English Literature MCQs with explanations

Question 1

What do you mean by Heroic Couplet?

Accepted Answer

a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter

Question 2

Hyperion is a/an poem________?

Accepted Answer

Lyric

Question 3

Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental creative act using languages?

Accepted Answer

Dylan Thomas

Question 4

“A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EXCEPT________?

Accepted Answer

The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play

Question 5

Which of the following does Joyce address thematically in The Dubliners?

Accepted Answer

Irish nationalism

Question 6

What is the earliest surviving European poem?

Accepted Answer

The Homeric epic

Question 7

In the play, “Henry V,” who states that “If we are marked to die, we are enough/To do our country loss________” (IV.iii.20-21)?

Accepted Answer

Henry V

Question 8

Who was more under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy of life?

Accepted Answer

Shelley

Question 9

Who is the author of the novel Passing?

Accepted Answer

Nella Larsen.

Question 10

‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from________?

Accepted Answer

Merchant of Venice

English Literature MCQs with Explanations