12 June, 2026

GIC Lecturer English Exam 2026: 300 Most Important English Literature & Literary Terms MCQs with Answers

 Prepare for GIC Lecturer English Exam 2026 with 300 most important MCQs on English Literature and Literary Terms. Includes Shakespeare, Milton, Literary Criticism, Drama, Poetry, Novels, and Exam-Oriented Objective Questions with Answers for complete revision and practice.


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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