1. Which period is known as "the golden age of English literature"?
a)
The Victorian age
b)
The Elizabethan age
c)
The Restoration age
d)
The Eighteenth Century
Answer:
The Elizabethan age
2. 'Jacobean period' of English Literature refers to-
a)
1558-1603
b)
1625-1649
c)
1603-1625
d)
1649-1660
Answer:
1603-1625
3. 'Restoration Period' in English Literature refers to -
a)
1560
b)
1660
c)
1760
d)
1866
Answer:
1660
Explanation:
ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের ইতিহাসে ১৬৬০ সালকে 'Restoration Period' বা 'পুনঃপ্রতিষ্ঠা কাল' বলা হয়। এই বছর ইংল্যান্ডে দীর্ঘস্থায়ী প্রজাতন্ত্রের অবসান ঘটে এবং নির্বাসিত রাজা দ্বিতীয় চার্লস (Charles II) পুনরায় সিংহাসনে আরোহণ করেন। এর মাধ্যমেই রাজতন্ত্র পুনরুদ্ধার করা হয় বলে কালখণ্ডটির এমন নামকরণ। এই যুগটি জন ড্রাইডেন (John Dryden)-এর প্রভাবের জন্য বিশেষভাবে পরিচিত এবং এটি ফরাসি সাহিত্যের প্রভাব ও কমেডি অব ম্যানার্স (Comedy of Manners)-এর বিকাশে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ভূমিকা পালন করে।
4. The Romantic age in English literature began with the publication of-
a)
Preface to Shakespeare
b)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
c)
Preface to Ancient Mariners
d)
Preface Dr. Johnson
Answer:
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
5. "If winter comes, can spring be far behind"- who wrote this?
a)
William Blake
b)
S.T. Coleridge
c)
Lord Byron
d)
P. B Shelley
Answer:
P. B Shelley
6. "For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love" occurs in a novel by:
a)
Jane Austen
b)
Syed Waliullah
c)
Somerset Maugham
d)
Rabindranath Tagore
Answer:
Rabindranath Tagore
7. "Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so', This extract is taken from the drama-
a)
King Lear
b)
Macbeth
c)
As you Like it
d)
Hamlet
Answer:
Hamlet
8. 'Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea'. These lines have been quoted from Dylan Thomas' poem-
a)
The Flowers
b)
Fern Hill
c)
Bye Fire
d)
After the Funeral
Answer:
Fern Hill
9. 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet '- Who said this?
a)
Juliet
b)
Romeo
c)
Portia
d)
Rosalind
Answer:
Juliet
10. 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis women's whole existence'. This is taken from the poem of-
a)
P.B Shelley
b)
Lord Byron
c)
John Keats
d)
Edmund Spenser
Answer:
Lord Byron
11. The literary term 'euphemism' means -
a)
vague idea
b)
inoffensive expression
c)
a sonnet
d)
wise saying
Answer:
inoffensive expression
আরও পড়ুন:
12. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
a)
Alliteration verse
b)
Sonnet form
c)
Iambic pentameter
d)
Dactylic Hexameter
Answer:
Iambic pentameter
13. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as is known to be--
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
alliteration
d)
Personification
Answer:
simile
14. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
a)
Quarter
b)
Limerick
c)
Sixtet
d)
haiku
Answer:
Limerick
15. The Climax of a plot is what happens -
a)
in the beginning
b)
at the height
c)
at the end
d)
in the confrontation
Answer:
at the height
16. Who is not the Modern poet?
a)
W.B. Yeats
b)
W.H. Auden
c)
John Keats
d)
T.S. Eliot
Answer:
John Keats
17. O' Henry was from -
a)
Canada
b)
America
c)
England
d)
Ireland
Answer:
America
18. The most famous romantic poet of English literature is-
a)
John Dryden
b)
Alexander Pope
c)
William Wordsworth
d)
T.S. Eliot
Answer:
William Wordsworth
19. Who is not a romantic poet ?
a)
P.B Shelley
b)
S.T. Coleridge
c)
John Keats
d)
T.S Eliot
Answer:
T.S Eliot
20. P.B Shelley's 'Adonais' is an elegy on the death of -
a)
John Milton
b)
S.T. Coleridge
c)
John Keats
d)
Lord Byron
Answer:
John Keats