English Literature Questions and answers

  1. English Literature
41). The year 1776 was associated with
A). Invention of steam engine
B). The Wars of Roses
C). American Independence
D). None of these
42). Who is an 18th century author, essayist and a painter. One of the paintings is still in National Portrait Gallery
A). Joseph Addison
B). Bacon
C). Hazlitt
D). W.M. Thackeray
43). Which of Charles Lamb friend said “Lamb was the most delightful, the most provoking and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remarks in the course of evening."
A). Hazlitt
B). Coleridge
C). Bacon
D). Wordsworth
44). Who among the following introduced sonnets?
A). Thomas Wyatt
B). Philip Sidney
C). Shakespeare
D). Spenser
45). The Term 'Negative Capability' is associated with
A). Wordsworth
B). John Keats
C). T.S. Eliot
D). Shelley


46). What is everyman
A). Essay by Camb
B). Essay by Bacon
C). A Morality Play
D). A Comedy
47). 'Light breaks where no sunshines' is written by
A). D.H. Lawrence
B). T.S. Eliot
C). W.B. Yeats
D). Dylan Thomas
48). Who wrote 'Daffodils'
A). Keats
B). Shelley
C). Byron
D). Wordsworth
49). When was Johnson's Dictionary published
A). 1754
B). 1755
C). 1756
D). 1757
50). Orwell's Animal Farm is about ...
A). The animal world
B). The Homosapiens
C). The degeneration of communist ideas
D). None of these
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