English misc (75) MCQs with Answers

Past Paper MCQ

Who said, 'Child is the father of man'?

• A.William Wordsworth
• B.John Keats
• C.Percy Bysshe Shelley
• D.Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Poem "Music when soft voices die" is written by ?

• A.John Keats
• B.William Wordsworth
• C.P.B Shelley
• D.Lord Byron

How is Puzzo different in the Second Act than in the First Act in Beckett's Waiting for Godot?

• A.He is mute
• B.He is deaf
• C.He is blind
• D.He is lame

Akbar Nama was a _ volume history of Akbar's reign, written by Abul Fazl.

• A.Two
• B.Four
• C.Three
• D.Five

A _ is a problem in a fable that makes the characters work and resolve it.

• A.Plot
• B.Moral
• C.Conflict
• D.Setting

What literary term is used to describe a figure of speech where contradictory terms appear in conjunction?

• A.Metaphor
• B.Simile
• C.Oxymoron
• D.Hyperbole

Which of the following is not regarded as an absurdist dramatist?

• A.Samuel Beckett
• B.Eugene Ionesco
• C.Eugene O'Neill
• D.Harold Pinter

What is imagery in literature?

• A.The use of vivid and descriptive language to create mental images
• B.A type of rhyme scheme
• C.The main character in a story
• D.A literary genre

Who was the author of the famous story book Alice's Adventures in the Wonderland?

• A.Charles Dickens
• B.Mark Twain
• C.Lewis Carroll
• D.J.K. Rowling

The poem 'Dreams' is written by ?

• A.Robert Frost
• B.Walt Whitman
• C.Emily Dickinson
• D.Langston Hughes