English Literature Practice Set - 14

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Check English Literature Practice Set-14 for all competitive examinations such as UGC NET English, Assistant Professor, TGT/PGT English Teacher, Teachers Eligibility Test (HTET, CTET & other TETs). Here is practice set no. 14 which is based on objective type multiple choice questions on English Literature.

 English Literature Practice Set-14 

1. To err is human, to forgive divine?
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Antithesis
(C) Transferred Epithet
(D) Pun

2. Denouement is -
(A) The ending of a tragedy
(B) The ending of a comedy
(C) The climax in a tragedy
(D) The climax in a comedy

3. 'Elia' is the pen-name assumed by -
(A) Lamb
(B) Hazlitt
(C) Carlyle
(D) De Quincey

4. Who is the greatest writer of Masques in English?
(A) Milton
(B) Daniel
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Ben Jonson

5. Whom does Dryden satirise in MacFlecknoe?
(A) Shaftesbury
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Duke of Buckingham

6. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a ..... play translated into English -
(A) Marathi
(B) Gujarati
(C) Bengali
(D) Kannada

7. Eliot uses the term "objective correlative" in his essay -
(A) "The Metaphysical Poets"
(B) "Hamlet"
(C) "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
(D) "Dante"

8. The Faerie Queene is based on -
(A) Utopia
(B) Tottelis Miscellany
(C) Morte d' Arthur
(D) Orlando Furioso

9. The term 'womanism' was first used by -
(A) Helene Cixous
(B) Gayatri Spivak
(C) Kate Millet
(D) Alice Walker

10. One of the following Canterbury Tales is in prose, identify -
(A) The Pardoner's Tale
(B) The Parson's Tale
(C) The Monk's Tale
(D) The Knight's Tale

Answer: 1. (B) 2. (B) 3. (A) 4. (D) 5. (C) 6. (A) 7. (B) 8. (C) 9. (D) 10. (B)

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