English misc (75) MCQs with Answers

Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions?

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

Whom could Kreton tell about his solar system?

• A.A physicist
• B.An astronomer
• C.A mathematician
• D.A geographer

What is a fable?

• A.A long narrative poem about heroic deeds
• B.A short story, often with animals as characters, that teaches a moral lesson
• C.A play that ends in disaster for the main character
• D.A humorous piece of writing that uses irony and exaggeration

Who made a distinction between 'Fancy' and 'Imagination'?

• A.Coleridge
• B.Wordsworth
• C.Keats
• D.Shelley

Who developed the 'Speech Act Theory'?

• A.Noam Chomsky
• B.J.L. Austin
• C.Ferdinand de Saussure
• D.John Searle

What is Catharsis in literature?

• A.A type of poetic meter
• B.Emotional purgation or purification
• C.A rhetorical question
• D.A character flaw

The poem "The Solitary Reaper" is composed by _?

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

Which one of the following is known as the successor of Shakespeare?

• A.Ben Jonson
• B.Christopher Marlowe
• C.John Fletcher
• D.John Milton

In the play Hamlet, why does Ophelia distribute flowers?

• A.Because she was celebrating a festival
• B.Because she was getting married
• C.Because she was mad
• D.Because she was mourning her father's death

Elizabethan age was an age of ?

• A.Great wars
• B.Great poets
• C.Great events
• D.Great discoveries