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English Literature (40th BCS)
1. Sweet helen, make me immortal with a kiss. The sentence has taken from the play
Ans : Doctor Faustus
2. What’s in name ? That which we a call a rose By any other name smell as sweet’- Who said this
Ans : Romeo
3. Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart. ‘Tis woman’s whole existence- this taken
Ans : lord Byron
4. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translate by
Ans : Edward FitzGerald
5. Ulyses is a novel written by
Ans : James Joyce
6. The Diamond Necklace was written by
Ans : Guy de Maupassant
7. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand- who said
Ans : Lady Macbeth
8. Where are the songs of spring? Aye, Where are they ?Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.
Ans : Keats’ Poems (To Autumn)
9. Who is the central Character of `Wuthering Heights’
Ans : Heathcilffs
10. The old order changeth, yielding place to new- this line is extracted from Tennyson’s poem
Ans : Morte d Arthur
11.Who wrote the ‘Poem Good-Morrow?
Ans : John Done
13. The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope
Ans : mock Heroic poem
14. Which of the following is not American
Ans : W. B Yeats
15. William Shakespeare was born
Ans : 1564
38th BCS English Literature
1. Which period is known as ‘The golden age of English literature?’
✔Ans : The Elizabethan Age
2. ‘Jacobean Period’ of English Literature refers to—-
✔Ans : 1603-1625
3. Where do the following lines occur in?
‘Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea……’
✔Ans : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
4. ‘For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.’
This line is written by—–
✔Ans : John Donne
5. Who is the author of ‘Man and Superman’?
✔Ans : G. B. Shaw
6. The most famous satirist in English literature is —–
✔Ans : Jonathan Swift
7. Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?
✔Ans : John Milton
8. The literary term ‘euphemism’ means—–
✔Ans : in offensive expression
9. Who is not a Victorian poet?
✔Ans : Alexander Pope
1০. The play ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ is written by—-
✔Ans : Thomas Kyd
11. Who among the following Indian writers is a famous novelist?
✔Ans : R. K. Narayan
37th BCS English Literature
1. Gerontion is a poem by –
Ans: T.S. Eliot
2. Fill in the blank. ‘___________’ is Shakespeare’s last play.
Ans: Tempest
3. who has written the poem “Elegy Written in a country Churchyard”?
Ans: Thomas Gray
4. Who has written the play Volpone?
Ans: Ben Jonson
5. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Ans: Iambic pentameter
6. The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as:
Ans: alliteration
7. which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
Ans: The Comic
8. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
Ans: Limerick
9. Robert Browning was a _________ poet. Fill in the gap with appropriate word.
Ans: Victorian
10. P.B. Shelley’s “Adonais’ is an elegy on the death of –
Ans: John Keats
11. The comparison of unlike things using the words like on as is known to be –
Ans: simile
12. “Restoration period’ in English literature refers to-
Ans: 1660
13. “The sun also rises” is a novel written by –
Ans: Earnest Hemingway
14. who wrote “Biographia Literaria”
Ans: S.T.Coleridge
15. Othello gave Desdemona _______ as a token of love:
Ans: Handkerchief
36th BCS English Literature
'David Copperfield' is an Victorian novel.
'Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard' is written by Thomas Gray.
Shakespeare's measure for measure is a successful comedy.
The romantic age in English literature began with the publication of preface to lyrical ballads.
"The Return Of The Native' is written by Thomas Hardy.
Frailty Thy Name Is Woman' is a famous dialogue from William Shakespeare.
The poem "The Solitary Reaper' is written by William Wordsworth.
"The Merchant of Venice' is a Shakespearean play about a Jew.
the play 'Candida' is by - GB Shaw.
S.T Coleridge belongs to the Romantic period in English Literature.
The climax of a plot is what happens at the height.
London Town is found a living being in the works of Charles Dickens.
'Child Is The Father Of Man' is taken form the poem of William Wordsworth
Man is a political animal -- said by Aristotle.
William Wordsworth is known as 'The poet of nature' in English Literature.
A passage to India is written by EM Forster.
Gitanjali of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by WB Yeats.
WB Yeats is not a novelist.
35th BCS English Literature
'All at once i saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils' is said by Wordsworth.
"Grahame Greene' is not a Nobel laureate.
The play 'Arms And The Man' is by George Bernard Shaw.
The climax of a plot is what happens at the height.
Othello is a Shakespeare play about a moor.
In the 18th century the Mughal Empire begun to disintegrate.
The poem 'Isle of Innisfree' is written by WB Yeats.
Riders to the sea is a one act play.
Christopher Marlowe belong to the Elizabethans period.
"To be or not be that is the question' is a famous dialogue from Hamlet.
'George Eliot' is odd man from Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad , James Joyce.
'As I Lay Dying' is odd from the Bluest Eye, Sula, A Mercy.