English Literature Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

11. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of love and loss—

1. Tennyson
2. Browning
3. Swinburne
4. D. G. Rossetti

12. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.

1. Oxymoron
2. Metaphor
3. Simile
4. Synecdoche

13. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?

1. The Stones of Venice
2. The Two Paths
3. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
4. Modem Painters

14. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins when the hounds of spring are on winters traces..”?

1. Chastelard
2. A Song of Italy
3. Atalanta in Calydon
4. Songs before Sunrise

15. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?

1. Sir Thomas Wyatt
2. William Shakespeare
3. Earl of Surrey
4. Milton

16. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet

1. P. B. Shelley
2. Charles Lamb
3. Hazlitt
4. Coleridge

17. In Leda and the Swan, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?

1. Mars
2. Hercules
3. Zeus
4. Bacchus

18. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

1. Darcy
2. Wickham
3. William Collins
4. Charles Bingley

19. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morels mothers name is?

1. Susan
2. Jane
3. Gertrude
4. Emily

20. In the poem Tintern Abbey, dearest friend refers to?

1. Nature
2. Dorothy
3. Coleridge
4. Wye