English Literature Questions and answers

  1. English Literature
11). __________ is not a character in Jane Austen's 'Emma'
A). Catherine Morland
B). George Knightley
C). Harriet Smith
D). Frank Churchill
12). Who said A thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his Sensibility
A). F.R. Leavis
B). T.S. Eliot
C). Samuel Johnson
D). I.A. Richards
13). The Great Tradition was written by _________
A). G. Wilson Knight
B). T.S. Eliot
C). F.R. Leavis
D). Allen Tate
14). Rape of the lock by Pope contains _________ cantos
A). Two
B). Three
C). Four
D). Five
15). Romeo & Juliet is based on the story by which Italian Author?
A). Bandello
B). Virgil
C). John Stow
D). H.B. Stowe


16). A Reed Shaken by the wind is written by ________
A). W.H. Auden
B). Tim May
C). T.S.Eliot
D). Gavin Maxwell
17). “Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it but moulds it to its purpose" was said by
A). Oscar Wilde
B). Ezra Pound
C). Coleridge
D). Aristotle
18). Who said, “I awoke one morning and found myself" famous
A). Chaucer
B). Matthew Arnold
C). Shakespeare.
D). Byron
19). Who wrote under pseudonym of 'y.y'
A). Bertrand Russell
B). Jerome K. Jerome
C). Robert Lynd.
D). Francis Bacon
20). Who said 'Get Stewed, Books are a load crop'
A). Philip larkin
B). B. Behan
C). Hitler
D). Nixon
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