English Literature Question 40th BCS

English Literature Question

40th BCS

1. Sweet helen, make me immortal with a kiss. The sentence has taken from the play — Doctor Faustus

2. What’s in name? That which we a call a rose by any other name smell as sweet’- Who said this— Romeo

3. Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart. ‘Tis woman’s whole existence- this taken — Lord Byron

4. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translate by — Edward FitzGerald

5. Ulyses is a novel written by —James Joyce

6. The Diamond Necklace was written by — Guy de Maupassant

7. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand- who said— Lady Macbeth

8. Where are the songs of spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.—Keats’ Poems (To Autumn)

9. Who is the central Character of `Wuthering Heights’ — Heathcilffs

10.   The old order changeth, yielding place to new- this line is extracted from Tennyson’s poem — Morte d Arthur

11.    Who wrote the ‘Poem Good-Morrow? —-John Done

12.   The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope—mock Heroic poem

13.    Which of the following is not American — W. B Yeats

14.   William Shakespeare was born—1564

38th BCS

1.  “Jecobean Period” of English Literature refers to —1603-1625

2.   Where do the following lines occur in? “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide,k wide sea ……The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

3.   “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.” This line is written by —- John Donne

4.   Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?—- John Milton

5.   Who is not a Victorian poet? — Alexander Pope

6.   The play “The Spanish Tragedy” is written by—-Thomas Kyd

7.   Who among the following Indian English writers is a famous novelist?—- R.K. Narayan

8.   Which period is known as “The golden age of English literature?— The Elizabethen age

9.   Who is the author of “Man and Superman”? —G.B. Shaw

10. The most famous satirist in English literature is — Jonathan Swift

11. The literary term euphemism means— in offensive expression.

37th BCS

1.  “Gerontion” is a poem by —- T. S. Eliot

2. Fill in the blank.”—” Is Shakespeare’s last play. —–Tempest

3. Who has written the poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”? —–Thomas Gray

4. Who has written the play ‘Volpone’? —–Ben Jonson

5. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse? —– Iambic pentameter

6. The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as—— alliteration

7. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition? ——-The Occult

8. What is a funny poem of five lines called? —– Limerick.

9. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”? ——–S. T. Coleridge

10. Robert Browning was a —-poet. Fill in the gap with appropriate word—- Victorian.

11. Othello gave Desdemona—-as a token of love: —— Handkerchief.

12. P.B. Shelley’s Adonais’ is an elegy on the death of—– John Keats.

13. The comparison of unlike things using the words like on as is known to be—– simile.

14. ‘Restoration period’ in English literature refers to —–1660.

15. ‘The Sun Also Rises’ is a novel written by—— Earnest Hemingway

36th BCS

1. The romantic age in English Literature began with the publication of —Preface to Lyrical Ballad

2. Which of the following books is written by Thomas Hardy? —The Return of the Native

3.”Frailty thy name is women”is a famous dialogue form —W.Shakespeare

4.”Elegy written in a country churchyard “is written by— Thomas Gray

5. Shakespeare’s “Meausure for Meausure” is a successful — comedy

6. The poem “The Solitary Reaper”is written by—W.Wordsworth

7. The Merchant of Venice is a Shakespeare play about —a jew

8. The play Candida is by—G.B.Shaw

9. Which of the following writer’s belongs to the romantic period in English Literature—S.T.Coleridge

10. The climax of a plot is what happens—at the height

11. London Town is found a living being in the works of — Charles Dickens

12. ”Child is the father of man” is taken from the poem of— W.Wordsworth

13. Man is the political animal -who said this? —Aristotle

14. Who is the known as “the poet of nature”? —W.Wordsworth

15. A passage to india is written by —E.M.Forster

16. “Gitanjali”of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by — Gitanjali অনুবাদ রবীন্দ্রনাথ নিজেই করেন কিন্তু তার নাম অপশনে নাই। অপরদিকে “Gitanjali” এর অনুবাদ “Song offerings” এর ভূমিকা লেখেন W.B Yeats।

17. Who of the following writer’s was not a novelist? —W.B.Yeats