Most Important English Mcqs For PPSC

Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was originally written in

a.Italian

b.Spanish

c.German

d.French

e.None of these

d.French

The ________ age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art:

a.Classical

b.Romantic

c.Victorian

d.Elizabethan

e.None of these

b.Romantic

Maud and In memoriam were written by a.Tennyson

b.  Keats c.Pope d.Shelley e.None of these

a.Tennyson

Tennyson was born in

a.1809

b.1798

c.1709

d.1890

e.None of these

a.1809

___________ has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments

a.Hyperbole

b.Metaphor

c.Rhetoric

d.Overtone

e.None of these

a.Hyperbole

Keats’ aestheticism was later turned into

a.Romanticism

b.Pre-Raphaelitism

c.Idealism

d.Angilicanism

e.None of these

b.Pre-Raphaelitism

_________ is the animating force in the work of C. Bronte

a.Idealism

b.Romanticism

c.Lyricism

d.Radicalism

e.None of these

a.Idealism

The Wilde Swans at Coole is first great collection of poems of

a.W. Lewis

b.Yeats

c.E. Sitwell

d.D. H. Lawrence

e. None of these

b.Yeats

T. S. Eliot was born in

a.1887

b.1888

c.1817

d.1870

e.None of these

b.1888

Jane Eyre was written by

a.Jane Austen

b.G. Eliot

c.C. Bronte

d.E. Bronte

e.None of these

c.C. Bronte

Ophelia, Julia , Viola, Imogen are the characters created

by

a.Richardson

b.Fielding

c.  Hardy d.Shakespeare e.None of these

d.Shakespeare

Ode to West Wind was written by

(a)   Keats

(b)   Shelley

(c)          Byron

(d)   Blake

(e)    None of these

(b) Shelley

Keats was born in

(a)   1770

(b)   1779

(c)   1795

(d)   1790

(e)    None of these

(c) 1795

Dream Children was written by (a) Leigh Hunt

(b)      Charles Lamb

(c)   Hazzlit

(d)   Ruskin

(e)     None of these

(b)   Charles Lamb

'Picture of Dorian Gray ' was written by

(a)   Oscar Wild

(b)   Dickens

(c)   Hardy

(d)   George Eliot

(e)    None of these

(a) Oscar Wild

Ruskin belonged to (which age)

(a)   Romantic age

(b)       Modern age

(c)   Victorian age

(d)       Augustan age

(e)    None of these

(c)    Victorian Age Wordsworth lived from

(a)     1770 – 1832

(b)   1775 – 1859

(c)   1770 – 1850

(d)   1770 – 1802

(e)    None of these

(c) 1770-1850

'Heroes and hero worship' was written by

(a)   Mill

(b)   Carlyle

(c)   Macaulay

(d)   Coleridge

(e)    None of these

(b) Thomas Carlyle

'       Fair seed time had my soul' is from

(a) Ode to autumn

(b) To a Highland girl

(c) Ancient Mariner

(d) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage

(e) None of these

(e) None of these (The Prelude)

Great Expectation was written by

(a)   George Eliot

(b)   Thackeray

(c)   Hardy

(d)   Dickens

(e)    None of these

(d) Dickens

Lotus eaters is written by

(a)   Tennyson

(b)   Browning

(c)   Mathew Arnold

(d)   Hardy

(e)    None of these

(a) Tennyson

Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are

(a)   Poets

(b)   Dramatists

(c)   Essayists

(d)   Novelists

(e)    None of these

(c) Essayists

'My Last Duchess' was written by

(a)   Keats

(b)   Coleridge

(c)   Tennyson

(d)   Browning

(e)    None of these

(d) Browning

Emily Bronte is the writer of

a.Wuthering heights

b.Emma

c.Under the green wood tree d.Mr.chips

e.None of the above

a.Wuthering heights

'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' is a definition of poetry by

(a)   Keats

(b)   Wordsworth

(c)   Shelley

(d)   Coleridge

(e)    None of these

(b)   Wordsworth