(b) Eighteen books
(c) Twelve books
(d) Ten books
✅ Answer: (c) Twelve
18. Which epic has twenty-four books?
(a) Faerie Queene
(b) Divine Comedy
(c) Odyssey
(d) Iliad
✅ Answer: (c) Odyssey
19. The central theme of Homer's Iliad is:
(a) Fall of Constantinople
(b) Roman Empire
(c) Achilles' Journey
(d) Trojan War
✅ Answer: (d) Trojan War
20. Divine Comedy was written in:
(a) French
(b) Latin
(c) Italian
(d) Portuguese
✅ Answer: (c) Italian
21. Number of sylphs protecting Belinda's petticoat:
(a) 20
(b) 50
(c) 60
(d) 80
✅ Answer: (b) 50
22. A mock-heroic poem is written in a:
(a) Non-serious mood
(b) Serious mood
(c) Semi-serious mood
(d) Traditional mood
✅ Answer: (a)
23. The Rape of the Lock is written in:
(a) Hamartia
(b) Heroic Couplet
(c) Imagery
(d) Irony
✅ Answer: (b) Heroic Couplet
24. The Rape of the Lock has:
(a) Four cantos
(b) Five cantos
(c) Nine cantos
(d) Twelve cantos
✅ Answer: (b) Five
25. The famous pastoral poem of Wordsworth:
(a) The Daffodils
(b) Michael
(c) The Thorn
(d) Peter Bell
✅ Answer: (b) Michael
26. "O World! O Life! O Time..." was written by:
(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(c) P. B. Shelley
(d) Lord Byron
✅ Answer: (c) P. B. Shelley
27. Which is NOT a quality of a lyric?
(a) Short poem
(b) Musical quality
(c) Didactic poem
(d) Single emotion
✅ Answer: (c)
28. The idyll originated with:
(a) Petrarch
(b) Sophocles
(c) Theocritus
(d) Crito
✅ Answer: (c)
29. Shakespeare's most remarkable pastoral play:
(a) Winter's Tale
(b) Midsummer Night's Dream
(c) Much Ado About Nothing
(d) As You Like It
✅ Answer: (d)
30. "The stars of midnight shall be dear to her..." is from:
(a) Ode to Duty
(b) Education of Nature
(c) The Solitary Reaper
(d) The Recluse
✅ Answer: (b) Education of Nature
31. A ballad stanza has:
(a) Six lines
(b) Four lines
(c) Two lines
(d) Eight lines
✅ Answer: (b)
32. A stanza of a ballad is called:
(a) Quadrilateral
(b) Couplet
(c) Quatrain
(d) Feet
✅ Answer: (c)
33. A ballad is generally written in:
(a) Iambic feet
(b) Blank verse
(c) Iambic metre
(d) None of these
✅ Answer: (c)
34. A ballad is sung with a ___ and fiddle.
(a) Flute
(b) Lyre
(c) Harmonium
(d) Harp
✅ Answer: (d)
35. Ballad singers were called:
(a) Minstrels
(b) Poets
(c) Harpers
(d) Musicians
✅ Answer: (a)
36. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the story is told to a:
(a) Sailor
(b) Wedding Guest
(c) Friend
(d) Minstrel
✅ Answer: (b)
37. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" means:
(a) Lovely girl with mercy
(b) Beautiful girl with mercy
(c) Tall girl without mercy
(d) Beautiful girl without mercy
✅ Answer: (d)
38. Absalom and Achitophel is a satire on:
(a) Samuel Butler
(b) Abraham Cowley
(c) Shaftesbury
(d) Alexander Pope
✅ Answer: (c)
39. The Rape of the Lock satirises:
(a) Playing cards
(b) Family feuds
(c) Club-house fashion
(d) Contemporary aristocratic society
✅ Answer: (d)
40. Animal Farm satirises:
(a) Bureaucracy
(b) Fascism
(c) Communism
(d) Anarchy
✅ Answer: (c)
41. Galsworthy's The Silver Box raises:
(a) Fashion
(b) Legal trial
(c) Rustic folks
(d) Urbanity
✅ Answer: (b)
42. Arms and the Man satirises:
(a) Glorification of war
(b) Weapons used in war
(c) False knighthood
(d) Love and gallantry
✅ Answer: (a)
43. Addison's Spectator is a collection of:
(a) Poems
(b) Lyrics
(c) Stories
(d) Essays
✅ Answer: (d)
44. A satire ___ a folly or vice.
(a) Enlarges
(b) Undermines
(c) Ridicules
(d) Amuses
✅ Answer: (c)
45. Lycidas is a:
(a) Pastoral elegy
(b) Classical elegy
(c) Emotional elegy
(d) Personal elegy
✅ Answer: (a)
46. Spenser's elegy mourning Sidney:
(a) In Memoriam
(b) Lycidas
(c) Amoretti
(d) Astrophel
✅ Answer: (d)
47. In Rugby Chapel, Arnold mourns:
(a) His father
(b) His wife
(c) His friend
(d) A priest
✅ Answer: (a)
48. In Memoriam mourns:
(a) Arthur Hallam
(b) Robert Cleeve
(c) Joseph John
(d) Tiaras
✅ Answer: (a)
49. In Adonais, Shelley calls ___ "wolves".
(a) Poets and authors
(b) Keats' family
(c) Critics and journalists
(d) Kings and courtiers
✅ Answer: (c)
50. Elegy on W. B. Yeats was written by:
(a) W. H. Auden
(b) T. S. Eliot
(c) Hardy
(d) G. B. Shaw
✅ Answer: (a)
51. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard mourns:
(a) Village shepherds
(b) Clergy
(c) Postman
(d) Poor country rustics
✅ Answer: (d)
52. Arnold mourns ___ in Thyrsis.
(a) Thomas Moore
(b) A. H. Clough
(c) Shelley
(d) Browning
✅ Answer: (b)
53. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a:
(a) Classical elegy
(b) Neo-classical elegy
(c) Pastoral elegy
(d) Rustic elegy
✅ Answer: (d)
54. Christ's Nativity is a:
(a) Miracle Play
(b) Morality Play
(c) Mystery Play
(d) Interlude
✅ Answer: (c)
55. A catastrophe is the ending of a:
(a) Chronicle play
(b) Morality play
(c) Comedy
(d) Tragedy
✅ Answer: (d)
56. A denouement is the ending of a:
(a) Historical play
(b) Tragedy
(c) Comedy
(d) Masque
✅ Answer: (c)
57. An epilogue appears:
(a) At the beginning
(b) At the end
(c) In the middle
(d) None of these
✅ Answer: (b)
58. Mystery plays deal with:
(a) Moral values
(b) Biblical themes
(c) Virtues and vices
(d) Lives of saints
✅ Answer: (b)
59. Which play is not meant for acting?
(a) Masque
(b) Closet Play
(c) Tragi-comedy
(d) Chronicle Play
✅ Answer: (b)
60. Morality plays represent:
(a) Saints
(b) Biblical characters
(c) Entertainment only
(d) Personified virtues and vices
✅ Answer: (d)
61. The first regular English tragedy:
(a) Gorboduc
(b) Troylus and Cryseyde
(c) The Spanish Tragedy
(d) The White Devil
✅ Answer: (a)
62. Gorboduc was written by:
(a) Skelton & Sackville
(b) Thomas Sackville & Thomas Norton
(c) Hodge & Norton
(d) Lodge & Nicholas
✅ Answer: (b)
63. Murder in the Cathedral is a:
(a) Poetic play
(b) Romantic play
(c) Classical play
(d) Mystery play
✅ Answer: (a)
64. The tragic flaw is called:
(a) Catharsis
(b) Hamartia
(c) Poetic Justice
(d) Recognition
✅ Answer: (b)
65. "Life is a tale told by an idiot..." occurs in:
(a) Macbeth
(b) Othello
(c) Henry IV
(d) King Lear
✅ Answer: (a)
66. Theme of Galsworthy's Strife:
(a) Inner conflict
(b) Conflict with judiciary
(c) Labour-capital conflict
(d) Conflict with society
✅ Answer: (c)
67. Villain in The Duchess of Malfi:
(a) Cardinal
(b) Ferdinand
(c) Bosola
(d) Antonio
✅ Answer: (c)
68. The Spanish Tragedy was written by:
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) Marlowe
(c) George Peele
(d) Thomas Kyd
✅ Answer: (d)
69. Dryden mainly wrote:
(a) Horror plays
(b) Heroic plays
(c) Revenge plays
(d) Restoration plays
✅ Answer: (b)
70. Aristotle considered ___ the most important part of tragedy.
(a) Diction
(b) Character
(c) Spectacle
(d) Plot
✅ Answer: (d)
71. Which dramatist wrote only tragedies?
(a) William Congreve
(b) Marlowe
(c) Ben Jonson
(d) Robert Greene
✅ Answer: (b)
72. Why is Shakespeare called the "Bard of Avon"?
(a) Avon clan
(b) Stratford on river Avon
(c) Avon country
(d) Born in Avon town
✅ Answer: (b)
73. Shakespeare wrote:
(a) 36 plays
(b) 37 plays
(c) 38 plays
(d) 39 plays
✅ Answer: (b) 37
74. Hamlet's tragic flaw:
(a) Indecision
(b) Desire for fame
(c) Submission to uncle
(d) Blind belief in ghost
✅ Answer: (a)
75. "Cowards die many times before their deaths..." occurs in:
(a) Antony and Cleopatra
(b) Julius Caesar
(c) Romeo and Juliet
(d) Coriolanus
✅ Answer: (b)
76. "The Mousetrap" refers to:
(a) Hamlet's flaw
(b) Hamlet's father's ghost
(c) Play within the play
(d) Polonius' verbosity
✅ Answer: (c)
77. Who turns The Merchant of Venice into a comedy?
(a) Portia
(b) Jessica
(c) Bassanio
(d) Antonio
✅ Answer: (a)
78. Ariel helps turn which play into a comedy?
(a) A Midsummer Night's Dream
(b) The Tempest
(c) The Winter's Tale
(d) Twelfth Night
✅ Answer: (b) The Tempest
79. A melodrama is:
(a) Drama dominated by pity
(b) A play with predominance of violence and heinous crimes
(c) A play dominated by irony
(d) A play evoking ludicrous situations
✅ Answer: (b)
80. Which play of Marlowe has the maximum number of melodramatic scenes?
(a) Dr. Faustus
(b) Tamburlaine the Great
(c) Edward II
(d) The Jew of Malta
✅ Answer: (d) The Jew of Malta
81. The hero and heroine in a melodrama are puppets in the hands of:
(a) Villain
(b) Director
(c) Fate
(d) All of these
✅ Answer: (c) Fate
82. A tragi-comedy is:
(a) Comic play ending in tragedy
(b) Play with equal tragic and comic scenes
(c) Romantic play ending in tragedy
(d) Tragic play ending in comedy
✅ Answer: (d)
83. Which Shakespearean play is a tragi-comedy?
(a) Much Ado About Nothing
(b) Timon of Athens
(c) Coriolanus
(d) Cymbeline
✅ Answer: (d) Cymbeline
84. Who wrote The Tender Husband?
(a) Wycherley
(b) Etherege
(c) Goldsmith
(d) Steele
✅ Answer: (d) Steele
85. Who stoops in She Stoops to Conquer?
(a) Miss Bardmaid
(b) Miss Rivoli
(c) Mrs Hardcastle
(d) Miss Hardcastle
✅ Answer: (d) Miss Hardcastle
86. Puck appears in:
(a) The Winter's Tale
(b) As You Like It
(c) All's Well That Ends Well
(d) A Midsummer Night's Dream
✅ Answer: (d)
87. Comedy of manners is also called:
(a) Classical comedy
(b) Restoration comedy
(c) Genteel comedy
(d) Romantic comedy
✅ Answer: (b)
88. Comedy of Humours was chiefly practised by:
(a) Congreve
(b) Cibber
(c) Sheridan
(d) Ben Jonson
✅ Answer: (d)
89. "The quality of mercy is not strain'd..." appears in:
(a) As You Like It
(b) The Merchant of Venice
(c) The Taming of the Shrew
(d) Measure for Measure
✅ Answer: (b)
90. Who wrote Rosalynde?
(a) Robert Greene
(b) Thomas Lodge
(c) George Peele
(d) Thomas Kyd
✅ Answer: (b)
91. According to classical theory, there are ___ humours.
(a) Four
(b) Five
(c) Three
(d) Seven
✅ Answer: (a)
92. In which play do we find the casket scene?
(a) As You Like It
(b) The Tempest
(c) The Merchant of Venice
(d) Much Ado About Nothing
✅ Answer: (c)
93. Ben Jonson ridicules inferior poets in:
(a) The Poetaster
(b) Volpone
(c) The Masque of Beauty
(d) The Devil is an Ass
✅ Answer: (a)
94. The theatres in England were closed in:
(a) 1638
(b) 1642
(c) 1646
(d) 1648
✅ Answer: (b)
95. The theatres reopened in:
(a) 1654
(b) 1658
(c) 1660
(d) 1662
✅ Answer: (c)
96. Genteel comedy was practised by:
(a) Colley Cibber
(b) Wycherley
(c) Goldsmith
(d) Vanbrugh
✅ Answer: (a)
97. Dryden's All for Love is based on:
(a) Julius Caesar
(b) Caesar and Cleopatra
(c) Antony and Cleopatra
(d) Love's Labour's Lost
✅ Answer: (c)
98. Which character appears in the farcical scenes of A Midsummer Night's Dream?
(a) Titania
(b) Puck
(c) Bottom
(d) Oberon
✅ Answer: (c)
99. In The Tempest, the masque celebrates:
(a) Prospero's crowning
(b) Ariel's wedding
(c) Ferdinand and Miranda's wedding
(d) Safe landing of the ship
✅ Answer: (c)
100. Who wrote the maximum number (11) of English masques?
(a) Samuel Daniel
(b) Ben Jonson
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Hall
✅ Answer: (b)
101. The theme of Comus is borrowed from:
(a) Iliad
(b) Aeneid
(c) Odyssey
(d) Ulysses
✅ Answer: (b) Aeneid
102. Earliest known English masque:
(a) The Masque of Flowers
(b) Masque of Blackness
(c) Comus
(d) Masque in Hall's Chronicle
✅ Answer: (d)
103. Which Shaw play contains a farcical scene?
(a) Man and Superman
(b) The Apple Cart
(c) Arms and the Man
(d) Caesar and Cleopatra
✅ Answer: (c)
104. A farce is:
(a) Comedy leading to crime
(b) Tragedy of unsuccessful love
(c) Comedy causing boisterous laughter
(d) Theatrical company
✅ Answer: (c)
105. The main objective of farce is to please:
(a) Upper middle class
(b) Lower class spectators
(c) Courtiers
(d) Royal soldiers
✅ Answer: (b)
106. A dramatic monologue is a ___ speech revealing inner feelings.
(a) Poetic
(b) Novel
(c) Satirical
(d) Love
✅ Answer: (a)
107. Who wrote the maximum number of dramatic monologues?
(a) Robert Browning
(b) Tennyson
(c) G. B. Shaw
(d) T. S. Eliot
✅ Answer: (a)
108. Which monologue is by Tennyson?
(a) Ulysses
(b) Evelyn Hope
(c) Prospice
(d) The Epistle of Karshish
✅ Answer: (a)
109. "Fail I alone, in words and deeds?..." is from:
(a) Man and Superman
(b) Ulysses
(c) My Last Duchess
(d) The Last Ride Together
✅ Answer: (d)
110. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" is from:
(a) Fra Lippo Lippi
(b) Ulysses
(c) The Last Ride Together
(d) Porphyria's Lover
✅ Answer: (b)
111. Rabbi Ben Ezra was:
(a) Egyptian poet
(b) Jewish scholar
(c) Arabian novelist
(d) Iranian statesman
✅ Answer: (b)
112. A poetic play is also called:
(a) Regular play
(b) Heroic play
(c) Stage play
(d) Closet play
✅ Answer: (d)
113. Wordsworth's only poetic play:
(a) The Iron Chest
(b) The Borderers
(c) Cain
(d) The Cenci
✅ Answer: (b)
114. Poetic plays became popular in:
(a) Romantic and Victorian Age
(b) Classical and Neo-classical Age
(c) Elizabethan and Caroline Age
(d) Modern Age
✅ Answer: (a)
115. A poetic play is generally written in:
(a) Blank verse
(b) Monologues
(c) Soliloquies
(d) None of these
✅ Answer: (a)
116. Shelley's poetic play based on a Greek theme:
(a) Prometheus Unbound
(b) The Cenci
(c) Hellas
(d) Oedipus Tyrannus
✅ Answer: (a)
117. Who started the vogue of problem plays?
(a) John Galsworthy
(b) Leigh Hunt
(c) Henrik Ibsen
(d) G. B. Shaw
✅ Answer: (c)
118. Strife exposes:
(a) Middle-class ambition
(b) Inhuman legal system
(c) Religious hypocrisy
(d) Labour-capital conflict
✅ Answer: (d)
119. The Apple Cart deals with:
(a) Carriage drivers
(b) Fruit sellers
(c) Hollowness of democracy
(d) Hollowness of social relations
✅ Answer: (c)
120. Shaw discusses phonetics in:
(a) Pygmalion
(b) Misalliance
(c) Overruled
(d) Blanco Posnet
✅ Answer: (a)
121. Modern one-act plays became popular:
(a) Mid-19th century
(b) Mid-20th century
(c) End of 19th century
(d) Beginning of 20th century
✅ Answer: (d)
122. Riders to the Sea was written by:
(a) Ashley Dukes
(b) J. M. Synge
(c) Charles Lee
(d) Harold Brighouse
✅ Answer: (b)
123. Tagore's Chandalika is based on:
(a) Jataka Tales
(b) A Buddhist Legend
(c) Chandrakanta episode
(d) Bengal folk tale
✅ Answer: (b)
124. Strangers and Brothers was written by:
(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) C. P. Snow
(c) Hazlitt
(d) Leslie Stephen
✅ Answer: (b)
125. Milton defended freedom of speech in:
(a) Areopagitica
(b) Religio Medici
(c) Ecclesiastical Polity
(d) Holy Living
✅ Answer: (a)
126. Who called the 18th century the "Age of Prose and Reason"?
(a) William Godwin
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Edward Gibbon
(d) Thomas Paine
✅ Answer: (b)
127. Milton's political pamphlets were called:
(a) Reviews
(b) Tracts
(c) Idlers
(d) Miscellanies
✅ Answer: (b)
128. Daniel Defoe's periodical:
(a) Review
(b) Observations
(c) Evening Star
(d) Portrait
✅ Answer: (a)
129. The Battle of the Books is:
(a) Satire on writers
(b) Farce
(c) Comparison of ancients and moderns
(d) Criticism of dramatists
✅ Answer: (c)
130. Saintsbury calls an essay:
(a) Long dissertation
(b) Indigested piece
(c) Literature of self-expression
(d) Work of prose art
✅ Answer: (d)
131. "A loose sally of the mind" was said by:
(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Saintsbury
(c) Bacon
(d) Ben Jonson
✅ Answer: (a)
132. Father of the essay:
(a) Thomas Malory
(b) Wycliffe
(c) Aristotle
(d) Montaigne
✅ Answer: (d)
133. Bacon's essays are examples of:
(a) Personal essays
(b) Aphoristic essays
(c) Critical essays
(d) Egoistical essays
✅ Answer: (b)
134. Personal essays are also called:
(a) Egotistical essays
(b) Private essays
(c) Egoistical essays
(d) None of these
✅ Answer: (a)
135. Alpha of the Plough essays were written by:
(a) A. G. Gardiner
(b) Walter Pater
(c) Leigh Hunt
(d) John Wilson
✅ Answer: (a)
136. Coverley Papers were written by:
(a) A. G. Gardiner
(b) Hazlitt
(c) Richard Steele
(d) Joseph Addison
✅ Answer: (d)
137. I for One was written by:
(a) Leslie Stephen
(b) J. B. Priestley
(c) Coleridge
(d) C. P. Snow
✅ Answer: (b)
138. Steele's journal to which Addison contributed:
(a) The Rambler
(b) The Observer
(c) The Idler
(d) The Tatler
✅ Answer: (d)
139. Journal jointly brought out by Addison and Steele:
(a) The Tatler
(b) The Portrait
(c) The Spectator
(d) The Morning News
✅ Answer: (c)
140. The Tory critical journal:
(a) The Quarterly Review
(b) Miscellanies
(c) Miscellanea
(d) Tracts
✅ Answer: (a)
141. Essays of Elia were written by:
(a) Hazlitt
(b) Charles Lamb
(c) De Quincey
(d) Leigh Hunt
✅ Answer: (b)
142. The Whig critical journal:
(a) Review
(b) Discoveries
(c) The Edinburgh Review
(d) The Quarterly Review
✅ Answer: (c)
143. Shakespeare adapted Rosalynde into:
(a) The Tempest
(b) As You Like It
(c) Much Ado About Nothing
(d) Twelfth Night
✅ Answer: (b)
144. The New Atlantis was written by:
(a) Francis Bacon
(b) John Lyly
(c) Thomas More
(d) Robert Greene
✅ Answer: (a)
145. The Pilgrim's Progress is:
(a) Allegory
(b) Prophetic novel
(c) Prose romance
(d) Domestic novel
✅ Answer: (a)
146. "Good God, what a genius I had..." refers to:
(a) Gulliver's Travels
(b) Cadenus and Vanessa
(c) The Battle of the Books
(d) A Tale of a Tub
✅ Answer: (a)
147. Thomas More's Utopia was inspired by:
(a) Poetics
(b) Iliad
(c) Republic
(d) Divine Comedy
✅ Answer: (c)
148. A Passage to India deals with:
(a) Indian–British relations
(b) East India Company
(c) Imperial policy
(d) Princely states
✅ Answer: (a)
149. George Eliot's real name:
(a) Mary Ann King
(b) Mary Ann Reade
(c) Mary Ann Evans
(d) Mary Ann Bede
✅ Answer: (c)
150. Who wrote The Heart of the Matter?
(a) Hugh Walpole
(b) William Golding
(c) Aldous Huxley
(d) Graham Greene
✅ Answer: (d)
151. The Time Machine is:
(a) Science fiction
(b) Psychological novel
(c) Historical novel
(d) Prophetic novel
✅ Answer: (a)
152. Who pioneered the stream-of-consciousness technique?
(a) Virginia Woolf
(b) James Joyce
(c) D. H. Lawrence
(d) William Dean Morgan
✅ Answer: (b)
153. "Happiness is but an occasional episode..." appears in:
(a) Tess of the d'Urbervilles
(b) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(c) Far from the Madding Crowd
(d) The Mayor of Casterbridge
✅ Answer: (d)
154. Who created the fictional region Wessex?
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) George Eliot
(c) Thackeray
(d) George Meredith
✅ Answer: (a)
155. Author of Ivanhoe:
(a) Fielding
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Walter Scott
(d) Smollett
✅ Answer: (c)
156. A picaresque novel has:
(a) Hen-pecked husband as hero
(b) King as hero
(c) Villain as hero
(d) Wandering rogue as hero
✅ Answer: (d)
157. Which novel is known as "a novel without a hero"?
(a) Evelina
(b) Vanity Fair
(c) Marriage
(d) Pride and Prejudice
✅ Answer: (b) Vanity Fair
158. "After Twenty Years" is a famous short story by:
(a) Somerset Maugham
(b) O. Henry
(c) Ernest Hemingway
(d) William Faulkner
✅ Answer: (b) O. Henry
159. Who wrote The Selfish Giant?
(a) Galsworthy
(b) Oscar Wilde
(c) Hemingway
(d) N. Porter
✅ Answer: (b) Oscar Wilde
160. Who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories?
(a) E. V. Lucas
(b) Arthur Conan Doyle
(c) Edgar Allan Poe
(d) H. E. Bates
✅ Answer: (b) Arthur Conan Doyle
161. Who wrote The Lost Child?
(a) Mulk Raj Anand
(b) Prem Chand
(c) R. K. Narayan
(d) K. A. Abbas
✅ Answer: (a) Mulk Raj Anand
162. Who wrote Lives of the English Poets?
(a) Arthur Bryant
(b) William Mason
(c) H. Morley
(d) Dr. Johnson
✅ Answer: (d) Dr. Johnson
163. Whose autobiography is titled Third World?
(a) E. M. Forster
(b) David Daiches
(c) Daniel Jones
(d) Daniel Defoe
✅ Answer: (b) David Daiches
164. Whose autobiography is titled Confessions of an English Opium-Eater?
(a) S. T. Coleridge
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) De Quincey
(d) Goldsmith
✅ Answer: (c) De Quincey
165. Grace Abounding is the autobiography of:
(a) Samuel Pepys
(b) H. Morley
(c) Sean O'Casey
(d) John Bunyan
✅ Answer: (d) John Bunyan
166. The poetical autobiography of Wordsworth is:
(a) The Prelude
(b) Tintern Abbey
(c) Biographia Literaria
(d) None of these
✅ Answer: (a) The Prelude
167. How many poets' lives are included in Lives of the English Poets?
(a) 42
(b) 52
(c) 64
(d) 12
✅ Answer: (b) 52
168. Rousseau's autobiography is:
(a) Diary
(b) My Story
(c) Confessions
(d) My Life
✅ Answer: (c) Confessions
169. Left Hand, Right Hand is the autobiography of:
(a) Edward Gibbon
(b) Osbert Sitwell
(c) Anthony Trollope
(d) John Stuart Mill
✅ Answer: (b) Osbert Sitwell
170. Who wrote Biographia Literaria?
(a) S. T. Coleridge
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Thomas Moore
(d) Thomas Carlyle
✅ Answer: (a) S. T. Coleridge
171. Who wrote One Hundred Great Wives?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci
(b) Rousseau
(c) Earl of Rosebery
(d) David Cecil
✅ Answer: (d) David Cecil
172. My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of:
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Subhas Chandra Bose
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
✅ Answer: (a) Mahatma Gandhi
173. Dryden is called the father of English criticism by:
(a) Philip Sidney
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) Ben Jonson
✅ Answer: (c) Dr. Johnson
174. Which critic preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his tragedies?
(a) Pope
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) Ben Jonson
✅ Answer: (b) Dr. Johnson
175. "Criticism is the art of interpreting art." Who said this?
(a) Plato
(b) Walter Pater
(c) F. R. Leavis
(d) S. T. Coleridge
✅ Answer: (b) Walter Pater
176. Aristotle's term Hamartia means:
(a) Death of the hero
(b) Villain's conspiracy
(c) Tragic flaw in the hero
(d) Tragic ending
✅ Answer: (c)
177. Dr. Johnson supported:
(a) Unity of Time only
(b) Unity of Place only
(c) Unity of Action only
(d) All three unities
✅ Answer: (c) Unity of Action only
178. Aristotle's term Anagnorisis refers to:
(a) Hero recognizing the villain
(b) Hero's ignorance of flaw
(c) Hero's recognition/discovery of truth
(d) Hero's lamentation
✅ Answer: (c)
179. The critical work of Longinus is:
(a) Art of Poetique
(b) Phaedrus
(c) Rhetoric
(d) On the Sublime
✅ Answer: (d)
180. Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads was published in:
(a) 1796
(b) 1800
(c) 1802
(d) 1798
✅ Answer: (b) 1800
181. "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings..." was written by:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Arnold
(d) Eliot
✅ Answer: (a)
182. "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge..." was said by:
(a) Coleridge
(b) Shelley
(c) Ben Jonson
(d) Wordsworth
✅ Answer: (d) Wordsworth
183. Pioneer of New Criticism:
(a) John Crowe Ransom
(b) De Quincey
(c) Samuel Rogers
(d) Thomas Campbell
✅ Answer: (a)
184. "Dryden found English poetry brick and left it marble." Who said this?
(a) Sidney
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) Pope
✅ Answer: (d) Pope
185. Who called Hamlet an artistic failure?
(a) I. A. Richards
(b) Coleridge
(c) David Daiches
(d) T. S. Eliot
✅ Answer: (d)
186. "Art for Art's Sake" was advocated by:
(a) Dryden
(b) Coleridge
(c) T. S. Eliot
(d) Walter Pater
✅ Answer: (d)
187. "Art for Life's Sake" was advocated by:
(a) D. H. Lawrence
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Shelley
(d) Keats
✅ Answer: (b)
188. "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from prose."
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Arnold
✅ Answer: (b) Coleridge
189. "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Shelley
(c) Arnold
(d) Eliot
✅ Answer: (b) Shelley
190. Author of Principles of Literary Criticism:
(a) F. R. Leavis
(b) I. A. Richards
(c) Samuel Butler
(d) William Empson
✅ Answer: (b)
191. An offence against conventional grammar is:
(a) Solecism
(b) Criticism
(c) Sarcasm
(d) Maxim
✅ Answer: (a)
192. An assumed name by an author is:
(a) Nom-de-plume
(b) Sobriquet
(c) Pseudonym
(d) All of these
✅ Answer: (d)
193. Semantics is a branch of:
(a) Philosophy
(b) Psychology
(c) Sociology
(d) Philology/Linguistics
✅ Answer: (d)
194. The great world or universe is called:
(a) Macrocosm
(b) Monograph
(c) Memoir
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a)
195. Magnum Opus means:
(a) Author's greatest work
(b) Literary writer
(c) Assumed name
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a)
196. Ridiculous misuse of similar-sounding words is:
(a) Noumenon
(b) Malapropism
(c) Monody
(d) Motif
✅ Answer: (b)
197. Elaborate court entertainment from Italy:
(a) Maxim
(b) Opera
(c) Masque
(d) Leaf
✅ Answer: (c)
198. A general truth or rule of conduct is:
(a) Maxim
(b) Lampoon
(c) Mime
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a)
199. "A lovelier flower on earth was never shown" contains:
(a) Metaphor
(b) Implied simile
(c) Oxymoron
(d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (d)
200. Caesura in poetry is:
(a) Consonance line
(b) A pause within a line
(c) Sprung rhythm
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b)
201. Religious drama presenting Christ's crucifixion:
(a) Closet drama
(b) Passion play
(c) Academic drama
(d) Black comedy
✅ Answer: (b)
202. The Castle of Otranto is a:
(a) Picaresque novel
(b) Anti-novel
(c) Gothic novel
(d) Historical novel
✅ Answer: (c)
203. A three-line rhyming stanza is:
(a) Tercet
(b) Heroic couplet
(c) Triolet
(d) Ottava rima
✅ Answer: (a)
204. A record of events from personal knowledge:
(a) Metaphor
(b) Memoir
(c) Irony
(d) Lay
✅ Answer: (b)
205. Interchange of sounds/letters in a word:
(a) Epigram
(b) Diatribe
(c) Metathesis
(d) Mime
✅ Answer: (c)
206. Substitution of an attribute for the thing itself:
(a) Metonymy
(b) Conceit
(c) Explication
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a)
207. Simple farcical drama of Greeks and Romans:
(a) Minstrel
(b) Mime
(c) Monograph
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b)
208. Medieval wandering entertainer:
(a) Minstrel
(b) Exegesis
(c) Lampoon
(d) Jeremiad
✅ Answer: (a)
209. Language is used as a mediating agent in:
(a) Realistic fiction
(b) Modern fiction
(c) Postmodern fiction
(d) All literature
✅ Answer: (d)
210. Threnody is a:
(a) Marriage song
(b) Death song
(c) Victory song
(d) Birthday song
✅ Answer: (b)
211. Futurism in Italy gave rise to:
(a) Socialist literature
(b) Fascist literature
(c) Expressionistic literature
(d) Surrealistic literature
✅ Answer: (c)
212. Poetry is classified as epic, narrative or dramatic on the basis of:
(a) Manner of imitation
(b) Medium of imitation
(c) Objects of imitation
(d) Functions of imitation
✅ Answer: (a)
213. Modern English poetry is dominated by:
(a) Iambic pentameter
(b) Iambic hexameter
(c) Iambic heptameter
(d) Iambic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a)
214. Early 20th-century poetry movement:
(a) Imagism
(b) Ligature
(c) Imagery
(d) Lay
✅ Answer: (a)
215. Each separate sheet in a book:
(a) Leaf
(b) Motif
(c) Litotes
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a)
216. Two or more letters joined together:
(a) Ligature
(b) Mime
(c) Irony
(d) Interpolation
✅ Answer: (a)
217. Humorous five-line poem:
(a) Limerick
(b) Free Verse
(c) Lyric
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a)
218. A literary writer is called:
(a) Literatuer
(b) Littérateur
(c) Litotes
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b)
219. Humorous expression of the opposite meaning:
(a) Impressionism
(b) Irony
(c) Lampoon
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b)
220. A doleful lamentation is:
(a) Jeremiad
(b) Magnin
(c) Juveniles
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a)
221. Newspaper style writing is called:
(a) Ode
(b) Journalism (Journalese)
(c) Lyric
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b)
222. Early works of an author:
(a) Mystic
(b) Juvenilia
(c) Litotes
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b)
223. Personal satirical attack:
(a) Lay
(b) Magnum
(c) Lampoon
(d) None
✅ Answer: (c)
224. Bitter verbal attack:
(a) Domestic tragedy
(b) Diatribe
(c) Decadence
(d) Dramatics
✅ Answer: (b)
225. A short play before the main play:
(a) Curtain-raiser
(b) Couplet
(c) Connotation
(d) Cowleyan ode
✅ Answer: (a)
226. Last book of the New Testament:
(a) Canon
(b) Causerie
(c) Analogy
(d) Apocalypse (Revelation)
✅ Answer: (d)
227. Analogue means:
(a) Destroyer of books
(b) Worship of books
(c) Similar thing/word
(d) None
✅ Answer: (c)
228. Misuse of similar-sounding words:
(a) Motif
(b) Monody
(c) Monument
(d) Malapropism
✅ Answer: (d)
229. Quotation placed before a book/chapter:
(a) Explication
(b) Ellipsis
(c) Epigraph
(d) Empathy
✅ Answer: (c)
230. Confusion between a poem and its effects:
(a) Anagram
(b) Affective Fallacy
(c) Anagnorisis
(d) Allusion
✅ Answer: (b)
231. Statement yielding more than one meaning:
(a) Acronym
(b) Anadiplosis
(c) Buskin
(d) Amphiboly
✅ Answer: (d)
232. Error in chronology:
(a) Canon
(b) Anachronism
(c) Affective
(d) Cadence
✅ Answer: (b)
233. Adherence to Greek and Latin classical principles:
(a) Classicism
(b) Decadence
(c) Diction
(d) Couplet
✅ Answer: (a)
234. Polite and elegant literature:
(a) Anapaest
(b) Belles-Lettres
(c) Collate
(d) Burletta
✅ Answer: (b)
235. Rhythm produced by stressed and unstressed sounds:
(a) Cadence
(b) Cacophony
(c) Classical
(d) Paean
✅ Answer: (a)
236. Exaggerated imitation is:
(a) Epitaph
(b) Climax
(c) Burlesque
(d) Chauvinism
✅ Answer: (c)
237. Using another's ideas as one's own:
(a) Plagiarism
(b) Parlance
(c) Pantheism
(d) Panegyric
✅ Answer: (a)
238. Art of deciphering ancient manuscripts:
(a) Premises
(b) Impressionism
(c) Palaeography
(d) Ontology
✅ Answer: (c)
239. Nostalgia means:
(a) Love for the past
(b) Longing for the past
(c) Hatred of the past
(d) Hatred of the future
✅ Answer: (b)
240. A new word formed by rearranging letters is:
(a) Anagram
(b) Archetype
(c) Anti-hero
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a)
241. Discovery and reversal of fortune is known as:
(a) Anagnorisis
(b) Anagram
(c) Affective
(d) Allonym
✅ Answer: (a) Anagnorisis
242. A kind of repetition in which the last word of one clause is repeated at the beginning of the next:
(a) Apologue
(b) Anadiplosis
(c) Ambivalence
(d) None of these
✅ Answer: (b) Anadiplosis
243. A reference to characters and events of mythology means:
(a) Allusive
(b) Allegory
(c) Alexandrine
(d) Affective
✅ Answer: (a) Allusive
244. A reference made indirectly to a person, place, event, or work:
(a) Allusion
(b) Amphiboly
(c) Ampersand
(d) None of the above
✅ Answer: (a) Allusion
245. A romantic piece of music that is not regular in form:
(a) Parody
(b) Rhapsody
(c) Sonnet
(d) Satire
✅ Answer: (b) Rhapsody
246. Sobriquet means:
(a) Pen-name
(b) Nickname
(c) Assumed name
(d) None of these
✅ Answer: (b) Nickname
247. A thing which has the appearance of truth:
(a) Verisimilitude
(b) Versatility
(c) Vulnerable
(d) Opera
✅ Answer: (a) Verisimilitude
248. Needless repetition of the same idea in different words:
(a) Topology
(b) Tautology
(c) Typography
(d) Ontology
✅ Answer: (b) Tautology
249. Love of a purely spiritual character is:
(a) Sensuous love
(b) Romantic love
(c) Platonic love
(d) Divine love
✅ Answer: (c) Platonic love
250. A short novel, especially one of limited scope:
(a) Monody
(b) Nova
(c) Novelette
(d) Novella
✅ Answer: (d) Novella
251. What do you mean by Neologism?
(a) Physician
(b) Introduction of new words
(c) New logic
(d) New diction
✅ Answer: (b)
252. The system of correct spelling is:
(a) Topography
(b) Parlance
(c) Orthography
(d) Oxymoron
✅ Answer: (c) Orthography
253. The branch of philosophy dealing with existence is:
(a) Nostalgia
(b) Ontology
(c) Syllogism
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b) Ontology
254. Ideas or expressions in harmony with the spirit of the age:
(a) Collage
(b) Conflict
(c) Critique
(d) Climatic Opinion
✅ Answer: (d) Climatic Opinion
255. The effect of light and shade; contrast in art:
(a) Corrigendum
(b) Conceit
(c) Chiaroscuro
(d) None of these
✅ Answer: (c) Chiaroscuro
256. Paean stands for:
(a) Greek song of joy or victory
(b) Latin song of mourning
(c) Epitaphs
(d) Tomb inscriptions
✅ Answer: (a)
257. An imposing outdoor procession or spectacle:
(a) Pantheism
(b) Pageant
(c) Pathos
(d) Purple Patch
✅ Answer: (b) Pageant
258. The art of deciphering ancient manuscripts:
(a) Topography
(b) Orthography
(c) Palaeography
(d) Panegyric
✅ Answer: (c) Palaeography
259. A word, sentence, or verse that reads the same backwards:
(a) Parlance
(b) Paradox
(c) Palindrome
(d) Pageant
✅ Answer: (c) Palindrome
260. A poem retracting a statement made in an earlier poem:
(a) Paradox
(b) Palinode
(c) Parody
(d) Parlance
✅ Answer: (b) Palinode
261. The original pattern from which copies are made:
(a) Antithesis
(b) Attic Salt
(c) Archetype
(d) None of these
✅ Answer: (c) Archetype
262. A short allegorical tale conveying a moral:
(a) Apologue
(b) Archetype
(c) Artifact
(d) Antiphon
✅ Answer: (a) Apologue
263. A decorative style derived from the Moors and Arabs:
(a) Archaism
(b) Arabesque
(c) Archetype
(d) Aphorism
✅ Answer: (b) Arabesque
264. A statement accepted as true without proof:
(a) Axiom
(b) Belles-Lettres
(c) Avant-Garde
(d) Canon
✅ Answer: (a) Axiom
265. Descent from the sublime to the ridiculous:
(a) Beatnik
(b) Bibliolatry
(c) Bathos
(d) Belles-Lettres
✅ Answer: (c) Bathos
266. Young people using unconventional dress and behavior as protest:
(a) Beatnik
(b) Analogy
(c) Classical
(d) Collate
✅ Answer: (a) Beatnik
267. A couplet grammatically complete in itself:
(a) Collate
(b) Closed Couplet
(c) Closet Drama
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b) Closed Couplet
268. A play meant to be read rather than performed:
(a) Closet Drama
(b) Collage
(c) Circumlocution
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Closet Drama
269. A fanciful image or elaborate comparison:
(a) Consonance
(b) Corrigendum
(c) Conceit
(d) Conflict
✅ Answer: (c) Conceit
270. Character to whom others confide secrets:
(a) Confidant
(b) Confident
(c) Configuration
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Confidant
271. Struggle between opposing forces:
(a) Conflict
(b) Couplet
(c) Connotation
(d) Consonance
✅ Answer: (a) Conflict
272. Rhythm produced by stressed and unstressed syllables:
(a) Cacophony
(b) Cadence
(c) Classical
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b) Cadence
273. The accepted body of an author's genuine works:
(a) Canon
(b) Farce
(c) Euphony
(d) Epigraph
✅ Answer: (a) Canon
274. "An itch to write":
(a) Cacoethes Scribendi
(b) Closed Couplet
(c) Cadence
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Cacoethes Scribendi
275. Bibliolatry means:
(a) Elegant literature
(b) Worship of books
(c) Book lover
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b)
276. A musical farce popular in England:
(a) Clarion
(b) Burletta
(c) Axiom
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b) Burletta
277. Ancient Egyptian symbolic writing:
(a) Hieroglyph
(b) Hellenism
(c) Holograph
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Hieroglyph
278. A document entirely in the author's handwriting:
(a) Humours
(b) Holograph
(c) Hagiography
(d) Journals
✅ Answer: (b) Holograph
279. Selection and arrangement of words:
(a) Diction
(b) Diatomic
(c) Elision
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Diction
280. Song sung at a burial:
(a) Dirge
(b) Dramatic Monologue
(c) Empathy
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Dirge
281. Intended to teach:
(a) Didactic
(b) Preacher
(c) Conceit
(d) Double-decker
✅ Answer: (a) Didactic
282. Ambiguous phrase with two meanings:
(a) Double-decker
(b) Double Entendre
(c) Dramatic Monologue
(d) Elegy
✅ Answer: (b) Double Entendre
283. Pictures created in words:
(a) Imagery
(b) Imagism
(c) Imitation
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Imagery
284. A glaring blunder in language:
(a) Idyll
(b) Howler
(c) Id est
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b) Howler
285. Dropping a vowel or syllable in pronunciation:
(a) Elision
(b) Empathy
(c) Emendation
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Elision
286. Omission of words needed for complete expression:
(a) Ellipsis
(b) Ego
(c) Epigram
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Ellipsis
287. Correction of errors in a text:
(a) Emendation
(b) Embrasure
(c) Empathy
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Emendation
288. Literary type such as epic, lyric, tragedy:
(a) Ellipsis
(b) Genre
(c) Grub Street
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b) Genre
289. Meaningless speech or chatter:
(a) Gibberish
(b) Corrigendum
(c) Gibbet
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Gibberish
290. Note placed at the bottom of a page:
(a) Foreword
(b) Format
(c) Footnote
(d) Grub Street
✅ Answer: (c) Footnote
291. Introductory remarks written by someone other than the author:
(a) Foreword
(b) Humorous
(c) Imagery
(d) None
✅ Answer: (a) Foreword
292. Verse free from strict metrical rules:
(a) Heronym
(b) Herogram
(c) Free Verse
(d) None
✅ Answer: (c) Free Verse
293. Sweetness and harmony of sound:
(a) Free Verse
(b) Euphony
(c) Euphuism
(d) None
✅ Answer: (b) Euphony
294. Interpretation of difficult or sacred texts:
(a) Exegesis
(b) Genius Touch
(c) Hamartia
(d) Etymology
✅ Answer: (a) Exegesis
295. Direct address to a person, thing, or abstraction:
(a) Rhetoric
(b) Invocation
(c) Apostrophe
(d) Chiasmus
✅ Answer: (c) Apostrophe
296. Rule of versification:
(a) Meter
(b) Stanza
(c) Rhyme
(d) Rhetoric
✅ Answer: (a) Meter
297. A grouping of lines in a poem:
(a) Rhetoric
(b) Stanza
(c) Couplet
(d) Triplet
✅ Answer: (b) Stanza
298. One word governing two or more words:
(a) Zeugma
(b) Invocation
(c) Apostrophe
(d) Chiasmus
✅ Answer: (a) Zeugma
299. "A woman killed with kindness" is an example of:
(a) Irony
(b) Paradox
(c) Conceit
(d) Oxymoron
✅ Answer: (b) Paradox
300. The four main narrative genres are comedy, romance, tragedy, and:
(a) Irony
(b) Poetry
(c) Prose
(d) Autobiography
✅ Answer: (a) Irony
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