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English literature For those studying or preparing for, this page contains 25 important questions and answers arranged in sequence. Each question is accompanied by the correct answer and, where necessary, a detailed explanation to help clarify your concepts. Read carefully and assess your own preparation.

1. . The Elizabethan Age is also called-

a) ) Dark age
b) Victorian age
c) Golden age
d) Anglo-saxon age
Answer: Golden age

2. 'Ode to the West Wind’ was written by-

a) John Keats
b) William Wordsworth
c) Lord Byron
d) P.B. Shelley
Answer: P.B. Shelley

3. ‘Solitary Reaper’ was written by-*

a) (ক) P.B. Shelley
b) (খ) John Keats
c) (গ) Shakespeare
d) (ঘ) Wordsworth
Answer: (ঘ) Wordsworth

4. Robert Browning is famous for developing-*

a) (ক) Pastoral Elegy
b) (খ) The sonnet
c) (গ) Dramatic Monologue
d) (ঘ) Gothic novel
Answer: (গ) Dramatic Monologue

5. The modern period is characterized by-*

a) (ক) faith in traditional values
b) (খ) cynicism, disillusionment and experimentation
c) (গ) Strict adherence to victorian ideals
d) (ঘ) Medievalism and symbolism only
Answer: (খ) cynicism, disillusionment and experimentation

6. A lyric poem expresses- *

a) (ক) social criticism
b) (খ) personal feelings
c) (গ) heroic ideals
d) (ঘ) moral lessons only
Answer: (খ) personal feelings

7. Satire aims to-          *

a) (ক) Praise society
b) (খ) Correct social faults
c) (গ) Extertain children
d) (ঘ) Express grief
Answer: (খ) Correct social faults

8. Analogy is a comparison between-*

a) (ক) Two identical things
b) (খ) Two unrelated things
c) (গ) Two different but similar things
d) (ঘ) Two opposite ideas
Answer: (গ) Two different but similar things

9. Life is a Journey. is an example of-*

a) (ক) Simile
b) (খ) Metaphor
c) (গ) Analogy
d) (ঘ) paradox
Answer: (খ) Metaphor

10. ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ is an example of-

a) (ক) Irony
b) (খ) Paradox
c) (গ) Hyperbole
d) (ঘ) Epigram
Answer: (খ) Paradox

11. Who is Hamlet’s loyal friend? *

a) (ক) Rosencrantz
b) (খ) Guildenstern
c) (গ) Horatio
d) (ঘ) Fortinbras
Answer: (গ) Horatio

12. ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is written by-*

a) (ক) Jane Austen
b) (খ) Charles Dickens
c) (গ) William Shakespeare
d) (ঘ) Virginia Woolf
Answer: (গ) William Shakespeare

13. ‘On Shakespeare’ is a poem written by-*

a) (ক) Shakespeare
b) (খ) John Milton
c) (গ) Ben Jonson
d) (ঘ) Keats
Answer: (খ) John Milton

14. ‘To err is human, to forgive divine’; is written by-  

a) (ক) Tennyson
b) (খ) Milton
c) (গ) Alexander Pope
d) (ঘ) W. Blake
Answer: (গ) Alexander Pope

15. ‘A tale of two cities’ is mainly a-*

a) (ক) Gothic novel
b) (খ) Historical novel
c) (গ) Crime novel
d) (ঘ) Pastoral novel
Answer: (খ) Historical novel

16. Who is the Author of Dejection: An Ode? *

a) (ক) William Shakespeare
b) (খ) John Keats
c) (গ) S.T. Coleridge
d) (ঘ) P.B. Shelley
Answer: (গ) S.T. Coleridge

17. ‘The noun form of ‘Universal’ is-*

a) (ক) Universalty
b) (খ) University
c) (গ) Universiality
d) (ঘ) Universality
Answer: (ঘ) Universality

18. The synonym of the ‘Prudent’ is-*

a) (ক) Unwise
b) (খ) Insightful
c) (গ) Injudicious
d) (ঘ) Impolite
Answer: (খ) Insightful

19. The antonym of the word ‘Alien’ is-*

a) (ক) new comer
b) (খ) native
c) (গ) adverse
d) (ঘ) foreigner
Answer: (খ) native

20. It is many years since I ___ my village.

a) Leave
b) Left
c) Had left
d) Have left
Answer: Left

21. . The motto of Neo-Classical literature was:

a) (ক) Art for art’s sake
b) (খ) Art for society’s sake
c) (গ) Power to the people
d) (ঘ) literature for kings
Answer: (খ) Art for society’s sake

22. ০৫. ‘Paradise Lost’ attempted to-

a) (ক) Justify the ways of man to God.
b) (ঘ) Explain why good and evil are necessary
c) Show that the satan and God have equal power
d) ) Justify the ways of God to man
Answer: ) Justify the ways of God to man

23. . ‘Every Man in His Humour’ is written by-

a) (ক) Ben Jonson
b) William Shakespeare
c) Christopher Marlowe
d) George Bernard Shaw
Answer: (ক) Ben Jonson

24. ০৩. Who of the following is called the ‘Poet of the poets’?

a) Edmund Spenser
b) John Milton
c) Geoffrey Chaucer
d) Thomas Kyd
Answer: Edmund Spenser

25. . Which work is associated with Ben Jonson

a) The Sun Rising
b) Volpone
c) The Duchess of Malfi
d) ) To His Coy Mistress
Answer: Volpone

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