English Literature Questions and answers

  1. English Literature
61). The above opinion of Victor Hugo is indicative on
A). The low status of women in the 18th Century
B). The immorality prevalent in the 18th Century
C). The coffee house culture of the 18th Century
D). All these
62). 'Burlesque' 'Parody' and 'Travesty'. What is common among these three forms? These terms...
A). Are the literary forms originated by a common writer
B). Are various forms of satire
C). Commonly occur in the novel alone
D). None of these
63). The 'Coffee house' culture flourished in...
A). The early 18th Century
B). Nineteenth Century
C). Seventeenth Century
D). None of these
64). “Books were seldom judged on their merits, the praise or blame being generally awarded according to the political principles of their authors”. About which period is John Dennis talking?
A). 20th Century
B). 19th Century
C). 18th Century
D). 17th Century
65). The Heroi Couplet was first use by...
A). Dryden
B). Pope
C). Chaucer
D). Spenser


66). Who wrote “When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped of its work, it is constantly amalgamating human experience”?
A). T.S. Eliot
B). F.R. Leavis
C). I.A. Richards
D). None of these
67). Hopkins 'Sprung Rhythm' is...
A). One that contains specific number of stressed syllables and varying number of untressed ones.
B). Called so for it runs like a coach of the spring.
C). Both 'a' and 'b'
D). None of these
68). “The Twentieth Century is still the nineteenth, although it may in time acquired its own character”
A). T.S. Eliot
B). G.B. Shaw
C). Ezra Pound
D). None of these
69). 'Big Brother' is found in...
A). Midnight's Children
B). Satanic Verses
C). Nineteen Eighty Four
D). None Of these
70). The following was the editor of The Criterion
A). C.D. Narasimhaiah
B). M. Sivarama Krishna
C). T.S. Eliot
D). None of these
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