Important mcq questions on literature for Net Exam

Important mcq questions on literature for Net Exam

1 D.H.Lawrence called one of his novels Kangaroo as “Thought Adventure".

2 The phrase ‘religion of the blood' is associated with D.H.Lawrence.

3 A character in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando changes his sex. Charles II is characterised in this novel.

4 A woman's search for a fittinOkOkg mate is the central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

5 ‘Chocolate cream hero' appears in Shaw’s Arms and the Man.

6 The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shaw’s Man and Superman.

7 Prostitution is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

8 Labour and Capital conflict is the central theme of Galsworthy’s Strife.

9 "The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another." These lines occur in Galsworthy’s Justice.

10 Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.

11 Joseph Conrad's novels are generally set in the background of the sea.

12 .Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem “ If”

13 .The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by William James.

14 .The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with Hopkins.

15 .Sprung Rhythm' was originated by Hopkins.

16 .T .S. Eliot called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure.

17. World Within World is an autobiography of Stephen Spender.

18 .G. B. Shaw said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence”.

19 .Aldous Huxley borrowed the title ‘Brave New World’ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

20 .William Morris is the author of The Earthly Paradise.

21 .T S Eliot was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion”.

22 .Virginia Woolf was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England.

23 .George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty – Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are prophetic novels.

Important mcq questions on literature for Net Exam


24 .Plato said, ‘Art is twice removed from reality'.

25 .Plato proposed in his Republic that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic.

26 .Five principal sources of Sublimity are there according to Longinus.

27 .In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four speakers representing four different ideologies. Neander expresses Dryden's own views.

28 .Dr. Johnson called Dryden 'the father of English criticism'

29 .Shelley said, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”.

30 . Dr. Johnson preferred Shakespeare's comedies to his Tragedies.

31 .Coleridge said, "I write in metre because I am about to use a language different from that of prose."

32 .Heroic Couplet is a two-line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic Pentameter.

33 .Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a Heroic couplet.

34 .Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with a fixed rhyme-scheme.

35 .Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter.

36 .Ottawa Rima is an eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme.

37 .Spenserian stanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of two quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded off with an Alexandrine.

38 .Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.

39 .Simile is a comparison between two things which have at least one point common.

40 .Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement for the sake of emphasis.

41 .The poem by Chaucer known to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet is The Legend of Good Women.

42 .Chaucer introduced the Heroic couplet in English verse and invented Rhyme Royal.

43 .The invention of the genre, the Eclogues (pastoral poetry) is attributed to Alexander Barclay.

44 .Mort D' Arthur is the first book in English in poetic prose.

45 .First to use blank verse in English drama Thomas Sackville.

46 .The first English play house called The Theatre was founded in London, 1576.

47 .Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet form to England.

Important mcq questions on literature for Net Exam.

48 .Thomas Nash was the creator of the picaresque novel. ( The Unfortunate Traveler)

49 .Francis Bacon is the first great stylist in English prose.

50 .Marlowe wrote only tragedies.

51 .Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the introductory Sonnet

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