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1 - "An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain". Mathew Arnold said these lines about?
Shelley
2 - "Around the World in 80 Days" was written by?
Jules Verne
3 - "Doctor Zhivago" book is written by?
Boris Pasternak
4 - "Elegy written in A Country Churchyard" is written by?
Thomas Gray
5 - "I have taken all knowledge to be my province" is the claim of?
Bacon
6 - "Ivanhoe" book is written by?
Sir Walter Scott
7 - "Julius Caesar" is a?
Tragedy
8 - "Julius Caesar" written by?
William Shakespeare
9 - "Marlowe simply prepared the way for the master who was to follow." Who is the master referred to in this remark?
William Shakespeare
10 - "Measure for measure" is a successful?
Tragic Comedy
11 - "Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour" written by?
Wordsworth
12 - "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is a?
Poem
13 - "Ode to a Grecian Urn" written by?
John Keats
14 - "Old Norse" is almost the same as which modern Scandinavian language?
Icelandic
15 - "Piers Plowman" is a?
Poem
16 - "Second Defense of English People" was written in?
Latin
17 - "Sherlock Holmes" was created by?
Sir A Conan Doyle
18 - "The Battle of Maldon" shows a revival of the heroic spirit. The poem is attributed to?
Anonymous
19 - "The Conduct of the Allies" is the famous work of?
Jonathan Swift
20 - "The Four P’s" is a?
Play
21 - "The Four P’s" is written by?
John Heywood
22 - "The New Atlantis" is a kind of novel describing another Utopia as seen by?
Bacon
23 - "The Patriot" is a?
Poem
24 - "The Patriot" is written by?
Robert Browning
25 - "The soul was like a star and dwelt apart" Wordsworth wrote this famous line by?
Milton
26 - "The two remains , the many change and pass". This line occur in?
Shelley’s Adonai’s
27 - __ are consonants for which the flow of air is stopped or restricted by lips.
Bilabials
28 - __ belongs to a relatively small group of creative geniuses whose greatest works were written after he turned 50.
Milton
29 - __ is the language of communication between persons who have different first languages who speak different tribal languages.
Lingua Franca
30 - __ is the process of making new words.
Coinage
31 - __ is the representative of fickle minded friends.
Belinda
32 - __ is the Saint Julian of his country.
Parson
33 - __ is the study of interrelation between linguistics factors and psychological aspects.
Psycholinguistics
34 - __ is the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker and interpreted by a listener.
Phonetics
35 - __ is the study of words how they are formed and their relationship to other words in the same language.
Morphology
36 - __ is the variety of language including vocabulary and grammar spoken in a particular social group.
Dialect
37 - __ is the writer of spy and is regarded as "The First of the great American novelists."?
James Fennimore Cooper
38 - __ period ended with the parliamentary reforms in 1832.
Romantic Period
39 - __ the Wife of Bath’s fame derives from the character’s deft characterization of her as a brassy woman.
Alice
40 - __ was an exile at Eton a revolutionary thinker an intellectual for whom to think was normally to do.
Shelley
41 - __ was known as Madam Eglantine.
Prioress
42 - ______________is the school of literary writings is a medical theory ?
Comedy of Humours
43 - A contract language a mixture of elements from different natural languages is called?
Pidgin
44 - A farfetched metaphor is called?
Conceit
45 - A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called?
Rhetoric
46 - A grammar which sets out to specify the formation of grammatical structure is?
Generative grammar
47 - A language which is used habitually by people whose mother tongues are different is?
Lingua Franca
48 - A language with a markedly reduced grammatical structure, lexicon and stylistic range is said to be?
Pidgin
49 - A literary work composed from elements borrowed either from various other writers or from a particular earlier author. The literary term for such work is?
Poioumena
50 - A long poem is a combination of short poems. Who has held the above opinion ?
Wordsworth
51 - A new language which develops in situations where speakers of different languages need to communicate but do not share a common language is?
Pidgin
52 - A person who writes about his own life writes ______________?
an autobiography
53 - A poem ‘Mounting someone’s death’ is called?
An elegy
54 - A poem mourning someone's death is called______________?
Elegy
55 - A poem of fourteen lines is called________________?
Sonnet
56 - A poem which consists of fourteen line is called________________?
A Sonnet
57 - A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses or sentences is known as?
Hyperbole
58 - A short poem or phrase that expresses an idea in a clever or amusing way is called?
An epigram
59 - A short story that teaches moral or spiritual lesson is called?
A Parable
60 - A term introduced by linguist Saussure which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time?
Synchrony
61 - A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language is called?
Syntagmatic
62 - A type of literature characterized by its particular subject or style is called?
Genre
63 - A type of literature, art or music characterized by its particular subject or style is called?
Genre
64 - A variety of language used by particular individual is?
Isogloss
65 - A winter’s Tale by Shakespeare is a?
Comedy
66 - A word or set of words followed by a pause and revealing an intelligible purpose is?
Sentence
67 - A word that sounds like another word but means something quite different is known as?
Pun
68 - A written literature began to evolve in Britain with the coming of the?
Christian Churches
69 - According to __ the novels of the eighteen forties do not reflect the respective society but they try to define it and in their attempt at defining the society they also participate in the common social process.
T.S Eliot
70 - According to Bacon by pains men reach to greater?
Pains
71 - According to Bacon’s philosophy respect to one’s superiors is not an act of servility but of __ duty.
Practical
72 - According to Bloomfield the organization of sound into patterns is called?
Phonetics
73 - According to T.S. Eliot unified sensibility of __ was the most assiduous imitation.
Keats
74 - Adam Bede is a______________?
Novel
75 - Adela' is a character from_______________?
A Passage to India
76 - Adonais is an elegy on the death of?
Keats
77 - Adonis is modeled on________________?
Bion's lament for Adonis
78 - Adrienne Rich’s Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers contrasts the creative needlework produced by Aunt Jenifer with?
Men Beneath the Tree
79 - After Apple Picking is written by_______________?
Robert Frost
80 - After Shakespeare the drama in England?
Suffered a Decline
81 - Age of pope is also called?
Augustan age
82 - Alexander Neckham wrote a Treatise on science in?
Latin
83 - Alexander Pope’s __ recasts petty high society scandal as mythological battle for the virtue of an innocent.
The Rape of the Lock
84 - Alfred king of Wessex died in?
901 AD
85 - Ali has a very advanced sense of what is socially appropriate. He always knows what to say in every social context. He has which kind of linguistic competence?
Pragmatic
86 - All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings' who made this statement ?
Wordsworth
87 - All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare's__________________?
Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare's
88 - Among Chaucer character who had welll curled as if they had laid in press?
Wife of Bath
89 - Among following which is a famous work of poet Alexander Pope?
The Rape of the Lock
90 - Among following which is comedy written by William Shakespeare?
As you like it
91 - An epistolary novel is?
Entirely written in the form of letters
92 - Andrea Del Sarto' is a poem written by_________________?
Browning
93 - Anna Karenina is the name of a?
Book
94 - Anna Karenina is written by?
Leo Tolstoy
95 - Another name for grammar translation method is?
Classical method
96 - April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot's__________________?
The Wasteland
97 - Arundati Roy has been awarded the Booker’s Prize on her novel?
The God of Small Things
98 - Astrophel is an elegy written by Edmund Spenser on the death of his which friend?
Sir Philip Sidney
99 - At what time do "Sleepless lovers" awake in the Rape of the Lock?
Noon
100 - Aurobindo Ghose’s Savitri is an epic of the?
Soul
101 - Author of "The Jungle Book" is?
Rudyard Kipling
102 - Author of Beowulf is?
None of the above
103 - Author of Samson Agonistes was?
John Milton
104 - Author of the prose "Le Morte D’Arthur"?
Thomas Malory
105 - Bacon says that an ungracious son __ the mother.
Shames
106 - Bacon was intellectually great but morally weak is said by?
Pope
107 - Bacon was intellectually great but normally weak is said by?
Pope
108 - Bacon’s devotedness to __ was responsible for his rapid rise in the British court which won him knighthood.
James I
109 - Beauty is truth, truth is beauty is stated by_____________?
Keats
110 - Bede wrote his Eccelestical history in?
Latin
111 - Bede wrote his Ecclesiastical History in?
Latin
112 - Bede wrote mostly in which language?
Latin
113 - Beowulf was composed in Northumbria by a Christian poet working on pagan material in?
End of 7th century
114 - Bernard Shaw was inspired by a Norwegian playwright named as?
Oscar Wilde
115 - Bertrand Russell was?
Both A & C
116 - Besides being a poet Alfred is a great?
Translator
117 - Between 1349-1350 England lost nearly half of the population to __.
Black Death
118 - Biographia Literaria was authored by?
William Blake
119 - Biological basis of formation and development of human language is called?
Glossogenetics
120 - Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind.-Example of ?
Couplet
121 - Book "Four Quartets" was written by?
T.S Eliot
122 - Book Utopia is written by?
Sir Thomas More
123 - Brobdingnagian King believes that commonsense, reason and justice should be the basis of all?
Lands
124 - Browning is famous for his______________?
Dramatic Monologues
125 - But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone. In which poem do these lines appear ?
Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
126 - By the middle of 14th century was the native language of all classes?
Latin
127 - Byron's journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem_______________?
Childe Herald's Pilgrimage
128 - Byzantium is a poem about?
An imaginary city
129 - Caedmon and Cynewulf were two poets. They were?
Chaucer’s predecessors
130 - Caedmon is a writer of?
7th century
131 - Carl Sandburg a modern poet was born at?
Illinois
132 - Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant is a novel by?
Anthony Powel
133 - Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
arouse of pity and fear
134 - Charles Dickens is a great?
Novelist
135 - Charles Dickens is not the novelist of which of the following novels?
Treasure Island
136 - Chaucer wrote in which of the following dialects?
East Midlands
137 - Chemos was the ruined angel whose other name was?
Peor
138 - Childe Harold was written by_______________?
Byron
139 - Classical age is also known as?
Both of the above
140 - Coleridge under subtle states of feeling including depression and irrational sense of guilt found an outlet in fantasy supremely in __.
The Rime of ancient Mariner and Kublai Khan
141 - Concept of English as a global language is proposed by?
Kachru
142 - Consonant that is produced with a strict is called?
Plosives or stops
143 - Contemporary drama saw Brecht create?
Theatre of Absurd
144 - Cyclone in Pakistan is a Poetical work by?
Sunita Nam Joshi
145 - Cymbeline was written by?
Shakespeare
146 - defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature ?
Dryden
147 - Del Hymes was a?
Linguist
148 - Devil Disciples is a?
Play
149 - Diachronic linguistics study language in the text of?
History
150 - Dickens' first novel which focused on the specific social ills was______________?
Great Expectations
151 - Don Juan is a specimen of?
Epic Satire
152 - Dr. Faustus rejects which branch of science?
All of the above
153 - Dramatic work written in the age of Shakespeare is termed as?
Romantic Drama
154 - During Anglo-Saxon period in England Anglican came from?
Germany
155 - During the age of Chaucer England passed through the first stages of her long journey out of __ .
Medievalism
156 - During which was does the novel ‘For whom the Bell Tolls’ take place?
Spanish Civil War
157 - Ecclesiastical history of the English People was written by?
Bede
158 - Edgar Allen Poe was a?
American Writer
159 - Edgar Allen Poe wrote reviews for a year for the magazine?
South Literary Messenger
160 - Edmund Spenser is a_________________?
poet
161 - Egdon Heath forms the back drop of which of the following novels by Hardy?
Return of the Native
162 - Eighteenth century is also called?
The age of reason
163 - Elegy' is______________________?
song of lamentation
164 - Eliot was influenced by___________________?
Ezra Pound
165 - Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an_______________?
Editor e… none of these
166 - Elizabeth best friend is named as __ in Pride and Prejudice.
Charlotte Lucas
167 - Elizabethan tragedy is centered on?
Revenge
168 - Emile Zola is a famous__________________?
French Novelist
169 - Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled?
Wuthering Heights
170 - English Dictionary for the first time compiled by?
Samuel Johnson
171 - English language has __ phonemes in its sound system.
44
172 - Essays of Elia' was written by______________?
Charles Lamb
173 - Eugene O’Neill argues that there can be ‘Tragedy of the common man"?
False–It was Thornton Wilder
174 - Exiles' is a______________?
Play
175 - Ezra pound is regarded as the leader of which literary movement?
Symbolism
176 - Famous comic novel "Tom Jones" written by?
Henry Fielding
177 - Famous Irish poet and dramatist is______________?
W.B. Yeats
178 - Famous play Everyman in his Humour is written by?
Ben Johnson
179 - Famous romantic poets were_____________?
Six
180 - Father of Humanism is?
Petrarch
181 - Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names?
Valdes and Cornelius
182 - Fictional scientific romance ‘Time machin – the invisible man’ was written by?
H.G. Wells
183 - Fielding seems to be most influenced by?
Daniel
184 - Fielding’s novels are called?
Comic Epic in Prose
185 - Find the Odd man out ?
The Falcon
186 - Find the Odd man out ?
All for Love: John Milton
187 - Firdausi was the poet of________________?
Persian
188 - First sonnet writer in English literature is?
Sir Thomas Wyatt
189 - Following __ model of pretending to defend the October revolution Orwell protests at the corruption of the Communism ideas in the Soviet Union by Stalin.
Bolshevik
190 - Four history plays were written by?
Shakespeare
191 - Four Quartets is a book of?
Poetry
192 - Four Quartets was published in which year?
1941
193 - Francis Bacon came of?
Aristocratic family
194 - Fries classifies utterance into?
Both of the above
195 - From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains in ISBN (International Standard Book Number)?
13
196 - Function which describe language as a form of action is?
Pragmatic
197 - General study of characteristics of speech sounds is called?
Phonetics
198 - Geoffrey Chaucer is known much for his?
Realism
199 - Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ?
Edward III
200 - George Bernard Shaw confessed to be a disciple of?
Ibsen
201 - George Bernard Shaw is_________________?
a playwright
202 - George Bernard Shaw was influenced by __ as the dramatist plays exactly titled every middle and professional class suburb in Europe.
Ibsen
203 - George Bernard Shaw was influenced by?
Henrik Ibsen
204 - George Eliot is the pen name of?
Mary Ann Evens
205 - George Eliot was a?
Victorian Novelist
206 - George Eliot was one of the leading writers of the?
Victorian Era
207 - George Orwell continues the great ironic tradition of __ and others.
Daniel Defoe
208 - Germanic tribes came to UK in the middle of 5th century?
Both of the above
209 - Grammar translation method stresses on?
Accuracy
210 - Gulliver finds no concept of __ in Yahoos.
Morality
211 - Gulliver loved?
Travelling
212 - Gulliver’s Travels was written by?
Jonathan Swift
213 - Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii ?
1999
214 - Hamlet and Oedipus' was written by_______________?
Earnest Jones
215 - Hardy is a__________________?
Pessimist
216 - Hardy's Nature is_____________?
Indifferent
217 - has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments_____________?
Hyperbole
218 - He died at the age of 26 but not before leaving an impressive body of poems including "To Autumn" and "Ode an Melancholy"?
John Keats
219 - He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
Sir Thomas Malory
220 - Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter' is a line from_______________?
Ode on a Grecian Urn
221 - Hearing' a colour or 'Seeing' a smell is an example of______________?
Synaesthesia
222 - Heart of darkness opens in what setting?
A boat on the Thames river
223 - Hellenism of Keats connotes______________?
his love of Greek culture and art
224 - Henry Higgins is a character in________________?
Pygmalion
225 - Hero and Hero worship' was written by______________?
Carlyle
226 - Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period ?
The French Revolution
227 - How long was the pilgrims journey in "The Canterbury Tales"?
60 Miles
228 - How many chapters are in the Quran ?
114
229 - How many characters are mentioned in Chaucer Prologue?
29
230 - Human beings can talk about their present, past and future. This property of language is called?
Displacement
231 - Hundreds year war was between?
England and France
232 - Huxley pessimism about large scale social organization was depended by the?
Outbreak of Second World War
233 - HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by_______________?
Thomas gray
234 - Hyperion is a/an poem_________________?
Lyric
235 - I count religion but a childish toy' is a line from Marlowe's play______________?
The Jew of Malta
236 - I wandered Lonely as a cloud' is an example of______________?
Simile
237 - Identify name of book written Thomas Hardy?
The Return of the Native
238 - Identify the correct sequence of phonetic laws?
Verner, Grim, Grassman
239 - Identify the name of modern philosopher who awarded noble prize for literature?
Bertrand Russel
240 - Identify the odd one from the following.
Compounding
241 - Identify which among the following is not a woman writer?
Robert Browning
242 - Identify writers which are literary collaborators?
Shelley and Keats
243 - Importance of Being Earnest was written by?
Oscar Wilde
244 - In "The Canterbury Tales" where did the pilgrims meet up before their journey?
Tabard Inn
245 - In "The Gift of the Magi" Della is presented as_____________?
a sacrificing wife
246 - In 1905, VirginiaWoolf began to write for which publication ?
The Time's Literary Supplement
247 - In a defence of Poesy what did Sydney attribute to poetry?
A realistic power that can not be made to seem like more illusion and trickery.
248 - In ‘The Waste Land’ madam Sosostris was a?
Fortune Teller
249 - In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
Everlasting shame
250 - In Dickens Tale of Two Cities who promises Lucie Manette that he would if necessary die for her?
Sydney Carton
251 - In Gulliver Travels swift paints a dark picture of?
Political Institutions and Manners
252 - In his childhood Russell was interested in?
Mathematics
253 - In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?
The representative poet of Victorian Age
254 - In Lilliput Gulliver finds?
Political intrigues
255 - In Memoriam by Tennyson is?
An Elegy
256 - In Memoriam by Tennyson is________________?
an elegy
257 - In Memoriam is _______________?
an elegy
258 - In merchant of venice __ emerges before us as a philosopher.
Portia
259 - In Poem Daffodils 'Sprightly Dance' means________________?
lively dance
260 - In Shakespeare "Character is not Destiny" but "character and Destiny". Whose comment is this ?
Bradley
261 - In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is________________?
a high ranking man
262 - In Shakespeare's Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by________________?
Bradley
263 - In Swift writings irony is focused into?
Humour
264 - In the novel Pride and Prejudice the Bennet family lives in the village of?
Longbourn
265 - In the Rime of Ancient Mariner two figures on the ship cast dice for the Ancient Manner and the ship __ wins the Mariner.
Life in Death
266 - In the War of Roses what does roses stands for?
Houses
267 - In what language did Shakespeare write ?
Modern English
268 - In which age is 'The Puritan Period' included ?
The Renaissance
269 - In which city the play of Shakespeare 'Romeo and Juliet' is set in_________________?
Verona
270 - In which novel does Virginia Wolf portray the characters of Mr. and Mrs Ramasay?
The Light House
271 - In which novel of his Lawrence dealt with the psychological phenomenon known as "Oedipus Complex"?
Sons and Lovers
272 - In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success_______________?
The Novel
273 - Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
Romantic
274 - James Joyce's famous novel_____________?
Ulysses
275 - James Joyce's narrative technique is known as______________?
stream of consciousness
276 - James Joyce's narrative technique is known as______________________?
stream of consciousness
277 - Jane Austen is the writer of__________________?
Emma
278 - Jane Austen subject matter for her novel is?
Human Nature
279 - Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?
Regency
280 - Jane Austen's other writings are______________?
All of these
281 - Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?
2000 years ago
282 - Justice delayed is justice denied was stated by______________?
Gladstone
283 - Keates poetry is best known for his?
Vivid imagery and great sensuous appeal
284 - Keats died of?
Tuberculosis
285 - Keats was of the opinion that some certainties were best left open to imagination and that the element of doubt and ambiguity added __ and specially to a concept.
Romanticism
286 - Keats' widespread appeal is to the Reader's interest in the supernatural ?
FALSE
287 - Keats wrote his six great odes __ .
Between 1816 to 1819
288 - Lady Catherine De Bourgh is Darcy’s __.
Sister
289 - Language is a source of developing theme. This function of language is referred to?
Heuristic Function
290 - Language is most accurately defined as a system of that allow for communication with others?
Symbols
291 - Language might be started by the imitation of sounds which early men and women heard around them. This describes?
Ye-Heave-ho-theory
292 - Lapis Lazuli' is __________________?
A Poem
293 - Linda in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House provides a sub-plot by her relations with Krogstad and she serves a foil and model to __ who recognizes through her that a woman is entitled to her own judgement and independent thought.
Nora
294 - Linde in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House provides a subplot by her relation with Krogstad and she serves as a foil and model to __ who recognize through her that a woman is entitled to her own judgement and independent thought.
Nora
295 - Linguistic term that deals with how situational context influence the production of meaning?
Pragmatic
296 - Linguistics is the combination of __ words.
2
297 - Linguistics which investigates how the people speak and use language in a given speech community at a given time is called?
Synchronic linguistic
298 - Listening and speaking are said to be?
Both A & B
299 - Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?
Monarchs or political events
300 - Little change in the sound can change the meaning describes which property of human language?
Discreetness
301 - Lord Byron was born in________________?
1788
302 - Love affair was the chief __ of the ladies of upper class in 18th century.
Passion
303 - Love and Friendship' is written by___________________?
Jane Austen
304 - Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a?
Roman philosopher
305 - Lucy Gray' is a poem written by_______________?
Wordsworth
306 - Lycidas' is written by_____________?
John Milton
307 - Lyrical Ballads is a collection of?
Poems
308 - Macbeth and Oedipus' is by_________________?
W. H. Auden
309 - Macbeth is a_____________?
play
310 - Machiavelli was __ philosopher.
Italian
311 - Maggie is the central character in George Eliot's________________?
The Mill on the Floss
312 - Marlowe’s primitive tragedy was?
Tamburlaine
313 - Mastropieri And Turkewitz (1999) identified that newborn could differentiate between what?
Between speech patterns
314 - Maya is the central character in Anita Desai’s novel?
Cry the Peacock
315 - Milton was?
A Belated Elizabethan Poet
316 - Modern age is an age of______________?
Conflicts and Controversies
317 - Most basic building block of language is?
Phoneme
318 - Most important feature of a romantic poetry is?
Subjectivity
319 - Murder in the Cathedral' is a play written by___________?
T.S. Eliot
320 - Name of the poet who belongs to the Victorian age but is modern in matters of technique?
Hopkins
321 - Narcissism means?
Interest in oneself
322 - Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
To empathize
323 - Neologism means?
A new meaning of a word
324 - Newly released book in 2020 "The Pandemic Century" is written by?
Mark Honigsbaum
325 - Normal phonological deviations that children make when producing sounds and words are referred to as?
Phonological processes
326 - Northumbrian, Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon were the four main dialects of English in?
The old English period
327 - not of an age, but for all time-was told about Shakespeare by whom ?
Ben Johnson
328 - Nothing is beneath science nor above science according to?
Bacon
329 - Nothing is beneath science nor above science according to?
Bacon
330 - Novel which is not written by D.H Lawrence ?
Ullysses
331 - Number of sounds in English language?
44
332 - O Captain! My Captain!' is a poem written by______________?
Walt Whitman
333 - Ode on a Grecian Urn' Who is the poet of the poem ?
Keats
334 - Ode to Autumn' was written by__________________?
Keats
335 - Of Human Bondage was written by?
William Somerset Maugham
336 - Oldest period of English literature?
Anglo Saxon
337 - On Heroes and Hero…worship is written by________________?
Carlyle
338 - On Liberty is a treatise by?
John Stuart Mill
339 - On liberty was written by_______________?
Mill
340 - On linguistic map a line indicating the degree of linguistic change is called?
Isogloss
341 - On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared_________________?
A Study in Scarlet
342 - One of the following poems was not written by Caedmon?
The Christ
343 - One of the following was a Romantic poet______________?
P.B. Shelley
344 - One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ?
Sir Walter Scott
345 - One remarkable feature of Shakespearean tragedy comedy is that it contains continental and __ background.
Mediterranean
346 - Only a __ person could be __ to the suffering of a starving child.
Callous, Oblivious
347 - Only a small portion of medieval books survive large numbers having been destroyed in?
The Dissolution of Monasteries in the 1530s
348 - Ophelia, Julia, Viola, Imogen are the characters created by?
Shakespeare
349 - Original title of Pride and Prejudice was?
First impressions
350 - Othello killed Desdemona out of?
Ignorance
351 - Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regained' are written by________________?
John Milton
352 - Paradise lost attempted to?
Justify the ways of God to men
353 - Paradise lost is written in?
Blank verse
354 - Paradise Lost' was written by________________?
Milton
355 - Paradise Lost' was written by__________________?
John Milton
356 - Paradise lost was written to be a justification of __ resting on the theological system as definite at almost as carefully articulated in the De Doctrine Christiania as Dante had accepted from the Summa of Aquinas.
The Ways of God to man
357 - Parody is a form of?
Buriesque
358 - Paul David and Pip are the three notable descriptions of sensitive, Nervous childhood in the works of?
Dickens
359 - Pauline was written by?
Browning
360 - Peom "The fates of the Apostles" has been written by?
Cynewulf
361 - Persona is?
The actor in a play
362 - Philosophically Shelley was a follower of __ holding the world of appearances less real than the world of underlying forms and ideas.
Plato
363 - Phonemes, phone, allophone are the concepts of?
Phonology
364 - Picture of Dorian Gray ' was written by__________________?
Oscar Wild
365 - Poem the Christ is written by?
Cynewulf
366 - Poet Alexander Pope's famous work_________________?
The Rape of Lock
367 - Poetry is defined as 'Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' by___________?
Wordsworth
368 - Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will, is a statement by______________?
Shelley
369 - Poetry takes its origin from emotions recollected in?
Tranquility
370 - Portia is the heroine of the play?
The Merchant of Venice
371 - Post Colonial Literature addresses?
The new cultural identity of the colonies
372 - Postcolonial literature addresses?
The new cultural identities of the colonies
373 - Pragmatics is a subfield of __ and __ that studies how context contributes to meaning.
Both B and C
374 - Preface to Shakespeare is written by?
Dr Samuel Johnson
375 - Pride and prejudice is categorized as a __ novel.
Historical
376 - Primary grammatical level at which the sentences are formed is?
Deep structure
377 - Production of speech is controlled mainly by forward proportions of the brain in an area traditionally known as?
Broca’s area
378 - Prometheus Unbound' is a lyrical drama by__________________?
Shelley
379 - Publications of lyrical Ballads in 1798 is considered the beginning of __ in English literature.
Romanticism
380 - Queen Elizabeth I was succeeded to throne by her cousin named?
James Stuart
381 - R.L. Stevenson is popular for?
Adventure Fiction
382 - Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.- Who told it ?
Bacon
383 - Real name of Goerge Orwell?
Eric Arthur
384 - Reformation began during the reign of?
Henry VIII
385 - Relation which exists between words which have the same form but unrelated senses is known to be?
Homonymy
386 - Renaissance is also known as?
The Age of Shakespeare
387 - Renaissance means?
The revival of learning
388 - Renaissance' means___________________?
the revival of learning
389 - Renaissance poets aimed at the study of?
Roman and Greek Writers
390 - Renaissance started from?
Italy
391 - Repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as?
Alliteration
392 - Repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called?
Aliteration
393 - Restoration period was known as the age of?
Satire
394 - Robert Frost poem "The Road not Taken" is a poem with the idea of?
Optional
395 - Romantic age began with the publication of?
Lyrical Ballads
396 - Romantic movement had its antecedents in?
The 15th Century Ballad
397 - Romantic period begins with the __ Revolution in 1789.
French
398 - Romanticism is mainly connected with______________?
excitement and sensation
399 - Ruskin began __ as a defence of contemporary landscape artists especially Turner.
Modern Painters
400 - Russel divides his book The Conquest of Happiness into __ halves.
2
401 - Sarojini Naidu is chiefly a __ poet.
Lyric
402 - Sarojini Naidu’s poem the Queen’s Rival is based on a __ legend.
Persian
403 - SARTOR RESARTUS' is a prose work by________________?
Carlyle
404 - Satanic Verses' is written by__________________?
Salman Rushdie
405 - Scientific study of language is called?
Linguistics
406 - Second period of Elizabethan drama was dominated by?
Shakespeare
407 - Sejanus is a satirical tragedy by?
Ben Johnson
408 - Separate sections in a blank verse poem are called?
Rhymes
409 - Set of all possible grammatical sentences in the language is?
All of the above
410 - Shakespeare acted in one __ plays.
Ben Johnson’s
411 - Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Lambic Pentameter
412 - Shakespeare sonnets are in the form of?
Three Quatrains and Couplet
413 - Shakespeare was born in_______________?
1564
414 - Shakespeare wrote?
Romantic comedies
415 - Shakespeare’s heroines have __ characteristics.
Feminine
416 - Shakespeare’s most formidable rival as a comedy writer was __ .
Ben Jonson
417 - Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' was published in________________?
1602
418 - Shaw died at the age of_______________?
95
419 - Shaw's 'Man and Superman' is an example of___________?
Comedy of Ideas
420 - Shelley poetry deals with?
Odes
421 - Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by_______________?
Bronte
422 - Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
similar things
423 - Simon is a character in one of __ novels.
Golding
424 - Simulation of language by the use of computers is said to be?
Computational linguistics
425 - Sir Aurobindo was an __ philosopher.
Indian
426 - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a representative poem of __ age.
Medieval
427 - Sklarier was influential in defining radical?
Structuralism
428 - Smallest parts of expression associated with some meaning are called?
Morphemes
429 - Some of __ candid novels were banned in England and America.
D.H. Lawrence
430 - Someone with a vocabulary of only 200 words can still combine the words in different ways to say thousands different things. This aspect of language is referred to as?
Infinite generativity
431 - Songs of innocence and experience is written by?
William Blake
432 - Sounds produced with the obstruction of air in the mouth are called?
Consonants
433 - Sounds usually associated with letters such as f, v, z, s in which air passes through narrow constriction that cause the air to flow turbulently and thus create a noisy sound is?
Fricatives
434 - Speaker learn how to participate in conversation. Conversational exchanges can be viewed as __ .
Co-Operative
435 - Spirits in the Rape of the Lock are called?
Supernatural machinery
436 - Status of linguistic form in a language which conforms to the rules of that language is termed as?
Well-formedness
437 - Story "Gift of the Magi" was written by?
O. Henry
438 - Study of human speech sounds is?
Phonetics
439 - Study of language in social Interaction is?
Sociolinguistics
440 - Study of meaning is?
Semantics
441 - Study of sentence construction is called?
Syntax
442 - Study of social production of meaning from sign systems is termed as?
Semiotics
443 - Study of society in relation to language is?
Both A & B
444 - Study of structures in human brain that underline grammar and communication is known as?
Micro-linguistics
445 - Sweet are the uses of adversity' was stated by__________________?
Shakespeare
446 - Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were?
Husband and Wife
447 - Sylvia Plath was the wife of?
Ted Hughes
448 - Synaesthesia means?
Unification of senses
449 - Synecdoche refers to the term_____________?
a thing stands for whole thing
450 - T. Hardy is______________?
A fatalist
451 - T. Hardy is_______________?
A fatalist
452 - T.S Eliot was born in which year?
1888
453 - T.S. Eliot The Waste Land is dedicated to?
Ezra Pound
454 - T.S. Eliot was a __ poet.
British
455 - Tales from Shakespeare is written by________________?
Lamb
456 - Tennyson talks about the equality of women in?
The Princess
457 - Tennyson was_____________?
a Victorian
458 - Tennyson wrote____________?
The Lotus Eaters
459 - Term used for the non-linguistic aspects of speaking is?
Paralanguage
460 - The abstract theory of utilitarianism is the theme of novel?
Hard Times
461 - The Age of Chaucer' ranges from_______________?
1340-1400
462 - The age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art______________?
Romantic
463 - The Alchemist' is written by_______________?
Ben Johnson
464 - The Auden group was a group of?
British and Irish Writers
465 - The author of To a Skylark is?
P.B. Shelley
466 - The beginning of the renaissance may be traced to the city____________?
Florence
467 - The Bronte sisters wrote during this period______________?
Victorian
468 - The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?
Friendship and benevolence
469 - The central idea of 'Ozymandias' is that______________?
all things, both great and small,will perish
470 - The Central Idea of the song "Go and Catch a falling star" by Donne focuses on?
Women Faithlessness
471 - The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________?
Dickens
472 - The characteristics of the speech of an individual which refers to a geographical or social group is?
Idiolect
473 - The collective name given to pre Shakespearean playwrights like Marlowe, Peele and Greene is?
University wits
474 - The Crown of Wild Olive, is written by__________________?
Ruskin
475 - The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?
Titus Andronicus
476 - The eminent technique used by Virgina Woolf in "To the Lighthouse" is?
Stream of consciousness
477 - The energy vision and music of the most exciting English lyric poets Shelley are exemplified in __ an elegy for John Keats.
Adonis
478 - The English romantic poet who was most influenced by Spencer is?
Keats
479 - The error of evaluating a poem by its emotional effects is known as?
Affective Fallacy
480 - The Essays of Elia was first published in book form in_____________?
1823
481 - The Excursion' was written by________________?
None of these
482 - The Faerie Queene is a __ poem.
Allegorical
483 - The Faerie Queene is a?
Poem
484 - The Faerie Queene is written by?
Edmund Spenser
485 - The first eight lines of a sonnet is called?
Octave
486 - The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was______________?
Aphra Behn
487 - The glass Menagerie is a play by?
Tennessee Williams
488 - The Golden Breath is a __ by Mulk Raj Anand.
Work of Literary Criticism
489 - The Holy sonnets also known as the?
Both B & C
490 - The jaw of malta is the great masterplace tragedy written by Christopher Marlowe. The theme of this play is?
Lust for knowledge
491 - The kind Claudius was killed by________________?
Hamlet
492 - The last known poem of the Anglo-Saxon period "The Battle of Maldon" was written in?
991 AD
493 - The Lay of the Last Minstrel' is written by_______________?
Walter Scott
494 - The legend of ‘Hobygrail’ provides the framework of __ poem.
The Waste Land
495 - The life span of Bede is?
673-735
496 - The line 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' occurs in which one of Keats' following poems_______________?
Ode to Grecian Urn
497 - The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was_______________?
Shakespeare
498 - The literary work 'Kubla khan' is_______________?
a verse by Coleridge
499 - The literary work of 'Kubla Khan' is_________________?
a verse by Coleridge
500 - The literature of __ saw the steady emergence of novel which provided real literature for children either for their instruction or entertainment. Thus the child become either the central subject and or object of a many of writings.
Romantic Age
501 - The Lotus…Eaters' was written by________________?
Tennyson
502 - The masterpiece poem composed by T.S. Eliot is?
The Waste Land
503 - The Medal' by John Dryden is a/an________________?
satire
504 - The 'Merchant of Venice' Written by Shakespeare is________________?
a drama
505 - The Metahphysical Poets is a critical treatise by?
T.S. Eliot
506 - The metaphysical poets is a critical essay by?
T.S. Eliot
507 - The Metaphysical Poets' is a critical essay by________________?
T. S. Eliot
508 - The military censors __ any passages in the letters that they thought might __ security.
Expunge, Jeopardize
509 - The monster Grendel appears in the poem?
Beowulf
510 - The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?
Moliere
511 - The name technique employed by James Joyce in his novels is?
Stream of consciousness
512 - The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was_________________?
Lady Chatterley's Lover
513 - The novel 'Talisman' is written by_______________?
Sir Walter Scott
514 - The novel 'The Jungle Book' is written by_______________?
Rudyard Kipling
515 - The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as___________________?
The Restoration
516 - The period of English literature from 1660to the end of the century is called_____________?
Restoration Period
517 - The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the____________?
Enlightenment
518 - The pilgrims are going to visit the tomb?
Saint John
519 - The poem "Wind" is written by________________?
Ted Hughes
520 - The poem I could not stop for death was written by?
Emily Dickenson
521 - The poem I could not stop for death was written by?
Emily Dickenson
522 - The poem 'The Patriot' is written by_______________?
Robert Browning
523 - The poem Ulysses was composed in the form of dramatic monologue by?
Tennyson
524 - The 'Poet Laureate' is______________?
the Court Port England
525 - The Poet Laureate is_________________?
the court poet of England
526 - The poet of 'Romantic Age' is_______________?
John Keats
527 - The prevailing feature of Chaucer's humour is its__________________?
urbanity
528 - The Professor was the first novel by________________?
Charlotte Bronte
529 - The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to_______________?
Objectify the issue in terms of a cause
530 - The quality of Mercy is not strained' the line is taken from________________?
Merchant of Venice
531 - The Rainbow' is a novel written by______________?
D.H. Lawrence
532 - The Rape of the Lock is a_______________?
Parody
533 - The Revolt of Islam' was written by________________?
Shelley
534 - The Road not taken by Frost was published in his poetic collection?
Mountain Interval
535 - The Romantic Age began with publication of_______________?
Lyrical Ballads
536 - The scene of action in the book first of "The Paradise Lost" takes place in?
Heaven
537 - The school of thought which primarily focus on the grammatical side of language is?
Structuralist
538 - The shepherd in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is_________________?
romantic
539 - The Solitary Reaper is a?
Poem
540 - The Solitary Reaper is written by?
William Wordsworth
541 - The sonnet on __ records a moment of visions in which Wordsworth for once is able to achieve satisfactory ordering of the complexities of the city.
I travelled among unknown men
542 - The statue of 'Ozymandias' is______________?
in a desert
543 - The story of the Torojan war a bloody conflict is immortalized in "iliad" by?
Homer
544 - The study of the hearing and the perception of speech sounds is called?
Auditory Phonetics
545 - The study of which words occur together and their frequency of co-occurrence?
Collocation
546 - The table __ denotes a form of group of words with a subject and predicate.
Clause
547 - The Tale of Two Cities is a?
Novel
548 - The term widely used by sociolinguistic refers to a community based on a language is?
Speech community
549 - The title of Sir Phillip Sidney’s pastoral romance in prose is?
Arcadia
550 - The tragic comedy of shakespeare are also called?
The Reconciliation Plays
551 - The treatise 'On Liberty' was written by_____________?
Mill
552 - The University Wits were_______________?
Playwrights
553 - The wisest, the brightest and the meanest is said of?
Bacon
554 - The woman character Delilah appears in?
Samson Agonistes
555 - The word language consists of two __ words.
Latin
556 - The word novel derived from the __ word.
Italian
557 - The word semantics means?
To study meaning
558 - Theatre of Absurd was inspired by which philosophical movement?
Marxism
559 - There is a no connection between linguistic forma and its meaning describes?
Arbitrariness
560 - This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century ?
Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
561 - This work was written before the other three choices ?
Bede's "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
562 - Thomas Gray Poem ‘The Bard’ and ‘The Progress of Poesy’ belong to the category of?
Pindanic Ode
563 - Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?
Architect
564 - Thomas Moore Utopia was originally written in?
Latin
565 - Thomas Rhymer was a?
Critic
566 - Thought Fox is a?
Animal Poem
567 - To be, or not to be, that is the question- Where do you find this quotation ?
Hamlet
568 - To which language group does english belong?
Germanic
569 - To which off does William Shakespeare belongs as a dramatist?
Elizabethan age
570 - To whom goes the credit of being the first writer of picaresque novel in English?
Fielding
571 - Tom Jones' by Henry Fielding was first published in______________?
the first half of 18th century
572 - Total number of novels written by William Shakespeare?
37
573 - Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________?
154
574 - Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by_______________?
T. S. Eliot
575 - Tragical history of Dr Faustus opens with?
Chorus
576 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin is written by?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
577 - Undo this Button is a line from Shakespeare's________________?
King Lear
578 - Utopia is an ideal state written by_______________?
Thomas More
579 - Vanity Fair' is a novel by_______________?
Thackeray
580 - Vers libre is called as?
Free verse
581 - Volcanic rock very often looks shiny because it has been?
Igneous
582 - We find Subjective Elements in ?
All
583 - We study language varieties in?
Socio Linguistics
584 - Well known medern poet Elizabeth Sewell was born in?
England
585 - What characterizes a ‘metaphysical conceit’ a strategy characteristics of John Donne’s poetry?
The linking of images from very different ranges of experiences
586 - What did Robert Frost's father do ?
journalist
587 - What do you mean by Archaism ?
obsolete words
588 - What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
a fictional story of animal characters
589 - What do you mean by Burlesque ?
a satiric caricature of the characters
590 - What do you mean by Diction ?
choice of words for writing
591 - What do you mean by Heroic Couplet ?
a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
592 - What do you mean by Hyperbole ?
an overstatement about something
593 - What do you mean by Phonetics ?
study of speech sounds
594 - What do you mean by Quatrain ?
a stanza of four lines
595 - What do you mean by Stanza ?
a subdivision of a poem
596 - What do you understand by the term Intifada?
War
597 - What grammatical element is contained in the line "to be or not to be"?
Infinitive phrase
598 - What is a funny poem of five lines called?
Limerick
599 - What is a plot ?
arrangement of the incidents
600 - What is a title to Milton’s blank verse epic that is written in and critiques the epic tradition?
Paradise lost
601 - What is an Effigy ?
an image or dummy
602 - What is an Epic ?
a long narrative poem
603 - What is anthology ?
collection of poems
604 - What is defined as "the study of sentence structure"?
Syntax
605 - What is Epistolary Novel ?
a novel of correspondence among the characters
606 - What is Lemma?
A type of phoneme
607 - What is meant by Etymology?
The study of the origins of the words and how they have changed over time.
608 - What is 'Parable' ?
an allegorical story usually containing a moral lesson
609 - What is Pastiche?
Selection of verities of work
610 - What is Quinzaine ?
a fifteen line stanza
611 - What is Robert Frost famous Journal ?
The Atlantic Monthly
612 - What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?
Imagination
613 - What is the lexical relationship between freedom and liberty?
Synonymy
614 - What is the meaning of word Syntax?
Relationship
615 - What is the name of English poet who was addicted to Opium?
S.T. Coleridge
616 - What is the name of first novel in the history of english literature?
Don Quixote
617 - What is the name of Pre-romantic age in poetry?
Augustan Age
618 - What is the name of William Shakespeare longest play?
Hamlet
619 - What is the name of Wordsworth's long poem ?
The Prelude
620 - What is the term Utopia ?
an ideal state which does not exist in real
621 - What is the time period from 1300-1650 in Europe called?
The Renaissance
622 - What is the word for a "play on words"?
Pun
623 - What is threnody?
Song sung at death
624 - What poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
625 - What purpose does Milton state for writing Paradise Lost?
To justify the ways of God to man
626 - What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?
having no rhyming end
627 - What the term Elegy refers ?
a song of lamentation
628 - What the term Renaissance refers ?
revival or rebirth
629 - What was Shelley earliest work?
Zastrozzi
630 - What was the first fruit of Renaissance?
Tottel’s Miscellany
631 - What was the nationality of OscarWilde ?
Irish
632 - What was the subtitle of the play Gorboduce?
Forrex and Porrex
633 - What were Kurtz last words in Heart of Darkness?
Exterminate all the brutes!
634 - When a pidgin becomes a lingua-franca it is called a?
Creole
635 - When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born ?
1809
636 - Where does Lavinia follow her mother to spy on her?
Both New York and Boston
637 - Where in Canterbury was the final destination for the pilgrims in " The Canterbury Tales"?
The shrine of Thomas Becket
638 - Where T.S Eliot was born?
USA
639 - Where youth grows pake and sceptre thin and dies who is Keats in his Ode to Nightingale referring to?
Fanny Browne
640 - Which age is regarded as the greatest age in the history of English literature?
The Elizabethan Age
641 - Which among the following is not a Shakespearean play?
The Spanish Tragedy
642 - Which among the following is not an allomorph?
Suppletion Allomorph
643 - Which bird was killed in The Rime of the Ancient Manner?
Albatross
644 - Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize__________________?
The Luminaries
645 - Which Bronte wrote "Wuthering Heights"?
Emily
646 - Which dialect became the standard English (King’s english) by the time of Chaucer?
East midland dialect
647 - Which George Orwell book is political beast Fable a satire on the Russian Revolution?
Animal Farm
648 - Which is called the Victorian Age______________?
19th Century
649 - Which is not a poetry form?
Tale
650 - Which is refers to a socially or situationally defined style of language?
Register
651 - Which is the representative poem of the Old English Period?
Odyssey
652 - Which is the shortest major era in English Literary history?
Romantic Period
653 - Which literary form developed in the fifteenth century personified vices and virtues?
Morality play
654 - Which metre has Mariowe employed in his play?
Blank verse
655 - Which mode of literary creation is considered to the most complete expression of human thoughts, feeling and emotion?
Drama
656 - Which of Spenser works is a collection of sonnets?
Amoretti
657 - Which of the following is a tragicomedy?
Winter’s Tale
658 - Which of the following is common term for the Early Middle Ages?
Antediluvian
659 - Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin's interest in social economy ?
Unto this Last
660 - Which of the following is not a poem by John Keats?
Desert Places
661 - Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Occult
662 - Which of the following is not a technique of comedy?
Plot complications
663 - Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare ?
Merchant of Venice
664 - Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly ?
To a skylark
665 - Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
Jacobean Age
666 - Which of the following novelist known for his Satire in the Victorian literature?
Thackeray
667 - Which of the following of Byron is autobiographical?
Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
668 - Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
The Commonwealth Period
669 - Which of the following plays has an epilogue?
Devil’s Disciple
670 - Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
671 - Which of the following school of literary writings is connected with a medical theory?
Comedy of Humors
672 - Which of the following was a group that tried to spread Catholic teaching after the Reformation?
The Jesuits
673 - Which of the following work is not of Milton?
The Jew of Malta
674 - Which of the following works is by Coleridge?
Biographia Literaria
675 - Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
Beowulf
676 - Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use ?
An "airy fairy"
677 - Which of the following writers is not a poet of Romantic Period?
William Blake
678 - Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on "The Literature of the British Empire" ?
Any of these
679 - Which of the following wrote plays that are all tragedies?
Mariowe
680 - Which of these is the "Magnum Opus of Chaucer"?
Canterbury Tales
681 - which of these novels is not by Virginia Woolf?
Tan
682 - Which of these terms refer to the study of speech process?
Phonetics
683 - Which on of the following is first long poem in English ?
Beowulf
684 - Which one is not a science fiction writer_________________?
Victor Hugo
685 - Which one is not by Shakespeare ?
Knowledge is power.
686 - Which one is the world's longest running play______________?
The Mousetrap
687 - Which one of the following is a comedy ?
All's Well that Ends Well
688 - Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813 ?
Southey
689 - Which one of the following writers is not woman ?
Robert Browning
690 - Which period is known as Dark Ages?
Age of Barren
691 - Which period of literature came first ?
Restoration
692 - Which poem of Coleridge is an Opium Dream?
Kubla Khan
693 - Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria ?
In Memoriam
694 - Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century ?
Thomas Carew
695 - Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry ?
William Wordsworth
696 - Which poetry is written by Sir Walter Scott?
Patriotism
697 - Which romantic poet died in Greece?
Byron
698 - Which Russian leader does Napolean most resemble in Orwell animal Farm?
Stalin
699 - Which three tribes came to England in the middle of the 5th century?
Germanic
700 - Which tragedy has not been written by William Shakespeare?
The Spanish Tragedy
701 - Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________?
Columbia University
702 - Which Victorian poet called the Psychologist?
Browning
703 - Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
Anglo-Saxon
704 - Which work of William Wordsworth considered as his greatest autobiographical epic?
The Prelude
705 - Which work was completed last ?
John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
706 - Which work was published first ?
Blake's "Songs of Innocence"
707 - Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
1340 AD
708 - Which year William Shakespeare was born ?
1564 AD
709 - Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ?
Wordsworth
710 - Who among the following is not a contemprary of George Eliot?
Swift
711 - Who authored Piers Plowman?
William Langland
712 - Who called Dryden the father of English Criticism?
Doctor Johnson
713 - Who explained the relationship of language with thought?
Ferdinand De Sassure
714 - Who founded first English Public School?
Alfred the Great
715 - Who got the title of national poet?
Robert Southey
716 - Who have written the book 'The Godfather'
Mario Puzo
717 - Who introduce dramatic monologue?
Robert Browning
718 - Who is an American author ?
All 4
719 - Who is called poet of Nine-o-Clock in the morning?
Robert Bridges
720 - Who is called the Bird of Avon ?
William Shakespeare
721 - Who is called the Father of English Learning?
Bede
722 - Who is called the father of English Poetry ?
G. Chaucer
723 - Who is called the 'Mock heroic poet' ?
Alexander Pope
724 - Who is considered the pioneer of metaphysical poetry?
John Donne
725 - Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
Henry Fielding
726 - Who is considered to be the pioneer of stream of consciousness technique in modern fiction?
Virginia Wolf
727 - Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare ?
Christopher Marlowe
728 - Who is credited with the distinction of locutionary, illocutionary perlocutionary speech acts?
Michel Halliday
729 - Who is famous for representing London in his novels ?
Dickens
730 - Who is known as "Father of English Novel"?
Henry Fielding
731 - Who is known as "The True Child of the Renaissance"?
Spenser
732 - Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?
Jane Austen
733 - Who is known as Anglo-Saxon milton?
Caedmon
734 - Who is known as the "Rebel Poet of English Literature"?
Lord Byron
735 - Who is known as the Anglo-Saxon Milton?
Caedmon
736 - Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry_______________?
Geoffrey Chaucer
737 - Who is known as the father of Prose?
Francis Bacon
738 - Who is known as the national poet of England_________________?
William Shakespeare
739 - Who is the author of "Around the World in Eighty Days" ?
Jules Verne
740 - Who is the author of "The Origin of Species" ?
Charles Darwin
741 - Who is the author of 'A Brief History of Time' ?
Stephen Hawking
742 - Who is the author of 'Animal Farm' ?
George Orwell
743 - Who is the author of Book "Nineteen Eighty Four"?
George Orwell
744 - Who is the author of famous tragedy "The Spanish Tragedy"?
Thomas Kyd
745 - Who is the author of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' ?
Ernest Hemingway
746 - Who is the author of Hamlet?
William Shakespeare
747 - Who is the author of Heart of Darkness?
Joseph Conard
748 - Who is the author of 'Heaven and Earth' ?
Lord Byron
749 - Who is the author of 'India Wins Freedom' ?
Abul Kalam Azad
750 - Who is the author of 'Man and Superman' ?
George Bernard Shaw
751 - Who is the author of Pride and Prejudice?
Jane Austin
752 - Who is the author of 'Sherlock Holmes' ?
Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
753 - Who is the author of the book "Language instinct: How the mind creates language"?
Leo Van Lier
754 - Who is the author of the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days' ?
Jules Verne
755 - Who is the author of the famous book 'The Judgment' is_______________?
Kuldip Nayer
756 - Who is the author of the novel Hard Times?
Charles Dickens
757 - Who is the author of the novel 'The Golden Age' ?
Tahmima Anam
758 - Who is the author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' ?
S. T. Coleridge
759 - Who is the creator of the character named Sherlock Holmes?
Arthur Canon Doyle
760 - Who is the creator of the character named Sherlock Holmes?
Arthur Canon Doyle
761 - Who is the father of English Literature ?
Geoffrey Chaucer
762 - Who is the father of linguistics?
Sassure
763 - Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ?
Cynewulf
764 - Who is the first modern novelist ?
Samuel Richardson
765 - Who is the hero of Paradise Regained_______________?
Christ
766 - Who is the heroine in Shakespeare Temple?
Miranda
767 - Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?
John Donne
768 - Who is the writer of 'Comedy of Errors' ?
William Shakespeare
769 - Who is the writer of 'Harold' ?
Lord Tennyson
770 - Who is the writer of 'Lorna Doone' ?
Blackmore
771 - Who is the writer of The Augustan Period ?
Samuel Richardson
772 - Who is the writer of The Caroline Period ?
Robert Herrick
773 - Who is the writer of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' ?
Lord Tennyson
774 - Who is the writer of the poem 'A Grammarian's Funeral' ?
Robert Browning
775 - Who is the writer of the poem 'Andrea Del Sarto' ?
Robert Browning
776 - Who is the writer of the poem 'Nun Priest's Tale' ?
Geoffrey Chaucer
777 - Who is the writer of The Restoration Period ?
Aphra Ben
778 - Who is the writer of The Restoration Period ?
John Dryden
779 - Who is the writer of 'The Ring of the Book' ?
Robert Browning
780 - Who is the writer of 'The Two Voices' ?
Lord Tennyson
781 - Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?
Arobinda Adigha
782 - Who is the writer of 'Vision of Sin' ?
Lord Tennyson
783 - Who of the following is a playwright ?
G.B. Shaw
784 - Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
William Blake
785 - Who propounds "the touchstone method"_______________?
Arnold
786 - Who said 'Cowards die many times before their death' ?
Shakespeare
787 - Who served as an Irish senator for two terms? A___________ Wilde?
Yeats
788 - Who speaks what language to whom and when, this idea is given by?
Fishman, 1965
789 - Who was a friend of John Milton ?
Andrew Marvell
790 - Who was a statesman but awarded nobel prize in Literature?
Winston Churchill
791 - Who was American poet ?
Robert Frost
792 - Who was awarded noble prize in literature in 1948 for his outstanding pioneer contribution to present day poetry?
T.S. Eliot
793 - Who was Beowulf?
A warrior
794 - Who was more under the influence of Godwin's philosophy of life ?
Shelley
795 - Who was the composer of the poem Andrea Del Sarto?
Robert Browning
796 - Who was the leading figure of Christian Humanism?
Erasmus
797 - Who were the original speakers of English?
The Angles Saxon and Jutes
798 - Who write the story "Story Teller" ?
Saki
799 - Who wrote "Measure for Measure"?
William Shakespeare
800 - Who wrote "Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour"?
Wordsworth
801 - Who wrote "Piers Plowman"?
William Langland
802 - Who wrote "Shakespeare's Later Comedies' ?
Palmer D.J.
803 - Who wrote "Silent Woman"?
Ben Jonson
804 - Who wrote about the Idyllic "Isle of Innisfree"?
William Butler Yeats
805 - Who wrote 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' ?
John Keats
806 - Who wrote children classic "Swiss Family Robinson"?
Johann David Wyss
807 - Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment' ?
Dostoyevsky
808 - Who wrote Daffodils?
None of the above
809 - Who wrote Fairy Queen?
Spenser
810 - Who wrote famous poem My Heart Leaps Up?
William Wordsworth
811 - Who wrote first ?
Howard, Earl of Surrey
812 - Who wrote 'Hard Times' and 'A tale of two Cities' ?
Charles Dickens
813 - Who wrote 'Kubla Khan' ?
Coleridge
814 - Who wrote Lyrical Ballads?
Both A & B
815 - Who wrote Paradise Lost?
John Milton
816 - Who wrote songs of experience?
Blake
817 - Who wrote Tales from Shakespeare?
Both A & B
818 - Who wrote the "The Gathering Storm"?
Winston Churchill
819 - Who wrote the book 'Ivan Hoe' ?
Sir Walter Scott
820 - Who wrote the book 'Lord Jim: A Tale ?
Joseph Conrad
821 - Who wrote the early 16th century prose work "Utopia"?
Sir Thomas More
822 - Who wrote the fantasy novel 'The Lord of the Rings' ?
J. R. R. Tolkien
823 - Who wrote the play Devil’s Disciple?
George Bernard Shaw
824 - Who wrote the poem "Requiem" ?
Robert Louis Stevenson
825 - Who wrote the poem ‘The Winding Stair’?
W.B. Yeats
826 - Who wrote the poem 'Solitary Reaper' ?
William Wordsworth
827 - Who wrote the poem The Christ?
Cynewulf
828 - Who wrote the poem 'The Seven Ages' ?
William Shakespeare
829 - Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, wine and snuff?"
Shakespeare
830 - Who wrote 'The Spanish Tragedy' ?
Thomas Kyd
831 - Who wrote the The Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck
832 - Who wrote Thought Fox?
Ted Hughes
833 - Whom does satan discover the next angel in rank?
Beelzebub
834 - Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans ?
George Eliot
835 - Whose work is called "Mock Utopia"?
Swift’s
836 - Widshit poem is about?
Personal account of the Minster’s life
837 - William Blake's /Songs of 'counterbalance his 'Songs of Experience' ?
Innocence
838 - William Butler Yeats was born in?
Ireland
839 - William Hazlitt’s is best known as?
Literary Critic
840 - William Hazlitt’s was belongs to?
UK
841 - William Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Lambic Pentameter
842 - William Shakespeare is known for his?
Plays
843 - William Wordsworth was inspired by?
The French Revolution
844 - Word "Renaissance" comes from which language?
French
845 - Word Novel derived from the word?
Novella
846 - Word Syntax belongs to which language?
Greek
847 - Wordsworth is a ______________ poet ?
romantic
848 - Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in_______________?
1843 b…1844
849 - World of "Lady Shallot" belongs to?
Victorian era
850 - World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event ?
Oscar Wilde
851 - Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?
Dramatic Lyrics
852 - Written in March' is a poem composed by_______________?
William Wordsworth
853 - Wuthering Heights a representative of English fiction was written by?
Emily Bronte
854 - Wyatt and Surrey in the 16th century imported the __ into the English Language.
Petrarchan Sonnet
855 - Yahoo's according to Gulliver were______________?
European
856 - Yeats was______________?
Both
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