English Literature Quiz Questions for Competitive Exams
In his poem, Kipling said 'If you can meet with triumph and __________'?
(A) Glory
(B) Ruin
(C) Disaster
(D) Victory
Correct Answer : C
Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?
(A) Assonance
(B) Onomatopaea
(C) Rhyme
(D) Grammar
Correct Answer : D
True or False; Writing pedates poetry.
(A) True
(B) False
Correct Answer : B
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
(A) The Homeric epic
(B) The Gilgamesh epic
(C) The Deluge epic
(D) The Hesiodic ode
Correct Answer : A
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
(A) The EpicT
(B) The Comic
(C) The Occult
(D) The Tragic
Correct Answer : C
Which is the part of the sentence which denotes the person or thing about which something is said?
(A) Predicate
(B) Subject
(C) Phrase
(D) Clauses
Correct Answer : B
What are the study of poetry's meter and form called?
(A) Prosody
(B) Potology
(C) Rheumatology
(D) Scansion
Correct Answer : A
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
(A) Alliterative verse
(B) Sonnet form
(C) Iambic pentameter
(D) Dactylic hexameter
Correct Answer : C
Who wrote this famous line: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/Thou art more lovely and more temperate _____"
(A) T S Eliot
(B) Lord Tennyson
(C) Charlotte Bronte
(D) Shakespeare
Correct Answer : D
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
(A) William Carlos Williams
(B) Emily Dickinson
(C) Gerard Manly Hopkins
(D) Robert Frost
Correct Answer : A
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