English Literature Mcqs 1 to 50

 This is the first part of mcqs of English Literature Poetry. I also share answer Keys. These Mcqs are very useful for test preparations.

Part 1

1. Which poem ends ‘I shall but love thee better after death’?

a. How do I love thee

b. Ode to a Grecian urn

c. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes

d. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

2. Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?

a. John keats

b. Lord Byron

c. Solan

d. Sappho

3. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?

a. Nature

b. Epics

c. Sonnets

d. Nonsense

4. In coleridge’s poem ‘The rime of the Ancient Mariner’where were the three gallants going?

a. A funeral

b. A wedding

c. Market

d. To the races

5. Harold Nicholson described which poet as ‘Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’?

a. e. e. Cummings

b. T. S. Elliot

c. John Greenleaf Whittier

d. Walt Whitman

6. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?

a. She rarely left home

b. She wrote in code

c. She never attempted to publish her poetry

d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink

7. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

a. Boer War

b. Second World War

c. Korean War

d. First World War

8. Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?

a. Betjeman

b. Hughes

c. Marvel

d. Larkin

9. Which American writer published ‘A brave and startling truth’ in 1996

a. Robert Hass

b. Jessica Hagdorn

c. Maya Angelou

d. Micheal Palmer

10. Who wrote about the idyllic ‘Isle of Innisfree’?

a. Dylan Thomas

b. Ezra Pound

c. W. B. Yeats

d. e. e. cummings

11. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry

Rhyme scheme

Meter

Alliteration

12. The repetition of similar ending sounds

Alliteration

Onomatopoiea

Rhyme

13. Applying human qualities to non-human things

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

14. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

Rhyme

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

15. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

16. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

17. Using words or letters to imitate sounds

Alliteration

Simile

Onomatopoeia

18. a description that appeals to one of the five senses

Imagery

Personification

Metaphor

19. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters

Lyric

Free verse

Narrative

20. A poem with no meter or rhyme

Lyric

Free verse

Narrative

21. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme

Lyric

Free verse

Narrative

22. Sylvia Plath married which English poet?

a. Masefield

b. Causley

c. Hughes

d. Larkin

23. Carl Sandburg ‘Planked whitefish’ contains what kind of imagery?

a. Sea scenes

b. Rural Idyll

c. War

d. Innocent childhood

24. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?

a. Emily Dickinson

b. Paul Dunbar

c. John Greenleaf Whittier

d. Walt Whitman

25. In 1960 ‘The Colossus’ was the first book of poems published by which poetess?

a. Elizabeth Bishop

b. Sylvia Plath

c. Marianne Moore

d. Laura Jackson

26. In his poem Kipling said ‘If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘?

a. Glory

b. Ruin

c. Disaster

d. victory

27. Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?

a. Assonance

b. Onomatopaea

c. Rhyme

d. Grammar

28. True or false: Writing predates poetry.

a. True

b. False

29. What is the earliest surviving European poem?

a. The Homeric epic

b. The Gilgamesh epic

c. The Deluge epic

d. The Hesiodic ode

30. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?

a. The Epic

b. The Comic

c. The Occult

d. The Tragic

31. What is the study of poetry’s meter and form called?

a. Prosody

b. Potology

c. Rheumatology

d. Scansion

32. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

a. Alliterative verse

b. Sonnet form

c. Iambic pentameter

d. Dactylic hexameter

33. Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?

a. William Carlos Williams

b. Emily Dickinson

c. Gerard Manly Hopkins

d. Robert Frost

34. Who wrote this famous line: ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate…’

a. TS Eliot

b. Lord Tennyson

c. Charlotte Bronte

d. Shakespeare

35. From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?

a. The 12th

b. The 14th

c. The 17th

d. The 19th

36. From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous line: ‘Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night’

a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

b. Hamlet

c. Othello

d. Romeo and Juliet

37. What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

a. Alliterative

b. Epic

c. Acrostic

d. Haiku

38. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?

a. Sir Walter Scott

b. William Butler Yeats

c. Henry Longfellow

d. Robert Burns

39. How has Stephen Dunn been described in ‘the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?

a. A poet of middleness

b. Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness

c. One of the leading prairie poets

d. Has some distinction as a critic

40. ‘The Cambridge school’ refers to a group who emerged when?

a. The 1900’s

b. The 1960’s

c. The 1920’s

d. The 1930’s

41. Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?

a. Vancouver

b. Toronto

c. Ottowa

d. Montreal

42. Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?

a.Skeptical

b.Authoritative

c.Impressionistic

d.Confident

e.Both a & c

43. Which Welsh poet wrote “Under Milk Wood?”

a.Anthony Hopkins

b.Richard Burton

c.Tom Jones

d.Dylan Thomas

44. Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

a.Geoffrey Chaucer

b.Dick Whittington

c.Thomas Lancaster

d.King Richard II

45. Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles?”

a.Agatha Christie

b.H Ryder-Haggard

c.P D James

d.Arthur Conan Doyle

46. Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:

a.Titus Andronicus

b.Taming of the Shrew

c.White Devil

d.Hamlet

47. ___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?

a.Queen Cristina

b.Top Girls

c.Camille

d.The Homecoimg

48. Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?

a.Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte

b.Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

c.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

d.Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

49. Who wrote “Ten Little Niggers?”

a.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

b.Irvine Welsh

c.Agatha Christie

d.None of above

50. Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books?

a.The Poor Man and the Lady

b.The Return of Native

c.Chollttee

d.None of the above

Answer Keys

1. a. How do I love thee

2. b. Lord Byron

3d. Nonsense

4. b. A wedding

5. b. T. S. Elliot

6. a. She rarely left home

7. d. First World War

8. a. Betjeman

9. c. Maya Angelou

10. c. W. B. Yeats

11.meter

12 1.rhyme

13.personification

14.3.alliteration

15.metaphor

16.simile

17.3.onomatopoeia

18. imagery

19.narrative

20. free verse

21lyric

22. c. Hughes

23. c. War

24. d. Walt Whitman

25. b. Sylvia Plath

26. c. Disaster

27. d. Grammar

28. b. False

29. a. The Homeric epic

30. c. The Occult

31a. Prosody

32. c. Iambic pentameter

33. a. William Carlos Williams

34d. Shakespeare

35.a. The 12th

36. d. Romeo and Juliet

37.c. acrostic

38. d. Robert Burns

39. a. A poet of middleness

40. b. The 1960's

41. c. Ottowa

42. e.Both a & c

43. d.Dylan Thomas

44. a Geoffrey Chaucer

45. d. Arthur Conan Doyle

46. c. White Devil

47. c.Camille

48. b.Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

49. C .Agatha CChristid

50. a.The Poor Man and the Lady

b.The Return of Native

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