English Literature MCQs with explanations

Question 1

Which of the following characterize(s) a lay?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 2

Why is the concept of the sublime important in Gothic literature?

Accepted Answer

It causes an experience of elestasis, or transport.

Question 3

Detractors argue that such an approach can be too “judgmental.” Some believe literature should be judged primarily (if not solely) on its artistic merits. What approach possess this disadvantage?

Accepted Answer

Moral/Philosophical

Question 4

Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India’s post-colonial situation?

Accepted Answer

A and B only

Question 5

Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii?

Accepted Answer

1999

Question 6

Who defined language as “a purely human and noninstinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols”?

Accepted Answer

Edward Sapir

Question 7

The term ________is used to designate words which are spelt differently but pronounced alike and which are different in meaning?

Accepted Answer

Homophones

Question 8

After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem “Hero and Leander”?

Accepted Answer

George Chapman

Question 9

The characteristic of Naturalism that is most present in the first chapter of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is________?

Accepted Answer

The theme of man against man.

Question 10

Who wrote Heritage?

Accepted Answer

Countiee cullen

English Literature MCQs with Explanations