English Literature MCQs with explanations

Question 1

The lesson the young man teaches Dorothy is________?

Accepted Answer

to live and enjoy her life

Question 2

University Wits were those who?

Accepted Answer

Had training at two universities

Question 3

In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is________?

Accepted Answer

a high ranking man

Question 4

Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowe’s influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability ________?

Accepted Answer

Very great

Question 5

In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more________ but less ________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.

Accepted Answer

radical; inventive

Question 6

Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly?

Accepted Answer

To a skylark

Question 7

As a mode of literary criticism or theory, formalism attempted to bring which of the following to literary studies?

Accepted Answer

A set of objective criteria for critical analysis

Question 8

In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not?

Accepted Answer

No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.

Question 9

Which is an exaggeration?

Accepted Answer

Hyperbole

Question 10

Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century?

Accepted Answer

the creation of the internet

English Literature MCQs with Explanations