English Literature MCQs with explanations

Question 1

The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous luster of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. The character described in this passage?

Accepted Answer

Buries someone alive

Question 2

The poem “London” can be best understood as ________?

Accepted Answer

A protest against social inequality

Question 3

Sounds articulated by two lips are called ________?

Accepted Answer

Bilabial

Question 4

In which University Victor Frankenstein develops the technique to reanimate the dead tissues which ultimately leads to the creation of the monster?

Accepted Answer

University of Ingolstadt

Question 5

This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early American writing?

Accepted Answer

Slave narrative

Question 6

“Antony and Cleopatra” and “Macbeth” was in?

Accepted Answer

1606

Question 7

“The better part of valour is discretion” occurs in Shakespeare’s?

Accepted Answer

Henry IV, Pt I

Question 8

What do most critics say that Issy represents to her brothers and father?

Accepted Answer

she is a source of secret, repressed desire

Question 9

Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’?

Accepted Answer

D.G. Rossetti

Question 10

The First Poet Laureate in English Literature was ________?

Accepted Answer

John Dryden

English Literature MCQs with Explanations