What is the title of the poem that begins thus – ’What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare’ ?
A. Comfort
B. Leisure
C. Relaxation
D. Tranquility
English Literature Mcqs
Complete this Shakespearan line – Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring________________?
Complete this Shakespearan line – Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring________________?
A. Impediments
B. Inconveniences
C. Worries
D. Troubles
There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by – This is a couplet from the Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ?
There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by – This is a couplet from the Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ?
A. Metaphor
B. Synecdoche
C. Euphemism
D. Irony
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as _______________-?
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as _______________-?
A. Prosody
B. Allegory
C. Scansion
D. Assonance
Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental creative act using languages ?
Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental creative act using languages ?
A. H. W. Longfellow
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Dylan Thomas
D. William Wordsworth
Which is an example of a proverb ?
Which is an example of a proverb ?
A. Get a “stake” in our business.
B. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too
C. The snow was white as cotton.
D. You’re driving me crazy.
The theme is_____________?
The theme is_____________?
A. a plot.
B. an character
C. an address
D. the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
What is the word for a “play on words” ?
What is the word for a “play on words” ?
A. pun
B. simile
C. haiku
D. metaphor
Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale ?’
Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale ?’
A. George Bernard Shaw
B. John Dryden
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________?
William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________?
A. 1564
B. 1544
C. 1578
D. 1582