English Mcqs For NTS
Sylvia
Plath married which English poet?
a.Masefield
b.Causley
c.Hughes
d.Larkin Ans: C
Carl Sandburg ‘Planked whitefish’ contains
what kind of
imagery?
a.Sea scenes
b.Rural Idyll c. War
d.Innocent childhood Ans: C
Which influential American poet was born in
Long Island in 1819?
a.Emily Dickinson
b.Paul Dunbar
c.John Greenleaf Whittier
d.Walt Whitman
Ans: D
In 1960
‘The Colossus’ was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
a.Elizabeth Bishop
b.Sylvia Plath
c.Marianne Moore d. Laura Jackson Ans: B
In his poem Kipling said ‘If you can meet with
triumph and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘?
a.Glory
b.Ruin
not a literary device used for aesthetic
effect in
poetry?
a.Assonance
b.Onomatopoeia
c.Rhyme
d.Grammar Ans: D
True or false: Writing predates poetry.
a.True
b.False Ans: B
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
a.The Homeric epic
b.The Gilgamesh epic
c.The Deluge epic
d.The Hesiodic ode Ans: A
Which of the following is not a poetic
tradition?
a.The Epic
b.The Comic
c.The Occult
d.The Tragic Ans: C
What is the study of poetry’s meter and form
called?
a.Prosody
b.Potology
c.Rheumatology
Scansion Ans: A
a.Allegory
b.Idealism
c.Imagery
d.Satire
e.None of these
d.Satire
Joseph
Andrews was written by
a.Richardson
b.Defoe
c.Fielding
d.Bunyan
e.None of these
c.Fielding
Shakespeare
was born in
a.1570
b.1601
c.1547
d.1564
e.None of these
‘The Wheel
of Fire’ a criticism was written by
a.Bradley
b.W. Knight
c.Hazlitt
d.Dryden
e.None of these
b.W. Knight
Kubla Khan
was written by
a.Wordsworth
b.Coleridge
c.Shelley
d.Keats
e.None of these
b.Coleridge
G. B. Shaw
began his literary career first as:
a.Journalist
b.Novelist
c.Dramatist
d.Critic
b.Novelist
W.B. Yeats
was born in
a.1914
b.1856
c.1865
d.1838
e.None of these
c.1865
Jane
Austen’s Work is transfused with the spirit of
a.Classicism
b.Puritanism
c.Idealism
d.Rationalism
e.None of these
a.Classicism
The Waste
Land by T. S. Elliot is an
a.Ode
b.Elegy
c.Allegory
e.None of these
b.Elegy
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