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

c. Disaster d. victory Ans: C Which of the following is

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

In Greek tragedy irony and ____________ are fused into one.

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

d. 1564


‘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

e. None of these


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

d. Epic

e.None of these


b.Elegy

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